Kronos Festival 2022 – Program #2

The San Francisco–based Kronos Quartet is thrilled to present the return of its annual KRONOS FESTIVAL to live, in-person performance. This year’s 3-day/night showcase is inspired by the Bay Area’s rich diversity and continues Kronos’ commitment to artistic and cultural breadth—with featured composers and guest artists representing 10 nations.

In Program 2, Kronos unveils two works recently released as part of Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire, an unprecedented commissioning, performance, education, and legacy project. The works include Indonesian Gamelan composer and vocalist Peni Candra Rini’s Maduswara, and Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo’s YanYanKliYanSenamido. Also featured on the program are Oasis, a composition by Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh and Flow, a haunting work by Laurie Anderson.

The program concludes with the world premiere of My Lai Suite, adapted from composer Jonathan Berger and librettist Harriet Scott Chessman’s opera about Hugh Thompson, the Vietnam War Army helicopter pilot who courageously intervened in the U.S. Army massacre of unarmed Vietnamese civilians. Guest vocalist Rinde Eckert and master instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Võ join Kronos on stage.

https://www.kronosquartet.org/kronos-festival-2022