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 ...

This summer the Videri String Quartet launched a competition, Quarantets, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and their separation from each other as performers. The competition solicited string ...

One of the summits of Viennese classicism, Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross—a sequence of seven sacred adagios, with an intro and conclusion—is available in arrangements for string… ...

Melodic dubstep fans might seem unlikely to be in the audience of a string quartet concert, but they regularly fill the venues of genre-bending ensemble ATLYS’s concerts – even when the group is ...

"David Laurence has spent a lot of time in front of the rewind button," says first violinist Antoine Silverman following a set of superbly executed vintage jazz by Laurence’s Speakeasy String Quartet.

The Hampton String Quartet are known for their inventive arrangements of classic rock tunes, like "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin. But on their latest CD they offer new takes on old holiday ...

Material from Doris Day, Billy Strayhorn, Billie Holiday and Marlene Dietrich doesn’t often fit into the repertoire of string quartets, but then the Turtle Island Quartet has made a career of pursuing ...

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The time is long since past, if it ever existed, when you'd get any argument about the artistic merits of the work of composers like George Gershwin and Jerome Kern. Still, it's striking and ...

Rock rules in Easton Area High School’s music department this week. A Grammy-nominated string quartet has taken up a three-day residency teaching 110 members of the school’s orchestra program how to ...

A trombone, with a string quartet, playing arrangements of American standards? It sounds rather unorthodox indeed, yet this is exactly what Spanish trombonist Víctor Correa proposes with Strong Bone. ...