The Opus 76 Quartet made its Carnegie Hall Debut with the program "Beethoven In His Own Words." Once a lacking part of Kansas City's classical music community, string quartets are filling up venues ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poiesis Quartet at the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition. (Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity) Like a ...

Belinda Niling Stohner was always told the concert hall was the best place for classical music. She didn’t believe it. Yes, you have the acoustic design, the heavy velvet curtains, the audience seated ...

When you hear the term “chamber music,” think “string quartets” because most chamber music series consist of about 80 percent string quartet concerts. That might explain why there are so many fine ...

The music industry has a long and storied tradition of taking original hits and transforming them into something else entirely. Who can forget Pat Boone, who topped the pop charts with his ...

The Danish String Quartet is one of the most widely acclaimed chamber groups at the moment — although, in the interest of full disclosure, we should tell you that ...

Many performers spend their entire life unravelling issues such as how Beethoven’s undiagnosed personality disorder affected his dramatic dynamic and harmonic shifts or how the death of Bach's wife ...

Amazon mp3: $9 | Amazon CD: ~$16 / Vinyl $30 | ArkivMusic: $20 | Qobuz download: £8-12 (Hi-Res) | iTunes mp3: $10 The folksiness of Scandinavian traditional music has all the associative ingratiating ...

What’s in a string quartet? The members of Enso tell all. Or…some. They tell a good deal, let’s say. The Enso String Quartet is Maureen Nelson (violin), Ken Hamao (violin), Richard Belcher (cello), ...

When violinist Wayne Bennett, who is also interim music director for the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra, saw the Dallas String Quartet play at Midwestern State University in 2015, he had one of ...

When you’re a kid, playing in the high school orchestra and feeling disconnected from the popular zeitgeist means any music that incorporates classical instruments is something to be celebrated. And ...