All aboard! Kronos Quartet leads a musical world tour for kids and families. Featuring live performances and a kids’ Q&A with the quartet, the program will sample short works from the globe-spanning Kronos Fifty for the Future repertoire, with “tour stops” in the composers’ home nations of Canada, China, Iran, Ireland, Mali, and back in the U.S.A.

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Kronos Festival – Family Concert: Around The World With Kronos (2023)

SFJAZZ Center

Free performance: Student ensembles from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music perform compositions from the Kronos Fifty for the Future repertoire—a body of work commissioned explicitly for student and emerging professional ensembles!

Kronos Festival Lab – Performance : Spotlight On SFCM Ensembles

Free conversation: An inside look at the Kronos Fifty for the Future project from the perspective of both composers and performers with Kronos founder David Harrington, composer/instrumentalists Rafiq Bhatia (guitar), Soo Yeon Lyuh (haegeum), Paul Wiancko (Kronos Quartet cellist), and others.

Kronos Festival Lab – Conversation: About Kronos Fifty for The Future

Featuring compositions by Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Philip Glass, Zakir Hussain, Susie Ibarra, Aleksander Kościów, Sky Macklay, Angélica Negrón, Peni Candra Rini, Charlton Singleton, Stephan Thelen.

The final program of this year’s Festival completes the survey of the eclectic Kronos Fifty for the Future repertoire with works by composers from India, Indonesia, Mali, Poland, Switzerland, and the United States (including Puerto Rico).

Kronos takes the stage and also welcomes two exceptional guest ensembles: New York’s Grammy-winning Attacca Quartet and, making their third appearance in this festival, SF’s own innovative Friction Quartet.

Kronos Festival - Program 3 (2023)

Kronos Festival continues with much more from the Kronos Fifty for the Future repertoire, expanding the compositional canvas with several longer-form works. Guest artists include guitarist and composer Rafiq Bhatia, joining Kronos for his work Glimmers; SF-based sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker Victoria Shen; and, in their second Festival appearance, San Francisco’s eclectic and exciting Friction Quartet.

kronos Festival - Program 2 (2023)

Featuring compositions by Guillermo Galindo, Rhiannon Giddens, Angélique Kidjo, Soo Yeon Lyuh, Kala Ramnath, Yevgeniy Sharlat, Henry Threadgill, Mario Galeano Toro, Merlijn Twaalfhoven, and Paul Wiancko.

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.

Kronos Festival

Jun 24, 2023

Kronos Festival – Family Concert: Around The World With Kronos (2023)

Jun 24, 2023

Kronos Festival Lab – Performance : Spotlight On SFCM Ensembles

Kronos Festival