MIM and the Phoenix Chamber Music Society Present “Tribute to Benny Goodman” Featuring the Miró Quartet and David Shifrin

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Please note, we require that audience members either be vaccinated or have a negative COVID test within 72 hours prior to the performance. We also strongly encourage guests to wear masks.
Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test result will be required for entry and may include the following options: a vaccination card (or photo), a digital record within an app, an official immunization record, or documentation of a negative test result. All MIM Music Theater team members are vaccinated and will wear masks.

Miró Quartet:

This foundational excellence is present in all of the works, and allows the music to gracefully unfold, with a clear and open sound from all four voices.

—Cleveland Classical

Repertoire:
Shulman: “Rendezvous with Benny”
Schickele: Spring Forward
Goodman: Selected arrangements
Mozart: Quintet in A Major K. 581

The Miró Quartet is one of the United States’ most celebrated and dedicated string quartets. For more than 25 years, the quartet has performed on the world’s most prestigious stages, earning accolades from critics and audiences alike. Based in Austin, Texas, and thriving in the area’s storied music scene, the Miró Quartet takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the long-standing tradition of chamber music.

Winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant (1987) and the Avery Fisher Prize (2000), David Shifrin is in constant demand as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, collaborator, and educator. Shifrin has appeared with distinguished orchestras and symphonies in the United States and around the world. He has also received critical acclaim as a recitalist, appearing at such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, and the Library of Congress. A much sought-after chamber musician, he has collaborated with a long list of distinguished ensembles and artists, including trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis and pianists Emanuel Ax, André Previn, and André Watts.