Scott Hicks' lively documentary follows the Australian String Quartet and the world-class instruments in their care. Not only does Hicks’ most celebrated work, “Shine” (1996), center on a pianist, but ...
Ulrike Klein, the quiet co-founder of the Jurlique skin care brand, is an Adelaide arts patron associated with the Australian String Quartet. She told Hicks’ wife, Kerry Heysen, that she was about to ...
WHEN a string quartet is loaned musical instruments valued at more than $5 million, you can safely assume the musicians are talented. The Australian String Quartet is the only ensemble of its kind in ...
The first ACO musician to play the Guarneri, Rebecca Chan, 32, is a firm believer that these old ­instruments are worth every cent. It is not a belief shared by all, though. A recent study in the ...