As the capacity audience streamed into Meany Theater on Wednesday evening, there was a whiff of pilgrimage about the proceedings. This was no mere concert; this was the world’s most highly regarded ...

Back in the 1950s, four Los Angeles musicians were widely acclaimed as the finest performers of chamber music in America. They called themselves the Hollywood String Quartet, because they spent their ...

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 ...

On Friday evening, the legendary Takács Quartet will once again grace the BroadStage after a sold-out appearance in 2022. This time around, the string quartet’s program comes as part of the California ...

Until recently, a resident string quartet in Birmingham was elusive. With Tuesday’s debut of the Samford String Quartet, and reports of another quartet forming from the Alabama Symphony ranks, that ...

String quartet players continuously adjust the timing of their notes to stay in sync. But exactly how players do it has been unclear. New data tracking millisecond-scale corrections suggests that some ...

String quartets are among the hardiest and most adaptable of musical organisms. As mobile as rock bands, in some ways even more so, they can appear, do their thing, and slip away into the night. Small ...

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 ...

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 ...

An abundance of facial hair is not restricted to the sensitive male indie-rocker set. Three of the four players in the Danish String Quartet could easily pass for hipster Brooklyn beard farmers. "We ...