{"id":3374,"date":"2021-10-20T14:19:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T12:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relaunch.andreasrichter.berlin\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:20:05","slug":"kronos-quartett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andreasrichter.berlin\/en\/kronos-quartett\/","title":{"rendered":"Kronos Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For nearly 50 years, San Francisco\u2019s Kronos Quartet\u2014David Harrington (violin), Gabriela D\u00edaz (violin), Hank Dutt (viola) and Ayane Kozasa (cello)\u2014has reimagined what the string quartet experience can be. <\/em>One of the most celebrated and influential groups of our era, Kronos has given thousands of concerts worldwide, released more than 70 recordings, and collaborated with many of the world\u2019s most accomplished composers and performers across many genres. Kronos has received more than 40 awards, including three Grammys and the Polar Music, Avery Fisher, and Edison Klassiek Oeuvre Prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through its non-profit organization, Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA), Kronos has commissioned more than 1,000 works and arrangements for quartet. KPAA also manages Kronos\u2019 concert tours, local performances, recordings, and education programs, and produces an annual Kronos Festival <\/em>in San Francisco. In its most ambitious commissioning effort to date, KPAA has recently completed 50 for the Future: The<\/em> Kronos Learning Repertoire. <\/em>Through this initiative, <\/em>Kronos has commissioned\u2014and distributed online for free\u201450 new works for string quartet designed for students and emerging professionals, written by composers from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n