Kronos Quartet in Ireland: ‘Every note, every piece we play, every composer, every collaboration

The string quartet, famous for its crossover projects and advocacy of new music, is bringing its Five Decades season to Dublin, the United States’ best-known string quartet, famous for its crossover projects and advocacy of new music, has been celebrating its 50th-anniversary season with a Five Decades tour. It began in Bogotá, Colombia, last September, and will end at the Ravinia Festival, in Illinois, in June.

I am very, very happy that two members, two great members, are joining the group, and they’re very competent and they grew up listening to our musicWiancko is the newest arrival in the group, having become a member only last year. Kronos was already 10 years old when he was born, in 1983. He describes joining as “like a dream come true, like a dream I didn’t know I was allowed to have, to be honest, to join the Kronos Quartet.

The quartet’s second violinist, John Sherba, and viola player, Hank Dutt, are at all times more measured in what they say. Both are also moving on at the end of the season. Sherba explains his decision. “First of all, I’d like to say that the members who are replacing Hank and I” – Gabriela Díaz and Ayane Kozasa – “they’re really terrific musicians and players. So I feel the quartet is going to be in great hands as it moves forward.

Harrington adds a different perspective. “I just want to make it clear that you do not replace Hank’s 46 years of total involvement in Kronos. And you don’t replace John’s 45 years. What a group can do is pivot and find something new and find itself in a new way. And that’s what I’m intending that Kronos will be doing.”Sherba takes the perfect-concert question from an audience perspective. “What brought me to a concert can be many, many different concepts. It could be the composition.

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