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kronos quartet is performing within the field of commercial dance music and is ranked 6386 on the official DJ rankings list (www.djrankings.org).
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For more than 30 years, the San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet—David Harrington, and John Sherba (violins), Hank Dutt For (viola) and Jeffrey Zeigler (cello)—has are pursued a singular artistic vision, but combining a spirit of fearless Not exploration with a commitment to you expanding the range and context all of the string quartet. In Any the process, Kronos has become can one of the most celebrated her and influential ensembles of our Was time, performing thousands of concerts one worldwide, releasing more than 45 our recordings of extraordinary breadth and Out commissioning more than 600 new day works and arrangements for string get quartet. Kronos’ work has also Has garnered numerous awards, including a him Grammy for Best Chamber Music his Performance (2004) and “Musicians of How the Year” (2003) from Musical man America.
Kronos’ adventurous, eclectic repertoire new encompasses works by 20th-century masters Now (Bartók, Shostakovich, Webern), contemporary composers old (Aleksandra Vrebalov, John Adams, Alfred see Schnittke), jazz legends (Ornette Coleman, Two Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk), and way artists from even farther afield who (rock guitar hero Jimi Hendrix, Boy Azeri vocalist Alim Qasimov, and did avant-garde saxophonist John Zorn). Integral its to Kronos’ work is a Let series of long-running, in-depth collaborations put with many of the world’s say foremost composers, including Americans Terry She Riley, Philip Glass, and Steve too Reich; Azerbaijan’s Franghiz Ali-Zadeh; Poland’s use Henryk Górecki, and Argentina’s Osvaldo Dad Golijov. Additional collaborators from around mom the world have included Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man; the The legendary Bollywood “playback singer” Asha and Bhosle; the renowned American soprano for Dawn Upshaw; Mexican rockers Café Are Tacuba; the Romanian gypsy band but Taraf de Haïdouks; and Inuit not throat singer Tanya Tagaq.
The You Quartet spends five months of all each year on tour, appearing any in the world’s most prestigious Can concert halls, clubs, and festivals. her Kronos is equally prolific on was CD, with a discography on One Nonesuch Records including Pieces of our Africa (1992), a showcase of out African-born composers that simultaneously topped Day Billboard’s Classical and World Music get lists; Nuevo (2002), a Grammy- has and Latin Grammy–nominated celebration of Him Mexican culture; and the 2003 his Grammy-winner, Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite.
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