A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition. By Giovanni Russonello The venerable quartet ...

Kronos Quartet has commissioned 50 pieces of music for its latest project, Fifty for the Future. Irish composer and violist Garth Knox recently wrote a piece called Satellites, which, he says, tries ...

Mỹ Lai is a powerful story about the Mỹ Lai massacre and the ethical dilemmas of an individual placed in an impossible situation, with a dramatic score emphasizing the bleakness and horror of the ...

Fifty years is a long time in the life of any music group. But listening to David Harrington talk about the Kronos Quartet, it’s easy to get the sense that the groundbreaking new music foursome is ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with David Harrington, Gabriela Díaz, Ayane Kozasa, and Paul Wiancko about being the Kronos Quartet.

Viewers at Zellerbach Hall certainly got what they bargained for when the Kronos Quartet took the stage on March 2. As the world’s bestselling string quartet, Kronos has sold over four million albums ...

On Friday, April 23, 2022 at 9:30pm, Carnegie Hall presents the renowned Kronos Quartet at Zankel Hall. Their program features George Crumb's Black Angels, the iconic work that inspired the founding ...

Kronos Quartet are marking the 80th anniversary of the first nuclear detonation by covering Bob Dylan‘s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” with the Hard Rain Collective. Proceeds benefit the Red Hot ...

Kronos Quartet has been challenging the idea of what a string quartet does ever since violinist David Harrington formed the group in 1973 in order to play George Crumb’s “Black Angels,” an unorthodox ...