Jeffrey Zeigler

Jeffrey Zeigler was the cellist of the internationally renowned Kronos Quartet for eight seasons. He has been the recipient of the Avery Fischer Prize, the Polar Music Prize, the President’s Merit Award from the National Academy of Recorded Arts and the Chamber Music America Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award.

Mr. Zeigler has released over two dozen recordings for Nonesuch Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Cantaloupe, Tzadik and Smithsonian Folkways and has appeared with Norah Jones on her album Not Too Late on Blue Note Records. Zeigler can also be heard on the film soundtrack for Paola Sorrentino’s Academy Award-winning film, La Grande Bellezza,as well as Clint Mansell's Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack, The Fountain, featuring performances with the Scottish band, Mogwai. Fall 2014 Zeigler will see the release of his first solo album entitled Something of Life.

Jeffrey Zeigler appears in the following:

Listen: Star-Studded Opening of Williamsburg's National Sawdust

Thursday, October 01, 2015

On Oct. 1, Q2 Music presented a live audio webcast of the much-anticipated opening of National Sawdust - a new concert space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Listen now on demand.

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Thomas Adès Explores Time Real and Imagined with the Calder Quartet

Monday, June 08, 2015

Thomas Adès’s newest album, "The Twenty-Fifth Hour," with performances by the Calder Quartet, is a fascinating exploration of time both real and envisioned. Stream it all week.

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Composer Donnacha Dennehy Documents His 30s, a Quarter-Tone at a Time

Monday, December 22, 2014

Donnacha Dennehy’s latest release is an essential statement, a document of his works for orchestra written throughout his 30s. Stream the entire album all this week.

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Composer-Soprano Agata Zubel Renders Nervousness and Doubt

Monday, October 13, 2014

On her new recording on the Kairos label, composer and vocalist Agata Zubel brings forward a fascinating exploration of her settings of three Nobel Prize winning poets. 

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Mamoru Fujieda Derives Miniatures from Electrical Activity of Plants

Monday, October 06, 2014

Composed between 1996 and 2011, Japanese post-minimal innovator Mamoru Fujieda’s Patterns of Plants is a set of works based on the readings of the electrical activity in living plants.

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The Greene Space

Vocal Electrofolk:
Africa to New York

Saturday, March 16, 2013

7:00 PM

Hear bold new vocal styles from New York and Africa, featuring Helga Davis and Netsayi with Black Pressure. Presented in partnership with Original Music Workshop. Watch on-demand video of the performance now.