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Infobox musical artist | name = Kronos Quartet| image =Kronos quartet in warsaw.jpg| image_size = 280| landscape = yes| caption = Kronos Quartet performing in Warsaw , Poland in the summer of 2006| background = classical_ensemble| origin = Seattle, Washington , United States | occupation = Chamber music|Chamber ensemble | genre = Contemporary classical | years_active = 1973- present | label = Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch / Elektra Records | website = http://www.kronosquartet.org www.KronosQuartet.org| current_members = David Harrington, violin John Sherba, violin Hank Dutt, viola Jeffrey Zeigler, cello| past_members = Jim Shallenberger (original member, 1973-75), violin Roy Lewis (1975-76), violin Tim Killian (original member, 1973-76), viola Walter Gray (original member, 1973-78), cello Joan Jeanrenaud (1978-99), cello Jennifer Culp (1999-2005), celloKronos Quartet is a string quartet founded by violin ist David Harrington in 1973 in Seattle, Washington . Since 1978, the quartet has been based in San Francisco, California . The longest-running combination of performers (from 1978 to 1999) had Harrington and John Sherba on violin, Hank Dutt on viola , and Joan Jeanrenaud on cello . In 1999, Joan Jeanrenaud left Kronos because she was "eager for something new";cite journal | last = Templeton | first = David | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Flight of Fancy: The sky is the limit for ex-Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud | journal = Strings | volume = 18 | issue = 7 | page = 122 | publisher = String Letter Publishing | location = | date = Mar 2004 | url = | doi = | id = she was replaced by Jennifer Culpcite journal | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = News and Notes: People | journal = Strings | volume = 14 | issue = 4 | page = 18 | publisher = String Letter Publishing | location = | date = Nov/Dec 1999 | url = | doi = | id = who, in turn, left in 2005 and was replaced by Jeffrey Zeigler. With almost forty studio albums to their credit and having performed worldwide, they were called "probably the most famous ' Contemporary classical music|new music ' group in the world"cite book | last = McCalla | first = James | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Twentieth-century Chamber Music: Routledge Studies in Musical Genres | publisher = Routledge | year = 2003 | location = | page = 259 | url = http://books.google.com/? id=bA57EoLC9JoC | doi = | id = | isbn = 9780415966955 and were praised in philosophical studies of music for the inclusiveness of their repertoire.cite book | last = Bruce Ellis | first = Benson | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The improvisation of musical dialogue: a phenomenology of music | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2003 | location = | page = 189 | url = http://books.google.com/? id=qJ1Q7ZeRr5EC | doi = | id = | isbn = 9780521009324
By the time the quartet celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary, in 1999, they had a repertoire of over 600 works, which included 400 string quartets written for them, more than 3,000 performances, seven first-prize ASCAP awards, Edison Award s in classical and popular music, and had sold more than 1.5 million records.cite journal | last = Richardson | first = Derk | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Portrait of a Quartet: The Kronos reaps the rewards of 25 years of not fitting the mold | journal = Strings | volume = 13 | issue = 5 | pages = 49–57 | publisher = String Letter Publishing | location = | date = Jan 1999 | url = | doi = | id =
New music/Contemporary Classical
Kronos specializes in new music/contemporary classical music and has a long history of commission (art)|commissioning new works. Over 750 works have been created for the Kronos Quartet. They have worked with many Minimalist music|minimalist composers including John Adams (composer) , Arvo Pärt , George Crumb , Henryk Górecki , Steve Reich , Philip Glass , Terry Riley , and Kevin Volans ; collaborators hail from a diversity of countries-- Kaija Saariaho from Finland, Peteris Vasks from Latvia , Franghiz Ali-Zadeh from Azerbaijan , and Osvaldo Golijov from Argentina . Some of Kronos' string-quartet arrangements were published in 2007.cite journal | last = Silberman | first = Daryl | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = First Edition: Kronos finally publishes its highly coveted string-quartet arrangements | journal = Strings | volume = 22 | issue = 3 | page = 90 | publisher = String Letter Publishing | location = | date = Oct 2007 | url = | doi = | id =
Under 30 Project
When Kronos turned 30, in 2003, they decided on a commissioning process for composers under the age of 30, in the hope of bringing some of the talented young composers to light. The program is now run in cooperation with Carnegie Hall , Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley , and the Montalvo Arts Center . The first recipient was Alexandra du Bois (at the time a student at Indiana University , later a Juilliard School graduate),cite journal | last = Greg | first = Cahill | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Kronos@30 | journal = Strings | volume = 17 | issue = 5 | page = 14 | publisher = String Letter Publishing | location = | date = Jan 2003 | url = | doi = | id = followed by Felipe Perez Santiago (born in Mexico in 1973),cite news | last = Sisario | first = Ben | coauthors = | title = Arts Briefing | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = New York Times | date = 2003-08-19 | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9401E5DE1030F93AA2575BC0A9659C8B63 | accessdate = 2009-01-13 and Dan Visconti (born in Illinois in 1982);cite journal | last = Martini | first = Tiffany | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Sonic Youth: Kronos Quartet gears up for new round of composition contest | journal = Strings | volume = 21 | issue = 1 | page = 18 | publisher = String Letter Publishing | location = | date = June/July 2006 | url = | doi = | id = in 2007, Israeli composer Aviya Kopelman became the fourth.cite news | last = | first = | coauthors = | title = Aviya Kopelman Commissioned Through Kronos: Under 30 Project | work = | pages = | language = | publisher = MusicalAmerica | date = 2007-03-15 | url =
Diverse genres
quote box|quote="I've always wanted the string quartet to be vital, and energetic, and alive, and cool, and not afraid to kick ass and be absolutely beautiful and ugly if it has to be. But it has to be expressive of life. To tell the story with grace and humor and depth. And to tell the whole story, if possible." & nbsp;& nbsp;& nbsp;& nbsp;—David Harringtoncite web|url= http://kronosquartet.org/25th/01.html |title=Four Hundred Candles: The Creation of a Repertoire |last=Yaple |first=Carol |publisher=Kronos Quartet |accessdate=March 30, 2010|width=25%Kronos covers a very broad range of musical genre s: Music of Mexico|Mexican folk , experimental music|experimental , pre-classical early music , movie soundtracks ( Requiem for a Dream (soundtrack)|Requiem for a Dream , Heat (1995 film)|Heat , The Fountain (film)|The Fountain ), jazz and tango music|tango . Kronos has also recorded adaptations of Jimi Hendrix 's " Purple Haze ", Sigur Rós 's "Flugufrelsarinn", Television (band)|Television 's " Marquee Moon ", and Raymond Scott 's "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals".
Kronos has also worked with a variety of global musicians, including Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle ;cite journal | last = Kettle | first = David | title = Kronos Quartet/Asha Boshle (singer) | journal = The Strad (magazine)|The Strad | volume = 116 | issue = 1388 | page = 86 | date = December 2005 Mexican-American painter Gronk (artist)|Gronk ; American soprano Dawn Upshaw ; jazz composer/performer Pat Metheny ; Mexican people|Mexican Rock music|rockers Café Tacuba ; Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani mugam singer Alim Qasimov ; and the Romanian Romani people|gypsy band Taraf de Haidouks among others.
Kronos has performed live with the poet Allen Ginsberg , Ástor Piazzolla , the Modern Jazz Quartet , Tom Waits , David Bowie , and Björk , and has appeared on recordings with such diverse artists as the Dave Matthews Band , Nelly Furtado , Rokia Traore , Joan Armatrading , Brazilian electronica artist Amon Tobin , Texas yodeler Don Walser , Faith No More , Tiger Lillies and David Grisman .
The quartet also performed on the 1998 Dave Matthews Band album Before These Crowded Streets on the tracks Halloween and The Stone . They also appeared on the Nine Inch Nails remix album, Year Zero Remixed , released November 20, 2007, doing a rendition of the track Another Version of the Truth . They also performed Lee Brooks ' score for the short film 2081 (film)|2081 , based on the Kurt Vonnegut short story " Harrison Bergeron ."
In 2009, the quartet contributed an acoustic version of Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night" for the AIDS benefit album Dark Was the Night produced by the Red Hot Organization .
Awards and recognition
;Le Diapason d'Or de Mai
1997 Osvaldo Golijov 's The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
; Rolf Schock Prize
1999 Royal Swedish Academy of Music for Musical Arts in Music
;Musical America
2003 Musicians of the Yearcite web
| last = Mattison | first = Ben | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Kronos Quartet Named Musical America's Musicians of the Year for 2003 | work = | publisher = Andante | date = 2002-12-13 | url = http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm? id=19434& highlight=1& highlightterms=& lstKeywords= | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2009-01-12 ; Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
Grammy Awards of 2004|2004 Alban Berg : Lyric Suite
; National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
2005 The Recording Academy President's Merit Award
; Polar Music Prize
2011, the quartet was Laureates of The Polar Music Prize 2011 is being awarded to American string quartet Kronos Quartet. For almost 40 years, the Kronos Quartet has been revolutionizing the potential of the string quartet genre when it comes to both style and content. The same type of chamber music ensemble – two violins, a viola and a cello – for which Mozart and Beethoven wrote can also be used to comment on international politics, interpret avant-garde rock and incorporate music from every corner of the world cite web
| last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Laureates of the Polar Music Prize 2011 are Kronos Quartet & Patti Smith | work = | publisher = | date = 2011-05-03 | url = http://www.polarmusicprize.org/2011/05/the-laureates-of-the-polar-music-prize-2011-are/ | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2011-05-21
Recordings
main|Kronos Quartet discography
Published music
cite book
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Films
1995 - Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy - Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, and Terry Riley . Directed by Michael Blackwood.
2006 - The Fountain Soundtrack by Clint Mansell featuring Kronos Quartet and Mogwai.
2009 - 2081 . Directed by Chandler Tuttle.
References
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External links
Commons category
Kronos Quartet http://www.kronosquartet.org Official website
Allmusic|class=artist|id=q8192
http://media.libsyn.com/media/offbeatradio/KRONOSSPECIALMP3.mp3 David Harrington of Kronos talks to Karishmeh for OFFBEAT, Dublin City FM. Feature Special on Kronos Quartet
Interview with http://www.learningmusician.com/features/0107/DavidHarrington/ founding Kronos member David Harrington
Schock Prize laureatesPolar Music Prize DEFAULTSORT:Kronos Quartet Category:Musical groups from California Category:Contemporary classical music ensembles Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Nonesuch Records artists Category:Musical groups established in 1973 Category:Rolf Schock Prize laureates Category:American string quartets
