String Quartet ETHEL, known for their enlivened playing and consistently groundbreaking redefinition of concert music, announces their upcoming Winter/Spring 2018 season. Described as "an adventurous ...

As part of the string quartet's 20th anniversary season, ETHEL returns to BAM with Circus: Wandering City, a multimedia musical journey into the history of the iconic Ringling Bros. and Barnum & ...

The “avatar of ‘post-classical’ music—the virtuosic string quartet ETHEL (The New Yorker)” and legendary bassist Ron Carter join forces for an unforgettable classical-jazz mashup performance at Zankel ...

Ethel members are violinists Corin Lee and Kip Jones, cellist Dorothy Lawson and violist Ralph Farris. (Erin Patrice O'Brien ) At the end of a week when the loudest government of my lifetime reached ...

Let it not be said that hip new music is light new music. Ethel, a contemporary string quartet variously heralded as “funky,” “downtown” or, worst, “postclassical,” came to the District on Monday ...

The string quartet ETHEL may be acclaimed as one of the most exciting quartets around, but they're not much for wearing tuxedos or other formal clothes that, at one time at least, were traditional for ...

ETHEL, the adventurous string quartet, comes to the Shalin Liu Performance Center next week to play a free concert. But those two hours onstage make up only part of the group’s visit to Cape Ann. In ...

As ETHEL’s string quartet continues their “Present Beauty” tour, one of its members is itching to perform at Arden's Gild Hall on Jan. 15. ”We love the intimacy of [performing at] small places and we ...

Classical orchestras have more or less retained a basic format and repertoire over the past 200 years, but the string quartet has evolved dramatically. San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has turned the ...