FLUX Quartet
ensemble
Tom Chiu, violin
Conrad Harris, violin
Max Mandel, viola
Felix Fan, cello
The FLUX Quartet has performed to great acclaim worldwide, including at the Tate Modern in London with BBC Radio 3; the Park Avenue Armory and Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in New York City; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Mount Tremper Arts and EMPAC in New York State; LACMA in Los Angeles; 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. FLUX also recently released a live recording of the complete quartet output of the late Toshi Ichiyanagi.
Tom Chiu, violin
Conrad Harris, violin
Max Mandel, viola
Felix Fan, cello
The FLUX Quartet has performed to great acclaim worldwide, including at the Tate Modern in London with BBC Radio 3; the Park Avenue Armory and Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in New York City; The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; Mount Tremper Arts and EMPAC in New York State; LACMA in Los Angeles; 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. FLUX also recently released a live recording of the complete quartet output of the late Toshi Ichiyanagi.
Violinist Tom Chiu, who was strongly influenced by the “anything goes” philosophy of Fluxus, founded the FLUX Quartet in the late 1990s. FLUX has since cultivated an uncompromising repertoire that combines works by late-20th-century iconoclasts like like Ligeti, Nancarrow, Scelsi, and Xenakis with pioneers of today like Oliver Lake, George Lewis, Wadada Leo Smith, Hans Tammen, and many others. 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 projects, resulting in acclaimed performances of new works with choreographers Pam Tanowitz and Christopher Wheeldon, balloonist Judy Dunaway, video artists OpenEndedGroup, and visual artist Matthew Barney. This year marks FLUX’s 10th year at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, where they serve as the resident ensemble for the Young Composers String Quartet Project.