Bridge Music Presents: Flux Quartet

Bridge Music Series focuses on bridging the classical and contemporary music genres and working across disciplines to create cultural connections.

This concert is made possible in part by the Chris Villars Fund.

The Flux Quartet will perform the San Diego premiere of Morton Feldman's epic 2nd String Quartet, a 5-6 hours long engagement from 2:00-8:00 pm.

Morton Feldman - String Quartet no. 2 (1983)

FLUX Quartet

The FLUX Quartet, one of the most fearless and important new-music ensembles around," (San Francisco Chronicle) has performed to great acclaim worldwide, including the Tate Modern in London with BBC Radio 3, Park Avenue Armory, Kennedy Center, Walker Art Center, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, arts incubators Mount Tremper Arts and EMPAC, and international festivals in Australia, Europe, and Asia. The group’s discography includes recordings on the Cantaloupe, Innova, New World, and Tzadik labels, in addition to the full string quartet catalog of Morton Feldman on Mode Records, and the complete quartet output of the late Toshi Ichiyanagi. Widely regarded as the authoritative ensemble on Feldman's epic String Quartet No.2, FLUX gave the premiere performance of the full-length version of the piece in 1999.

Strongly influenced by the “anything goes” philosophy of Fluxus, violinist Tom Chiu founded FLUX in the late 1990s. The quartet has since cultivated an uncompromising repertoire that combines late 20th-century groundbreaking works by Feldman, Nancarrow, Ligeti, Scelsi and others, with today's pioneers such as Oliver Lake, George Lewis, Lei Liang, Rand Steiger, Hans Tammen, Henry Threadgill and more. To support the creation of new works, FLUX actively commissions and has been awarded grants from the American Composers Forum, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Fromm Foundation, Meet the Composer, New Music USA, and Chamber Music America.

The spirit to expand stylistic boundaries is a trademark of FLUX. To that end, the quartet avidly pursues interdisciplinary collaborations, resulting in acclaimed creation of new works with choreographers Pam Tanowitz and Christopher Wheeldon, balloonist Judy Dunaway, video artists OpenEndedGroup, and visual artist Matthew Barney.