Kronos Wins Polar Music, Avery Fisher Prizes
Kronos: No other musician or ensemble has ever won both prizes
New and exploratory music champion the Kronos Quartet has received a double dose of praise: Lincoln Center’s 2011 Avery Fisher Prize and the Swedish Polar Music Prize. The prestigious awards carry with them $75,000 and $155,000, respectively. Kronos states on its website that no other musician or ensemble has ever won both prizes, let alone in a single year. The quartet—violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt, and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler—has released more than 45 recordings in 30 years. They’ve worked with such contemporary composers as Terry Riley, Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, and Philip Glass, to name a few. The quartet is currently touring Europe. kronosquartet.org
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