The cover comes ahead of their new album, due out later in March. By Hannah Dailey Adele and string instruments — a match made in pop music heaven. Known for its classical string covers of popular ...

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 versatile young members of the Ebène Quartet have been pricking up a few ears lately. It's due to their recent genre-twisting album Fiction, in which they indulge their fantasy of functioning not ...

A new boxed set of string quartets by Wadada Leo Smith, an anchor of American experimental music, reveals his sustained engagement with the form. By Seth Colter Walls The trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith ...

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 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 ...

Composed in September of 1828, during the final weeks of Schubert's life, the Quintet in C for two violins, viola and two cellos was the composer's last instrumental work and ranks among his greatest ...

If Haydn is today called the ‘father’ of the String Quartet, and Mozart took the form to new heights, then Beethoven – characteristically – took hold of it and completely transformed it. The five Late ...

When Elizabeth Maconchy began her first string quartet in 1932, Vaughan Williams was in the ascendant, and Benjamin Britten had barely begun to make his mark. By the time she completed No 13, in 1984, ...

Has the Borodin Quartet inherited a musical style through its DNA? There have been many changes to the membership of the Quartet since it was founded 70 years ago, but its close association with ...

In recognition of its 50th anniversary, the world-renowned Takács Quartet was recently the subject of an in-depth profile by The New York Times and featured on the cover of Strad magazine. The Takács ...