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{{short description|American string quartet}}
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| name              = Kronos Quartet
| background        = classical_ensemble
| image             = Kronos_Quartet_with_Paul_Wiancko.jpg
| image_size        = 
| landscape         = yes
| caption           = Kronos Quartet at the Musical Instrument Museum, 2020
| origin            = [[Seattle]], Washington, U.S.
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Contemporary classical music|Contemporary classical]]|[[minimal music|minimalism]]}}
| occupation        = [[Chamber music|Chamber ensemble]]
| years_active      = 1973–present
| label             = {{flatlist|
* [[Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch]]/[[Elektra Records|Elektra]]
* [[Cantaloupe Music|Cantaloupe]]
* [[Dacapo Records|Dacapo]]
* [[Landmark Records|Landmark]]
* [[World Circuit (record label)|World Circuit]]
* [[Smithsonian Folkways]]
* [[Anti- (record label)|Anti]]
* [[Ondine (record label)|Ondine]]
* Centrediscs
}}
| website           = {{URL|https://kronosquartet.org/}}
| current_members   = * David Harrington (violin)
* Gabriela Díaz (violin)
* Ayane Kozasa (viola)
* [[Paul Wiancko]] (cello)
| past_members      = * Jim Shallenberger (violin, 1973–1975)
* Tim Kilian (viola, 1973–1976)
* Walter Gray (cello, 1973–1978)
* Roy Lewis (violin, 1975–1976)
* Richard Balkin (violin 1976-1977)
* Michael Jones (viola, 1976–1978)
* Ella Gray (violin, 1977–1978)
* [[Joan Jeanrenaud]] (cello, 1978–1999)
* Jennifer Culp (cello, 1999–2005)
* Jeffrey Zeigler (cello, 2005–2013)
* Sunny Yang (cello, 2013–2022)
* John Sherba (violin, 1978–2024)
* Hank Dutt (viola, 1978–2024)
}}
The '''Kronos Quartet''' is an American [[string quartet]] based in San Francisco.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kosman  |first=Joshua  |date=March 5, 2024 |title=Exclusive: Two longtime members of Kronos Quartet plan a joint retirement |url=https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/classical/kronos-quartet-retirements-18699265 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240410005240/https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/classical/kronos-quartet-retirements-18699265 |archive-date=April 10, 2024 |access-date=April 25, 2024 |website=Datebook {{!}} San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide |language=en-US}}</ref> It has been in existence with a rotating membership of musicians for 50 years. The quartet covers a very broad range of musical genres, including [[contemporary classical music]]. More than 1,200 works have been [[commission (art)|written for it]]. The quartet has recorded over 75 albums and received a number of awards.

==History==
The quartet was founded by [[violin]]ist David Harrington in [[Seattle]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]. Its first performance was in November 1973.<ref name=Graves/> Since 1978, the quartet has been based in [[San Francisco]], [[California]]. The longest-running combination of performers (from 1978 to 1999) had Harrington and John Sherba on [[violin]], Hank Dutt on [[viola]], and [[Joan Jeanrenaud]] on [[cello]]. In 1999, Jeanrenaud left Kronos because she was "eager for something new";<ref name=Templeton/> she was replaced by Jennifer Culp,<ref name=notes/> who, in turn, left in 2005 and was replaced by Jeffrey Zeigler. In June 2013, Zeigler was replaced by Sunny Yang.<ref name=press1/> In February 2023, cellist and composer [[Paul Wiancko]] became the quartet's newest cellist.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestrad.com/news/kronos-quartet-names-paul-wiancko-as-new-cellist/15478.article | title="Kronos Quartet names Paul Wiancko as new cellist"|website=The Strad|date=September 29, 2022}}</ref> In March 2024, Kronos Quartet announced that Sherba and Dutt would retire in June of that year. They were replaced by violinist Gabriela Díaz and violist Ayane Kosaza.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kosman |first1=Joshua |title=Exclusive: Two longtime members of Kronos Quartet plan a joint retirement |url=https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/classical/kronos-quartet-retirements-18699265 |website=Datebook |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=19 April 2024}}</ref>

With over 75 studio albums to its credit and having performed worldwide, the Kronos Quartet has been called "probably the most famous '[[Contemporary classical music|new music]]' group in the world"<ref name=McCalla/> and been praised in philosophical studies of music for the inclusiveness of its repertoire.<ref name=Ellis/>

By the time the quartet celebrated its 25th anniversary in 1999, it had a repertoire of over 600 works, including 400 quartets written for it, more than 3,000 performances, seven first-prize [[ASCAP]] awards, [[Edison Award]]s in classical and popular music, and had more than 1.5 million record sales.<ref name=Derk/>

===30th anniversary===
When Kronos turned 30, in 2003, it decided to commission new pieces from composers under age 30, in hopes of encouraging talented young composers. The program, called the Under 30 Project, is now run in cooperation with [[Carnegie Hall]], Cal Performances at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and the [[Montalvo Arts Center]]. The first recipient was [[Alexandra du Bois]] (at the time a student at [[Indiana University]], later a [[Juilliard School]] graduate),<ref name=Cahill/> followed by Felipe Perez Santiago (born in Mexico in 1973),<ref name=Sisario/> and Dan Visconti (born in Illinois in 1982);<ref name=Martini/> in 2007, Israeli composer Aviya Kopelman became the fourth.<ref name=MusicalA/>

===40th anniversary===
To celebrate its 40th year, the Kronos Quartet returned to Seattle, the city in which it first played, and worked in collaboration with Seattle's [[Degenerate Art Ensemble]] to create a piece incorporating music, dance and video.<ref name=Graves/> It celebrated its 40th anniversary with a sold-out performance at [[Zellerbach Hall]], [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]], in December 2013. The same year, [[Michael Giacchino]], a soundtrack composer who often names his pieces with puns, published a piece named after Kronos, "The Kronos Wartet", as a part of the soundtrack to ''[[Star Trek Into Darkness]]'' for a scene that takes place on the fictional planet "Kronos".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ascap.com/Playback/2013/05/wecreatemusic/fmf-michael-giacchino-on-star-trek-into-darkness.aspx|title=Film Music Friday: Michael Giacchino on Star Trek: Into Darkness|website=Ascap.com|access-date=October 1, 2017}}</ref> (also spelled "[[Qo'noS]]").

==Members==
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==New music, contemporary classical==
[[File:Laurie Anderson amidst the Kronos Quartet in Chicago after performing LANDFALL 2015-03-17 20.53.41 (16851029595).jpg|thumb|On stage with [[Laurie Anderson]], after performing ''LANDFALL'' at the [[Harris Theater (Chicago)|Harris Theater]] on March 17, 2015]]
Over 1,000 pieces have been created for the Kronos Quartet,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/kronos-quartets-fifth-member-operates-with-care-and-savvy-behind-the-scenes | title=Kronos Quartet's fifth member operates with care and savvy behind the scenes|website=Datebook.sfchronicle.com }}</ref> which has a long history of [[commission (art)|commissioning]] new works.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thoughtcatalog.com/porter-anderson/2016/04/kronos-david-harrington-there-is-no-such-thing-as-easy-music/|title=Kronos' David Harrington: 'There Is No Such Thing As Easy Music'|date=April 5, 2016|work=Thought Catalog|access-date=August 7, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> It has worked with many [[Minimalist music|minimalist]] composers, including [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]], [[Arvo Pärt]], [[George Crumb]], [[Henryk Górecki]], [[Steve Reich]], [[John Luther Adams]], [[Roberto Paci Dalò]], [[Philip Glass]], [[Terry Riley]], [[Peter Sculthorpe]] and [[Kevin Volans]]; collaborators hail from a diversity of countries—[[Kaija Saariaho]] from Finland, [[Pēteris Vasks]] from Latvia, [[Franghiz Ali-Zadeh]] from Azerbaijan, [[Rainbow: Music of Central Asia Vol. 8|Homayun Sakhi]] from Afghanistan, [[Hamza El Din]] from [[Egypt]], [[Victoria Poleva|Victoria Vita Polevá]] from Ukraine and [[Fernando Otero]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/arts/music/25kron.html|title=Music Review: Kronos Quartet – Premieres Range in Palette From Balkans to Argentina|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 25, 2008|author=Vivian Schweitzer}}</ref> [[Astor Piazzolla]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/five-tango-sensations-mw0000282515|title=Five Tango Sensations-Kronos Quartet Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards|work=[[AllMusic]]|date=February 2001|author=Adam Greenberg}}</ref> and [[Osvaldo Golijov]] from Argentina. Some of Kronos's string-quartet arrangements were published in 2007.<ref>{{cite journal
  | last = Silberman
  | first = Daryl
  | title = First Edition: Kronos finally publishes its highly coveted string-quartet arrangements
  | journal = Strings
  | volume = 22
  | issue = 3
  | page = 90
  | publisher = String Letter Publishing
  | date = Oct 2007
  }}</ref>

==Diverse genres==

{{quote box|quote=I've always wanted the string quartet to be vital, and energetic, and alive, and cool, and not afraid to kick ass and be absolutely beautiful and ugly if it has to be. But it has to be expressive of life. To tell the story with grace and humor and depth. And to tell the whole story, if possible.|source=—David Harrington<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kronosquartet.org/25th/01.html |title=Four Hundred Candles: The Creation of a Repertoire |last=Yaple |first=Carol |publisher=Kronos Quartet |access-date=March 30, 2010 |archive-date=July 12, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712090944/http://kronosquartet.org/25th/01.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>|width=25%}}

Kronos covers a very broad range of [[musical genre]]s: [[Music of Mexico|Mexican folk]], [[experimental music|experimental]], pre-classical [[early music]], movie soundtracks (''[[Requiem for a Dream (soundtrack)|Requiem for a Dream]]'', ''[[Heat (1995 film)|Heat]]'', ''[[The Fountain (film)|The Fountain]]''), [[jazz]] and [[tango music|tango]]. Kronos has also recorded adaptations of [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s "[[Purple Haze]]", [[Sigur Rós]]'s "Flugufrelsarinn", [[Television (band)|Television]]'s "[[Marquee Moon (song)|Marquee Moon]]", [[Raymond Scott]]'s "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals", and [[Bob Dylan]]'s "[[Don't Think Twice, It's All Right]]".

Kronos has also worked with a variety of global musicians, including [[Bollywood]] [[playback singer]] [[Asha Bhosle]];<ref>{{cite journal  | last = Kettle  | first = David  | title = Kronos Quartet/Asha Boshle (singer)  | journal = [[The Strad (magazine)|The Strad]]  | volume = 116  | issue = 1388  | page = 86  | date = December 2005}}</ref> Mexican-American painter [[Gronk (artist)|Gronk]]; American [[soprano]] [[Dawn Upshaw]]; [[jazz]] composer/performer [[Pat Metheny]]; Mexican [[Rock music|rockers]] [[Café Tacuba]]; [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] [[mugam]] singer [[Alim Qasimov]]; and the Romanian [[Romani people|gypsy]] band [[Taraf de Haïdouks]] among others.

Kronos has performed live with the poet [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[Astor Piazzolla]], [[The National (band)|The National]], the [[Modern Jazz Quartet]], [[Tom Waits]], [[David Bowie]], [[Paul McCartney]] and [[Björk]], and has recorded with [[Nelly Furtado]], [[Rokia Traoré]], [[Joan Armatrading]], Brazilian [[electronica]] artist [[Amon Tobin]], Texas [[yodeler]] [[Don Walser]], [[Faith No More]], [[Tiger Lillies]] and [[David Grisman]].

In 1984, [[Frank Zappa]] wrote "None of the Above" for Kronos, of which it performs the first movement in the 2020 documentary ''Zappa'', directed by Alex Winter. Kronos's artistic director, founder, and violinist David Harrington is also interviewed in the film.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Contact Kronos and Frequently Asked Questions|url=https://kronosquartet.org/contact/|access-date=January 27, 2022|website=Kronos Quartet|language=en-US}}</ref>

On the 1998 [[Dave Matthews Band]] album ''[[Before These Crowded Streets]]'', Kronos Quartet performed on the tracks "Halloween" and "The Stone". It also recorded for the 2007 [[Nine Inch Nails]] remix album, ''[[Year Zero Remixed]]'' doing a rendition of the track "Another Version of the Truth"". The group performed [[Lee Brooks]]'s score for the short film ''[[2081 (film)|2081]]'', based on the [[Kurt Vonnegut]] short story "[[Harrison Bergeron]]".

In 2009, Kronos contributed an acoustic version of [[Blind Willie Johnson]]'s "Dark Was the Night" for the AIDS benefit album ''[[Dark Was the Night (album)|Dark Was the Night]]'' produced by the [[Red Hot Organization]].

In 2017, the quartet performed as featured artists on the songs "Lost Light" and "Journey" on the soundtrack to the videogame ''[[Destiny 2]]''.

==Awards and recognition==
[[File:Kronos Quartet.jpg|alt=|thumb|Greeting the audience after a 2005 performance]]
'''Le Diapason d'Or de Mai'''
* 1997 [[Osvaldo Golijov]]'s ''The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind''
;[[Rolf Schock Prize]]
* 1999 Royal Swedish Academy of Music for Musical Arts in Music
'''Musical America'''
* 2003 Musicians of the Year<ref>{{cite web
  | last = Mattison
  | first = Ben
  | title = Kronos Quartet Named Musical America's Musicians of the Year for 2003
  | publisher = Andante
  | date = December 13, 2002
| url = http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=19434&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords=
  | access-date = January 12, 2009}}</ref>
'''[[Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance]]'''
*[[Grammy Awards of 2004|2004]] [[Alban Berg]]: ''Lyric Suite''
'''[[Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance]]'''
*[[61st Annual Grammy Awards|2018]] [[Laurie Anderson]]: ''Landfall''
'''[[Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical]]'''
*[[62nd Annual Grammy Awards|2020]] [[Terry Riley]]: ''Sun Rings''
'''[[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]]'''
* 2005 The Recording Academy President's Merit Award
'''[[Polar Music Prize]]'''
* 2011. The announcement of the award said: "For almost 40 years, the Kronos Quartet has been revolutionizing the potential of the string quartet genre when it comes to both style and content."<ref>{{cite web
  | title = Kronos Quartet / Polar Music Prize
  | date = May 3, 2011
| url = http://www.polarmusicprize.org/laureates/kronos-quartet/
| website=Polarmusicprize.org
  | access-date = February 10, 2019}}</ref>
'''WOMEX Awards'''
* 2018 WOMEX Artist Award – Since the introduction of the WOMEX Award in 1999, the list of extraordinary artists and professionals deserving of this special praise has continued to grow. The award honours exceptional achievements in world music on the international level; musical excellence, social importance, commercial success, political impact, lifetime achievement
'''[[Edison Classical Music Awards]]''' ''(Edison Klassiek)''

* 2019 Oeuvreprijs

[[File:Kronos Quartet (on In Tune, BBC Radio, 2012).jpg|thumb|Kronos Quartet recording at BBC Radio, 2012]]

==Recordings==
{{main|Kronos Quartet discography}}

==Published music==
*{{cite book
  | title = Kronos Collection, Vol. 1
  | publisher = Boosey and Hawkes
  | year = 2007
  }}
*''Kronos Collection, Vol. 2.'' Boosey and Hawkes. 2013.

==Films==
* 1985 – ''[[Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (soundtrack)|Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters]]''. – Written by [[Philip Glass]] featuring Kronos Quartet and [[Michael Riesman]]
* 1995 – ''[[Heat (soundtrack)|Heat]]''. – Written by [[Elliot Goldenthal]] featuring Kronos Quartet
* 1995 – ''Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy – Harry Partch, Lou Harrison, and Terry Riley''. Directed by Michael Blackwood.
* 1998 – ''[[Dracula (1931 English-language film)|Dracula]]'' (1931) – alternate score by Philip Glass
* 2000 – ''[[Requiem for a Dream (soundtrack)|Requiem for a Dream]]'' Soundtrack by [[Clint Mansell]] featuring Kronos Quartet.
* 2000 – ''[[The Man Who Cried]]''. Directed by Sally Potter.
* 2006 – ''[[The Fountain (soundtrack)|The Fountain]]'' Soundtrack by Clint Mansell featuring Kronos Quartet and Mogwai.
* 2009 – ''[[2081 (film)|2081]]''. Directed by Chandler Tuttle.
* 2013 – ''[[Dirty Wars]]''. Directed by Rick Rowley.
* 2014 – ''[[The Great Beauty]]''. Directed by [[Paolo Sorrentino]].

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=Cahill>{{cite journal
  | last = Cahill
  | first = Greg
  | title = Kronos@30
  | journal = Strings
  | volume = 17
  | issue = 5
  | page = 14
  | publisher = String Letter Publishing
  | date = Jan 2003
  }}</ref>
<ref name=Derk>{{cite journal
  | last = Richardson
  | first = Derk
  | title = Portrait of a Quartet: The Kronos reaps the rewards of 25 years of not fitting the mold
  | journal = Strings
  | volume = 13
  | issue = 5
  | pages = 49–57
  | publisher = String Letter Publishing
  | date = Jan 1999
  }}</ref>
<ref name=Ellis>{{cite book
  | last = Bruce Ellis
  | first = Benson
  | title = The improvisation of musical dialogue: a phenomenology of music
  | publisher = Cambridge University Press
  | year = 2003
  | page = 189
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qJ1Q7ZeRr5EC
  | isbn = 978-0-521-00932-4}}</ref>
<ref name=Graves>{{cite news
 | last =Graves
 | first =Jen
 | title =The Ultimate Collaboration
 | newspaper =The Stranger
 | location =Seattle, United States
 | date =November 13, 2013
| url =http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-ultimate-collaboration/Content?oid=18203444
 | access-date = November 14, 2013}}</ref>
<ref name=McCalla>{{cite book
  | last = McCalla
  | first = James
  | title = Twentieth-century Chamber Music: Routledge Studies in Musical Genres
  | publisher = Routledge
  | year = 2003
  | page = 259
  | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bA57EoLC9JoC
  | isbn = 978-0-415-96695-5}}</ref>
<ref name=Martini>{{cite journal
  | last = Martini
  | first = Tiffany
  | title = Sonic Youth: Kronos Quartet gears up for new round of composition contest
  | journal = Strings
  | volume = 21
  | issue = 1
  | page = 18
  | publisher = String Letter Publishing
  | date = June–July 2006
  }}</ref>
<ref name=MusicalA>{{cite news 
  | title = Aviya Kopelman Commissioned Through Kronos: Under 30 Project
  | publisher = MusicalAmerica
  | date = March 15, 2007
}}</ref>
<ref name=notes>{{cite journal
  | title = News and Notes: People
  | journal = Strings
  | volume = 14
  | issue = 4
  | page = 18
  | publisher = String Letter Publishing
  | date = Nov–Dec 1999
  }}</ref>
<ref name=press1>{{cite press release
 | title =Kronos Quartet Welcomes New Cellist, Sunny Jungin Yang
 | publisher =Kronosquartet.org
 | date =February 28, 2013
 | url =http://kronosquartet.org/news/article/kronos-quartet-welcomes-new-cellist-sunny-jungin-yang
 | access-date =June 30, 2013
 | archive-date =July 15, 2019
 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20190715184110/https://kronosquartet.org/news/article/kronos-quartet-welcomes-new-cellist-sunny-jungin-yang
 | url-status =dead
 }}</ref>
<ref name=Sisario>{{cite news 
  | last = Sisario
  | first = Ben
  | title = Arts Briefing
  | work = [[The New York Times]]
  | date = August 19, 2003
| url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401E5DE1030F93AA2575BC0A9659C8B63
  | access-date = January 13, 2009}}</ref>
<ref name=Templeton>{{cite journal
  | last = Templeton
  | first = David
  | title = Flight of Fancy: The sky is the limit for ex-Kronos cellist Joan Jeanrenaud
  | journal = Strings
  | volume = 18
  | issue = 7
  | page = 122
  | publisher = String Letter Publishing
  | date = Mar 2004
  }}</ref>
}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*{{Official website}}
*{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=q8192}}
*[http://media.libsyn.com/media/offbeatradio/KRONOSSPECIALMP3.mp3 David Harrington of Kronos talks to Karishmeh for OFFBEAT, Dublin City FM. Feature Special on Kronos Quartet]
*Interview with [http://www.learningmusician.com/features/0107/DavidHarrington/ founding Kronos member David Harrington]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYi403ODUeQ 'Ep. 53: David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet'] Interview by Tigran Arakelyan

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