Balourdet Quartet
Winner, 2021 Concert Artists Guild Competition

Performing in Mount Kisco on April 6, 2024 at 3:00pm (doors open at 2:30pm)

Buy tickets ($40, including reception) at: https://mkcamusic.org/introductory-special/

The BALOURDET QUARTET will perform their program “Radiant Heights”:

No deeper music could be written by a 29-year-old facing his own premature mortality, yet it is the goose-bump inducing, magical charm of Schubert’s effortless melodies in his final quartet that captivate us through a signature work of aptly-named Heavenly Length. The program opens with Haydn’s signature humor and tone painting in “The Bird,” and the modern-day Hungarian bard Kurtág ponders the cycle of life in tribute to musicians meaningful to him, none more so than Schubert in the genre of “Six Moments Musicaux.”

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3 “The Bird” (1781) 18’

György Kurtág (b. 1926)
Six Moments Musicaux, Op. 44 (2005) 15’

-Intermission-

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887 (1826) 50’

Concert location: Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco, 605 Millwood Road, Mount Kisco, NY