In 1976, some Juilliard students got together and created a string quartet — and the Emerson String Quartet was born. They came to the NPR Tiny Desk to play one of their final live performances. The ...

So much music. So much time. Since the Kronos Quartet’s founding in 1973, critical response to their work has focused on the many aspects of time suggested by their name. Indeed, the recent 50th ...

New music champions JACK Quartet make Cal Performances debut The JACK Quartet of New York City has been championing string quartet music of the 20th and 21st centuries since its founding in 2005.

The UCLA Vem String Quartet will have performances in Philadelphia, Boston, Montreal, Detroit and Los Angeles (Altadena) in ...

At one moment, slow and soothing — at the next, eerie and intense. The Jupiter String Quartet seemed to enter a private world together while performing at Foellinger Great Hall in the Krannert Center ...

It was magic from the start. The musicians who would come to form the Abeo Quartet were first-year students at the Juilliard School when, in 2018, they first played together in a string quartet. From ...

The Kronos Performing Arts Association has announced that the Library of Congress has acquired its Archive, a collection that includes manuscripts, instruments, costumes, video and audio recordings, ...

The Isidore String Quartet, a New York-based quartet founded in 2019, visited the University of Iowa for a week-long residency filled with performances and meeting with music students. Elizabeth Oakes ...

Feats, farewells and musical treasures in a year of post-pandemic financial pressures. By Zachary Woolfe and Joshua Barone A pillar of chamber music for nearly a half-century, the Emerson players bid ...

Composed of violinists Lucy Wang and Hao Zhou, violist Aiden Kane, and cellist Tate Zawadiuk, the group was formed in 2015 in Los Angeles at the Colburn Conservatory of Music. The string quartet ...