Serious

David Harrington Violin
John Sherba Violin
Hank Dutt Viola
Jeffrey Zeigler Cello

Aleksandra Vrebalov ...hold me, neighbor, in this storm...
Steve Reich Different Trains
George Crumb Black Angels

With a fearless drive to expand the range and context of the string quartet, the Kronos Quartet is one of the most celebrated and influential ensembles of today. This is chamber music on a grand scale - colourful, imaginative, provocative and sure to set the expansive acoustic of the Usher Hall ablaze.

Steve Reich's Different Trains, written for the Kronos Quartet, marked a new compositional method in which speech recordings generate the musical material for the instruments. ...hold me, neighbor, in this storm... is inspired by folk and religious music from Aleksandra Vrebalov's native Serbia.

George Crumb's Black Angels for electric string quartet is a vibrant work described by the composer as ‘a kind of parable on our troubled contemporary world'.

‘an extraordinary career of boundary-breaking discovery and innovation' The New York Times