BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The prize-winning Arditti String Quartet, known internationally as celebrated interpreters of contemporary and 20th-century music, will perform at the University at Buffalo on March ...

Irvine Arditti doesn’t look at his violin like a single instrument anymore — it’s one point of a quadrilateral. Considering that he’s been one-fourth of a string quartet for 40 years, it makes sense.

Formed a few months after the Kronos Quartet, the Arditti Quartet is also on a 40th anniversary tour. By one of those strange coincidences, Arditti, once a competitor of Kronos as the string quartet ...

The Arditti String Quartet plays music when the ink is wet on the page. The British quartet, which will appear at Shriver Hall tonight at 7:30, performs 20 to 30 world premieres each year, and the ...

Explorer Roald Amundsen located success in preparation: “Victory,” he wrote, “awaits him who has everything in order.” The Arditti Quartet, explorers of musical modernism’s farthest reaches, have made ...

Some groups are so eminent that their name alone summons up a whole climate of feeling. The Arditti Quartet is one. It’s hot and dry in “Arditti-land.” There are rarely any moist, soft moments in an ...

Even a whole day of concerts – three programmes containing 15 works, three of them world premieres – was hardly enough to convey the full extent of the Arditti Quartet's achievement across four ...

It’s that time of year when music-lovers with a taste for aural adventure head up to the Yorkshire mill town of Huddersfield, where by a strange quirk of history one of the world’s great contemporary ...

The way the Arditti String Quartet played it, the London premiere of Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘The Tree of Strings’ was full of drama, both intended and unintended. The latter came after cellist Lucas ...