In 1999, they released a CD of the first three string quartets of Pēteris Vasks.
He has written five string quartets, the fourth (2003) and fifth (2006) of which were written for the Kronos Quartet.
2006 Pēteris Vasks first non-British composer-in-residence; Baltic music feature;
Pēteris Vasks | Peteris Plakidis | Pēteris Lauks | Pēteris Kalniņš |
Examples include Arvo Pärt (an Estonian Orthodox), John Tavener (a British composer who converted to Russian Orthodoxy), Henryk Górecki (a Polish Catholic), Alan Hovhaness (the earliest mystic minimalist), Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Hans Otte, Pēteris Vasks and Vladimír Godár.