In 1976, some Juilliard students got together and created a string quartet — and the Emerson String Quartet was born. They came to the NPR Tiny Desk to play one of their final live performances. The ...

The Dallas Chamber Music Society began its 2023-24 season with a farewell. Not, to be sure, a farewell for the venerable local presenter, whose 79th season includes six concerts. But the Orion String ...

So much music. So much time. Since the Kronos Quartet’s founding in 1973, critical response to their work has focused on the many aspects of time suggested by their name. Indeed, the recent 50th ...

The Emerson String Quartet has had a phenomenal run. Named for American poet-philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, the New York-based quartet was founded in 1976 as a student group at the Juilliard School ...

After four decades, a beloved San Francisco ensemble will soon play its last notes together. The Alexander String Quartet plans to bid farewell to the Bay Area with a concert at Kohl Mansion in ...

It was magic from the start. The musicians who would come to form the Abeo Quartet were first-year students at the Juilliard School when, in 2018, they first played together in a string quartet. From ...

The University at Buffalo Center for the Arts (UBCFA), the region’s largest multidisciplinary arts hub, announces its 2025–26 season, featuring both up-and-coming and legendary comedians, music ...

For more than 40 years, San Francisco's Kronos Quartet has fused musical categories and erased borders. They are impossible to pigeonhole: classical, rock, jazz, or modern? Kronos is really a genre ...

On Saturday, Stanford Live welcomed the Emerson String Quartet to Bing for what would be the quartet’s final performance at Stanford. The four members of the ensemble — Paul Watkins (cello), Lawrence ...