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Kronos Quartet

The Kronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violinist David Harrington in 1973. Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California. The longest-running combination of performers (1978-1999) had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola and Joan Jeanrenaud on cello. Jennifer Culp is the quartet's current cellist.

Kronos specializes in new music and has a long history of commissioning new works. They have worked with many minimalist composers including Steve Reich, Philip Glass and Terry Riley. Their work covers a very broad range of musical genres: Mexican folk, experimental, pre-classical early music, movie soundtracks (Requiem for a Dream), jazz and tango. Kronos has even recorded an adaptation of Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.

Table of contents

1 Awards 2 Selected albums 3 External links

Awards

• Schock Prize for Musical Arts (1999)

Selected albums

• Pieces of Africa (music by seven African composers)
• Short Stories
• Black Angels (including George Crumb's Black Angels)
• Five Tango Sensations (with Astor Piazzolla)
• Nuevo (music of Mexican composers)

External links

• Official website

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