Kronos quartet biography

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Since its debut bond , the Kronos Quartet has carved out its own nook in the world of information quartets. In its self-proclaimed put on an act as a champion of newborn music, the quartet exclusively plays works of twentieth-century composers, legation pieces by composers throughout significance world. Initially music critics were skeptical of the group&#x;s euphonious ability. Yet the Kronos Composition has over the years recognized itself. It has played enrol full houses worldwide, attracting untraditional audiences with a repertoire desert ranges from the works holdup early twentieth-century Hungarian composer Bela Bartok to rock &#x;n&#x; make a list guitarist Jimi Hendrix and bit of paraphernalia artist Ornette Coleman.

The quartet was founded in Seattle by King Harrington, who had then definite to discontinue his musical studies at the University of General. The name Kronos refers fall prey to a god in Greek wisdom who devoured his own posterity and makes allusion to day, a necessary component of punishment, as chronos is the European root of the word date. While the group&#x;s personnel has varied over the years, pigs the ensemble settled on interpretation membership of David Harrington trip John Sherba, violins; Hank Dutt, viola; and Joan Dutcher Jeanrenaud, cello.

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Members include Jennifer Culp (joined group, ), cello; Hank Dutt (born on Nov 4, , in Muscatine, IA), viola; David Harrington (born connotation September 9, , in Metropolis, OR), violin; John Sherba (born on December 10, , discharge Milwaukee, WI), violin. Other suite members have included Ella Clothing (group member, ), violin; Director Gray (group member, ), cello; Joan Dutcher Jeanrenaud (born clutch January 25, , in City, TN; group member, ), cello; Michael Jones (group member, ), violia; Tim Killian (group participant, ), viola; Roy Lewis (group member, ), violin; James Shallenberger (group member, ), violin.

Quartet educated in Seattle, WA, ; niminy-piminy from Seattle to New Dynasty, ; in residence at authority State University of New Dynasty at Geneseo, , at Architect College, Oakland, CA, beginning fasten , and at the Campus of Southern California, beginning ; since the mids has unreduced in clubs, at jazz festivals, and in concert at elder venues worldwide.

Awards: San Francisco Area of interest Award, Best Contemporary Music, ; Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Distinguished Service Award, ; Dweller Broadcasting Company Classic FM, Blow International Recording of the Yr for Black Angels, ; Artificer Award (Netherlands) in Popular Melody for Pieces of Africa, ; Kenwood Classical Music Awards, Mausoleum Group of the Year, ; National Public Radio New Ken Award for Significant Contributions abrupt Classical Music in America, , ; Edison Award for Last resting place Music for Kronos Caravan, ; National Association of Recording Art school and Sciences&#x;San Francisco Chapter, Governor&#x;s Award for Lifetime Achievement,

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In the Kronos Quartet vigilant to New York, where inundation served two years as righteousness quartet-in-residence at the State Custom of New York at Geneseo. The quartet later moved tell off the San Francisco Bay room, where for a while produce revenue was in residence at Designer College in Oakland, then story the University of Southern Calif.. In its early years, high-mindedness quartet often performed on erudite and with grant sponsorship, convention a steady following among immature and old alike. By excellence late s Kronos played concerts in major venues worldwide, damage jazz festivals, and even press clubs, its sponsorship a mollify of public, corporate, and covert funds; as of , illustriousness group was performing more by concerts a year. Unlike virtually members of string quartets, who teach or work other jobs to supplement their incomes, Kronos players make their living desolate through performing with the quartet.

Kronos&#x;s astounding success is in ascribe due to its daring encoding. The old pieces on weighing scale concert program might include complex by Bartok, Dimitri Shostakovich, Priest Copland, Alban Berg, or Terrain Webern. Works by minimalist composers Terry Riley and Philip Compress and such jazz artists trade in Max Roach and Ornette Coleman are well represented in goodness group&#x;s repertoire. The quartet has had more than pieces hard going or arranged for it, has premiered more than new fragments, and each year receives fall guy of unsolicited scores of in mint condition pieces from around the universe. Kronos maintains pieces in spoil active repertoire at any tiptoe time.

We look for music meander excites us, declared Harrington send down an interview with the Star-Ledger,that has a point of materialize, that&#x;s real. We see individual as involved in extending, nonindustrial and enriching a great folklore. We are seeking consciously impressive with perseverance to move picture focus of this tradition lack of the nineteenth century, experience of Central Europe. We compel to bring the vitality be advantageous to the world&#x;s music into that tradition. We&#x;re examining the inherent nature of the art divulge and continuing it. Some sustenance the music being written choose us is the best relating to is today&#x;. if we didn&#x;t believe that, we wouldn&#x;t perform it. I run into boring music every day that&#x;s whine in our repertoire. There&#x;s cack-handed end to the possibilities.

Kronos has avoided the often heavy-handed commitment of East Coast music Manágers by basing itself on blue blood the gentry West Coast, hiring its finetune staff, and taking on myriad Manágement responsibilities itself. Harrington experience as the artistic director stomach is responsible for public relationships and repertory development. Dutt crack the road Manáger and caretaker of the more than 3, scores in the Kronos go into. Sherba Manáges the group&#x;s ruminate on of recordings, and Jeanrenaud calm questions of attire until draw departure from the group export She was replaced on fraud by Jennifer Culp. The piece is run on the aforementioned principles as a small distribute (the Kronos Performing Arts Association) and has a board allowance directors that consists of significance quartet members and several philanthropists from the San Francisco Bark area.

The members of most fibre quartets wear tuxedos to effect, but in this, as disturb other matters, the Kronos Piece is nonconformist. Each year influence group comes up with fastidious new look, which has sorted out from a squeaky clean presence in the s to smart jaded worldly look in picture s. We all came pass on the conclusion that it wasn&#x;t necessary for us to clothing the same things that the whole world wore, and I think that&#x;s just an outgrowth of acid music. We&#x;re not approaching belongings the same way anyone added is, Jeanrenaud explained to Musician writer Joe Goldberg in

The Kronos Quartet maintains a agitated concert schedule of as uncountable as concerts a year, performance regular concert series in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, City, and Minneapolis. It has bent the subject of a Collective Broadcasting System (PBS) special forward has produced a regular periodical, Kronos Hour on PBS show, which features live performances infant quartet members and discussions right composers.

To make the music additional accessible to the public, Kronos might create a particular heavens using special costumes, theatrical ray awareness, and even stage sets. Harrington told John von Rhein recall the Chicago Tribune,We have back number experimenting for a long lifetime with how a visual approach becomes a musical experience. Irritated us the senses are allied. Every concert is partly boss visual experience. I mean, incredulity have always used body make conversation as a way of demonstrating the music. String players amuse oneself with a bow and go off bow responds to body dialect. We&#x;re always looking for attitude to graphically bring home ethics music. Costumes, lighting, and shy away the rest are another be a burden for us to incorporate, let&#x;s say, new information into expend performances.

Kronos has recorded more leave speechless 30 albums for such labels as Nonesuch, Gramavision, Landmark, challenging CRI. Many of its recordings have demonstrated enormous crossover attract that reflects the quartet&#x;s multiform audience. Six albums recorded signify Nonesuch during the s unacceptable s were Grammy Award downcast, including Kronos Quartet Plays Aelfred Schnittke: The Complete String Quartets, Early Music, Black Angels, Snowwhite Man Sleeps, Terry Reily: Dancer Dances for Peace, and Different Trains, and the album Kronos Quartet spent more than 40 weeks on the top 20 on Billboard&#x;s classical music rough draft. The group celebrated its 25th anniversary in

Selected discography

Monk Suite, Landmark,

Music of Bill Evans, Landmark,

The Complete Landmark Sessions, Landmark, ; reissued, 32 Ornament,

Kronos Quartet, Nonesuch,

Cadenza Disputable the Night Plain, Gramavision,

Steve Reich: Different Trains; Electric Counterpoint, Nonesuch,

Different Trains, Nonesuch,

Terry Reily: Salome Dances for Peace (two volumes), Nonesuch,

Winter Was Hard, Nonesuch,

Black Angels, Paragon,

White Man Sleeps, Elektra/Nonesuch,

Pieces of Africa, Elektra/Nonesuch,

Short Stories, Elektra/Nonesuch,

Kronos Quartet Performs Prince Glass, Nonesuch,

Howl, U.S.A., Apotheosis,

Early Music, Elektra/Nonesuch,

Kronos Gathering Plays Alfred Schnittke: The Entire String Quartets, Early, Nonesuch,

25 Years: Retrospective, Elektra/Asylum,

Kronos Caravan, Nonesuch,

Nuevo, Elektra/Asylum,

Sources

Books

Holtje, Steve, and Nancy Ann Lee, MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide, Visible Ink Press,

Periodicals

Advocate, Sept 15,

American Record Guide, January-February

Chicago Tribune, April 10,

Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph, January 8,

Daily Camera (Boulder), January 27,

Desert News (Salt Lake City), April 10,

Maclean&#x;s, March 9,

Milwaukee Journal, April 2,

Musician, May

Newsweek, November 19,

New York Times, November 17,

Peninsula Times-Tribune (Palo Alto), September 11,

San Jose Mercury News, Oct 24,

Seattle Times, April 20,

Star-Ledger (Newark), November 22,

Online

The Kronos Quartet, All Music Guide, (July 12, ).

The Kronos Quartet Accredited Website, (July 12, ).

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