Borromeo String Quartet with Giovale String Quartet & David Deveau, piano
Date and Time
Saturday Jan 11, 2014
8:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Location
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA 01966
Travelling by Car:
Rockport is 45 miles from downtown Boston.
Drive north on Route 128 (through two rotaries) to the traffic light in Gloucester.
At the traffic light, turn left onto Route 127.
Drive 4 miles to Rockport.
Continue through “Five Corners” onto Route 127A (Broadway) toward the harbor. It’s a slight vere to the right. At the stop sign at Mt. Pleasant Street (lighthouse in median), turn left and then bear left onto Main Street. The Shalin Liu Performance Center is on the right at 37 Main Street.
Travelling by Train:
Rockport is accessible by commuter rail from Boston and other Northshore towns. The commuter rail originates from North Station on the Green line in Boston. The train station is ½ mile walk to the concert hall.
Walking Directions from Rockport Train Station:
Leave Rockport Commuter Rail Station and turn left onto Railroad Avenue. Turn right onto King Street for and then turn right onto Beach Street (Atlantic Ocean and Front Beach on other side of Beach Street). Follow Beach Street and the Shalin Liu Performance Center will be on your left after you’ve merged onto Main Street. The Congregational Church is across the street.
Contact Information
978.546.7391
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Description
Considered "simply the best there is" by The Boston Globe, the critically-acclaimed Borromeo String Quartet is one of the most sought after string quartets in the world. Audiences and critics alike champion their affinity for making even the most challenging contemporary repertoire approachable and enlightening. They perform at the world's most illustrious concert halls and music festivals, and continue long-standing residencies at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum and the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music, where it has been the official Quartet-in-Residence for nearly 20 years. Among the numerous awards Borromeo has won are Lincoln Center's Martin E. Segal Award; Chamber Music America's Cleveland Quartet Award; top prize at the International String Quartet Competition; and the Avery Fisher Career Grant. The prestigious Aaron Copland House created the Borromeo Quartet Award in 2006, an annual initiative that will premiere the work of important young composers to audiences internationally. The Quartet has been members of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two and served as Ensemble-in-Residence for National Public Radio's Performance Today. "… the Borromeo offered an afternoon of edge-of-the-seat music-making that grappled palpably with the composer's dark haunting visions in the process of bringing them to life." - The Boston Globe ''…one of the defining experiences of civilization in Boston'' - The Boston Globe Program: MOZART: Piano Trio in C major, K. 548 BARTOK: String Quartet No. 1 MENDELSSOHN: Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20 Tickets: $46, $38, $28 Diploma in a Day Enjoy engaging workshops led by Dr. James Johnson, Dr. Elizabeth Seitz, violinist Nicholas Kitchen, and members of the Borromeo Quartet on the composers and works being performed later that evening. Activities provide participants the opportunity to learn and discuss the composers, hear an open rehearsal, and learn about the music from a different per
