What is a string quartet? In the Classical period, string quartets were a popular form of chamber music that was composed to be performed in the home of a monarch or aristocrat.

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 ...

On Wednesday night at the Library of Congress, the opportunity to hear some of history’s most finely crafted instruments doubled as a chance to hear one of the top string quartets of today.

American composer Aaron Jay Kernis, born in 1960, has favored a more populist modernism. “Musica celestis,” the second ...

Notable for its charged musical energy, Introduction and Allegro mirrors In the South in its florid, dramatic string writing, ...

The large, active crowd flowing into the Fox Theater on Sunday afternoon might well have been taken for a group of football ...

Guest cellist Michal Palzewicz is joining the Spokane String Quartet this weekend, and in doing so he’ll be reuniting with an ...

The Campus Performing Arts Series at Missouri University of Science and Technology is turning up the music with a performance ...

One hour of the most attractive and approachable music at Kings Place, with no interval, finishing at eight... but a hall ...