ASPEN – Becoming a string quartet player is an odd thing. You choose, usually at a young age, to partner with three other people who, ideally, will be at your side for years to come. Given the ...

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 ...

The Cuker and Stern Graduate String Quartet program at Mannes School of Music provides a highly qualified pre-professional or professional string quartet with an immersive two-year residency at Mannes ...

The CLEVELAND STRING QUARTET was a chamber music group attached to the CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA in the 1920s and 1930s and composed of principal players from the orchestra's string section. Formed in 1919, ...

The Cuban quartet makes its solo United States and New York debut with a program featuring music by Mozart, Brouwer and Cuban ...

String quartet players continuously adjust the timing of their notes to stay in sync. But exactly how players do it has been unclear. New data tracking millisecond-scale corrections suggests that some ...

Who can forget Pat Boone, who topped the pop charts with his ultra-sanitized versions of Little Richard songs? Or 101 Strings, who turned the honky-tonk hits of Hank Williams into uplifting elevator ...

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 ...

Sir Edward Elgar’s “Introduction and Allegro for Strings” is not for the faint of heart. In fact, Elgar made it a point to write a piece so physically and technically taxing that it would showcase the ...

Of the four instruments represented in a modern symphony orchestra string section — violin, viola, cello and contrabass — the cello is the most versatile. In a traditional ensemble context, whether ...