The Miró Quartet will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19 in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

For some 25 years, the Miró Quartet has performed worldwide on prestigious concert stages, earning accolades from critics and audiences alike.

The Miró, which takes pride in finding new ways to communicate with audiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the longstanding tradition of chamber music, will perform Haydn: “Quartet in G major, Op. 77, No. 1;” George Walker: “Lyric for Strings;” Arlen: “Over the Rainbow;” and Beethoven: “Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2.”

Cost to attend is $20 for members, $25 nonmembers, Get tickets at tickets.sbma.net.

Founded in 1995 and based in Austin, Texas, the Miró Quartet was awarded first prize at several national and international competitions including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition.

The Miró Quartet took its name and its inspiration from the Spanish artist Joan Miró, whose Surrealist works — with subject matter drawn from the realm of memory, dreams, and imaginative fantasy — are some of the most groundbreaking, influential, and admired of the 20th century.

Committed to music education, members of the quartet have given master classes at universities and conservatories throughout the world, and since 2003 the Miró has served as the quartet-in-residence at the University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music.