Upcoming Events

Program 1

Kronos Quartet with special guests Aizuri Quartet, Friction Quartet, and Soo Yeon Lyuh

The rich cultural diversity of the Kronos Fifty for the Future repertoire is on full display in the Kronos Festival’s lead-off program, with works by composers representing Benin, Colombia, India, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States.

Special guests include San Francisco’s own Friction Quartet; Korean-born composer and haegeum virtuoso Soo Yeon Lyuh, joining Kronos for her own work Yessori; and Kronos cellist Paul Wiancko joining New York’s Aizuri Quartet (winners of Chamber Music America’s 2022 Cleveland Quartet Award) for his composition Only Ever Us.

Program to include:

Kronos Quartet
Angélique Kidjo (arr. Jacob Garchik) / YanYanKliYan Senamido #2

Guillermo Galindo / Remote Control

Soo Yeon Lyuh / Yessori (Sound from the Past)

with Soo Yeon Lyuh, haegeum

Friction Quartet
Mario Galeano Toro / Tolo Midi

Henry Threadgill / Sixfivetwo

Merlijn Twaalfhoven / Play

INTERMISSION

Aizuri Quartet
Rhiannon Giddens (arr. Jacob Garchik) / At the Purchaser’s Option with variations

Kala Ramnath (arr. Reena Esmail) / Amrit

Yevgeniy Sharlat / pencil sketch

Paul Wiancko / Only Ever Us

with Paul Wiancko, cello