The Concerts

The world-renowned faculty-in-residence includes the Borromeo, Shanghai and Brentano Quartets, pianists Robert McDonald and Thomas Sauer and violist Michael Tree, founding member of the Guarneri String Quartet. Performances are held at the Taos Community Auditorium in downtown Taos and seminars are conducted by the faculty at the Hotel St. Bernard in Taos Ski Valley. Our concerts are provided at low or no cost with tickets for faculty concerts costing only $25 and all seminars at the Hotel St. Bernard are free of charge.

These faculty musicians also provide the highest level of coaching for our talented young artists. The faculty members do not teach the young musicians how to play, they are already playing at a professional level, but refine their skills and help them create music as part of a chamber music group.

Young Artist Concerts

The school's young artists come from well know music conservatories around the country. These musicians, aged 18-29, audition for the 19 coveted positions at the school. Once accepted they spend the summer honing their chamber music skills. The performance experience for the young artists is of utmost importance. During the eight-week session each give four concerts as part of the School's Chamber Music Festival series held at the Taos Community Auditiorium in Taos and at the Hotel St. Bernard in Taos Ski Valley.

Yvonne Lam (Taos alum 2003) member of 2012 Grammy Award winning Eighth Blackbird says of Taos: “I was one of 19 lucky young musicians to be invited to Taos School of Music in 2003. What ensued that summer was one of the most inspiring and rewarding chamber music experiences I've ever had,”

Bach: Selections from the Well Tempered Klavier, Book 1, transcribed for string quartet by Nicholas Kitchen

Maurice Ravel: String Quartet

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 127

Bach: Selections from the Well Tempered Klavier Book 1, transcribed for string quartet by Nicholas Kitchen

Elena Ruehr: Piano Quartet
with Donald Berman, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 127

Johann S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor (Transcribed for string quartet by Nicholas Kitchen)

Hee Kyung Kim: "Untamed Brush" for solo cello
(Yeesun Kim, cello)

Gunther Schuller: Canzona from String Quartet No. 3

Hi Kyung Kim: Quintet for strings and percussion
with percussionist William Winant

"Most artists can go to extremes when needed; then there are those who seem to positively thrive there—Caravaggio, Almodóvar, Nirvana. The Borromeo Quartet, too."
—Matthew Guerrieri, The Boston Globe

Alberto Ginastera – String Quartet No. 2, Op. 26 (1958, Rev. 1968)
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet No 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

Borromeo Quartet first violinist Nicholas Kitchen performs with pianist Andrew Tyson.

Program:
Mozart: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, K 301 (293a)
Mozart: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor, K 304 (300c)
Mozart: Sonata for Violin and Piano in B flat major, K 454
Mozart: Variations (6) for Violin and Piano in G minor on "Hélas, j'ai perdu", K 360 (374b)
Mozart: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, K 526

Music from Copland House ensemble featuring Borromeo Quartet founder and first violinist Nicholas Kitchen:

JASMINE NIGHTS ON THE AMERICAN RIVIERA

Journeying to the European exile community in World War II-era in Los Angeles, featuring Igor Stravinsky’s Sonata for 2 Pianos, Ingolf Dahl’s Concerto a tre, Arnold Schoenberg’s ,em>Phantasy for violin and piano, Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Romance-Impromptu and Sonnett fuer Wien, and Ernst Toch’s Adagio elegiaco, performed by Music from Copland House.

Supported by the Westchester Community Foundation Reimss Fund

Advanced ticket purchase strongly encouraged

Masterclass + Residency Activities throughout the day

Schubert: Quartet-Satz

Ravel: String Quartet

Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 3

JOSEPH HAYDN 
String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 76, No. 6 (1797)

RUSSELL PLATT
String Quartet (2016)

Intermission

MAURICE RAVEL 
String Quartet in F major (1903) 

Program to be announced

This concert is FREE for adults attending with children. Adults attending without children are asked to make a goodwill donation that helps sustain future programs.

J. S. Bach: Fugue for organ in E flat major, "St. Anne"
Arranged for string quartet by Nicholas Kitchen

Bela Bartok: String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91

I. Allegro
II. Prestissimo con sordino
III. Non troppo lento
IV. Allegretto pizzicato
V. Allegro molto

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130, with Grosse Fugue

(original version, premiered in March 1826)

I. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro
II. Presto
III. Andante con moto, ma non troppo
IV. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro Assai
V. Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo
VI. Grosse Fugue:
Overtura: Allegro - Meno mosso e moderato
Fuga: Allegro - Meno mosso e moderato - Allegro molto e con brio

Masterclass with Borromeo String Quartet violinist Nick Kitchen.

J. S. Bach: Fugue for organ in E flat major, "St. Anne"
Arranged for string quartet by Nicholas Kitchen

Bela Bartok: String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91

I. Allegro
II. Prestissimo con sordino
III. Non troppo lento
IV. Allegretto pizzicato
V. Allegro molto

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130, with Grosse Fugue

(original version, premiered in March 1826)

I. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro
II. Presto
III. Andante con moto, ma non troppo
IV. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro Assai
V. Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo
VI. Grosse Fugue:
Overtura: Allegro - Meno mosso e moderato
Fuga: Allegro - Meno mosso e moderato - Allegro molto e con brio

J.S.Bach
Prelude and Fugue in E flat Major ‘St. Anne‘, BWV 522a
transcribed by Nicholas Kitchen

Béla Bartók
String Quartet No.4
I. Allegro
II. Prestissimo, con sordino
III. Non troppo lento
IV. Allegretto pizzicato
V. Allegro molto

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in B flat Major, Op.130
I. Adagio, ma non troppo – Allegro
II. Presto
III. Andante con moto, ma non troppo: Poco scherzoso
IV. Alla danza tedesca: Allegro assai
V. Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo
VI. Große Fuge

J. S. Bach: Fugue for organ in E flat major, "St. Anne"
Arranged for string quartet by Nicholas Kitchen

Bela Bartok: String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91

I. Allegro
II. Prestissimo con sordino
III. Non troppo lento
IV. Allegretto pizzicato
V. Allegro molto

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130, with Grosse Fugue 

(original version, premiered in March 1826)

I. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro
II. Presto
III. Andante con moto, ma non troppo
IV. Alla danza tedesca. Allegro Assai
V. Cavatina: Adagio molto espressivo
VI. Grosse Fugue:
Overtura: Allegro - Meno mosso e moderato
Fuga: Allegro - Meno mosso e moderato - Allegro molto e con brio

A Special Randolph Newman Concert

Schubert: Notturno in E-flat Major, D. 897

Mahler: Piano Quartet in A Minor

Webern: Langsamer Satz

Mendelssohn: Ottetto in E-flat Major, Op. 20
(original version)

Performers:
Borromeo String Quartet
Chamber music students of San Francisco Conservatory

Tickets

$20 general admission; $15 students, seniors and Conservatory members

Residency activity with conservatory students

Residency activity with conservatory students