Eleven of the world’s most renowned string artists converge: violinists Carolin Widmann and Benjamin Beilman, bassist Nina Bernat, and the doubly dynamic Viano and Opus13 quartets! The World Premiere ...

At age 16 — please repeat, 16 — Felix Mendelssohn composed one of the most miraculous pieces of chamber music of the last two centuries. His Octet for Strings in E-flat Major is a pedal-to-the-metal ...

Music@Menlo's venerable chamber music festival is winding down, but there is one more impressive program on its lineup for two performances. This year's iteration has presented music composed for duos ...

Plenty of trios and quartets exist in the classical-music world. An octet is a rarer bird. On Saturday, an octet with impeccable lineage will land with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields chamber ...

That phrase has a nice ring to it for violinist Quinton Morris, founder of the Young Eight string octet featured on tonight’s International Chamber Music Series at Meany Theater. Performances and ...

Fortunately the work happens to be a showstopper that never fades, full of vibrant energy, exciting virtuosity and dramatic ­pathos. Written, almost unbelievably, when the composer was only 16, the ...

Jayden Perez, violist with the Sequoia Symphony and co-orchestra director at Mt. Whitney High School and Divisadero Middle ...

Our first selection tonight is one of the earliest works from Stravinsky’s neoclassical period. The octet features a rare example of Stravinsky’s use of sonata form, a parody of a Mozart concerto, and ...

The Pacifica Quartet reduced music for eight instruments to music for four in a recent performance at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. We hear them play the Scherzo movement from Felix ...