Kronos Quartet leads a weeklong workshop at Carnegie Hall April 9–15, 2016, open to student and young professional string quartets to explore new works commissioned as part of Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire. The tuition-free workshop, which is open to string quartets aged 18–35, culminates in a public performance at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall and will also focus on several of Kronos’s signature works. The application deadline is November 17, 2015. For details and to apply now, visit carnegiehall.org.

Fifty for the Future is a commissioning initiative of Kronos Quartet, Carnegie Hall, and many other partners and is devoted to contemporary approaches to the string quartet. The project is designed to present music as a living art form and to create new resources for the training of students and emerging professionals. Works for the Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire are being commissioned from an eclectic group of composers—25 men and 25 women, including Kronos Quartet label mate Rhiannon Giddens. Carnegie Hall, lead partner in the project, has named Kronos Quartet holder of the Richard and Barbara Debs Creative Chair for the 2015/16 season. Prior to the workshop, Kronos will perform in concert at Zankel Hall, on April 2. For more on Fifty for the Future, visit kronosquartet.org.

Kronos Quartet is in New York City this coming week for concerts celebrating the opening of St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn on Saturday, October 17, and a performance of George Crumb's Black Angels at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in Manhattan on Tuesday, October 20. For details and tickets on these and other upcoming Kronos performances, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.