The Balourdet Quartet return to the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle this Sunday June 1st to open their 75th anniversary season. Recently announced inaugural ensemble-in-residence with Seattle Chamber Music: winners of Chamber Music America’s Cleveland quartet award last year, the latest of their many prizes; they have their official Carnegie Hall debut coming up in December and the critics falling over themselves – “young, ebullient, and teeming with integrity and purpose” – “absolute musical perfection”. Violinist Justin DeFilippis talks about current projects, the program they are bringing to Olin Hall, the intersection of music with AI, and what it means to them to be making music in this age
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in D Major, Op. 64, No. 5, “The Lark”
Paul Novak: impossible inventions
Nicky Sohn: Galaxy Back to You
Bedřich Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, Z mého života (From My Life)
Sunday June 1, 4pm
Bard College, Olin Hall
www.hvcmc.org
