Kronos Quartet with Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat: Placeless
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Join Stanford Live and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies for a performance by Kronos Quartet, featuring Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat. Kronos Quartet David Harrington, violin Gabriela Díaz, violin Ayane Kozasa, viola Paul Wiancko, cello with special guests, Mahsa Vahdat and Marjan Vahdat 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
