In 2025, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of one of the most exuberant and masterfully crafted works in the chamber music repertoire. Written when Mendelssohn was just 16, the Octet is a dazzling showcase of youthful energy, lyrical beauty, and intricate interplay, requiring eight musicians to blend with the precision of a single voice. With the Miró Quartet’s seasoned artistry and the Isidore Quartet’s fresh dynamism, this collaboration promises to bring out the Octet’s electrifying brilliance, from its soaring melodies to its breathtaking fugue. With warmth, virtuosity, and sheer joy, the Miró and Isidore artists will highlight why this work remains a cornerstone of the string ensemble repertoire.

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The Mendelssohn Octet: The Miró Quartet & Isidore String Quartet

Clayton State University

Miró Quartet Plays Schubert

Sarasota Orchestra

Experience the Miró Quartet’s engaging commemoration of the 1938 recording collaboration between Benny Goodman and the Budapest String Quartet, with special guest bass/baritone Joseph Parrish and clarinetist David Shifrin.

Digital Concert: Miró Quartet with David Shifrin, clarinet and Joseph Parrish, bass/baritone

Detroit Country Day School - Upper School

Daniel Ching, a founding member of the Miró Quartet, began his violin studies at the age of 3 under tutelage of his father. At age 5, he entered the San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory Division on a full twelve‐year scholarship, where he studied violin with Serban Rusu and Zaven Melikian, and chamber music with Susan Bates. At the age of 10, Daniel was first introduced to string quartets.A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Daniel studied violin with Kathleen Winkler, Roland and Almita Vamos, and conducting with Robert Spano and Peter Jaffe. He completed his Masters degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with former Cleveland Quartet violinist Donald Weilerstein. He also studied recording engineering and production with Thomas Knab of Telarc, and subsequently engineered the Miró Quartet’s first promotional disc. Daniel is on faculty at the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches private violin students and coaches chamber music. He concurrently maintains an active international touring schedule as a member of the Miró Quartet.

Winter Salon: Miró Quartet

In a Private Home Arizona

Miró Quartet

St. John the Evangelist Church

Miro Quartet, featuring Masumi Per Rostad.

Christ the King Catholic Church

The Miro Quartet returns to Tulsa for the first time since their triumphant Beethoven Winter Festival in 2017. For over twenty-five years the Quartet has performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages, earning accolades from critics and audiences alike.

Miró Quartet With David Shifrin

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

The Miró Quartet is one of America’s most celebrated and dedicated string quartets, having been labeled by The New Yorker as “furiously committed” and noted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for its “exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity.” For over twenty-five years the Quartet has performed throughout the world on the 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 Miró takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the longstanding tradition of chamber music.

Renaissance Square Event Center

Here On Earth features musical depictions of our planet earth, its evolution, and the lives of its inhabitants, expressed through music that spans centuries, from Haydn’s Sunrise Quartet to Darius Milhaud’s La Création du Monde (composed in 1923) and Clarice Assad’s A World Of Change, newly commissioned in 2023. The concert begins with Jake Heggie’s Earthrise, reflecting on the fragility of our tiny blue planet from the perspective of the iconic photograph taken from the surface of the moon during the 1968 Apollo 8 landing. Traveling through time and space, the program telescopes in to celebrate the beauties of the natural world, and explore our relationship to this changing earth that is our home.

Lara Downes and The Miró Quartet

Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

Named “among America’s best” by The New York Times, BalletX is the premier contemporary ballet company of Philadelphia, performing regularly in prestigious venues and festivals. The program will include works set to music by Schubert and Kevin Puts — performed live by the Naples Philharmonic and world-renowned Miró String Quartet.

BalletX

Artis–Naples

Mendelssohn Octet

The award-winning Miró Quartet (Daniel Ching, violin; William Fedkenheuer, violin; John Largess, viola; Joshua Gindele, cello) is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, having performed throughout the world for 25 years on prestigious concert stages. In its Wallis debut, the quartet reunites with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts, who has been hailed as one of the most important composers of his generation. Critically-acclaimed for a richly colored, harmonic, and freshly melodic musical voice that has also been described as “emotional, compelling, and relevant,” his works have been commissioned, performed, and recorded by leading orchestras, ensembles and soloists throughout the world, including the Miró Quartet.

Miró Quartet & Special Guest Kevin Puts

The Walls Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

One of America’s most celebrated and dedicated string quartets, the Miró Quartet has been labeled by The New Yorker as “furiously committed” and noted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for its “exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity.” Founded in 1995, the Quartet has performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages, earning accolades from critics and audiences alike. They have championed the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts for more than a decade, and in the 2019-20 season they premiered a new string quartet entitled Home, by the composer for the Miró’s 25th anniversary. In their 2021-22 season, the Miró premiered Microfictions written for them by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw with performances in Carnegie Hall, Houston, La Jolla and Hong Kong. The Miró is also partnering with soprano Karen Slack in a new program exploring the works of Florence Price and Margaret Bonds with concerts scheduled for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Shriver Hall, Music Toronto, the Phoenix Chamber Music Society, and Chamber Music Northwest.

Kohl Mansion

As the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in music, GRAMMY Award-winning composer Caroline Shaw strives to create intricate soundscapes that have never been heard before but have always existed. For this season’s Takeover @ The JAI, Shaw will curate a cabaret-style concert of music she composed and music she loves, with the Miró Quartet and other friends, accompanied by cocktails and conversation.

Takeover @ The JAI with Caroline Shaw

The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

SummerFest welcomes back the fan-favorite Miró Quartet. For more than 25 years, the Miró Quartet has balanced a loyalty to the legacy of the string quartet and a devotion to the future of the form, regularly commissioning new works and collaborating with the finest artists of our time. For this special Wednesday evening event at The Conrad, the Miró partners with the sensational GRAMMY-winning composer and performer Caroline Shaw, presenting the West Coast première of Microfictions, a new work co-commissioned by La Jolla Music Society for SummerFest, as well as performing Mendelssohn’s energetic and dramatic String Quintet No. 2 with Shaw on viola.

Under the Influence: Miró Quartet

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

In The Baker-Baum Concert Hall, observe the intricate rehearsal process that goes into every SummerFest performance and engage in conversation with the artists during post-rehearsal Q&As. 

Open rehearsals are free and open to the public, no registration is required.

Open Rehearsal V

For over 25 years, the Miró Quartet has performed on the world’s most prestigious stages, showcasing their “collective intelligence [and] uncanny precision” (Musical America). Their program includes excerpts from master works by Samuel Barber and Florence Price, as well as a PCMS co-commission for soprano and quartet by the genre-defying, Brooklyn-based composer Tamar-kali. The new work spotlights Philadelphia’s own soprano Karen Slack, who brings “the right mix of grace and fire” (Schmopera) to this much-anticipated local premiere.

Miró Quartet Karen Slack, soprano

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Raise a glass with the Miró Quartet at our signature casual concert blending masterful Beethoven with a relaxed brewery vibe — the perfect pairing of tradition and fun.

Beethoven & Beer

Mocama Beer Company

A rousing Festival close with the Miró Quartet and the rising stars of the Beth Newdome Fellowship program — a celebration of mentorship, musical excellence, and community.

Miró Quartet

Feb 22, 2026

Miró Quartet Karen Slack, soprano

Jun 10, 2026

Beethoven & Beer

Jun 13, 2026

Festival Finale: Miró Quartet and Beth Newdome Fellows

Nov 9, 2025

The Mendelssohn Octet: The Miró Quartet & Isidore String Quartet

Jun 12, 2025

Miró Quartet Plays Schubert

Miró Quartet