Miró Quartet Announces 2025-2026 Season Highlights

Nationwide Concert Schedule Features Dates at the
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Phillips Collection,
Schubert Club, Chicago Chamber Music Society,
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Cincinnati,
Honolulu Chamber Music Series, and Many More

30th Anniversary Observances Include Return to Alma Mater, Oberlin College,
and Concert as Quartet in Residence at UT’s Butler School of Music

New Collaborations with Isidore Quartet and Soprano Karen Slack, 
Continuing Partnership with Saxophonist Steven Banks

World Premiere of New Work by Tamar-kali,
Presented by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music and the
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

“explosive vigor and technical finesse” – The New York Times

www.miroquartet.com 

Austin, TX (September 3, 2025) – Praised for musicianship that “radiates familiarity with the music beyond the notes” (The Strad), the Miró Quartet is celebrating its 30th anniversary as one of America’s most acclaimed string quartets. In its three decades of performance, the Austin-based ensemble has brought its signature warmth and virtuosity to leading concert stages and festivals worldwide, as well as a dozen acclaimed recordings. Between its artistic excellence in the chamber music tradition and its bold spirit of collaboration with living composers, the quartet continues to engage and inspire audiences of all backgrounds.

Among the highlights of its 2025-2026 season, the Miró Quartet takes on collaborations with soprano Karen Slack and the Isidore Quartet, continues its partnership with saxophonist Steven Banks, and returns for Homecoming Weekend at Oberlin College – the artists’ alma mater and birthplace of the quartet – for performances marking their 30 years as an ensemble. Following summer engagements at the Museum of Contemporary Art Connecticut, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Austin Chamber Music Festival, and Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, the new season brings them to dates with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall, the Schubert Club, The Phillips Collection, Austin Chamber Music Center, Chamber Music Cincinnati, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Mobile Chamber Music Society, Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society, Melbourne Chamber Music Society, Spivey Hall, Converse University, and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival.

On July 25, 2025, the two-time GRAMMY®-nominated quartet released its newest album, Ginastera String Quartets, on PENTATONE to critical acclaim. Featuring the Argentinian composer’s complete String Quartets, the album has been praised by The New York Times for its “awe-inspiring intensity” and by Gramophone as “the most technically polished accounts yet of these extraordinary works.” 

As the longstanding quartet-in-residence at the University of Texas at Austin, Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, Miró appears at the school’s Bates Recital Hall for an all-Beethoven program on September 5, 2025, performing the composer’s String Quartets Nos. 12 and 13.

The quartet goes on to appear with the Birmingham Chamber Music Society on Thursday, September 11, 2025, performing a program of Haydn’s Quartet in D major, Op. 71, No. 2; Caroline Shaw’s Microfictions, Vol. 1; and Beethoven’s Quartet in C major, Op. 59, No. 3, "Razumovsky." They reprise the program on Sunday, September 26, 2025 in a performance presented by the Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society at Del Mar College’s Wolfe Recital Hall.

In a performance with clarinetist David Shifrin presented by the Mobile Chamber Music Society, the Miró Quartet takes the stage on Sunday, September 14, 2025 at the University of South Alabama in a dynamic celebration of both classical and jazz styles. The program features works by Beethoven and Mozart paired with arrangements of swing classics by David Schiff and Alan Shulman’s Rendezvous with Benny, a work paying tribute to chamber music contributions by the “King of Swing,” Benny Goodman. 

The quartet appears next with The Chicago Chamber Music Society for a program of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11 in F minor and String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major at a private club in Chicago on Tuesday, October 7, 2025. 

From Thursday, October 9, 2025 to Sunday, October 12, 2025, the Miró Quartet celebrates 30 years since its founding Oberlin College with four days of concerts during the college’s Homecoming festivities, showcasing Beethoven’s complete string quartet cycle across six performances at multiple venues throughout the Oberlin campus.

In a return to New York’s Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents the quartet in a program showcasing its stylistic and technical range through Haydn’s String Quartet in D major, Ginastera’s Quartet No. 2 for Strings, Franck’s "Scherzo: Vivace" from Quartet in D major for Strings, and Debussy’s Quartet in G minor for Strings.

Miró will be joined by the rising-star Isidore Quartet for a concert at Texas Performing Arts as part of its 2025/2026 season on Friday, November 7, 2025, as the combined ensembles celebrate the “200th birthday” of Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat Major – which the composer wrote at the age of just 16. The program also features Haydn’s Sunrise Quartet and Caroline Shaw’s Microfictions, Vol. 1. The two quartets go on to reprise the program in a performance presented by Spivey Hall in Morrow, Georgia on Sunday, November 9, 2025; at Converse University in South Carolina on Monday, November 10, 2025; with the Phoenix Chamber Music Society in Arizona on Friday, November 14, 2025; and at Sonoma State University in California on Saturday, November 15, 2025.

On Sunday, December 7, 2025, the Miró Quartet performs at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in Texas as part of the San Angelo Chamber Music Series, featuring a program of George Walker’s Lyric for Strings; Caroline Shaw’s Microfictions Vol. 1; Barber’s Quartet in B minor, Op. 11; and Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10. On Saturday, December 6, 2025, members of the quartet will present a masterclass to music students at Angelo State University.

To open its 2026 schedule, the Miró Quartet appears with Chamber Music Cincinnati on Tuesday, January 13, 2026, for a performance of Schubert’s Quartet No. 15 in G Major and Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13 in B-Flat Major.

The quartet next appears for two engagements in Hawai’i, performing first at the University of Hawai?i–Manoa as part of the Honolulu Chamber Music Series on Friday, January 16, 2026 and then at the Kahilu Theatre in Waimea, HI on Sunday, January 18, 2026. Both concerts feature a program of George Walker’s Lyric for Strings; Florence Price’s Quartet No. 2 in A Minor [III. Juba. Allegro]; Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 1, Op. 20; and Beethoven’s Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130, with Grosse Fuge, Op. 133.

On Wednesday, January 28, 2026, the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music presents the quartet alongside soprano Karen Slack in a powerful program highlighting Black composers and voices, featuring the world premiere of a new work by Tamar-kali alongside Barber’s String Quartet in B Minor, William Grant Still’s Songs of Separation, George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 2, and Margaret Bonds’ Creek-Freedman Songs. Slack and the quartet will reprise the program in a performance presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society on Sunday, February 22, 2026 at the Perelman Theater.

The Schubert Club presents the Miró Quartet alongside saxophonist Steven Banks at St. Anthony Park United Church of Christ in St. Paul, MN on Sunday, April 12, 2026. Continuing a collaboration that began last season, the artists will perform the Minnesota premiere of Banks’ own work, What's Old is New, as well as selections including von Bingen’s O Virtus Sapientiae, Caroline Shaw’s Other Song, And So, Beethoven’s Heiliger Dankgesang, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind.

On Friday, April 17, 2026, Florida’s Melbourne Chamber Music Society presents the quartet in a program of George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, Caroline Shaw’s Microfictions, Vol. 1, Barber’s Quartet No. 1 in B Minor, and Dvorák’s Quartet in F Major.

Miró next appears on Sunday, April 19, 2026 at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. as part of the art museum’s ongoing celebration of the quartet’s namesake, Spanish painter Joan Miró. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Miró and the United States (March 21–July 5, 2026), the performance features a program of Beethoven’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6 [Mvmt. IV]; Caroline Shaw’s Blueprint; Dutilleux’s Ainsi la nuit; Crumb’s Black Angels: Thirteen Images from the Dark Land for electric string quartet; and Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 2, Op. 26.

On Wednesday, June 10 and Saturday, June 13, 2026, the quartet appears at the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival in Fernandina Beach, FL for a performance of works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Barber, and more, marking the Festival’s celebratory finale.

Miró concludes the season with a week-long chamber music intensive, working with promising young artists of the next generation of musicians. The intensive is presented by Austin Chamber Music Center from Sunday, June 14, 2026 to Sunday, June 21, 2026, and features a concert program performed by Miró on Friday, June 19, 2026.

Miró Quartet 2025-2026 Season

Friday, September 5, 2025 at 7:30pm
Butler School of Music, University of Texas at Austin
Bates Recital Hall | Austin, TX
Link: music.utexas.edu/events/5174-miro-quartet

Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 7:30pm
Birmingham Chamber Music Society
Jane Hollock Brock Recital Hall – Samford University | Birmingham, AL
Link: www.birminghamchambermusicsociety.org/miróquartet 

Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 7:30pm
Mobile Chamber Music Society Presents the Miró Quartet with David Shifrin
Laidlaw Performing Arts Center | Mobile, AL
Link: www.mobilechambermusic.org/crnt_season.php 

Sunday, September 26, 2025 at 7:30pm
Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society Presents the Miró Quartet 
Wolfe Recital Hall | Corpus Christi, TX
Link: www.corpuschristichambermusic.org/event/miro-quartet/

Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 11:30am
The Chicago Chamber Music Society Presents the Miró Quartet 
Women’s Athletic Club | Chicago, IL
Link: www.chicagochambermusicsociety.org/content/october-7-2025 

Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 5:00pm to Sunday, October 12, 2025, at 4:00pm
Oberlin College Presents the Miró Quartet 
Finney Chapel | Oberlin, OH
Link: www.oberlin.edu/events/miro-quartet-complete-beethoven-quartet-cycle

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 7:30pm
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Presents the Miró Quartet 
Alice Tully Hall | New York, NY
Link: www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/25-26/the-miro-quartet/ 

Friday, November 7, 2025 at 7:30pm
Texas Performing Arts Presents the Miró Quartet with Isidore Quartet
Mendelssohn's Octet at 200: A Legacy In Sound
Bates Recital Hall | Austin, TX
Link: www.texasperformingarts.org/event/miro-quartet-and-isidore-string-quartet-2025-bates-recital-hall-austin-texas/ 

Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 3:00pm
Spivey Hall Presents the Miró Quartet with Isidore Quartet
Clayton State University | Morrow, GA
Link: www.spiveyhall.org/events/event/the-mendelssohn-octet-the-miro-quartet-isidore-string-quartet/ 

Monday, November 10, 2025 at 7:30pm
Converse University Presents the Miró Quartet with Isidore Quartet
Daniel Recital Hall | Spartanburg, SC
Link: www.converse.edu/event/2025-carlos-moseley-series-mendelssohns-octet-at-200-a-legacy-in-sound/ 

Friday, November 14, 2025 at 7:30pm
Phoenix Chamber Music Society Presents the Miró Quartet with Isidore Quartet
Camelback Bible Church | Phoenix, AZ
Link: www.phoenixchambermusicsociety.org/miroquartetandisidorequartet 

Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 7:30pm
Sonoma State University Presents the Miró Quartet with Isidore Quartet
Weill Hall | Rohnert Park, CA
Link: www.gmc.sonoma.edu/miro-isidore 

Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 3:00pm
San Angelo Chamber Music Series
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts | San Angelo, TX
Link: www.samfa.org/concert-music-programs

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 at 7:30pm
Chamber Music Cincinnati Presents the Miró Quartet 
Memorial Hall | Cincinnati, OH
Link: www.cincychamber.org/25-26-season-preview

Friday, January 16, 2026 at 7:30pm
Honolulu Chamber Music Series
Orvis Auditorium – University of Hawai'i-Manoa | Honolulu, HI
Link: honoluluchambermusicseries.org/concert/miroquartet/

Sunday, January 18, 2026 at 2:00pm
Kahilu Theatre Presents the Miró Quartet
Kahilu Theatre | Waimea, HI
Link: kahilu.org/events/miro-quartet/ 

Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 7:30pm
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music Presents the Miró Quartet with Karen Slack
Leo Rich Theater | Tucson, AZ
Link: www.arizonachambermusic.org/events/miro-slack/ 

Sunday, February 22, 2026 at 3:00pm
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Presents the Miró Quartet with Karen Slack
Perelman Theater | Philadelphia, PA
Link: www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/miro-quartet-karen-slack/ 

Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 4:00pm
Schubert Club Presents the Miró Quartet with Steven Banks
St. Anthony Park United Church of Christ | St. Paul, MN
Link: www.schubert.org/event/miro-quartet-with-steven-banks-saxophone/ 

Friday, April 17, 2026 at 7:30pm
Melbourne Chamber Music Society Presents the Miró Quartet 
St. Mark’s United Methodist Church | Indialantic, FL
Link: www.melbournechambermusicsociety.org/the-miro-string-quartet-730-pm-fri-apr-17-2026 

Sunday, April 19, 2026 at 4:00pm
The Phillips Collection Music Series Presents the Miró Quartet 
The Phillips Collection | Washington, D.C.
Link: www.phillipscollection.org/press/phillips-collection-announces-2025-26-exhibitions-and-programming 

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 4:30 and 7:30pm
Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival Presents Beethoven & Beer
Mocama Beer Company | Fernandina Beach, FL
Link: https://aicmf.org/event/beethoven-beer-430/
Link: https://aicmf.org/event/beethoven-beer-730/ 

Saturday, June 13, 2026 at 3:00pm
Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival Finale: Miró Quartet and Beth Newdome Fellows
Historic Courthouse | Fernandina Beach, FL
Link: aicmf.org/event/finale/

Sunday, June 14, 2026 to Sunday, June 21, 2026
Austin Chamber Music Center Presents the Miró Quartet 
UT Austin Butler School of Music, Bates Recital Hall | Austin, TX
Link: https://austinchambermusic.org/ 

About Miró Quartet
The Miró Quartet is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, praised as "furiously committed" by The New Yorker and recognized for its "exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity" by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Marking its 30th anniversary in 2025, the GRAMMY®-nominated quartet has performed on the world’s most prestigious concert stages, earning accolades from critics and audiences alike. Based in Austin, TX, and thriving on the area’s storied music scene, the quartet takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the longstanding tradition of chamber music. Since 2003, Miró has served as the quartet-in-residence at the University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music.

Miró Quartet’s current and recent projects include a touring and recording project with pianist Lara Downes titled Here on Earth, featuring musical depictions of our planet, its evolution, and the lives of its inhabitants; the premiere of a new version of Kevin Puts’ Credo with the Naples Philharmonic; and collaborations with composers Steven Banks, Tamar-kali, and Gabriel Kahane; as well as soprano Karen Slack and the Isidore Quartet. During the 2025-2026 season, the quartet’s engagements include a 30th anniversary appearance at Oberlin College, where the group was formed, as well as performances at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Austin Chamber Music Festival, and more.

The Miró Quartet’s newest album, a recording of Ginastera’s complete String Quartets released on PENTATONE in July 2025, was lauded by Gramophone as “the most technically polished accounts yet of these extraordinary works … a stunning achievement.” Among its many previous recordings for a variety of global labels, the quartet was nominated for a 2025 GRAMMY® Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for its album Home (PENTATONE, 2024), featuring two new commissions by Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw, as well as works by George Walker and Samuel Barber. The group was nominated for a 2024 GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral Performance for House of Belonging, created in collaboration with Austin-based choral group Conspirare. They recently produced an Emmy Award–winning audiovisual multimedia project titled Transcendence, a documentary centered around a performance of Franz Schubert’s Quartet in G Major on rare Stradivarius instruments, available on livestream, CD, and Blu-ray. 

Formed in 1995, the Miró Quartet has been awarded first prize at several national and international competitions, including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. Deeply committed to music education, members of the quartet have given masterclasses at universities and conservatories throughout the world. In 2005, the quartet became the first ensemble ever to be awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant. 

The Miró Quartet took its name and inspiration from the Spanish artist Joan Miró, whose Surrealist works – with subject matter drawn from the realm of memory, dreams, and imaginative fantasy – are some of the most groundbreaking, influential, and admired of the 20th century. Visit miroquartet.com for more information.

Photo Credit: Dagnushka