As the capacity audience streamed into Meany Theater on Wednesday evening, there was a whiff of pilgrimage about the proceedings. This was no mere concert; this was the world’s most highly regarded ...
On Friday evening, the legendary Takács Quartet will once again grace the BroadStage after a sold-out appearance in 2022. This time around, the string quartet’s program comes as part of the California ...
The Chiaroscuro Quartet was founded in 2005 at London’s Royal College of Music by four young string players who shared a ...
On Friday, July 25, 2025, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Miró Quartet will release its newest album, Ginastera String Quartets, on PENTATONE. Celebrating 30 years as an ensemble in 2025, the ...
"You don't expect to walk into a classical music concert and see microphones and speakers onstage and a sound guy with an equalizer in the back," Kane said. Expect the unexpected. The featured ...
Three Tuesdays ago it was the Kelemen Quartet with the 2002 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis gold medalist Barnabás Kelemen playing first violin. This Tuesday it was the Michelangelo ...
Back in the 1950s, four Los Angeles musicians were widely acclaimed as the finest performers of chamber music in America. They called themselves the Hollywood String Quartet, because they spent their ...
String quartets are among the hardiest and most adaptable of musical organisms. As mobile as rock bands, in some ways even more so, they can appear, do their thing, and slip away into the night. Small ...
A new boxed set of string quartets by Wadada Leo Smith, an anchor of American experimental music, reveals his sustained engagement with the form. By Seth Colter Walls The trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith ...
It looks like the fourth time’s the charm. This weekend is the fourth annual appearance of the American String Project, a 15-member conductor-less string orchestra of top players, drawn to Seattle ...