Mads Falcone (they/them) is a Grammy® Award-nominated performer, producer, and curator building artistic community that challenges conventions. They are a founding member and co-director of Isaura String Quartet, based in Los Angeles. With a practice emerging from classical training as a violinist and punk aesthetics, their work centers themes of co-creation, grief, and queer and trans futurity.

Having performed on stages ranging from Carnegie Hall to Coachella, Mads can be heard as a violinist and violist on recordings for film and television, and has performed and recorded with artists including Billie Eilish, Erykah Badu, Ariana Grande, The Eagles, The Temptations, Angel Olsen, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and more. 

They were a featured artist at The Broad Museum with their work Ecologies of Liberation, co-created with poet and filmmaker Arianne Ayu Alizio. As a proponent of contemporary chamber music, Isaura String Quartet has commissioned and premiered over 35 new works for string quartet since their inception in 2013.

As a producer, recent work includes collaboration with MoMA, ICA Miami, The Ford, KarmetiK Orchestra, Times Square Arts, Creative Time, and REDCAT. Mads has collaborated regularly with Charles Gaines, producing performances and recordings of his Manifestos series. They were also a founding member and co-director of Boss Witch Productions from 2020–2026.

After 11 years as faculty at California Institute of the Arts, Mads joined the CAP UCLA team in 2024 as Community Projects and Operations Manager with UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance.

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