Belinda Niling Stohner was always told the concert hall was the best place for classical music. She didn’t believe it. Yes, you have the acoustic design, the heavy velvet curtains, the audience seated ...
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 ...
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 ...
William Shakespeare famously said, “If music be the food of love, play on.” The Nissitissit String Quartet explores that ...
The members of the Johannes String Quartet keep busy with their separate careers. First violinist Soovin Kim teaches at the New England Conservatory, and cellist Peter Stumpf at Indiana University.
The first thought that comes to mind when one thinks of a string quartet is probably more Beethoven and less Billie Eilish, but Vitamin String Quartet has been changing the paradigm when it comes to ...
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), ...
Pop, rock and a little bit of Bach. That’s what listeners can expect to hear when the trio strings band, Naples Strings, shows up to play. “We’ve been playing together for a long time, so there wasn’t ...
When the Calidore String Quartet took to the stage of St. Francis Auditorium last Sunday, in a recital presented by Santa Fe Pro Musica, the second violinist announced that there would be a small ...
You may not know their name, but you’ve definitely heard their music, especially if you’re a fan of the Netflix show, ...
On the other hand I immediately felt how hard it would be to come close to this “truth”. In all of Brahms’s music there is this element of something elusive and unreachable. Deeply inspired by this ...