Kronos Quartet

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Critic Consensus

Kronos Quartet is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 15 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Kronos Quartet is rated as an excellent live performer, with many notable strengths. Kronos Quartet concert reviews describe live shows and performances as innovative, avant-garde, minimalist, and ingenious.

ON TOUR

Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, United States (March 21); Elbphilharmonie - Großer Saal, Hamburg, Germany (May 14)

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Latest release

Michael Gordon: Campaign Songs (July 21, 2023)

artist info

GENRE

experimental

ORIGIN

Seattle, King County, Washington, United States (1973 - present)

BIO

Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California.

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CRITIC concert REVIEWS

The Guardian (UK)

October 23, 2023

100

virtuosic quartet celebrate with djembe, eggplant and Hendrix

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musicOMH (UK)

October 21, 2023

Acclaimed San Francisco string quartet celebrate their 50th anniversary with a typically dazzling, inventive and adventurous performance

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Times Union (USA)

January 30, 2023

Kronos Quartet still wonderfully weird at UPH

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The Washington Post (USA)

March 3, 2019

Kronos Quartet plays music from travel ban countries as political protest, but lets its Western roots take over

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musicOMH (UK)

May 23, 2018

Kronos Quartet & Trio Da Kali @ Barbican, London

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God Is In The TV Zine (UK)

May 19, 2016

For 43 years, to be precise, the San Fransisco-based ensemble has pushed at the outer limits of what can be achieved with two violins, a viola and cello.

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