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HERMITAGE SUNSETS At Selby Continues With Mark Sonnenblick
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 6, 2025

The Hermitage Artist Retreat's popular series, “Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens,” continues its fifth anniversary season and kicks off a brand-new year with “Book, Music, and Lyrics,” featuring Emmy Award and Drama Desk nominee Mark Sonnenblick.

String Quartet ETHEL And Bassist Ron Carter to Present REFLECTIONS ON MONK AND BACH
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 16, 2024

The string quartet ETHEL and legendary bassist Ron Carter will join forces for an unforgettable classical-jazz mashup performance at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall this winter. Learn how to purchase tickets.

String Quartet Ethel Releases 'Persist' Album with Flutist Allison Loggins-Hull
by Josh Sharpe - Dec 6, 2024

Acclaimed string quartet ETHEL has released their eighth album Persist, for which the group reconvened with the dynamic flutist Allison Loggins-Hull. Listen to it here.

Composers Concordance Will Perform ETHEL Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Sep 9, 2024

On Sunday, October 6th, 2024 at 5pm, Composers Concordance will present the renowned quartet ETHEL on a program of new music including several premieres.

Composers Concordance to Present ETHEL at Church St. School Next Month
by Blair Ingenthron - Sep 8, 2024

On Sunday, October 6th, 2024 at 5pm, Composers Concordance will present the renowned quartet ETHEL on a program of new music including several premieres.

Acclaimed String Quartet ETHEL Unveils Fall 2024 Highlights
by Josh Sharpe - Aug 8, 2024

New York City’s ETHEL has announced its upcoming Fall 2024 activities centered around the release of its forthcoming album Persist on Sono Luminus Records (TBR 11.29.24).

ETHEL String Quartet Reveals Fall 2024 Highlights
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 8, 2024

ETHEL String Quartet revealed its fall 2024 highlights including a New Sounds LIVE concert, a Southwest tour with Robert Mirabal, a Brooklyn Public Library performance, and more. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Industry Lab Presentation of THE LAST FIVE YEARS Will Take Place This May
by Stephi Wild - Apr 22, 2024

After Core Theatre Group's heralded February 2024 production of Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown's, The Last Five Years, they will present an Actors Equity Developmental Lab of their production May 7th through 10th at 2 pm at the Theatre at St. Clement's Main Stage for invited industry guests.

Grammy Award-Winning ETHEL to Headline the Hermitage's 15th Annual Artful Lobster
by Stephi Wild - Oct 11, 2023

The Hermitage Artist Retreat announced that world-renowned and Grammy Award-winning string quartet ETHEL will headline the Hermitage’s signature fall fundraising event, “The Artful Lobster: An Outdoor Celebration!” on Saturday, November 11th from 11:30am to 2pm at the Hermitage campus on Manasota Key.

Grammy-Award Winning ETHEL String Quartet to Bring Spirited Strings To Morris Museum in July
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 26, 2023

In their first Back Deck appearance since 2021, the string quartet ETHEL will bring their particular brand of contemporary music to Morris Museum on July 18.

Tom Stoppard's ON THE RAZZLE is Coming to The Questors Theatre in July
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 26, 2023

After the success of Arcadia, The Questors Theatre will have more of Tom Stoppard's comic genius play out in the Judi Dench Playhouse with On the Razzle this summer.

ETHEL Comes to GatherNYC (Museum of Arts & Design)
by Stephi Wild - Apr 26, 2022

GatherNYC, the revolutionary weekly concert experience founded and directed by cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd, announces the groundbreaking string quartet ETHEL as the second guest artist of its Spring 2022 season, held at the series’ new home at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD).

The Hermitage Raises More Than $225,000 at 2021 Artful Lobster
by Stephi Wild - Nov 18, 2021

The Hermitage Artist Retreat raised more than $225,000 at the 2021 Artful Lobster luncheon on November 13. Now in its thirteenth year, the Artful Lobster raises valuable funds for the Hermitage’s renowned artist residency program and community programming initiatives.

ETHEL's Fifth Round Of HomeBaked Composer Initiative Calls For Scores
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 27, 2021

ETHEL invites early-career music creators to submit their scores for Round V of ETHEL's HomeBaked commissioning initiative. This iteration of HomeBaked calls for works for flute and string quartet, as ETHEL will partner in collaboration with their longtime friend, flutist, composer, and producer Allison Loggins-Hull.

Hermitage Artist Retreat's Upcoming Programs Include In-Person and Virtual Events
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 27, 2021

The Hermitage Artist Retreat's 2021 winter season includes a variety of community programs featuring Hermitage artists-in-residence and Fellows who present performances and conversations about their works-in-progress and offering insight into their creative process.

BWW CD Review: THANKFUL: A BENEFIT ALBUM FOR JERAD BORTZ Provides Broadway Inspiration
by Brady Schwind - Dec 13, 2020

BWW Review: THANKFUL: A BENEFIT ALBUM FOR JERAD BORTZ Provides Broadway inspiration on Rock-It Science Records

ETHEL String Quartet Releases Documentary To Raise Funds For Native Americans
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 16, 2020

Nationally acclaimed string quartet ETHEL continues its career-long collaboration with Native American communities via an online fundraiser to aid the Navajo and Hopi reservations. Starting Sunday, June 21, 2020, ETHEL will broadcast the online premiere of the documentary Strings on the Rez in an effort to raise awareness of the economic and health crises being suffered in the Navajo and Hopi Nations.

Lakewood Cultural Center Presents ETHEL's Documerica
by Stephi Wild - Jan 31, 2020

a?oeETHEL's Documerica,a?? presented by the Lakewood Cultural Center at 7:30 p.m. on March 13, is a multimedia concert that melds multiple-screen video projections with original music by some of today's top composers, performed with electrifying virtuosity by the indie-classical quartet ETHEL. The projections showcase evocative imagery from a?oeProject Documerica,a?? a massive archive of photographs commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1970s, soon after the agency was established in the wake of elevated concern about environmental pollution. Through new music, ETHEL explores this compelling snapshot of a tumultuous era that powerfully connects to today's environmental and social issues.

National Sawdust Has Released December Schedule
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 6, 2019

2019-20 Artists-in-Residence Kinds of Kings present Real Loud, the first of four concerts in their Equilibrium and Disturbance series String quartet ETHEL presents fourth chapter of their HomeBaked Project, an initiative showcasing emerging composers, Canadian Brass presents 50th anniversary of their annual holiday celebration

THE RIVER Will Come to the WYO Theater
by Stephi Wild - Nov 1, 2019

The WYO Theater welcomes New York based contemporary string quartet ETHEL and award-winning Native American artist Robert Mirabal to the stage Friday, November 22 at 7:30pm when they present their inspired collaboration, The River.