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Jonathan Ong is first violinist and founding member of Oberlin’s Quartet-in-Residence, the Verona Quartet. The Verona Quartet was awarded the 2020 Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award and ...

Composer Vincent Ott and musician Andrew Loper, known on-stage as Rubber, first met three years ago at an open mic night at ...

In this episode of Air Time from UCSB Arts & Lectures, host Charles Donelan sits down with the members of Kronos Quartet — ...

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