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Formed by siblings who grew up playing together, the Hagen Quartet is finishing a farewell tour with an unforced, casual ...

From Kurtág’s whispered fragments to Reich’s poignant memorialisation of 9/11, the Carducci Quartet deliver a programme of ...

The Calidore String Quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertory, from the cycles of quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn to works of celebrated ...

This year’s String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam saw big names and rising stars play 113 works from Beethoven to Larcher, plus masterclasses, a DJ – and free biscuits. Can you have too much of a good ...

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 ...

The Colorado College Summer Music Festival is wrapping up its 42nd season this week, bringing talented student musicians from ...

Grażyna Bacewicz treated violin and other string instruments with a special attention, a consequence of her violin studies under Józef Jarzębski in Warsaw and under André Touret and Karl Flesch in ...

Jazz string quartets are rare. Jazz string quartets as brilliant as Atom String Quartet, the Polish ensemble founded in 2010, are rarer still. This, the quartet's fourth release, sees Dawid Lubowicz, ...

The cameras were rolling long before the Emerson String Quartet played a note behind the Tiny Desk. A documentary film crew followed the band into our lobby and kept rolling tape as the players ...

The Danish String Quartet, which this season celebrates its 20th anniversary, isn’t the sort of group that toots its own horn, if you’ll pardon the expression. Beyond their abundant qualities on stage ...