Kronos Quartet

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The Kronos Quartet has been a real point of reference for ensembles working on the repertoire of contemporary music for fifty years. Last year, right at the conclusion of the first 50th anniversary season, two of the longtime members, John Sherba (violin) and Hank Dutt (viola), retired; with them, founder David Harrington (violin) left a truly unmistakable imprint on the distinctive sound of Kronos but, in general, of a formation like the string quartet, so linked to the history of great music, yet so potentially open to contemporaneity in the broadest and most complete sense of the term.

Today, the long celebrations of the 50th end with a renewed lineup: alongside Harrington, there are now Paul Wiancko (starting cello for a couple of years) and, from 2024, the violinist Gabriela Díaz and the violist Ayane Kozasa, both in possession (it goes without saying) of a superior level background in the field of contemporary classical music.

The Kronos Quartet returns to the Olimpico in Vicenza from that date, historic in its own way, 4 July 1996, which closed - with an almost inevitably all-American programme, considered the day of the concert - the first edition of the New Conversations Vicenza Jazz festival.