In the 2021-2022 season, we are excited to announce “Dido Reimagined”, a new performance project sparked by the famous “Dido’s Lament” from Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas. We have invited composer Me...

In an original project conceived and elaborated by our first violinist, Mark Steinberg, we present J.S. Bach’s entire Art of Fugue in concert. The Art of Fugue is an intense meditation by Bach on a si...

We are excited to be joining the Faculty of the Yale School of Music! At Yale, in addition to appearing in concert every semester, we look forward to coaching YSM’s accomplished graduate students, and...

We are now learning a brand new piece written for us by our friend, the fantastic composer Steve Mackey. Here’s a video we did where he talks about the piece. Come hear the world premiere in Carnegie ...

Brilliant composer and jazz pianist Vijay Iyer is writing a piano quintet for us to play with him. We’re really excited about this project! Here’s a video we made where Vijay talks about it.

The Brentano Quartet is now on (or at least behind) the silver screen! The critically acclaimed film “A Late Quartet”, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener, and dir...

Here’s a live concert recording from Princeton University — a beautiful concert hall and also our school!

Our first violinist Mark Steinberg introduces the Fragments Project: the Quartet has commissioned several composers (Charles Wuorinen, Sofia Gubaidulina, John Harbison, Vijay Iyer, Bruce Adolphe, and ...