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    Staying power: US String Quartets

    4 July 2025

    As Brooklyn Rider and the Jack and the Miró quartets mark milestone anniversaries, Thomas May looks at how these contemporary American ensembles are not just surviving, but reshaping the 21st-century musical landscape

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    Temple of resonance: Brooklyn Rider’s Philip Glass marathon

    16 May 2025

    Brooklyn Rider’s Johnny Gandelsman and Michael Nicolas reflect on the ensemble’s long relationship with Philip Glass’s music for string quartet, which they will perform complete in a three-night marathon

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    Concert review: Brooklyn Rider

    2 February 2024

    Bruce Hodges hears the performance of Haydn, Assad, Sorey, Kahane, Gubaidulina and Schumann at the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, on 21 November 2023

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    Brooklyn Rider: The Wanderer

    16 May 2023

    A tale of two halves from this New York quartet

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    Concert review: Avi Avital (mandolin) Brooklyn Rider

    16 June 2022

    Dennis Rooney attends the Kaufmann Auditorium, 92nd Street Y, NY, on 15 March 2022 for a concert of Boccherini, Osvaldo Golijov,  Clarice Assad, Caroline Shaw, Colin Jacobsen and Lev Zhurbin

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    Brooklyn Rider: Healing Modes

    29 April 2020

    Brooklyn Rider: Healing Modes The Strad Issue: June 2020 Description: An album for our times from this boundary-breaking quartet Musicians: Brooklyn Rider Works: Music by Beethoven, Roberts, Esmail, Frank, Du Yun and Shaw Catalogue Number: IN A CIRCLE RECORDS ICR014 (2 CDS) New York-based quartet Brooklyn Rider’s ...

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    7 tips for classical violinists to unlock their inner fiddler

    16 August 2019

    Colin Jacobsen from string quartet Brooklyn Rider with some advice for classically trained approaches to folk traditions

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    Bach's Chaconne, performed by Johnny Gandelsman and the Limón Dance Company

    10 August 2018

    In this video from WQXR, members of the New York based Limón Dance Company dance to Bach’s Chaconne played live by violinist Johnny Gandelsman (of Brooklyn Rider and Silk Road Ensemble). The choreography is by the company’s founder José Limón. 

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    Brooklyn Rider performs Debussy's String Quartet

    22 September 2014

    Contemporary New York-based string quartet Brooklyn Rider performs the second movement from Debussy's String Quartet. The ensemble features in The Strad's October 2014 issue, out now. Subscribe to The Strad or download our digital edition as part of a 30-day free trial. To purchase single issues click ...