Music

Play along Bach with Borromeo String Quartet is a special education concert featuring participating musicians in the Beare’s Premiere Music Festival 2020. The Well-Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach is a set of pieces that have inspired more great composers than perhaps any other music. Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Bartok all studied these pieces every day because they combine incredible musical spirit with the deepest knowledge of how to combine pitches together.
The Borromeo String Quartet plays all of the Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach in arrangements made for string quartet by first violinist Nicholas Kitchen. In this special program, the Borromeo will perform and explain some of the remarkable features of these pieces. They will also project the music scores onto a big screen and will invite performers in the audience to join them in playing and studying these pieces together. The magic of making the spirit of the music come alive all together will allow everyone to enter this elaborate and inspiring music world of Bach.
The Borromeo Quartet is the quartet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music and the winner of numerous international awards and competitions including the Avery Fisher Career Grant (New York) and first place at the International String Quartet Competition (Evian, France). Recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Borromeo continues to be a pioneer in its use of technology, and has the trailblazing distinction of being the first string quartet to utilize laptop computers on the concert stage.