Brooklyn Rider with Kayhan Kalhor: Silent City

Brooklyn Rider, with its gripping performance style and unquenchable appetite for musical adventure, defines the string quartet as a medium with deep historic roots and endless possibility for invention. This foursome-violinists Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violist Nicholas Cords, and cellist Michael Nicolas-finds equal inspiration in musical languages ranging from late Beethoven to Persian classical music to American roots music to the endlessly varied voices of living composers. A Silk Road Project collaboration introduced Brooklyn Rider to Iranian kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, beginning a longstanding friendship. Brooklyn Rider and Kalhor released their highly-praised recording Silent City in 2008 and continue to tour this project bridging traditions of Persia and the West. Praised by the LA Times as "a knockout" and by RootsWorld for its "unhurried delicateness...subtle virtuosity and unspoken emotion," Silent City also features bassist Jeff Beecher and percussionist Mark Suter.