Ballet Des Moines presents See the Music (Hear the Dance), a mesmerizing ballet performance featuring choreography by Artistic Director Tom Mattingly. The performance opens with a world premiere collaboration between Ballet Des Moines and the acclaimed Aizuri Quartet playing the haunting strains of Philip Glass’ String Quartet No. 5. Mattingly’s choreography wields an incredible collection of world-class artists to bring the soaring piece to life, showcasing the power of live music and movement, from delicate introspection to athletic crescendos.

See the Music (Hear the Dance) Featuring Ballet Des Moines and Aizuri Quartet

Iowa State University

Featuring Tom Mattingly's Four Seasons with pianist Douglas-Jayd Burn and a world premiere collaboration with the Aizuri Quartet.

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See The Music

Hoyt Sherman Place

Grinnell College

In its annual PCMS concert, the “genuinely exciting” (New York Times) Aizuri Quartet presents a program that explores the idea of community in a multi-faceted way. It features works by four female composers, including Indian American composer Reena Esmail, whose raag-influenced Fantasie layers the voices of the string quartet to create a beautiful, swirling world that invites players and audience into the concert experience.

Aizuri Quartet

American Philosophical Society

Oakland Winterfest: Seth Parker Woods, cello & Friends

Oakland University

Oakland Winterfest: Aizuri Quartet - Metro Detroit Debut

Kleinhans Music Hall

Featuring compositions by Guillermo Galindo, Rhiannon Giddens, Angélique Kidjo, Soo Yeon Lyuh, Kala Ramnath, Yevgeniy Sharlat, Henry Threadgill, Mario Galeano Toro, Merlijn Twaalfhoven, and Paul Wiancko.

The rich cultural diversity of the Kronos Fifty for the Future repertoire is on full display in the Kronos Festival’s lead-off program, with works by composers representing Benin, Colombia, India, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States. 

Special guests include San Francisco’s own Friction Quartet; Korean-born composer and haegeum virtuoso Soo Yeon Lyuh, joining Kronos for her own work Yessori; and Kronos cellist Paul Wiancko joining New York’s Aizuri Quartet (winners of Chamber Music America’s 2022 Cleveland Quartet Award) for his composition Only Ever Us.

kronos Festival - Program 1 (2023)

SFJAZZ Center

In the 2022-23 season, we celebrate ten years of hosting fascinating musicians from around the world as new-to-the-Series artists take the Pickman Hall stage. Some are making their Boston recital debuts, some are appearing in the city for the first time, and others are making their first-ever tours to the United States!

Celebrity Series • Aizuri Quartet • Debut Series

Longy School of Music of Bard College

Described by the Washington Post as “astounding” and “captivating” for their performances with a notable “meld of intellect, technique, and emotions,” the Aizuri Quartet has established a unique niche within today’s musical landscape, infusing all their music-making with infectious energy, joy, and warmth, and cultivating curiosity in listeners.  



The Aizuri Quartet has established a unique position within today’s musical landscape, infusing all of its music-making with infectious energy, joy and warmth, cultivating curiosity in listeners, and inviting audiences into the concert experience through its innovative programming, and the depth and fire of its performances.

Aizuri String Quartet

Ford Center for the Performing Arts

Formed in 2012 and combining four distinctive musical personalities into a powerful collective, the Aizuri Quartet draws its name from “aizuri-e,” a style of predominantly blue Japanese woodblock printing that is noted for its vibrancy and incredible detail. They have established a unique position within today’s musical landscape, infusing all its music-making with infectious energy, joy and warmth, cultivating curiosity in listeners, and inviting audiences into the concert experience through its innovative programming, and the depth and fire of its performances.

Aizuri Quartet — The Art of Translation

University of Texas at Austin

In its annual PCMS concert, the “genuinely exciting” (New York Times) Aizuri Quartet presents a program entitled Sunrise that traces a journey from darkness into dawn. Beginning with cellist Karen Ouzounian’s arrangement of Clara Schumann’s Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen (“I stood in dark dreams”) and ending with Haydn’s Sunrise quartet, the program also includes Sivunittinni by Canadian Inuk vocalist/composer Tanya Tagaq. Noted for the “sheer range of emotional and musical territory that she covers” (Ludwig van), Tagaq describes her string quartet as a piece of the land that speaks to humankind’s disconnect from nature.

Aizuri Quartet

Mar 2, 2025

See the Music (Hear the Dance) Featuring Ballet Des Moines and Aizuri Quartet

Feb 20 - Mar 2, 2025

See The Music

Aizuri Quartet