I heard a remarkable new piece of chamber music this past January. The work, the String Quartet no. 4 (1988) by the thirty-seven-year-old composer George Tsontakis, was performed in its world premiere ...

The American String Quartet will launch CSMF’s new season with a captivating program that ranges from Mozart's royal court elegance to folk-inspired works of the late 19th century. The evening opens ...

For sheer beauty, the Houston Friends of Music couldn't have asked the American String Quartet for more. Playing Oct. 17 at Rice University, the quartet offered an essentially mainline program -- ...

Year in, year out, Friends of Chamber Music presents the finest string quartets in the world. On Monday and Tuesday another stellar group, the American String Quartet, performs two programs. The last ...

More info: The recital’s program will include Dvořák’s “American” quartet, Vivan Fung’s “Insects and Machines” and Cesar Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor with pianist Anton Nel You won’t hear ...

The Department of Music will open the 2012-13 Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle with concerts by the American String Quartet on Nov. 9 and Nov. 10. Both concerts will take place at 7:30 p.m. in ...

The annual Slee/Beethoven String Quartet Cycle—the only one of its kind in the world—will begin its 48th year on Oct. 3 with a performance by the American String Quartet. Later in the month, the Muir ...

The pace of change in classical music is dizzying, isn't it? I mean that only partly facetiously, because Monday night at First Baptist Church, Friends of Chamber Music executive director Pat Zagelow ...

In rounding out the 2005-06 season of the Houston Friends of Music, the American String Quartet gave emphatic testimony to the Friends' claim of "bringing the world's finest chamber music to Houston ...

The music of Beethoven and Ravel will fill the Otesaga Hotel ballroom on Sunday, April 24 at 4 pm. The American String Quartet, internationally recognized as one of the world's finest, will perform ...