Borromeo String Quartet - 6:30 Postlude w/Michael Stephen Brown, piano
2025-09-07 16:00 (America/New_York) | Maverick Concerts, 120 Maverick Rd, Woodstock, NY, United States
borromeoquartet.orgmichaelbrownmusic.com
Eleanor Alberga: Remember (2000)Aaron Jay Kernis: String Quartet No.4Beethoven: String Quartet Op.132
Nicholas Kitchen, violinKristopher Tong, violinMelissa reardon, violaYeesun Kim, cello
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Postlude: Michael Stephen Brown (6:30pm)Fauré at Sunset:Gabriel Fauré: The Nocturnes (complete)Each visionary performance of the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet strengthens and deepens its reputation as one of the most important ensembles of our time. Admired and sought after for both its fresh interpretations of the classical music canon and its championing of works by 20th and 21st century composers, the ensemble has been hailed for its “edge-of-the- seat performances,” by the Boston Globe, which called it “simply the best.”
Inspiring audiences for more than 25 years, the Borromeo continues to be a pioneer in its use of technology, and has the trailblazing distinction of being the first string quartet to utilize laptop computers on the concert stage. Reading music this way helps push artistic boundaries, allowing the artists to perform solely from 4-part scores and composers’ manuscripts, a revealing and metamorphic experience which these dedicated musicians now teach to students around the world. As The New York Times noted, “The digital tide washing over society is lapping at the shores of classical music. The Borromeo players have embraced it in their daily musical lives like no other major chamber music group.” Moreover, the Quartet often leads discussions enhanced by projections of handwritten manuscripts, investigating with the audience the creative process of the composer. And in 2003 the Borromeo became the first classical ensemble to make its own live concert recordings and videos, distributing them for many years to audiences through its Living Archive, a music learning web portal for which a new version will soon be released.
MICHAEL STEPHEN BROWN has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers.”
Winner of the 2018 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center and a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Brown has recently performed as soloist with the Seattle Symphony, NFM Leopoldinum, and the National, Phoenix, Grand Rapids, North Carolina, Wichita, and Albany Symphonies; and recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and Beethoven-Haus Bonn. He recently toured his own Piano Concerto around the US and Poland with several orchestras. A frequent artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Brown is featured on the Society’s 2023-24 season with a solo recital at Alice Tully Hall, tours the US and Scotland with his longtime duo partner cellist Nicholas Canellakis, performs with violinist Pinchas Zukerman at Wolf Trap and the Green Music Center, and embarks on a composing residency at the Yaddo artist colony.
