‘Attack’ by Petra Strahovnik has been selected for performance at the upcoming MATA Festival 2025 in New York. It will be performed by the FLUX Quartet on Night Three – Friday, June 13, 2025, at 7 PM, at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn.

Night Three of the 27th Annual MATA Festival is centered around the world premiere of Reza Vali’s String Quartet No. 6, Salmak, a tribute to the great 13th century Persian music theorist and musician Safialdin Ormavi. Vali says of the work, “I have used some of Ormavi’s 13th century medieval modes and have interpolated these modes with some of the modes of the modern Persian modal system, the Dastgâh system.” The evening also includes four pieces by 2025 MATA Festival Early-Career Composers, each exploring varying heightened emotional states – surviving survival instincts; pain and lamentation; catharsis after the pandemic; and the struggle to release unresolved emotions – performed by FLUX Quartet and the MATA Mavens.

Program:
Reza Vali: String Quartet No. 6, Salmak (2024, World Premiere)
Petra Strahovnik: Attack for String Quartet (2023, New York Premiere)
Anuj Bhutani: On Letting Go for Solo Cello and Electronics (2020)
Rodrigo Espino: Responso el en Vacío for Contrabass Clarinet and Electronics (2023, World Premiere)
Negar Soleymanifar: Prelude to the Ashes for Cello and Narrator (2023, New York Premiere)