Upcoming Performances
JDR Summer Strings Academy (Dallas, TX) (Copy)
The Balourdet return to the JDR Summer Strings Academy for another exciting summer teaching with a focus on chamber ensembles, daily performances, master classes, and scale classes!
Brevard Music Center (Brevard, NC)
Amy Beach String Quartet in One Movement, Op. 89 (1921-29)
Eleanor Alberga String Quartet No. 2 (1994)
Nicky Sohn Galaxy Back to You (2024)
Johannes Brahms String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67 (1875)
Berkshire Summer Music: Guest Recital and Teaching (West Stockbridge, MA)
In another exciting visit to Berkshire Summer Music the Balourdet will work closely with the student body on building chamber music skills and give a private recital!
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major, M. 35 (1903)
Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in g minor, Op. 25 (1956-61) with Noah Krauss
Music Mountain with Misha Dichter (Falls Village, CT)
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major, M. 35 (1903)
Nicky Sohn Galaxy Back to You (2024)
Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in g minor, Op. 25 (1956-61)
Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival Residency (Burlington, VT)
The Balourdet return for one of their summer favorites as Guests Artists at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. To kick off the first week of the festival they will coach chamber groups and give classes on enhancing the students chamber music skills and passion for music!
Vermont Public Radio (Burlington, VT)
Live on air at the Vermont Public Radio with host Walter Parker!
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major, M. 35 (1903)
Rockport Chamber Music Festival with the Terra Quartet and Barry Shiffman (Rockport, MA)
The Balourdet Quartet and Terra String Quartet join forces with Artistic Director Barry Shiffman on viola for an expansive program featuring works by Borodin and Ravel, Shostakovich’s Octet, and the U.S. premiere of a work by Osvaldo Golijov. This collaboration brings together prizewinning ensembles for an evening of intensity, imagination, and bold collective artistry.
Alexander Borodin String Quartet No. 2 played by the Terra Quartet
Osvaldo Golijov Tintype (2024) with Barry Shiffman
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major, M. 35 (1903)
Dmitri Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11 (1924-25)
Rockport Chamber Music Festival: On the Town (Rockport, MA)
Join us for a free, day-long celebration of live music, pop-up performances, and contemporary circus across Rockport.
12pm Circus 617 Mixtape featuring the Balourdet Quartet and Miles Wilder
Toronto Summer Music (Toronto, ON)
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 11 in f minor, Op. 95 (1810)
Nicky Sohn Galaxy Back to You (2024) Canadian Premier
Johannes Brahms String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67 (1875)
Millbrook Music Salon- “Compass: Musical Distance” with Graeme Steele Johnson (Millbrook, NY)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Tema con variazioni from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 [arr. Graeme Steele Johnson]
Darius Milhaud Selections from Saudades do Brasil [arr. Graeme Steele Johnson]
Viet Cuong Compass for Clarinet and String Quartet (2025) with Graeme Steele Johnson
Johannes Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 (1891) with Graeme Steele Johnson
Classics Northwest: From a Summer in Florence (Spokane, WA)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky String Sextet in d minor Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 (1892) with Nick Carper, viola, and Zuill Bailey, cello
Classics Northwest: Lyrical Romance (Spokane, WA)
Johannes Brahms String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18 (1860) with Nick Carper, viola, and Zuill Bailey, cello
Cecilia Concerts: heartSTRINGS! with Bryan Cheng (Halifax, NS)
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major, M. 35 (1903)
Franz Schubert String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 (1828) with Bryan Cheng
Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival: Song of the Earth (Houston, TX)
Gustav Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (1908 and arr. Arnold Schoenberg/Rainer Riehn)
Onstage Offstage Chamber Music Festival: Balourdet and Windsync (Houston, TX)
Osvaldo Golijov Tenebrae, arr. WindSync
Viet Cuong Compass for Clarinet and String Quartet (2025) with Graeme Steele Johnson
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major, M. 35 (1903)
Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle: Music Beyond Boarders (Durham, NC)
Celebrate the end of The COT’s 2025-26 Season and the universality of music with Music Beyond Borders. Bedrich Smetana brings one of Shakespeare’s greatest tyrants to life with dark intensity in his dramatic symphonic poem Richard III. Brazilian composer Clarice Assad’s Sin Fronteras (“Without Borders”) offers a rhythm-infused fusion of global musical traditions, blurring the lines between classical, jazz, and folk. And what better way to close out the season than with one of the greatest concertos of all time?! Written during his visit to the United States, Antonin Dvorak’s Cello Concerto is a masterpiece of deep emotion that marries a longing for the composer’s Bohemian home with the expansive spirit of the New World.
B. Smetana - Richard III
C. Assad - Sin Fronteras
A. Dvořák - Cello Concerto
Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle: UpClose with Julius Adams and Claire Park (Chapel Hill, NC)
Franz Schubert Quartettsatz, D. 703 (1820)
Steve Reich Different Trains (1988)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky String Sextet in d minor Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 (1892) with Julius Adams and Claire Park
SCMS: Strange Machines- Music of Imagination and Wonder (Seattle, WA)
For this lecture, the Balourdet Quartet will be featuring a new piece which inventively draws on 300 years of music, Strange Machines by renowned Canadian-American composer Karim Al-Zand. Through double-entendre and visual imagery of fantastical music machines, Al-Zand creates a witty and even humorous tribute to Bach, Mozart, and the dawn of the symphony. This event also serves as a teaser for the Balourdet Quartet’s upcoming studio album featuring Strange Machines.”
Karim Al-Zand String Quartet No. 4 “Strange Machines” (Chamber Music America Commission 2022)
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Friends of Chamber Music of Miami (Coral Gables, FL) with Asiya Korepanova
Experience the intensity of Shostakovich’s deeply personal Piano Quintet alongside the exuberant lyricism of Dvořák’s Quintet in A major, Op. 81!
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 (1940) with Asiya Korepanova
Antonín Dvořák Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 (1887) with Asiya Korepanova
RiverMead (Peterborough, NH)
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major, M. 35 (1903)
Johannes Brahms String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67 (1875)
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Eureka Chamber Music Series: Concert and Conversation (Arcata, CA)
Join us for a deeper look into the dazzling third quartet by Johannes Brahms!
Johannes Brahms String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67 (1875)
Eureka Chamber music Series: Mainstage Concert (Eureka, CA)
Franz Schubert Quartettsatz, D. 703 (1820)
Paul Novak impossible inventions (Barlow Endowment Commission 2023)
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3 (1798)
Felix Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 87 (1845) with Tom Stone
Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival (Burlington, VT) (Copy)
The inaugural concert of the 2026 Artist Faculty Series will feature a pre-concert talk with the Balourdet Quartet at 6:45 PM!
Amy Beach String Quartet in One Movement, Op. 89 (1921-29)
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F Major, M. 35 (1903)
Johannes Brahms String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67 (1875)