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TIME: 01:30 pm
The Borromeo String Quartet, one of the most important string quartets of our time, will make its return this summer to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for a three-part concert series in the Museum’s popular Sunday Concert Series.
In Calderwood Hall, the
quartet will perform three concerts on: July
31 (Bach, Preludes and Fugues from Well Tempered Klavier Book 1 / Ligeti,
String Quartet No. 1 / Beethoven, String Quartet Op. 59, No. 1); Aug. 7 (Bach, Preludes and Fugues from
Well Tempered Klavier Book 1 / Ravel, String Quartet / Beethoven String Quartet
Op. 59, No. 2) and Aug. 14 (Bach,
Preludes and Fugues from Well Tempered Klavier Book 1 / Ades, Arcadiana /
Beethoven, String Quartet Op. 59, No. 3).
The Borromeo Quartet has performed a vast repertoire worldwide and collaborated with many of today’s most notable composers and performers. Well-known for having an innovative approach to the classical genre, the Borromeo Quartet has gained acclaim for its unique use of laptop computers for reading music. This method has allowed the group to perform reading from the full score and to share their notes on manuscripts using projections to vividly illustrate the quartet’s creative process. The group, which teaches students around the world, has been the faculty ensemble-in-residence at the New England Conservatory for 22 years.
Throughout an illustrious career, the Borromeo Quartet has received various musical awards including Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Martin E. Segal Award, and the Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award. WGBH Radio recently hailed the Borromeo Quartet as “champions of new music” who “thrive on making the old classics sound vital and fresh.”
Often
a sell-out event, the Sunday Concert Series will take place on July 31, Aug. 7,
and Aug. 14 at 1:30 p.m. in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Calderwood
Hall, located at 25 Evans Way in Boston, Mass. Tickets are required, which may
be purchased in advance or at the door, and include Museum admission. Admission
is $27 for adults; $24 for seniors; $17 for students with valid IDs; and youth,
age 7 and under, are not admitted.