Grażyna Bacewicz treated violin and other string instruments with a special attention, a consequence of her violin studies under Józef Jarzębski in Warsaw and under André Touret and Karl Flesch in ...

The Soweto String Quartet are in town to celebrate their 25th anniversary at Carnival City tomorrow. The Afro-classic music maestros - or SSQ as the four guys are known - will perform hits from their ...

When the chamber music revival of the 1960s and early 1970s — a kind of classical music response to the folk music revival a few years earlier — had passed its peak, the string quartet as a medium was ...

Friday, January 30: A Scattering of Pearls: Architecture of the Gold Road and the Mali-Spain Diaspora After completing a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324, Mansa Musa, emperor of Mali, returned with ...

Luthier, or strings instrument maker, Peter Reid of Orange in central west New South Wales, calls the special quartet instruments he has made his "family". The two violins, a viola and a cello are ...