Kronos Quartet with Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat Placeless

Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
Gabriela Díaz, violin
Ayane Kozasa, viola
Paul Wiancko, cello
with special guests, Mahsa Vahdat and Marjan Vahdat

After nearly four decades of acclaimed performances at Stanford and around the world, the St. Lawrence String Quartet introduces the St. Lawrence Legacy Series. This new initiative, in partnership with Stanford Live, showcases three of today’s most celebrated string quartets—ranging from legendary ensembles to rising stars and fresh competition winners. Each group will spend a week on campus in a wide-ranging residency focused on mentorship, collaboration, and community engagement, culminating in a world-class performance at Bing Concert Hall.

For more than 50 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has reimagined what the string quartet experience can be. One of the most celebrated and influential groups in contemporary music, Kronos has given thousands of concerts, released more than 70 recordings, and collaborated with many of the world’s most accomplished musicians across many genres—winning three Grammy Awards and the Polar Music Prize. On the second half of this concert, they reunite with singers Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat, following their collaboration on the 2019 album Placeless. The Vahdat sisters are internationally acclaimed Iranian musicians, now based in the Bay Area, whose deeply personal vocal style is rooted in Persian classical and regional traditions.

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This performance is made possible in part by generous gifts to the St. Lawrence Legacy Series.

Co-presented by the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford.