I heard a remarkable new piece of chamber music this past January. The work, the String Quartet no. 4 (1988) by the thirty-seven-year-old composer George Tsontakis, was performed in its world premiere ...

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 very image of four chamber musicians sitting in a semicircle and playing string quartet music is practically a trope, a hackneyed symbol of fusty aristocratic traditionalism. Picture a movie scene ...

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 ...

In the 2026-2027 season the world-renowned Takács Quartet welcomes new cellist Mihai Marica. The ensemble that comprises Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes (violins) and Richard O’Neill (viola), are ...

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 ...

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 ...

The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody ...