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Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence – Balourdet Quartet

Auer Hall

The Balourdet Quartet, based in Boston, Massachusetts, is currently in residence at the New England Conservatory’s Professional String Quartet Program. The quartet received the Grand Prize at the 2021 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, as well as prizes in international competitions including the Banff, Paolo Borciani, and Carl Nielsen competitions. They were also awarded the Gold Medal at the 2020 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the 2021 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition.

Balourdet Quartet

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

This brilliant ensemble is shining brightly with Grand Prize at the 2021 Concert Artists Guild and the 2020 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition! Formed at the Shepherd School of Music in 2018, these young performers are coming home for their CMH premiere.

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

Legendary pianist Marc-André Hamelin teams up with the sensational Balourdet Quartet, for a program of Mendelssohn, Al-Zand and Franck’s popular PIano Quintet. The Balourdet Quartet received Grand Prize at the 2021 Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Gold Medal at the 2020 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and is currently in residence at the New England Conservatory.

Marc-André Hamelin & Balourdet Quartet

Shalin Liu Performance Center

Two winners of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition—Livia Sohn and Kerson Leong—along with NY Philharmonic oboist/English Hornist Ryan Roberts and a spectacular chamber orchestra, perform a dynamic program of J.S. Bach and Arvo Pärt. Referenced as the “Bach of our Century” with his minimalist yet incredibly accessible compositional style, Pärt’s music—described as “transcendental and otherworldly”—is the most performed of a living classical composer since 2011.

Bach & Arvo Pärt

Kicking off the summer season at the Tannery, the Balourdet is currently in residence at the New England Conservatory. A finalist at the 2022 Banff Competition, the ensemble performs a varied program of works with a recent work by a Canadian-American composer.

Darrow School

Unfiltered charts the evolution of four individuals filled with raw unbridled passion for chamber music. The Balourdet Quartet explores as a string quartet what it takes to work together in a chaotic world and overcome challenges through music and friendship. As Beethoven once said, "True friendship can be based only on the union of similar ways of being.” Experience the synthesis of minds and personalities through some of the greatest chamber music ever written. Join the Balourdet Quartet on this journey with exciting stage and lighting design in this innovative concert experience!

Kaufman Music Center

The Balourdet Quartet, recipients of the Grand Prize at the 2021 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, shares the stage with Memphis Symphony Orchestra acting principal flutist Adam W. Sadberry.