The Del Sol Quartet specializes in contemporary music and has commissioned hundreds of works from a diverse group of composers in the U.S. and beyond. The group sometimes performs music calling for just intonation.
The Del Sol Quartet, which often uses the truncated name Del Sol, was founded in San Francisco in 1992. Its members include violinists Benjamin Kreith and Samuel Weiser, violist Charlton Lee, and cellist Kathryn Bates; several of the members have been present since the group was first established. Lee was inspired to assemble the quartet as he drove by the Fermilab...