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 replaced Jeanrenaud on cello in 1999. Jeffrey Zeigler replaced Culp on cello in 2005.

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String quartet - Violin - 1973 - 1978 - San Francisco, California - 1999 - Viola - Cello

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Kronos specializes in new music and has a long history of commissioning new works; in fact, over 600 works have been created for the Kronos Quartet. Recently, the Kronos Quartet begun a commission process exclusively for composers under the age of 30, in hopes to bring some of the talented young composers of our day to light. They have worked with many minimalist composers including Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley and Kevin Volans. 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 adaptations of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze", Television's "Marquee Moon", and Raymond Scott's "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals".

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Minimalist - Steve Reich - Philip Glass - Terry Riley - Kevin Volans - Musical genre - Mexican folk - Experimental - Early music - Requiem for a Dream - Jazz - Tango - Jimi Hendrix - Television - Raymond Scott

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