In the lead-up to the Musica Viva Festival I started to discuss ten things about chamber music, particularly string quartets, that you might not have known. Well, we had five things last week, so here ...

These days, the string quartet as an ensemble is a tried and true form of chamber music, but it’s only within the past three ...

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 ...

Over the past 18 years, FourPlay String Quartet have redefined notions of what a string quartet can play. A handful of albums have seen them bring rock'n'roll dynamics and a multitude of influences ...

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 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 ...

At times there can be nothing more serious in the way of concerts than a string quartet concert, as was demonstrated Wednesday night in Lafayette College’s Williams Center when the St. Petersburg ...

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 ...

Jethro Tull‘s Ian Anderson is reimagining songs like “Aqualung,” “Living in the Past,” “Bungle in the Jungle” and “A Christmas Song” as classical music compositions in a new LP, The String Quartets, ...

A string quartet made up of two married couples is pretty unusual. The ConTempo Quartet, Galway’s ensemble-in-residence, is one. The half-Irish, half-English Carducci String Quartet is another. For ...