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  Kronos Quartet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The longest-running combination of performers (1978–1999) had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola and Joan Jeanrenaud on cello.
Kronos has performed live with the likes of the late poet Allen Ginsberg, the Modern Jazz Quartet, David Bowie, and Bjork, and has appeared on recordings with such diverse talents as singer-songwriters Dave Matthews, Nelly Furtado, Rokia Traore, Joan Armatrading, and Texas yodeler Don Walser.
Kronos Quartet (1986), with music of Peter Sculthorpe, Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass, Conlon Nancarrow and an arrangement of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kronos_Quartet   (802 words)

  
 The Peabody Trio - Collaborations
She has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, DaCamera Society of Houston, with flutist Paula Robison at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has performed with the Peabody Trio and the Guarneri, Cleveland, Juilliard, Muir, Brentano, Borromeo, Colorado and Orion Quartets,among others.
Lambros is currently a member of the chamber music faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Music and has been on the faculties of the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College and Harvard University, among others.
In addition to performing, Charles Neidich has a high profile as a teacher and is a member of the artist faculties of the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
www.peabodytrio.org /collaborations.htm   (2098 words)

  
 Festival Miami   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
With an active performance schedule in the major concert halls of North America and Europe, the Quartet was named the 18th recipient of the 2004 Avery Fisher Prize - a first for a chamber ensemble.
The recipient of an honorary doctorate from Middlebury College, Dutton is a rofessor of chamber music at SUNY Stony Brook and the Manhattan School of Music.
A regular faculty member of the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center, Setzer is also a visiting professor of violin and chamber music at SUNY Stony Brook and has given master classes at schools around the world.
www.music.miami.edu /festivalmiami/EmersonStringQuartet.htm   (492 words)

  
 Grammy Awards | University of Colorado at Boulder
The quartet is in residence at the CU-Boulder College of Music and performs internationally.
The quartet's recording of the Bartók cycle received the coveted Gramophone Award for 1998, and in 1999 it was nominated for a Grammy.
A Grammy is awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement, not sales or chart positions.
www.colorado.edu /NewsServices/grammy   (506 words)

  
 Classical styles (August 01, 2003)
In addition, there will be a two-week workshop for chamber music, featuring students from the nation's top conservatories in open master classes, and a day-long chamber music open house.
The quartet, which is currently in residence at Stanford University, garnered a 2003 Grammy Award nomination for best chamber-music performance.
Stern, Han said, also felt that chamber music -- an intimate style of music performed in small groups, without a conductor -- was of paramount importance.
www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/2003/2003_08_01.music01ja.html   (1585 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Eugene Istomin Dies; Well-Traveled Concert Pianist
Istomin is most identified with a series of performances and recordings he made with Stern and Rose from 1961 to 1984, the year Rose died of leukemia.
In 1970, the three shared a Grammy Award for best chamber music performance for their "Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios," which celebrated the bicentennial of the composer's birth.
The trio reunited in 1961 at the Israel Music Festival and was met with rapturous praise.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A10992-2003Oct10?language=printer   (849 words)

  
 Chamber Music Society > School of Music > University of Louisville
All performances are in the acoustically-superb north recital hall of the University of Louisville School of Music,the Margaret Comstock Concert Hall.Pre-concert talks are scheduled at 2 p.m.
The Chamber Music Society of Louisville is affiliated with the University of Louisville School of Music.
Acclaimed for its insightful performances, brilliant artistry and technical mastery, the Emerson String Quartet is one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, and has amassed an impressive list of achievements including six Grammy awards.
www.louisville.edu /music/chambermusicsociety   (565 words)

  
 Biografie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The only permanent chamber music ensemble sponsored by a major symphony orchestra and made up of that orchestra’s principal players, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players include the Boston Symphony’s first-desk string, woodwind, brass, and percussion players.
The Chamber Players can perform virtually any work within the vast chamber music literature, and they can expand their range of repertory by calling upon other BSO members or enlisting the services of distinguished guest pianists.
The Chamber Players’ cellist, JULES ESKIN, a Naumberg award-winner, served as principal cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra before joining the Boston Symphony as principal in 1964.
www.kdschmid.de /englisch/02kuenst/1kuenstler.php3?k_id=51   (901 words)

  
 New Orleans Friends of Music - Presenting the world's finest chamber music...for a song.
Acclaimed for its insightful and dynamic performances, brilliant artistry and technical mastery, the Emerson String Quartet is one of the world's foremost chamber ensembles.
Future performances are planned for London's Barbican Centre, the Moscow Festival, Berliner Festspiele, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Massachusetts International Festival and the Krannert Center in Champagne-Urbana.
Dedicated to the performance of the classical repertoire, the Emerson String Quartet also has a strong commitment to the commissioning and performance of 20th-century music.
www.friendsofmusic.org /c_emerson.htm   (843 words)

  
 Manhattan School of Music: Faculty Bio
Dutton performs over 100 concerts each season and has won six Grammy Awards, most recently in 2001 for Best Classical Album and Best Chamber Music Performance of the complete string quartets of Shostakovich on the Deutsche Grammophon label.
In addition, he has performed as guest artist with numerous chamber music ensembles such as the Juilliard and Guarneri quartets, and with the Beaux Arts and the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson trios.
Dutton is currently a professor of chamber music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and resides in Bronxville, New York, with his wife, violinist Elizabeth Lim-Dutton and their sons, Luke Thomas and Jesse Lee.
www.msmnyc.edu /catalog/facbio.asp?fid=1020002335   (500 words)

  
 05-07 Concert
An active chamber musician, he is the founder and director of the MasterGuild Series of chamber music concerts at Holy Names.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, she was first-prize winner of the William Primrose International Competition in 1979.
She is equally renowned for her chamber music at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and in many Bay Area venues.
www.gualalaarts.org /Groups/Concert/05-07Concert.htm   (1191 words)

  
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The music of the Kronos Quartet has been featured prominently in films such as “Requiem for a Dream,” “21 Grams,” “Heat” and “True Stories.” Noted choreographers Twyla Tharp, Merce Cunningham and the duo Eiko and Koma have created dance numbers set to Kronos’ music.
Kronos’ work has garnered numerous awards, including a Grammy award for Best Chamber Music Performance in 2004, and they were named “Musicians of the Year” in 2003 by Musical America.
Another facet of the quartet’s shining influence in the musical community is the Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association, a non-profit organization based in San Francisco, which commissioned more than 450 new works and arrangements for the string quartet.
appl003.lsu.edu /unv002.nsf/9faf000d8eb58d4986256abe00720a51/f1291fbf440e9a7586256fce0056246c?OpenDocument   (348 words)

  
 Chicago Symphony Orchestra - CSO Musicians Roster - Performer Bio
Nominated for a Grammy® award for best chamber music performance with the Chicago Symphony Winds, he is also the founding member of the Chamber Soloists of Chicago, heard locally as well as live on nationwide broadcasts from WFMT, Chicago.
A participant in the Scotia Festival Music, heard collaborating with members of the Lincoln Center Chamber Players, he also has been a featured guest artist on the Bay Chamber Concerts in Maine with members of the Vermeer Quartet.
He has performed at International Clarinet Association conferences worldwide and has recently given the world premiere of a concerto written for and dedicated to him at the international conference in Belgium.
www.cso.org /main.taf?erube_fh=cso&cso.submit.CSOPerfBio=1&cso.artistid=gsmith   (481 words)

  
 NIU Music - Vermeer String Quartet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 2000, the quartet was named Outstanding Studio Teachers by the Illinois chapter of the American String Teachers Association, based on their commitment to fine teaching, high standards of musicianship and community involvement.
The quartet also stirred justices of the U.S. Supreme Court with a 2003 command performance at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. Ashkenasi, Johnson, Tacke and Young now are in the middle of a recording of English music by composers Benjamin Britten and Arthur Bliss for release next fall by Cedille Records.
The Vermeer was nominated for Grammy honors in 1994 for Haydn's "The Seven Last Words of Christ" and in 2003 for a CD of piano quintets by Russian composers Shostakovich and Schnittke.
www.niu.edu /Music/current/ensembles/vermeer/vermeer.shtml   (287 words)

  
 GRAMMY.com - 48th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee List
(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
(Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.))
(Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.)
www.grammy.com /GRAMMY_Awards/Annual_Show/48_nominees.aspx   (4063 words)

  
 Carnegie Mellon Press Release: Date January 28, 2002
When the Grammy winners are announced, Cuarteto Latinoamericano will be making their New Zealand debut at the 2002 New Zealand Festival.
After performing in New York at The Americas Society, a Rockefeller institution promoting outstanding works by Latin artists, the group returns to Pittsburgh to perform in Kresge Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, April 25.
The 44th Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast on CBS Feb. 27.
www.cmu.edu /PR/releases02/020128_grammy.html   (327 words)

  
 JR.com: Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky: Trios / Argerich, Kremer, Maisky in Music: Classical:
This recording was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for "Best Chamber Music Performance." The first track on this disc is 25 seconds of applause.
Both of these trios stand as cornerstones of Russian chamber music as well as moving tributes to departed friends.
The trio of Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer and Mischa Maisky are idealy suited to this expressive and challenging music.
www.jr.com /xs-shostakovich-tchaikovsky-trios-argerich-kremer-maisky-in-music-classical--pi!3758178.html   (453 words)

  
 school of music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hailed as "one of the finest brass chamber ensembles in the world" by the International Trumpet Guild Journal, the quintet is sought after each year to present master classes and seminars at major universities and conservatories.
Each summer the quintet is in residence at the Music Masters Course in Kazusa, Japan, where it has attracted students from 10 countries on 4 continents.
Professor Knox is also tubist of the Chicago Chamber Musicians Brass Quintet, which has recorded on the Naxos label and performs regularly on WFMT (Chicago), and he has toured with the Empire Brass.
dept.kent.edu /music/faculty_pages/knox.htm   (369 words)

  
 Famed violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo to join IU School of Music faculty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Abroad, he has performed as a soloist or conductor with the London Symphony, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, which he led on two American tours and in its Hong Kong Festival Debut.
Born into a musical family -- her father was a bass player, her mother a violinist and all of her siblings are string players -- Robinson has performed with many of the world's premier orchestras.
She received a Grammy nomination for a recording of Brahms string sextets with Laredo, Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, Michael Tree and Yo-Yo Ma.
newsinfo.iu.edu /news/page/normal/2117.html   (882 words)

  
 CMSO: Conductors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
During this time he was also Music Director of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, First Conductor and Associate Music Director of the Staatstheater Mainz, Conductor and Solo Pianist of the Stuttgart Ballet and Second Conductor and Assistant Music Director of the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe.
Born in Baltimore, Romanul comes from a musical family and is the grandson of Stella Roman, former leading soprano at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera.
At age 11, he was the youngest competitor ever to win the Harry Dubbs Memorial Award and made his debut as a piano soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
www.tuckermanhall.org /conductors.html   (487 words)

  
 Cedille Records: Chicago's Classical Record Label
Rami Solomonow was a member of the Israel Chamber Orchestra until 1972 and served as Principal Violist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1974 to 1995.
Mary Stolper performs and tours internationally with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is principal flute of both Concertante di Chicago and the Chicago Sinfonietta, and has served as assistant principal flute and principal piccolo with Chicago's Grant Park Symphony.
An avid chamber musician as well, Combs is a founding member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians and has appeared in recent sessions with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Smithsonian Chamber Ensemble.
www.cedillerecords.org /artists_instrumental.html   (1254 words)

  
 Vassar College News and Announcements » Press Release » Chicago String Quartet will perform at Vassar, ...
In 1994 Combs, as part of an ensemble comprised of members of the orchestras of Chicago and Berlin, received a Grammy award for Best Chamber Music Performance for their interpretation of the chamber music of Mozart and Beethoven.
Williams is a founding member of both the Chicago Chamber Musicians and the Summit Brass, a brass ensemble including musicians from the New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Saint Louis symphonies.
She has performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Antonio Orchestra, and several smaller orchestras in the United States.
collegerelations.vassar.edu /2002/658   (419 words)

  
 Telarc International: Classical -- Telarc Classics Midline Series
Continuing its acclaimed series of 20th-century music performed by I Fiamminghi, Telarc presents a stunning recording of two mystical pieces by John Tavener, the composer of the poignant recessional music for the funeral of Princess Diana.
Acclaimed harpist Yolanda Kondonassis performs music specially selected to evoke a continuous mood of serenity, in a concept recording created to enhance and assist the therapeutic arts of massage, meditation and healing.
On this recording, the music of J.S. Bach is performed on digital and other synthesizers—presenting the Baroque master's music in a new light, yet without losing the structural integrity of the original works.
www.telarc.com /classical/midline.asp   (3616 words)

  
 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington and John Sherba (violins), Hank Dutt (viola) and Jennifer Culp (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet.
In the process, Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and influential ensembles of our time, performing thousands of concerts worldwide, releasing more than 40 recordings of extraordinary breadth and creativity, collaborating with many of the world's most eclectic composers and performers, and commissioning hundreds of works and arrangements for string quartet.
Kronos' work has also garnered numerous awards, including a Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance (2004) and "Musicians of the Year" (2003) from Musical America.
www.perimeterinstitute.com /activities/community/event_horizons/kronos.php   (274 words)

  
 Carnegie Mellon Press Release: November 8, 2002
Praised by critics for her "crystal clear soprano voice and dramatic persona," Abreu has performed as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras in France, Spain, Portugal, Argentina and the United States.
Quartet-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon's School of Music for more than a decade, the internationally acclaimed Cuarteto Latinoamericano is celebrating its 20th performance season.
4, 9, 11" was nominated for a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance.
www.cmu.edu /PR/releases02/021108_brazilian.html   (253 words)

  
 Special Guest Artists: Lawrence Dutton. C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival, Summer 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
They also won a "Best Chamber Music Performance" Grammy in 1994 for Ives, Barber and in 1998 for their complete Beethoven Quartets and continue to be exclusive recording artists for Deutsche Grammophon.
His Aspen Music Festival recording with Jan DeGaetani for Bridge records was nominated for a 1992 Grammy Award and he has been featured on two albums with Grammy-winning jazz bassist John Patitucci.
Dutton is currently a Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the Manhattan School of Music.
www.liu.edu /cwis/cwp/svpa/public_html/music/festival/guestArtistInformation.php?sga=ld   (581 words)

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