When it comes to string quartet culture on Santa Barbara’s concert calendar, the bar is set high. In any given season, and during the summer flowering of the Music Academy of the West’s stellar ...

Into the Irvine Barclay Theatre on Tuesday night, the Tokyo String Quartet carried with it not only the question that dogs all legendary quartets – does it still have it? – but the extra burden of ...

The Yale School of Music announced yesterday that two members of the Tokyo String Quartet, which has been in residence at the school for 35 years, plan to retire from the ensemble. Violist Kazuhide ...

Lots of legends were spawned in 1969: Broadway Joe Namath earned a ring in Superbowl III, the Woodstock Festival put an Aquarian spin on the concert experience, and Neil Armstrong placed his foot on ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Beethoven finished his String Quartet No. 15, Opus 132, in A Minor, the ...

Virtually everyone writing about the Tokyo String Quartet's final tour this year is drawn to the word "bittersweet," and with good reason: After 43 seasons, the group gave its farewell Boston concert ...

At the end of the current concert season, the quartet will disband. Formed in 1969 by four Japanese string players, the Tokyo Quartet soon became a force to be reckoned with in chamber music, through ...

In many ways, it seems difficult to believe that the Tokyo String Quartet is about to turn 20. Certainly precious few chamber groups that have been around for two decades could match the fervor with ...

April 20, 2012 • One of the world's top string quartets has decided that next season will be its last as an ensemble. Hear some of their exemplary performances. April 7, 2011 • Japan's vibrant ...