David Bird

Title: American City 

Commission: 2021

Completed: 2024

Instrumentation: String quartet (violin 1/2, viola, violoncello)

Premiere Location: October 28, 2024 at DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York

Premiere Ensemble: Mivos Quartet

David Bird is a composer, producer, and multimedia artist based in New York City. His work explores the dramatic potential of electroacoustic and multimedia environments, often highlighting the relationships between technology and the individual. His work has been performed internationally, at venues and festivals such as the MATA festival in New York City; the Gaudeamus Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands; the Wien Modern Festival in Vienna, Austria; the SPOR festival in Aarhus, Denmark; the Musica Electronica Nova Festival in Wrocław, Poland; and the Festival Mixtur in Barcelona, Spain. He has composed and collaborated with groups like JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Bozzini Quartet, Yarn/Wire, Talea Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Mantra Percussion, The Black Page Orchestra, loadbang, TAK Ensemble, and andPlay.