Balourdet String Quartet

The celebrated Balourdet Quartet produces both emotionally intense and intimate moments on international stages. Its unique closeness and willingness to take creative risks earned it the 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant, as well as Chamber Music America’s 2024 Cleveland Quartet Award.

With more than 70 concerts per season, recent highlights include the Balourdet’s debuts at Carnegie and Wigmore Halls, and new string quartets by composers Karim Al-Zand and Paul Novak through grants from Chamber Music America (2021) and the Barlow Foundation (2023). They are currently the Graduate Quartet in Residence at the prestigious Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and are recent graduates of the New England Conservatory’s Professional String Quartet Program.

This event will be held at 4 PM at the Sedgewood Boathouse, in Western Kent. Please join us for the short reception following the concert to meet the performers and your fellow attendees.

Address: Sedgewood Boathouse, located off of Route 301 at 1026 Barrett Circle West, Kent NY 10512.

The Program

String Quartet in D Major opus64 #5 (1790). Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

1. Allegro moderato

2. Adagio cantabile

3. Minuetto. Allegretto

4. Finale. Vivace

Strange Machines (2022 Chamber Music America Commission) Karim Al-Zand (1970)

Intermission

String Quartet No. 1 in e minor, From My Life (1876) Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)

1. Allegro vivo appassionato

2. Allegro moderato alla polka

3. Largo sostenuto

4. Vivace