FLUX Quartet

“One of the most fearless and important new-music ensembles around,” (Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle) “who has a brought a new renaissance to quartet music,” (Kyle Gann, The Village Voice) the FLUX Quartet has performed to rave reviews at many music centers around the world. It has appeared at Da Camera of Houston, Miller Theater, the Walker Art Center, the Library of Congress, and Carnegie Hall’s When Morty Met John Festival. It has also recently made two rave debuts, in Ireland at the Samuel Beckett Centenary Festival, and in San Francisco with the Morrison Series, which invited the quartet back as special guests for its 50th anniversary gala concert. FLUX’s numerous radio credits include NPR’s All Things Considered, WNYC’s New Sounds and Soundcheck, and WFMU’s Stochastic Hit Parade. Its growing discography includes recordings by composers Martin Bresnick, Annie Gosfield, and bagpipe virtuoso Matthew Welch. Highlights of the upcoming season include the debut appearance at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, residencies at Wesleyan University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Interpretations Series, a leading series in New York City for innovative music of living performers and composers.FLUX captivates its audiences worldwide with a vivid repertoire balanced between notable pioneers as well as visionaries of tomorrow. From "classics" by Conlon Nancarrow, Giacinto Scelsi, and Iannis Xenakis, to new works by Leroy Jenkins, Elliott Sharp, Welch, and John Zorn, FLUX brings to all of its performances a “boundless, uninhibited energy.” (New York Times) The quartet avidly seeks out collaborative relationships with genre-transcending artists such as Ornette Coleman, Joan La Barbara, Oliver Lake, balloon artist Judy Dunaway (new CD on Innova Recordings), and musical-visual artist collective, the Slave Pianos. Members from the quartet have also done significant work in dance, including performances with Christopher Wheeldon, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Attack Theater, and Eun Me Ahn. Strongly dedicated to uncovering new works both by it own members as well as emerging composers, FLUX actively pursues commissions, with recent grants from the American Composers Forum, the Koussevitzky Foundation, and the Aaron Copland Fund.The spirit to explore and expand stylistic boundaries is a trademark of the FLUX Quartet. Partly as an homage to the 60’s Fluxus art movement, Chiu founded the FLUX Quartet in the 90’s with a quest similar to that of some of the original Fluxus artists: a search for a living art for all people with an embracing "anything-goes" spirit. To that end, FLUX has always been committed to projects of unique vision that defy aesthetic categorization. One such project is Morton Feldman's String Quartet No. 2. Lasting more than six continuous hours, it is "a disorienting, transfixing experience that repeatedly approached and touched the sublime." (Alex Ross, The New Yorker) The recording of this monumental work can be found on Mode Records at mode.com.For more information, please visit www.fluxquartet.com.