The Turtle Island Quartet is a string quartet that plays hybrids of jazz, classical, and rock music. The group was formed in 1985 by David Balakrishnan, Darol Anger, and Mark Summer in San Francisco. They released their first album on Windham Hill Records in 1988 with Irene Sazer.
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Darol Anger
American musician
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Zuill Bailey
American musician
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Billy Childs
American jazz pianist
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Paul McCandless
American musician
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Mark O'Connor
American fiddle player
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Samuel "Savoirfaire" Williams
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Evan Ziporyn
American composer
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Barbara Higbie
American musician
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Edward W. Hardy
American composer, musician and producer
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Juilliard String Quartet
classical music string quartet-in-residence
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Sara Caswell
American violinist
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Itzhak Perlman
Israeli-American violinist and conductor
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McCoy Tyner
American jazz pianist
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Yolanda Kondonassis
American musician
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Janis Siegel
American singer
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Emerson String Quartet
string quartet
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Regina Carter
American musician
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Arditti Quartet
string quartet
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Jean-Luc Ponty
French musician
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Joan Tower
American composer, concert pianist and conductor
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Sérgio Assad
Brazilian composer, guitarist
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Alan Shulman
American composer and cellist
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Hollywood String Quartet
American string quartet
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Paquito D'Rivera
Cuban musician
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Patrick Zimmerli
American musician and composer (born 1968)
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Dave Valentin
American musician
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John Harbison
American composer
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Lyle Mays
American jazz musician
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Philip Aaberg
pianist
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Edgar Meyer
American musician and composer
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Ravi Coltrane
American jazz saxophonist (born 1965)
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William Ackerman
Guitarist, composer