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Kronos Quartet

Five Decades

MICHAEL GORDON New Work (World Premiere, Cal Performances Co-commission)
PENI CANDRA RINI New Work (World Premiere, Cal Performances Co-commission)

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bay Area’s own Kronos Quartet—the groundbreaking ensemble that helped reinvent the string quartet for our global, connected, contemporary world through cross-cultural and cross-genre collaborations, ambitious commissioning projects, and enduring partnerships with living composers. The concert features two world premieres commissioned for the quartet’s anniversary from Michael Gordon and Peni Candra Rini. Kronos’ most recent collaboration with Gordon was Campaign Songs, arrangements from the canon of American patriotic, political, and folk music. Indonesian composer Candra Rini was among the artists selected to participate in Kronos’ visionary Fifty for the Future initiative, which commissioned 50 international composers to create scores made available as a resource at no cost for the next generation of string quartet players. “No one is ever going to say that Kronos Quartet is satisfied with the string quartet status quo” (The New York Times).

Mar 2, 2024, 8pm
Add to Calendar 03/02/2024 08:00 pm 03/02/2024 09:30 pm America/Los_Angeles Kronos Quartet https://calperformances.org/events/2023-24/new-music/kronos-quartet-2324/ Zellerbach Hall
Tickets start at $56

Beyond the Stage

A fascinating deep dive into some of the most anticipated new works on the season in this 2023–24 Season Feature.

Mar 2, 2024, 8pm
Add to Calendar 03/02/2024 08:00 pm 03/02/2024 09:30 pm America/Los_Angeles Kronos Quartet https://calperformances.org/events/2023-24/new-music/kronos-quartet-2324/ Zellerbach Hall
Tickets start at $56
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