The Budapest String Quartet has always been my standard-bearer for chamber music. I grew up listening to their recordings, and especially admired not only their gorgeous sound, but also the uncanny ...

The Cuker and Stern Graduate String Quartet program at Mannes School of Music provides a highly qualified pre-professional or professional string quartet with an immersive two-year residency at Mannes ...

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 ...

The Danish String Quartet, which this season celebrates its 20th anniversary, isn’t the sort of group that toots its own horn, if you’ll pardon the expression. Beyond their abundant qualities on stage ...

Andrew McGregor with the best of the week's new classical releases. c2.10pm The music writer, novelist, and opera librettist ...

Jazz string quartets are rare. Jazz string quartets as brilliant as Atom String Quartet, the Polish ensemble founded in 2010, are rarer still. This, the quartet's fourth release, sees Dawid Lubowicz, ...

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 ...

Grażyna Bacewicz treated violin and other string instruments with a special attention, a consequence of her violin studies under Józef Jarzębski in Warsaw and under André Touret and Karl Flesch in ...

In the spring of 1825, when Beethoven was 54, he became terribly sick. He was in bed for a month and he wrote to his doctor, "I am not feeling well ... I am in great pain." The doctor put Beethoven on ...

The Vitamin String Quartet will be returning to the Fox Theater to bring their unique blend of modern classical music to Spokane. For nearly three decades, the Vitamin String Quartet has combined a ...