Turtle Island Quartet

string quartet formed in 1985 by David Balakrishnan, Darol Anger, and Mark Summer in San Francisco
Organization String Quartet Q2461662

Facts

5 properties

Identity

Instance of
string quartet

Status and dates

Inception
1985[4]
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Genre
jazz[2]
Country of origin
United States[3]
Start of work period
1985[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Turtle Island Quartet en Turtle Island String Quartet zh 龟岛四重奏 zh-hant 龜島四重奏
🔖 Identifiers · 16
VIAF cluster ID
159879119
Library of Congress Authorities ID
no2007053147
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Turtle Island Quartet 2016.jpg ↗
AllMusic artist ID
mn0000807181
Billboard artist ID
turtle-island-quartet
Carnegie Hall agent ID
47073
Discogs artist ID
555698
Europeana entity
agent/base/33068
Facebook username
TurtleIslandQuartet
Freebase ID
/m/038jct
Grammy Awards artist ID
turtle-island-string-quartet/14799
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Muziekweb performer ID
M00000055513
Songkick artist ID
62865
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GND (DNB)
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20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261105 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
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DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
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Summary

Turtle Island Quartet is a string quartet[1].

Product Details

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  • Type: Group[6]

  • Country: US[7]

  • Began / founded: 1985[8]

  • Genre(s): folk, jazz, string quartet[9]

  • Community tags: folk, jazz, string quartet[10]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 7a8844e0-df25-4dd1-a74f-b96775d8523b[11]

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