Despite being feted with two Grammy Awards for best classical crossover album, the members of the 30-year-old Turtle Island String Quartet (TIQ) initially dreaded the label “crossover.” Even as they ...

Classical music is a composer’s music, a vast and deep repertoire that keeps expanding. Composers, even ones who are talented ...

The JACK Quartet of New York City has been championing string quartet music of the 20th and 21st centuries since its founding in 2005.

At the finals of the 1927 Southern California Oratorical Contest, an idealistic Los Angeles High School senior delivered the winning speech on the newly erected (and short-lived) Lloyd Wright ...

Brooklyn Rider isn’t the first string quartet named after a New York City borough. But it is definitely the hippest. The ensemble, which will visit the Music Academy of the West next week, from July 3 ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — As string quartets go, this one has done a lot. Recorded with Belle and Sebastian and fellow indie-rock darlings Lucius. Shared the stage with Father John Misty and Semisonic. Appeared ...

Just imagine what would have happened to the Beatles if Paul McCartney had quit the band. The Juilliard String Quartet, an American institution for 63 years, found itself in a similar situation when ...