Buzz

10 Feb 2013
Review of The Knights recent Asia Society performance with Wu Man at the start of our US tour.
11 Oct 2012
21C Media Group
Five world premieres crown an action-packed fall season for Brooklyn Rider , the group credited with " recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21 st -century ensemble" (NPR). October and November see the gam...
10 Oct 2012
Review of Silk Road Ensemble concert in Chapel Hill
19 Sep 2012
21C Media Group
Hailed by  Strings  magazine as " the future of chamber music ,"  Brooklyn Rider  continues to break new ground this season. Fall sees the game-changing string quartet  "Make It New"  at the  University of North Carolina's " Rite of Spring  at 100...
31 Jul 2012
Review of The Knights 2nd Naumburg/Central Park concert this summer.
31 Jul 2012
Beautiful footage by WQXR of The Knights playing Afternoon of a Faun in Central Park. Check out the skater and bubbles!
13 Jul 2012
Review of recent Knights concert in Central Park for the Naumburg Orchestral Series.
15 Jun 2012
Musical America Blogs
The motto of this year’s Bachfest Leipzig, “…ein neues Lied” (a new song), could not be a more fitting choice to honor J.S. Bach’s legacy in the city where he spent his final 27 years as cantor. Upon arriving in 1723, he set out to write a cantata...
2 Apr 2012
Classical News
"Trying to build an orchestra at this time and figure out why the orchestra form should still exist - that's our unanswered question,'" says violinist Colin Jacobsen .
20 Mar 2012
CD Reviews
Seven Steps  Brooklyn Rider Brooklyn Rider, Christopher Tignor, Beethoven In a Circle Records http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/seven-steps/id500064073  (available in-sore and online retail outlets April 10) Whether conscious or not, i...
6 Mar 2012
Lucid Culture
There are several string quartets whose repertoire focuses on current composers (the Mivos Quartet , JACK Quartet and Chiara String Quartet , to name three especially good ones). There are others who play their own compositions, and even some ...
20 Nov 2011
Article about alternative orchestras, featuring The Knights.
11 Nov 2011
Brooklyn Rider Carnegie Review
9 Oct 2011
Sequenza21/
Nothing stays the same f or very long these days, especially in NY. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when Brooklyn Rider’s first violinist Johnny Gandelsman and I meet at 11th and University Place–once Dean and De Luca, but now Argo Tea Cafe...
28 Sep 2011
Deceptive Cadence
by Anastasia Tsioulcas 'We Are The Knights' ...
21 Sep 2011
A Lot of Schubert and a Touch of Poetry
9 Sep 2011
PBS Documentary "We Are The Knights". You can stream it live here.
9 Sep 2011
Daily News review of PBS documentary, "We Are The Knights"
2 Sep 2011
The Hub
We Are The Knights, a new documentary about The Knights, the New York City-based chamber ensemble that is the brainchild of brothers Eric and Colin Jacobsen, will air ...
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Brooklyn Rider
3 Feb 2012
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Jacobsen: Brooklesca
Jacobsen: Achille's Heel
Debussy: Quartet for Strings in G minor, Op. 10
Beavers: Concerto for Violin and Narrator "Roscoe"
Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin in E minor, Op. 64
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The Knights in Central Park/Naumberg Orchestral Concerts
Central Park: Naumburg Bandshell
New York, New York
Tuesday, 25 June 2013 - 7:30 PM
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