Calendar / Past Events

January 11, 2019 – August 24, 2018
Jan 11 2019

BaselSwitzerland
Lecture Recital: Hochschule für Musik, Klassik - Musik-Akademie Basel

Part of a series of 3 Lecture Recitals with violinist Nicholas Kitchen

The lecture on January 11 will be in collaboration with the Pacific Quartet Vienna. The lecture will explore Beethoven Op. 127 and will conclude with a complete performance of the work by the quartet, where the audience will have the opportunity to read Beethoven's manuscript during the whole performance. Beethoven used many detailed expressive markings in his manuscripts and these markings are not reflected in print. There are 20 dynamics instead of 9, four staccato markings instead of 1 or 2, and 2 types of expressive swell pair instead of one. In the discussion, we will share with the audience the working process to try to bring this more varied information into performance.

Jan 10 2019

BaselSwitzerland
Lecture Recital: Hochschule für Musik, Klassik - Musik-Akademie Basel

Part of a series of 3 Lecture Recitals with violinist Nicholas Kitchen

The lecture on January 10 will look at the manuscript of Haydn Op. 71, No. 1 and view it in the context of the Violinschule of Leopold Mozart, and then will jump in time to the working sessions that the Borromeo String Quartet had with György Ligeti himself on Ligeti String Quartet No. 2. Haydn would sometimes provide detailed instructions to performers and other times he would seem to leave everything unresolved. Haydn's approach becomes much more understandable when we read the advice of Leopold Mozart about how to elaborate “unadorned” sections of music. This will be compared with working directly with Ligeti on his own composition.

Jan 9 2019

BaselSwitzerland
Lecture Recital: Hochschule für Musik, Klassik - Musik-Akademie Basel

Part of a series of 3 Lecture Recitals with violinist Nicholas Kitchen

The lecture on January 9 will be about Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and will conclude with a hearing of the whole Credo watching a projection of the manuscript during the listening. Beethoven used a very elaborate set of expressive marks in his manuscripts and we are not familiar with these markings as they have not been included in print. In the Missa Solemnis the expressive content of these markings is illuminated by the words of the Mass. Combining the awareness of the words with the manuscript expressive markings deepens our appreciation of this stunning music and Beethoven's vivid and multi-faceted way of achieving expressivity.

Dec 19 2018

BostonMAUSA
Guest Artist Award concert, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory

Program TBD

Dec 16 2018

BostonMAUSA
Music for Food Concert, Brown Hall, New England Conservatory

Beethoven String Quartet No. 12, Op. 127

Dec 9 2018

RandolphVTUSA
Chandler Center for the Arts

Program includes:
Joseph Haydn : String Quartet Op. 71 No. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven : String Quartet No.12, Op.127

Dec 2 2018

DurhamNCUSA
St. Stephens Concert Series

NIck Kitchen and Yeesun Kim perform with pianist Meng-Chieh Liu.

Schubert: Fantasie in C Major, D. 934
Artists: Meng-Chieh Liu (Piano); Nicholas Kitchen (Violin)
Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D 821 "Arpeggione"
Artists: Meng-Chieh Liu (Piano); Yeesun Kim (Cello)
Schubert: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in B flat major, D 898/Op. 99
Artists: Meng-Chieh Liu (Piano); Nicholas Kitchen (Violin); Yeesun Kim (Cello)

Nov 26 2018

BostonMAUSA
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory

Nick Kitchen and Yeesun Kim perform with pianist Meng-Chieh Liu.

Schubert: Fantasie in C Major, D. 934
Artists: Meng-Chieh Liu (Piano); Nicholas Kitchen (Violin)
Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D 821 "Arpeggione"
Artists: Meng-Chieh Liu (Piano); Yessun Kim (Cello)
Schubert: Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in B flat major, D 898/Op. 99
Artists: Meng-Chieh Liu (Piano); Nicholas Kitchen (Violin); Yessun Kim (Cello)

Nov 18 2018

RaleighNCUSA
Chamber Music Raleigh

J. S. Bach “St. Anne” Prelude and Fugue in Eb Major for Organ arranged for String Quartet by Nicholas Kitchen

Shostakovich Quartet No. 9 in Eb Major

Intermission

Beethoven String Quartet in Eb Op. 127

Nov 17 2018

RaleighNCUSA
North Carolina Chamber Music Institute - masterclass
Nov 6 2018

BostonMAUSA
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory

Nick Kitchen and Yeesun Kim only.

Kirchner Concerto for Violin, Cello and Ten Winds and Percussion

Nov 4 2018

HinghamMAUSA
Candlelight Concerts at Old Ship Church

Nick Kitchen and Yeesun Kim duo works, plus Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, D 898 with pianist Meng-Chieh Liu

Oct 30 2018

NortonMAUSA
Wheaton College, Loser Concert Series

Ludwig van Beethoven : String Quartet No.8, Op.59 No.2 
Ludwig van Beethoven : String Quartet No.12, Op.127

Oct 14 2018

WestportCTUSA
Suzuki Music Schools of Westport & Orange

Violist Mai Motobuchi represents the BSQ giving viola and chamber music masterclasses in preparation for their concert at the Westport Arts Center later in the season on March 9, 2019.

Oct 6 2018

BostonMAUSA
Korean Cultural Society of Boston

Yeesun Kim only

Gaspar Cassadó: Suite for Solo Cello

Oct 1 2018

BostonMAUSA
First Monday at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory

Charles Ives: String Quartet No. 2

Aaron Copland: Appalacian Spring (with other artists)

Sep 16 2018

BostonMAUSA
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 (1827)
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 (1847)
Leonard Bernstein (arr. N. Kitchen), Ilana, the Dreamer (c. 1950)
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, String Quartet No. 1, Calvary (1956)

Sep 15 2018

BostonMAUSA
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 (1827)
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 (1847)
Leonard Bernstein (arr. N. Kitchen), Ilana, the Dreamer (c. 1950)
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, String Quartet No. 1, Calvary (1956)

Aug 26 2018

WoodstockNYUSA
Maverick Concerts

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue, K. 546
Rorem: String Quartet No. 3
Franck: Quartet in D Major

Aug 24 2018

PeterboroughNHUSA
Electric Earth Concerts

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K. 546
Rorem: String Quartet No. 3
Franck: String Quartet in D major