SCHENECTADY -- There are many opportunities to hear string quartets in the Capitol Region, but to experience a European quartet who are in residence in London, Bucharest, and Vienna is a rare treat.

Bands formed in their members’ teen years rarely survive and thrive into their adulthood. Remarkably, one exception is the extraordinary Jerusalem Quartet, founded in 1995 by teenagers, which is ...

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 ...

For the 12 years since its inception, Spektral Quartet has arguably been Chicago’s greatest string quartet, and inarguably its most fun. They have commissioned contemporary composers to write ...

Chamber Music Wilmington artistic director Barbara McKenzie has shown time after time that when it comes to classical music, you can have entertainment, substance, risk taking and thought-provoking ...

The cameras were rolling long before the Emerson String Quartet played a note behind the Tiny Desk. A documentary film crew followed the band into our lobby and kept rolling tape as the players ...

NORWICH — The Harlem String Quartet has traveled all around the world and played on many stages, including Carnegie Hall. On Thursday, they added a different type of venue to their schedule; the ...

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 ...

There was a time when signing to a record label was the be-all and end-all for musicians. Those monolithic corporations were a white whale for struggling artists: both the object of obsession and, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critics’ Notebook The JACK Quartet and the Danish String Quartet presented new works that nodded to the past and spoke to the present. By Joshua ...