Miró Quartet and Steven Banks, saxophone

Formed in 1995, the Miró Quartet was awarded first prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. In 2005, the Quartet became the first ensemble ever to be awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant.  Saxophonist Steven Banks, also awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2022, is a performer and composer, championing his instrument and his compositions in the classical musical world.

The evening will include Steven Banks’s arrangement of two Caroline Shaw songs, Other Song, And So, and his arrangement of Golijov’s Dreams and Prayers of Issac the Blind, all commissioned by Friends of Chamber Music Denver.  The program also includes the Colorado premiere of Steven Banks’s new string quartet with saxophone, What’s Old is New, commissioned by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music.