With a running time of just over two hours, Morton Feldman's 1985 composition "Violin and String Quartet" is one of his longer ones, even though it falls far short of such pieces as 1984's "For Philip ...

Silesian Quartet - Witold Szalonek. Witold Szalonek: "1+1+1+1 per 1-4 strumenti ad arco" (versions for violin and cello and for the string quartet), "Symphony of Rituals" for string quartet. Silesian ...

To begin the second in this season’s series of concerts by the Spokane String Quartet, Helen Byrne, its cellist, stepped to ...

Janevic and Long's path to that Lollapalooza stage began at age 17, when they met at Interlochen Arts Camp in northern ...

Who knew the venerable violin still had surprises in store for us, after nearly 500 years as one of the leading voices in music? An Australian master archetier, or bow-maker, has built a simple device ...

West Texas A&M University’s Harrington String Quartet will open its season with a concert celebrating the start of a new era.

The term "to play second fiddle" is commonly taken to indicate inferiority. There was certainly nothing inferior in the playing of Siegmund Nissel, who was second violin in the Amadeus Quartet, the ...

NORWALK -- For this weekend's performance, Norwalk's Lumina String Quartet will present a program spanning hundreds of years. Quartet music from Beethoven and Shostakovich will join Duke Ellington ...

These musicians came together in 1978 as students of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. The quartet's members perfected their skills during master classes lead by the members of ...

The Armenian violin school is more than just a tradition. It is the breath of time, a voice that resonates through ...

The trademark gondolas of Venice's Grand Canal played second fiddle this weekend to a very unusual vessel: A giant violin carrying a live string quartet. "Noah's Violin" is the most recent creation of ...

Violinist Nicolas Orbovich, artistic director for the Michigan City Chamber Music Festival, never planned to play the violin. “Both of my own parents came from poor families and never had the ...