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Formed by siblings who grew up playing together, the Hagen Quartet is finishing a farewell tour with an unforced, casual ...

You Am I are bringing in a string quartet for Strung Up, a tour reworking 1996 album Hourly Daily. The east coast dates pair one of Australia’s most enduring rock bands with orchestral arrangements, a ...

This year’s String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam saw big names and rising stars play 113 works from Beethoven to Larcher, plus masterclasses, a DJ – and free biscuits. Can you have too much of a good ...

Today's Video of the Day is a performance of Jean-Féry Rebel's Le Cahos from Les Élémens by Chaos String Quartet.

The Colorado College Summer Music Festival is wrapping up its 42nd season this week, bringing talented student musicians from ...

The Danish String Quartet, which this season celebrates its 20th anniversary, isn’t the sort of group that toots its own horn, if you’ll pardon the expression. Beyond their abundant qualities on stage ...

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 ...

Grażyna Bacewicz treated violin and other string instruments with a special attention, a consequence of her violin studies under Józef Jarzębski in Warsaw and under André Touret and Karl Flesch in ...

Jazz string quartets are rare. Jazz string quartets as brilliant as Atom String Quartet, the Polish ensemble founded in 2010, are rarer still. This, the quartet's fourth release, sees Dawid Lubowicz, ...

The Budapest String Quartet has always been my standard-bearer for chamber music. I grew up listening to their recordings, and especially admired not only their gorgeous sound, but also the uncanny ...