Kronos Quartet has just announced its summer tour dates, which will bring the group to venues across Europe, the United States, and into Taiwan.
Summer being festival season, Kronos will be taking part in some of the very best in the next few months, including New York's Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival on August 13 and the Edinburgh International Festival on August 21. Kronos will be at the Monterey Jazz Festival September 18 for both a solo set and special appearance with the Billy Childs Quartet, and at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, August 8, the group is sharing the bill with eighth blackbird. Wu Man joins for the 2010 Taipei Traditional Arts Festival June 4, after which Kronos joins the Taipei Chinese Orchestra on June 6.
Additional festival dates include the Cartagena Music Festival on July 13 and Lyon's Les Nuits de Fourvière on July 19 with the Azerbaijani vocal duo Alim & Fargana Qasimov, who are featured on Kronos's latest Nonesuch release, Floodplain. Kronos will also appear at Berlin's Citadel Music Festival 2010 (July 15), Dresden's Filmnächte am Elbufer (July 17), Lyon's Les Nuits de Fourvière (July 20) and the Barbican Blaze Festival in London (July 22) with Philip Glass, performing his score to Dracula alongside the classic 1931 film starring Bela Lugosi, as heard in the 1999 Nonesuch recording.
In addition to these festival performances, Kronos will perform in a number of different concerts in its home state of California this summer, including two shows at San Francisco's Yoshi's Jazz Club, June 22 and 23, followed by a trip out to Nevada City on June 24 for a 75th birthday celebration concert for longtime collaborator and friend Terry Riley. Later in the season, you can also come BBQ with Kronos at Rancho Nicasio on August 1.
Below is a list of Kronos Quartet's currently scheduled summer tour dates. For more information and links to purchase tickets, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
KRONOS QUARTET 2010 SUMMER TOUR
Jun 4&6 |
Zhongshan Hall |
Taipei, TAIWAN |
Jun 22&23 |
Yoshi's |
San Francisco, CA |
Jun 24 |
Music in the Mountains |
Nevada City, CA |
Jul 13 |
La Mar de Música Festival |
Cartagena, SPAIN |
Jul 15 |
Citadel Music Festival |
Berlin, GERMANY |
Jul 17 |
Filmnächte am Elbufer |
Dresden, GERMANY |
Jul 19&20 |
Les Nuits de Fourvière |
Lyon, FRANCE |
Jul 22 |
Barbican Blaze Festival |
London, England, UK |
Aug 1 |
Rancho Nicasio |
Nicasio, CA |
Aug 8 |
Cabrillo Festival |
Santa Cruz, CA |
Aug 13 |
Lincoln Center Out of Doors |
New York, NY |
Aug 21 |
The Usher Hall |
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
Sep 18 |
Monterey Jazz Festival |
Monterey, CA |