Chiaroscuro Quartet has announced that French violinist Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux has joined the award-winning ensemble. Charlotte will perform alongside violinist Alina Ibragimova, violist Emilie ...

Musical nicknames are good for business. Haydn’s set of six string quartets, Op 33, has had nicknames for the whole set, none of which is very widely used. “Russian”, favoured by BIS, remembers the ...

Rarely do string quartets perform works of the Classical period and beyond on pure gut strings. These are made with fibres extracted from either sheep or cow intestines and one associates them with ...

It began with three excerpts from The Art of Fugue, often prized as some of the most “abstract” music ever written, whatever that might mean. The measured tread of the Chiaroscuro’s account, however, ...

The young Chiaroscuro Quartet performs live at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival, with chamber music by Mozart and Schubert. Formed in London in 2005 and led by the acclaimed violin soloist ...

Mayfest was founded in 2007 by Cornell pianists Miri Yampolsky and Xak Bjerken. Every year, by the time winter has turned to spring, this chamber music festival brings a range of international guest ...

The Chiaroscuro Quartet is very aptly named. In painting, the term refers to the treatment of light and shadow, but even that can take on multiple meanings. When Spanish Baroque artist Francisco de ...

Four nations, one mission: Alina Ibragimova (Russia) and Pablo Hernán Benedí (Spain), Emilie Hörnlund (Sweden) and Claire Thirion (France) are the Chiaroscuro Quartet. Chiaroscuro - light-dark - is ...