Quartet San Francisco: Live Stream

String Quartet - with a crossover, world music groove! "When the music says swing, we swing. When the music says groove, we groove." Grammy nominees for four CD releases (2013, 2009, 2007, and 2006) and International Tango competition winners (New York, 2004), Quartet San Francisco expresses itself in its agility and standout virtuosic playing. Quartet San Francisco was founded in 2001 by celebrated Bay Area violinist and composer-arranger Jeremy Cohen. Along with violinist Joseph Christianson, violist Chad Kaltinger, and cellist Andrés Vera, these crossover specialists excel in multiple styles — from jazz to tango, pop to funk, blues to bluegrass, gypsy swing to big band and beyond. QSF’s September 2018 CD release, A QSF Journey (Reference Recordings), features new chamber music from Jeremy Cohen, Helmut Lipsky, and Giovanni Sollima, and showcases world music and the lyrical leanings of the group. Their 2013 disc, Pacific Premieres: New Works by California Composers (Violinjazz Recordings), received two composer Grammy nominations (Gordon Goodwin and Vince Mendoza). In 2010 the quartet and its engineers were awarded two Grammy nominations for their release QSF Plays Brubeck (Violinjazz Recordings), and the quartet appeared on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday in a studio interview with Leane Hansen. Their Latin and tango CD, Látigo (Violinjazz Recordings, 2006), was honored with Grammy nominations for Best Classical Crossover and Best Engineered, Classical. The quartet members were again Classical Crossover Grammy nominees for Whirled Chamber Music (Violinjazz Recordings, 2007), "…what could easily be the most cheerful and brilliantly-executed release of 2007" (Judith Schlesinger, All About Jazz)