Prestigious American string quartet will be in Bucharest on 11 May 2008, in the studio Concerts "Mihail Jora" at the Romanian Broadcasting Studio, in a concert produced by the Phoenix Cultural Foundation. For over 30 years, the Kronos Quartet - David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutta (fiddle) and Jeffrey Zeigler (cello) - have their own vision, which combines the spirit of innovation with the expansion of the horizons of the format of the quartet string. One of the quartet's most frequent composer-collaborators is the “Father of Minimalism” Terry Riley. The quartet has also collaborated with Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Taraf de Haïdouks, Sigur Rós, Nine Inch Nails or Amon Tobin.
KRONOS Quartet appeared live together with Allen Ginsberg, Zakir Hussain, Bjork, Tom Waits, or David Bowie and contributed to albums of bands or musicians like Faith No More, Dave Matthews, Nelly Furtado or Roki Traoré. Kronos quartet’s music was used in films - Requiem For A Dream, The Fountain, Heat, 21 grams or True Stories are only a few such examples.
The Quartet spends five months of each year on tour, appearing in concert halls, clubs, and festivals around the world including BAM Next Wave Festival, Carnegie Hall, the Barbican in London, WOMAD, UCLA's Royce Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Shanghai Concert Hall and the Sydney Opera House. Sunday, May 11 2008, Kronos Quartet will perform in Bucharest, at the studio Concerts "Mihail Jora" (Str. General Berthelot No. 60-64). The concert is produced by Phoenix Foundation. http://www.kronosquartet.org http://www.myspace.com/kronosquartet http://www.phoenix.ro
