Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin | Gabriela Díaz, violin
Ayane Kozasa, viola | Paul Wiancko, cello
“For a half century, Kronos has shaken up expectations. With the current lineup, it has the potential to go in new directions… [and] the ability to dig for a deeper emotional connection to sound.”
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For over five decades, Kronos has redefined the possibilities of the string quartet, transforming it into a dynamic vehicle for innovation, cultural storytelling, and social reflection. Their trailblazing spirit continues to shape the future of the artform with new voices, bold ideas, and boundary-breaking performances.
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With more than 1,100 commissions, over 70 acclaimed recordings, and collaborations spanning six continents, Kronos is one of the most influential ensembles in the world. Their work is featured in major festivals, concert halls, and archives—including a permanent collection at the Library of Congress.
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Kronos’ signature education initiative, Fifty for the Future, commissioned 50 works from leading composers to train the next generation of string quartets. Free and accessible online, the library has reached musicians in over 100 countries and stands as a landmark in 21st-century music education.
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From Terry Riley and Steve Reich to Patti Smith and Rhiannon Giddens, Kronos has forged deep creative partnerships across genres and cultures. Their ever-expanding repertoire reflects a fearless embrace of experimentation and a belief that music must speak to the world it lives in.
For 50 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet — David Harrington (violin), Gabriela Díaz (violin), Ayane Kozasa (viola), and Paul Wiancko (cello) — has challenged and reimagined what a string quartet can be. Founded at a time when the form was largely centered on long-established, Western European traditions, Kronos has been at the forefront of revolutionizing the string quartet into a living art form. Today, with new voices and renewed vision, Kronos continues to forge the sound of the people and issues of our time.
Kronos stands among the most celebrated and influential ensembles of our time. The group has performed thousands of concerts across six continents, released more than 70 boundary-pushing recordings, and collaborated with a remarkable range of composers and artists. Kronos has commissioned over 1,100 works and arrangements for string quartet — including the recently completed Fifty for the Future, a free online library of 50 new works from leading living composers that serves as a vivid expression of Kronos’ belief in open access and the continual reinvention of the string quartet repertoire.
Kronos' contributions have been recognized with more than 40 awards, including three Grammy Awards, the Polar Music Prize, the Avery Fisher Prize, and the Edison Klassiek Oeuvre Prize. In 2024, the Library of Congress acquired the Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association Archive, a comprehensive collection of manuscripts, instruments, costumes, video and audio recordings, photographs, and more spanning five decades. Now housed permanently in the Library’s Music Division, the archive stands as a vital testament to Kronos’ impact on contemporary music and cultural history.
Kronos’ adventurous approach traces back to its origins. David Harrington formed the group in 1973 after hearing George Crumb’s Black Angels, a groundbreaking work inspired by the Vietnam War and featuring bowed water glasses, spoken-word passages, and electronic effects. That singular moment ignited a lifelong mission: to expand the language of the string quartet and confront the world’s complexities through music.
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In addition to the quartet’s traditional concert stage work, they were the first to collaborate with Billie Eilish and FINNEAS on their recent album and also performed with the duo on Saturday Night Live. As featured Artists, the Attacca Quartet can be heard on the soundtrack of the upcoming Ken Burns Documentary From the outset, Kronos began building a bold and eclectic repertoire - performing and recording works by 20th-century masters like Sofia Gubaidulina, Astor Piazzolla, and Alfred Schnittke; contemporary voices from around the globe such as Sahba Aminikia, Nicole Lizée, Vladimir Martynov, and Aleksandra Vrebalov; jazz legends including Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Maria Schneider; rock icons like Jimi Hendrix, Sigur Rós, and Pete Townshend; and genre-defying artists such as Laurie Anderson, Trevor Paglen, and Tanya Tagaq.
At the heart of Kronos’ artistic identity is a spirit of fearless collaboration, reflected in long-running creative relationships with many of the world’s foremost composers and resulting in a vast and ever-expanding body of commissioned work for string quartet. Among its most prolific partnerships is that with Terry Riley, whose works for Kronos include Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector (1980), Salome Dances for Peace (1985–86), and Sun Rings (2002); and with Aleksandra Vrebalov, who has written more than 20 pieces for the ensemble, including Pannonia Boundless (1998); …hold me, neighbor, in this storm… (2007); and Beyond Zero (2014), a multimedia meditation on World War I created in collaboration with filmmaker Bill Morrison.
Kronos has also collaborated extensively with Philip Glass — recording an album of his string quartets in 1995 and premiering String Quartet No. 6 (2013) and No. 7 (2014); with Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, whose music is featured on their 2005 release Mugam Sayagi; and with Steve Reich, whose string quartets Different Trains (1989), Triple Quartet (2001), and WTC 9/11 (2011) were written for and recorded by the ensemble.
Kronos’ reach spans continents and cultures, with collaborators ranging from Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man, Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain, and Bollywood legend Asha Bhosle to punk icon Patti Smith, alternative rock band The National, and repeat collaborators like Laurie Anderson and Tanya Tagaq. Their performances and recordings engage pressing themes — war and trauma, environmental collapse, social justice, and spirituality — building a body of work that is as emotionally resonant as it is sonically inventive.
Kronos’ most ambitious commissioning initiative to date, Fifty for the Future, stands as a cornerstone of the ensemble’s legacy. Developed by the Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA), the project commissioned 50 new works for string quartet — written by composers from around the world and designed specifically to train students and emerging professionals in the techniques of 21st-century repertoire. All scores, parts, recordings, and supplementary learning materials are available free of charge at 50ftf.kronosquartet.org. Although the library is now complete, its global impact continues to grow: tens of thousands of scores have been downloaded in more than 100 countries and territories worldwide. Supported by lead partner Carnegie Hall and a wide-ranging network of presenters, academic institutions, foundations, and individual donors, Fifty for the Future exemplifies Kronos’ enduring commitment to access, education, and the future of the string quartet.
In recordings, Kronos has collaborated with numerous artists from around the world, including Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man, a collaborator since the early 1990s; Indian tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain; Azeri master vocalist Alim Qasimov; legendary Bollywood “playback singer” Asha Bhosle; punk legend Patti Smith; Romanian band Taraf de Haïdouks; Iranian vocalist Mahsa Vahdat; and Trio Da Kali, an ensemble of griot musicians from Mali. Kronos has performed live with the likes of Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Allen Ginsberg, Rokia Traoré, Tom Waits, Rhiannon Giddens, Howard Zinn, Betty Carter, Van Dyke Parks, Caetano Veloso, k.d. lang, and The National, and has appeared on recordings by artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Dan Zanes, Glenn Kotche, Dave Matthews Band, Joan Armatrading, Angélique Kidjo, and the San Francisco Girls Chorus. In dance, the famed choreographers Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Alonzo King, Eiko & Koma, and many others have created pieces set to Kronos’ music.
With its roots in the Vietnam War era, Kronos has spent five decades centering its work around the key issues of our time. Underscoring the idea that music should be in constant evolving interaction with the world, Kronos has commissioned, performed, and recorded works that engage with topics such as war and destruction (Jonathan Berger and Harriet Scott Chessman’s Mỹ Lai; Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Bombs of Beirut and Silent Cranes; Mariana Sadovska’s Chernobyl. The Harvest; Aleksandra Vrebalov’s Beyond Zero), the climate crisis (Laurie Anderson’s Landfall); social injustice (Bob Ostertag’s All the Rage; Zachary James Watkins’ Peace Be Till; Michael Abels and Nikky Finney’s At War With Ourselves); and existence and spirituality (Terry Riley’s Sun Rings; Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera).
Kronos spends several months of each year on tour, appearing in concert halls, clubs, and festivals around the world, including Carnegie Hall, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, and BAM Next Wave Festival in New York; Royce Hall at UCLA; Big Ears in Knoxville, Tennessee; Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City; the Barbican in London; the Philharmonie de Paris; the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam; Haydn Hall at Schloss Esterhazy, Austria; The Arts Center at New York University Abu Dhabi; Shanghai Concert Hall; Suntory Hall in Tokyo; and the Sydney Opera House.
Kronos is prolific and wide-ranging on recordings. The ensemble’s expansive discography on Nonesuch includes three Grammy-winning albums: Terry Riley’s Sun Rings (2019), Landfall with Laurie Anderson (2018), and Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite featuring soprano Dawn Upshaw (2003); collections like the boxed set One Earth, One People, One Love: Kronos Plays Terry Riley (2015); the 40th-anniversary boxed set Kronos Explorer Series and companion single-disc A Thousand Thoughts (both 2014); and Nuevo (2002), a Grammy- and Latin Grammy–nominated celebration of Mexican culture. Pieces of Africa (1992), Kronos’ showcase of African-born composers that simultaneously topped Billboard’s Classical and World Music charts, was one of just 25 recordings inducted into the 2024 National Recording Registry, where it joins other iconic recordings the Library of Congress has deemed “worthy of preservation for all time based on their cultural, historical, or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.” Kronos’ recent releases include Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (2023), a collaboration between Kronos and the Ghost Train Orchestra revisiting Moondog’s vital and uplifting music for a new generation; Mỹ Lai (2022), an opera by Jonathan Berger (music) and Harriet Scott Chessman (libretto) featuring Kronos with Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ and vocalist Rinde Eckert; and Long Time Passing: Kronos & Friends Celebrate Pete Seeger (2020) with Sam Amidon, Maria Arnal, Brian Carpenter, Lee Knight, Meklit, and Aoife O’Donovan. Music publishers Boosey & Hawkes have released two volumes of Kronos Collection sheet music, featuring works by Terry Riley, Hamza el Din, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and Osvaldo Golijov.
Kronos’ work has featured prominently in a number of films, including A Thousand Thoughts, a unique multimedia piece that blends live music by Kronos and narration by Sam Green with archival footage and filmed interviews to create a “live documentary” that tells the story of Kronos’ expansive career. Written and directed by Green and Joe Bini, the work premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 and has since toured around the world. Most recently, the Quartet performed on the soundtrack for Users (2021) and is both seen and heard in the documentary Zappa (2020). Kronos’ music has been featured in two Academy Award–nominated documentaries: Dirty Wars (2013) — for which Kronos’ David Harrington served as Music Supervisor — and How to Survive a Plague (2012). Kronos has also recorded complete film scores by Jacob Garchik for Guy Maddin’s The Green Fog (2017); Clint Mansell for Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain (2006) and Requiem for a Dream (2000); and Philip Glass for Dracula (1999) — a restored edition of the 1931 Bela Lugosi classic.
The Quartet is committed to mentoring emerging performers and composers and has led workshops, master classes, and other education programs with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute (New York), Kaufman Music Center’s Face the Music (New York), Luna Composition Lab (New York), the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, and San Francisco Conservatory of Music, among other institutions in the U.S. and abroad. Kronos has undertaken extended educational residencies at institutions such as Oakland School for the Arts, UC Berkeley’s Cal Performances, Holland Festival, The John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, and New York University Abu Dhabi.
Based in San Francisco, the nonprofit KPAA staff manages all aspects of Kronos’ work, including commissioning, concert tours and local performances, recordings, education programs, and an annual self-produced Kronos Festival in San Francisco.
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Videos
Programs & Repertoire
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PROGRAM I - Terry Riley at 90
Terry Riley: Good Medicine
Aleksandra Vrebalov: Gold Came From Space
Sun Ra / Jacob Garchik: Outer Spaceways, Inc.
Hamza El Din: Escalay
Terry Riley: One Earth, One People, One Love
Pete Townshend: Baba O’Riley
Sun Ra / Terry Riley: Kiss Yo Ass Goodbye
Terry Riley: Cadenza on the Night Plain*
Yoko Ono: To Match the Sky*Kronos celebrates the 90th birthday of composer and friend Terry Riley with a program featuring selections from the nearly 30 pieces that Riley has written for Kronos since 1980. Alongside some of Riley’s monumental works are Kronos staples by Hamza El Din (a longtime friend of Riley’s) and Aleksandra Vrebalov (a composer whom Riley has long admired and respected). Riley has made it part of his creative life to stay in close touch with emerging artists. This intergalactic program also includes songs from Kronos’s recent album and tribute to Sun Ra, Outer Spaceways Incorporated, to which Riley also contributed a track.
*works with accompanying video/projection
PROGRAM II - Glorious Mahalia!
Stacey Garrop: Glorious Mahalia
Abel Meeropol: Strange Fruit
John Coltrane: Alabama
Zachary Watkins: Peace Be Till
Link Wray: Rumble
Ken Benshoof: John Brown’s Body
Charlton Singleton: New work TBD feat. Quentin Baxter, percussionThis program explores iconic activist voices of America from the 20th century and beyond. Kronos pays homage to the beloved voice of Mahalia Jackson and her vital friendships with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and oral historian/activist Studs Terkel. A daughter of Jim Crow Louisiana and the Great Migration, Jackson was a woman of deep faith, whose key role in historic moments in the fight for civil rights lays the groundwork for two major works on this program — Zachary J. Watkins’s Peace Be Till, featuring the recorded voice of Dr. King’s lawyer and speechwriter Clarence B. Jones, and Stacy Garrop’s Glorious Mahalia, featuring a recorded interview between Jackson and Terkel.
PROGRAM III - The Extraordinary World of Nicole Lizée
Nicole Lizée: Another Living Soul
Nicole Lizée: Black MIDI (4tet version)
Nicole Lizée: Death to Kosmische
Nicole Lizée: ZonelyHearts
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Nicole Lizée: New work TBD feat. Sō PercussionAlso Available:
Nicole Lizée: Black MIDI: Concerto for Quartet and Orchestra *A portrait program of Canadian composer Nicole Lizée and the fantastical music she has written for Kronos over the years. These mind-bending works feature Kronos performing on turntables, stylophones, omnichords, whirly tubes, rotary phones, knitting needles, and more. Hailed as a “brilliant musical scientist” by the BBC, Lizée conjures nostalgic sounds and futuristic glitches that are folded into riveting string quartet landscapes. The Kronos Quartet is currently recording an all-Lizée album.
*works with accompanying video/projection
THE EVOLVING WORLD OF KRONOS
In line with Kronos’s ethos of presenting varied and compelling programs, the quartet will create a tailor-made concert experience for the presenter, drawing from today’s most pressing issues.RESPONDING TO WAR
George Crumb: Black Angels
Mary Kouyoumdjian: Bombs of Beirut
Terry Riley: One Earth, One People, One Love
Neil Young: Ohio
Steve Reich: Different TrainsFor 51 years, Kronos has supported the work of composers who confront the atrocities and tragedies of war through music and protest. George Crumb’s Black Angels is the piece that set Kronos down the activist path. Written during the Vietnam War and subtitled “Thirteen Images from the Dark Land,” the iconic work conveys Crumb’s grief over the direction the world was heading in. In her program note for Bombs of Beirut, Mary Kouyoumdjian writes, “Inspired by loved ones who grew up during the Lebanese Civil War, it is my hope that Bombs of Beirut provides a sonic picture of what day-to-day life is like in a turbulent Middle East — not filtered through the news and media, but through the real words of real people.”
Neil Young’s response to the 1970 Kent State shootings came in the form of the enduring protest song Ohio, newly arranged for Kronos by cellist Paul Wiancko. Steve Reich uses interviews of Holocaust survivors and others who suffered through World War II in his groundbreaking 27-minute quartet Different Trains. Terry Riley’s One Earth, One People, One Love is a plea for peace.
AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS
Stacey Garrop: Glorious Mahalia
Abel Meeropol: Strange Fruit
John Coltrane: Alabama
Zachary Watkins: Peace Be Till (with video)
Link Wray: Rumble
Ken Benshoof: John Brown’s Body
Charlton Singleton: New work TBD
Guest Artist: Quentin Baxter, percussionThe works included in this list explore iconic activist voices of America from the 20th century and beyond. Kronos pays homage to the beloved voice of Mahalia Jackson and her vital friendships with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and oral historian/activist Studs Terkel. A daughter of Jim Crow Louisiana and the Great Migration, Jackson was a woman of deep faith, whose key role in historic moments in the fight for civil rights lays the groundwork for two major works on this program – Zachary J. Watkins’s Peace Be Till, featuring the recorded voice of Dr. King’s lawyer and speechwriter Clarence B. Jones, and Stacy Garrop’s Glorious Mahalia, featuring a recorded interview between Jackson and Terkel.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Peni Candra Rini: Hujan
Tanya Tagaq: Sivunittinni
Soo Yeon Lyuh: Sounds of Resilience
Guest Artist: Soo Yeon Lyuh, haegeum
Hildur Guðnadóttir: Folk Faer Andlit
Mariana Sadovska: Chernobyl: The Harvest
Guest Artist: Mariana Sadovska, voice/harmonium
Gabriella Smith: Keep Going
Benedicte Maurseth / Kristine Tjøgersen: Elja
Guest Artist: Benedicte Maurseth, voice/Hardanger fiddleKronos explores the rich beauty of our planet and the urgency to preserve the environment, told through the voices of some of today’s most illustrious composers and musicians. Peni Candra Rini incorporates sounds of rain and frogs sourced from Indonesia, and Gabriella Smith uses interviews with individuals who are tackling the climate crisis. Soo Yeon Lyuh seeks to preserve and explore the sounds of the Korean women divers of Jeju Island whose culture is threatened by environmental impact.
On March 28, 2025, Kronos will premiere a brand new quintet with Norwegian musician Benedicte Maurseth. The work will be composed by Maurseth and sound artist Kristine Tjøgersen, and will feature recorded sounds from the Norwegian landscapes and Maurseth’s home. Kronos will perform on four newly made Hardanger instruments by luthier Ottar Kåsa. This work will be approximately 35 minutes.
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PROGRAM I - Steve Reich at 90
Steve Reich: Pendulum Music
Steve Reich: Triple Quartet *
Steve Reich: The Cave
Steve Reich: WTC 9/11 *
Steve Reich: Different Trains
works with video/projectionKronos Quartet celebrates the 90th birthday of iconic composer Steve Reich with a program featuring every work Reich has ever composed for Kronos, including Triple Quartet, WTC 9/11, and Different Trains.
Available as an all-Reich program or a Reich-focused program in which Reich’s works for Kronos(*) are presented in tandem with the music of Viet Cuong, Pérotin, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and John Coltrane.
PROGRAM II - The Extraordinary Mind of Nicole Lizée
Nicole Lizée: Another Living Soul
Nicole Lizée: Black MIDI (4tet version) *
Nicole Lizée: Death to Kosmische
Nicole Lizée: ZonelyHearts *Also available:
Nicole Lizée: Operandi feat. Sō Percussion
Nicole Lizée: Black MIDI Concerto for Quartet and OrchestraA portrait program of Canadian composer Nicole Lizée and all of the fantastical music she has written for Kronos over the years. These mind-bending works feature Kronos performing on turntables, stylophones, omnichords, whirly tubes, rotary phones, knitting needles, and more. Hailed as a “brilliant musical scientist” by the BBC, Lizée conjures nostalgic sounds and futuristic glitches that are folded into riveting string quartet landscapes. Kronos Quartet will soon be releasing an all-Lizée album.
*works with video/projectionPROGRAM III - Glorious Mahalia!
Stacey Garrop: Glorious Mahalia
Abel Meeropol: Strange Fruit
John Coltrane: Alabama
Zachary Watkins: Peace Be Till
Link Wray: Rumble
Ken Benshoof: John Brown’s Body
Charlton Singleton: New Work feat. Quentin Baxter, percussionThis program explores iconic activist voices of America from the 20th century and beyond. Kronos pays homage to the beloved Mahalia Jackson, her voice, and her vital friendships with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and oral historian/activist Studs Terkel. A daughter of Jim Crow Louisiana and the Great Migration, Jackson was a woman of deep faith, whose key role in historic moments in the fight for civil rights lays the groundwork for two major works on this program: Zachary Watkins’s Peace Be Till, featuring the recorded voice of Dr. King’s lawyer and speechwriter Clarence B. Jones, and Stacy Garrop’s Glorious Mahalia, featuring a recorded interview between Jackson and Terkel.
THE EVOLVING WORLD OF KRONOS
In line with Kronos’s ethos of presenting varied and compelling programs, the quartet will create a tailor-made concert experience for the presenter, drawing from today’s most pressing issues.RESPONDING TO WAR
Terry Riley: One Earth, One People, One Love
George Crumb: Black Angels
Neil Young: Ohio
Steve Reich: Different Trains
Mary Kouyoumdjian: Bombs of BeirutFor 51 years, Kronos has supported the work of composers who confront the atrocities and tragedies of war through music and protest. GEORGE CRUMB’s Black Angels is the piece that set Kronos down the activist path. Written during the Vietnam War and subtitled “Thirteen Images from the Dark Land,” this iconic work conveys Crumb’s grief over the direction the world was heading in. In her program note for Bombs of Beirut, MARY KOUYOUMDJIAN writes, “Inspired by loved ones who grew up during the Lebanese Civil War, it is my hope that Bombs of Beirut provides a sonic picture of what day-to-day life is like in a turbulent Middle East—not filtered through the news and media, but through the real words of real people.” NEIL YOUNG’s response to the 1970 Kent State shootings came in the form of the enduring protest song Ohio, newly arranged for Kronos by cellist Paul Wiancko. STEVE REICH uses interviews of Holocaust survivors and others who suffered through World War II in his groundbreaking 27-minute quartet Different Trains. TERRY RILEY’s One Earth, One People, One Love is a plea for peace.
CIVIL RIGHTS
Stacey Garrop: Glorious Mahalia
Abel Meeropol: Strange Fruit
John Coltrane: Alabama
Zachary Watkins: Peace Be Till (with video)
Link Wray: Rumble
Ken Benshoof: John Brown’s Body
Charlton Singleton: New Work TBDThe works included in this list explore iconic activist voices of America from the 20th century and beyond. Kronos pays homage to the beloved voice of Mahalia Jackson and her vital friendships with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and oral historian/activist Studs Terkel. A daughter of Jim Crow Louisiana and the Great Migration, Jackson was a woman of deep faith, whose key role in historic moments in the fight for civil rights lays the groundwork for two major works on this program – Zachary J. Watkins’s Peace Be Till, featuring the recorded voice of Dr. King’s lawyer and speechwriter Clarence B. Jones, and Stacy Garrop’s Glorious Mahalia, featuring a recorded interview between Jackson and Terkel.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Peni Candra Rini: Segara Gunung
Tanya Tagaq: Sivunittinni
Gabriella Smith: Keep Going
Soo Yeon Lyuh: Sounds of Resilience
Hildur Guðnadóttir: Folk Faer Andlit
Mariana Sadovska: Chernobyl: The Harvest
Benedicte Maurseth / Kristine Tjøgersen: EljaKronos explores the rich beauty of our planet and the urgency to preserve the environment. PENI CANDRA RINI’s Segara Gunung incorporates sounds of rain and frogs sourced from her home in Indonesia. GABRIELLA SMITH weaves pine cone cadenzas and driftwood jams into interviews with individuals tackling the climate crisis in Keep Going. A new piece by SOO YEON LYUH seeks to explore and preserve the sounds of the renowned female divers of Korea’s Jeju Island, whose culture is threatened by environmental impact. In Elja, a new 35-minute quintet for Kronos and BENEDICTE MAURSETH, composed by Maurseth and KRISTINE TJØGERSEN, Hardanger fiddle traditions commune with animal soundscapes from the Norwegian plains. Kronos performs Elja on four newly made Hardanger instruments (including a Hardanger cello, one of the world’s rarest intruments) by luthier OTTAR KÅSA.
GUEST COLLABORATIONS
Kronos is proud to be able to offer performances alongside these brilliant artists in the 26-27 season. Guest collaborations generally constitute one half of a full-length Kronos program.Peni Candra Rini
Program to include:
Peni Candra Rini: Segara Gunung
Peni Candra Rini: MaduswaraJavanese singer, composer, and educator bridging the past and future of Indonesia’s rich musical traditions with her powerful voice and boundary-defying works.
Benedicte Maurseth
Program to include:
Benedicte Maurseth & Kristine Tjøgersen: EljaHardanger fiddle virtuoso breathing new life into Norway’s ancient musical traditions, redefining the limits of folk and experimental music.
Mahsa Vahdat
Program to include:
Mahsa Vahdat: The Sun Rises
Mahsa Vahdat: My Ruthless CompanionFearless Iranian singer and composer preserving and reimagining Persian musical traditions, using her deeply expressive voice to champion resilience and human rights.
Tanya Tagaq
Program to include:
Tanya Tagaq: Sivunittinni
Tanya Tagaq: Watchwolf
Tanya Tagaq: ColonizerInternationally-acclaimed Canadian Inuk throat singer, avant-garde artist, and activist pushing the limits of performance to amplify Indigenous voices and challenge colonial narratives.
Wu Man
Program to include:
Wu Man: Two Chinese Paintings
Dai Wei: Beyond the Golden Gate
Terry Riley: The Cusp of MagicVirtuoso pipa player who has revolutionized the instrument’s role in global music, bridging Chinese traditions with innovative collaborations that defy musical boundaries.
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