Area audiences at classical music concerts have seemed especially enthusiastic lately. One doesn't think of string quartets whipping listeners into frenzies of applause, whoops and shrieks, but that ...

Following its stunning interpretation of the music of Polish jazz violinist Zbigniew Seifert on Seifert (Zbigniew Seifert Foundation, 2017), Atom String Quartet turns its attention to the oeuvre of ...

While the Penderecki String Quartet is rightfully celebrated for its ensemble efforts in live and recorded performance, the wine country debut of its newest member — cellist Jacob Braun — was ...

Contemporary jazz meets classical chamber music (with rather mixed results) on October Songs, the 2026 recording by Canadian pianist and composer Brian Dickinson and his trio who share center stage ...

Music, for the Penderecki String Quartet, is a necessity, not an option, and the quartet plays it avidly. First violinist Jeremy Bell fixates on the score but bounces off the chair to make vigorous ...

One of the best ways to get to know a composer’s works is to hear them in sequence. That’s what the Penderecki String Quartet is enabling us to do with a survey of Bela Bartok’s six string quartets at ...

The Penderecki String Quartet, one of Canada’s leading ensembles, makes an appearance at northwest Connecticut’s chamber-music shrine (whose season is already under way). The fine violist Maurycy ...

The Penderecki String Quartet began their journey in Poland, winning the prestigious Penderecki Prize at the 1986 National Chamber Music Competition in Łódź. Since 1991, they have been ...