The Opus 76 Quartet made its Carnegie Hall Debut with the program "Beethoven In His Own Words." Once a lacking part of Kansas City's classical music community, string quartets are filling up venues ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poiesis Quartet at the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition. (Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity) Like a ...

The music industry has a long and storied tradition of taking original hits and transforming them into something else entirely. Who can forget Pat Boone, who topped the pop charts with his ...

The Danish String Quartet is one of the most widely acclaimed chamber groups at the moment — although, in the interest of full disclosure, we should tell you that one member of the quartet is actually ...

The Vitamin String Quartet is bringing their unique crossover music to Spokane. The group may consist of four expert string musicians, but their style brings a rock attitude to the classical ...

What’s in a string quartet? The members of Enso tell all. Or…some. They tell a good deal, let’s say. The Enso String Quartet is Maureen Nelson (violin), Ken Hamao (violin), Richard Belcher (cello), ...

When you’re a kid, playing in the high school orchestra and feeling disconnected from the popular zeitgeist means any music that incorporates classical instruments is something to be celebrated. And ...

Steve Reich’s Different Trains remains an exemplary example of how to integrate live musicians with pre-recorded sound, the string quartet echoing precisely a series of speech samples and train noises ...

If the name Rued Langgaard means nothing to you, you're in good - or at least plentiful - company. Born in 1893, the Danish composer was a stranger even to his contemporaries, his music scorned and ...

Polish-born composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (also spelled Vaynberg) was of Jewish decent, and the only immediate member of his family to get out of Poland alive, following the Nazi occupation of 1939.

The College of Music offers an Artist Diploma in String Quartet Performance for one string quartet to work intensively with members of the renowned Takács Quartet and other members of the string ...