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 ...

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), ...

The instruments mutter and shriek, dissolving the line between noise and music on this authoritative and fascinating disc Helmut Lachenmann is 90 this week, but the event has gone largely unmarked in ...

Classical crossovers have taken Hollywood by storm. One of the musical entities leading the charge is Vitamin String Quartet, which returns to Northeast Ohio for a show on Oct. 24 at EJ Thomas Hall in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quartet Davis joined host Jennifer Hambrick live on Classical 101's Facebook page for a performance and interview. Think you know what a string quartet sounds like? Quartet Davis might have you ...

Add the Escher String Quartet to that list. On the BIS label, they are evidently working towards a cycle of their own, which would be the first on Super Audio CDs. Charles Downey, writing in the ...

The versatile young members of the Ebène Quartet have been pricking up a few ears lately. It's due to their recent genre-twisting album Fiction, in which they indulge their fantasy of functioning not ...

Is the Bay Area really the center of classical music disruption, the region’s favorite term? Last week offered some reasons to think so. There was the news that the San Francisco Symphony had made Esa ...

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 one member of the quartet is actually ...