BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:481@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250427T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250427T170000 DTSTAMP:20250317T205836Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/borromeo-quartet-2025/ SUMMARY:Borromeo String Quartet\, Chamber Music at the Clark 30th Anniversa ry 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\, March 25 at 12:00 noon.\nSeating at the Clark Library is limited\, and tickets are likely to sell out within a few minutes.\nOnline: https://tinyurl.com/3mev yppr\nTelephone: (310) 825-2101\nIn person: Central Ticket Office windows located on the UCLA campus at 325 Westwood Plaza (ground level\, across fr om Pauley Pavilion).\n\nIf any tickets for this concert remain unsold\, th ey will be available for purchase at the Clark Library on the day of the e vent. Any available day-of tickets will be sold on a first-come\, first-se rved basis by a Central Ticket Office representative beginning at 1:00 p.m . Payment will be accepted via credit card only. For inquiries\, please ca ll or email the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101 or cto@tickets.ucl a.edu\, Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nConcert presented in honor of Bruce Whiteman\nProgram\n\nLudwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)\nS tring Quartet No. 15 in A Minor\, op. 132\nString Quartet No. 14 in C-shar p Minor\, op. 131\nString Quartet No. 13 in B-flat Major\, op. 130 with Gr osse Fuge\n\nBorromeo String Quartet\nNicholas Kitchen\, violin\nKristophe r Tong\, violin\nMelissa Reardon\, viola\nYeesun Kim\, cello\n\nEach visio nary performance of the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet strengthens and deepens its reputation as one of the most important ensembles of our t ime. Admired and sought after for both its fresh interpretations of the cl assical music canon and its championing of works by twentieth- and twenty- first-century composers\, the ensemble has been hailed for its “edge-of- the-seat performances” by the Boston Globe\, which called it “simply t he best.”\n\nInspiring audiences for more than twenty-five years\, the B orromeo continues to be a pioneer in its use of technology\, and has the t railblazing distinction of being the first string quartet to utilize lapto p computers on the concert stage. Reading music this way helps push artist ic boundaries\, allowing the artists to perform solely from four-part scor es and composers’ manuscripts\, a revealing and metamorphic experience w hich these dedicated musicians now teach to students around the world. As the New York Times noted\, “The digital tide washing over society is lap ping at the shores of classical music. The Borromeo players have embraced it in their daily musical lives like no other major chamber music group. ” Moreover\, the Quartet often leads discussions enhanced by projections of handwritten manuscripts\, investigating with the audience the creative process of the composer. And in 2003 the Borromeo became the first classi cal ensemble to make its own live concert recordings and videos\, distribu ting them for many years to audiences through its Living Archive\, a music learning web portal for which a new version will soon be released.\n\nPas sionate educators\, the Borromeos encourage audiences of all ages to explo re and listen to both traditional and contemporary repertoire in new ways. The ensemble uses multi-media tools such as video projection to share the often-surprising creative process behind some works\, or to show graphica lly the elaborate architecture behind others. This produces delightfully r efreshing viewpoints and has been a springboard for its acclaimed young pe ople’s programs. One such program is MATHEMUSICA\, which delves into the numerical relationships that underpin the sounds of music and show how mu sical syntax mirrors natural forms. CLASSIC VIDEO uses one movement of a q uartet as the platform from which to teach computer drawing\, video editin g\, animation\, musical form\, and production processes to create a meanin gful joining of music and visual art.\n\nThe BSQ has been ensemble-in-resi dence at the New England Conservatory and Taos School of Music\, both for twenty-five years\, and has\, for over two decades\, enjoyed a long-term r elationship with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum where it continues to regularly appear. It is quartet-in-residence at the Heifetz International Music Institute\, where first violinist Nicholas Kitchen is Artistic Dire ctor. The quartet was also in residence at\, and has worked extensively as performers and educators with the Library of Congress (highlighting both its manuscripts and instrument collections) and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The ensemble joined the Emerson Quartet as the Hittman Ensembles in Residence at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore\, and was rec ently in residence at Kansas University\, the San Francisco Conservatory\, and Colorado State University\, where it regularly appears.\n\nThe BSQ’ s presentation of the cycle of Bartók String Quartets\, as well as its le cture “Bartók: Paths Not Taken\,” both of which give audiences a once -in-a-lifetime chance to hear a set of rediscovered alternate movements B éla Bartók drafted for his six Quartets\, has received accolades. Descri bing a Bartók concert at the Curtis Institute\, the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the quartet “performed at a high standard that brought you s o deeply into the music's inner workings that you wondered if your brain c ould take it all in ... The music's mystery\, violence\, and sorrow become absolutely inescapable.”\n\nAlso noteworthy in the BSQ repertory are it s dramatic discoveries within the manuscripts of the Beethoven Quartets\, and its performances of the Complete Cycle\; the Beethoven Decathlon (four concerts of Beethoven’s last ten quartets\, all with pre-concert lectur es exploring his manuscripts)\; and single Beethoven Triptych concerts (on e concert including three quartets). Its expansive repertoire also include s the Shostakovich Cycle and those of Mendelssohn\, Dvořák\, Brahms\, Sc humann\, Schoenberg\, Janáček\, Lera Auerbach\, Tchaikovsky\, and Gunthe r Schuller.\n\nThe Quartet has collaborated with some of this generation ’s most important composers\, including Gunther Schuller\, John Cage\, G yörgy Ligeti\, Steve Reich\, Aaron Jay Kernis\, Osvaldo Golijov\, Jennife r Higdon\, Steve Mackey\, John Harbison\, Sebastian Currier\, and Leon Kir chner\, among many others\; and has performed on major concert stages acro ss the globe\, including appearances at Carnegie Hall\, the Berlin Philhar monie\, Wigmore Hall\, Suntory Hall (Tokyo)\, the Concertgebouw\, Seoul Ar ts Center\, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center\, the Incontri in Terra di Siena Chamber Music Festival in Tuscany\, Kammermusik Basel (Switzerland)\, the Prague Spring Festival\, and the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt.\n\nThe gro up recently premiered new works written for it by Sebastian Currier and Aa ron Jay Kernis at recitals at Carnegie Hall\, Shriver Concerts\, and the T ippet Rise Art Center. The ensemble continues to perform violinist Nichola s Kitchen's transcriptions of Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the Well-Te mpered Clavier Bk. I\, the latter of which the BSQ recently released as an acclaimed premiere recording which hit the billboard charts.\n\n“Nothin g less than masterful” (Cleveland.com)\, the Borromeo Quartet has receiv ed numerous awards throughout its illustrious career\, including Lincoln C enter’s Avery Fisher Career Grant and Martin E. Segal Award\, and Chambe r Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award. It was also a recipient of th e Young Concert Artists International Auditions and a prize-winner at the International String Quartet Competition in Evian\, France.\n\nhttps://www .borromeoquartet.org\n\nBorromeo String Quartet is represented by Dinin Ar ts Management &\; Consulting https://www.dininarts.com/\n\n\n\nChamber Music at the Clark\nProfessor Rogers Brubaker\, Artistic Director\n\nChamb er Music at the Clark will be celebrating its 30th anniversary season in 2 024–25. Thanks to the generous support of Friends of the Clark\, the ser ies has presented over 175 concerts\, featuring some of the world’s fine st chamber ensembles\, in its uniquely intimate drawing room venue with it s superb acoustics. The anniversary season will feature two special tribut es. The November 17\, 2024 concert will honor the late Peter Hanns Reill\, who served for nearly two decades as Center and Clark Director\, and who founded the series in 1994. The April 27\, 2025 concert will honor Bruce W hiteman\, who served as Head Librarian of the Clark from 1996 until 2010\, and who has written our wonderful program notes for a quarter of a centur y. We hope you will be able to join us for another splendid season of musi c-making.\n\nChamber Music at the Clark is made possible by The Ahmanson F oundation\, under the auspices of Lee Walcott\; Henry J. Bruman Endowment for Chamber Music\; The Colburn Foundation\; Ms. Brenda Anderson\; Mrs. Ma rtha R. Bardach\; Catherine Glynn Benkaim\, Ph.D. and Barbara Timmer\; Dr. Rogers Brubaker\; Dr. Johanna R. Drucker\; Dr. Susan S. Harris and Mr. Ma rk J. Harris\; Ms. Judy L. Hellinger\; Dr. David E. Lopez\; Drs. Martin an d Susan Mach\; Mr. Bernie and Ms. Elaine Mendes\; Mrs. Janet K. Minami\; M r. Jeffrey L. Nagin and Mrs. Bette I. Nagin\; Dr. Theodore M. Porter\; Dr. Jeanne Robson\; Dr. Thomas Rosenthal and Ms. Susan M. Rosenthal\; Ms. Car ol E. Sandberg\; Charles H. and Carol “Jackie” Schwartz\; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund\; Professor Bronwen Wi lson\; and Roberta and Robert Young.\n\nPlease see here for more informati on about our chamber music programs.\n\n\n\nPhotograph credit: Jürgen Fr ank\, courtesy of Borromeo String Quartet CATEGORIES:Music LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States GEO:34.033012;-118.314487 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UC LA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:geo:34.033012,-118.314487 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR