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SUMMARY:Balourdet Quartet\, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:\nAll Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UC
 LA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online\, via telephone\
 , or in person. \nTicket prices: General $55\; Senior (age 55+) $45\; UCL
 A student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non
 -refundable.\nTickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday\, November 
 12 at 12:00 noon.\nSeating at the Clark Library is limited\, and tickets a
 re likely to sell out within a few minutes.\nOnline: https://tinyurl.com/3
 mevyppr\nTelephone: (310) 825-2101\nIn person: Central Ticket Office windo
 ws located on the UCLA campus at 325 Westwood Plaza (ground level\, across
  from Pauley Pavilion).\n\nIf any tickets for this concert remain unsold\,
  they will be available for purchase at the Clark Library on the day of th
 e event. Any available day-of tickets will be sold on a first-come\, first
 -served basis by a Central Ticket Office representative beginning at 1:00 
 p.m. Payment will be accepted via credit card only. For inquiries\, please
  call or email the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101 or cto@tickets.
 ucla.edu\, Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nProgram\n\nWolfga
 ng Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)\nString Quartet No. 23 in F Major\, K. 590
 \n\nGyörgy Ligeti (1923–2006)\nString Quartet No. 2\n\nNicky Sohn (1992
 – )\nGalaxy Back to You\n\nLudwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)\nString Qu
 artet No. 16 in F Major\, op. 135\n\nBalourdet Quartet\nAngela Bae\, violi
 n\nJustin DeFilippis\, violin\nBenjamin Zannoni\, viola\nRussell Houston\,
  cello\n\nThe celebrated Balourdet Quartet (pronounced bal-orr-DAY) produc
 es both emotionally intense and intimate moments on international stages. 
 Its unique closeness and willingness to take creative risks earned it the 
 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant\, as well as Chamber Music America’s 2024
  Cleveland Quartet Award. With more than seventy concerts per season\, rec
 ent highlights include the Balourdet’s debuts at Carnegie and Wigmore Ha
 lls\, and new string quartets by composers Karim Al-Zand and Paul Novak th
 rough grants from Chamber Music America (2021) and the Barlow Foundation (
 2023). They are currently the Graduate Quartet-in-Residence at the prestig
 ious Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and are recent graduates
  of the New England Conservatory’s Professional String Quartet Program.\
 n\nFor the 2023–24 season\, the Balourdet had a full year of concerts\, 
 residencies\, and exciting projects scheduled. They returned to the La Jol
 la Music Society\, Montgomery Chamber Music\, Nevada Chamber Music Festiva
 l\, and Schneider Concert Series and made debuts in Atlanta\, Memphis\, Ho
 uston\, and San Antonio. Collaborations include pianists Marc-André Hame
 lin\, Simone Dinnerstein\, Stewart Goodyear\, and violist Jordan Bak. Duri
 ng this season\, they also began their position as String Quartet-in-Resid
 ence with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle in North Carolina.\n\nThe 
 Balourdet journey began in 2018 in the mountains of New Mexico at the Taos
  School of Music\, where violinists Justin DeFilippis\, Angela Bae\, and c
 ellist Russell Houston first bonded as friends over long evenings of chamb
 er music\, luxurious Peppermint Schnapps\, and extravagant meals created b
 y chef extraordinaire Antoine Balourdet\, a renaissance man with an except
 ional love of life and music. It was the friendships\, a shared passion fo
 r music and food\, and gratitude for the role the festival played in the f
 ormation of the quartet that inspired the members to name the ensemble in 
 Chef Balourdet’s honor.\n\nSoon thereafter\, in the heat of a waning Tex
 as summer\, Justin\, Angela\, and Russell joined with violist Benjamin Zan
 noni at Rice University\, and the Balourdet Quartet was formed. Inspired b
 y their love for the repertoire and the excitement of having found each ot
 her\, the four friends found themselves playing quartets late into the nig
 ht for fun. After having been together for only one year at Rice Universit
 y\, and a summer at the Aspen Music Festival\, they took second prize at t
 he Nielsen International String Quartet Competition\, and were selected as
  the only quartet admitted to Boston’s historic New England Conservatory
  Professional String Quartet Program under the tutelage of Cleveland Quart
 et cellist Paul Katz.\n\nIn 2021\, the Quartet won the Grand Prize at New 
 York’s Concert Artists Guild Competition\, which included joint manageme
 nt by Concert Artists Guild in the U.S.\, and Young Classical Artists Trus
 t (YCAT) in the UK and Europe. In addition\, the Balourdet has been prizew
 inner in Canada’s Banff International String Quartet Competition and the
  International Premio Paolo Borciani Competition in Italy\, Gold Medal win
 ners at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition\, and Gold Medal a
 nd Audience Prizewinner at the Yellow Springs Competition.\n\nhttps://www.
 balourdetquartet.com/\n\nBalourdet Quartet is represented by Concert Artis
 ts Guild https://www.concertartists.org/\n\n\n\nChamber Music at the Clark
 \nProfessor Rogers Brubaker\, Artistic Director\n\nChamber Music at the Cl
 ark will be celebrating its 30th anniversary season in 2024–25. Thanks t
 o the generous support of Friends of the Clark\, the series has presented 
 over 175 concerts\, featuring some of the world’s finest chamber ensembl
 es\, in its uniquely intimate drawing room venue with its superb acoustics
 . The anniversary season will feature two special tributes. The November 1
 7\, 2024 concert will honor the late Peter Hanns Reill\, who served for ne
 arly two decades as Center and Clark Director\, and who founded the series
  in 1994. The April 27\, 2025 concert will honor Bruce Whiteman\, who serv
 ed as Head Librarian of the Clark from 1996 until 2010\, and who has writt
 en our wonderful program notes for a quarter of a century. We hope you wil
 l be able to join us for another splendid season of music-making.\n\nChamb
 er Music at the Clark is made possible by The Ahmanson Foundation\, under 
 the auspices of Lee Walcott\; Henry J. Bruman Endowment for Chamber Music\
 ; The Colburn Foundation\; Ms. Brenda Anderson\; Mrs. Martha R. Bardach\; 
 Catherine Glynn Benkaim\, Ph.D. and Barbara Timmer\; Dr. Rogers Brubaker\;
  Dr. Johanna R. Drucker\; Dr. Susan S. Harris and Mr. Mark J. Harris\; Ms.
  Judy L. Hellinger\; Dr. David E. Lopez\; Drs. Martin and Susan Mach\; Mr.
  Bernie and Ms. Elaine Mendes\; Mrs. Janet K. Minami\; Mr. Jeffrey L. Nagi
 n and Mrs. Bette I. Nagin\; Dr. Theodore M. Porter\; Dr. Jeanne Robson\; D
 r. Thomas Rosenthal and Ms. Susan M. Rosenthal\; Ms. Carol E. Sandberg\; C
 harles H. and Carol “Jackie” Schwartz\; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and M
 r. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund\; Professor Bronwen Wilson\; and Roberta
  and Robert Young.\n\nPlease see here for more information about our chamb
 er music programs.\n\n\n\nPhotograph credit: Kevin W. Condon\, courtesy of
  the Balourdet Quartet
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