Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle
Balourdet Quartet
June 22
Making their Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle (HVCMC) debut, the prize-winning Balourdet Quartet, most recently the recipient of a 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant and Chamber Music America’s 2024 Cleveland Quartet Award, will perform works from the chamber music canon by Mozart and Beethoven, along with Karim Al-Zand’s Strange Machines, a work they commissioned with a Chamber Music America grant in 2022 and premiered in London’s Wigmore Hall during the 2022–23 season.
Program
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart
String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421
Karim Al-Zand
Strange Machines, String Quartet No. 4 (CMA Commission 2022)
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1, “Razumovsky”
Artists
Balourdet Quartet
Angela Bae violin
Justin DeFilippis violin
Benjamin Zannoni viola
Russell Houston cello
The celebrated Balourdet Quartet produces 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 over 70 concerts per season, recent highlights include the Balourdet’s debuts at Carnegie and Wigmore Halls and new string quartets by composers Karim Al-Zand and Paul Novak through grants from Chamber Music America (2021) and the Barlow Foundation (2023). They are currently the Graduate Quartet in Residence at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and are recent graduates of the New England Conservatory’s Professional String Quartet Program.
The Balourdet journey began in 2018 in New Mexico at the Taos School of Music, where violinists Justin DeFilippis, Angela Bae, and cellist Russell Houston bonded over evenings of chamber music, Peppermint Schnapps, and meals created by chef extraordinaire Antoine Balourdet. It was the friendships, a shared passion for music and food, and gratitude for the role the festival played in the formation of the quartet that inspired the members to name the ensemble in Chef Balourdet’s honor. Soon thereafter, Justin, Angela, and Russell joined with violist Benjamin Zannoni at Rice University, and the Balourdet Quartet was formed.
Plan Your Visit
Eat & Stay
Nearby villages and towns in the Hudson Valley boast a large selection of restaurants, as well as a variety of hotels, motels, inns, and bed & breakfasts.
Eat & StayDirections
Bard College’s main campus is located in Annandale-on-Hudson (a hamlet of Red Hook), New York, on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 90 miles north of New York City and 220 miles southwest of Boston. The Taconic State Parkway and the New York State Thruway provide the most direct routes to our campus. Click the Google map below, or get directions by entering the following address into your GPS: 35 Henderson Circle Drive, Red Hook, NY 12571.
From the East
If you are traveling from east of the Hudson River in New York State, take the Taconic State Parkway to the Red Hook / Route 199 exit, drive west on Route 199 through the village of Red Hook to Route 9G, turn right onto Route 9G, drive north 1.7 miles, turn left onto Entrance Road, then turn left onto Campus Road.
From the West
If you are traveling from west of the Hudson River, take the New York State Thruway (I-87) to exit 19 (Kingston), take Route 209 (changes to Route 199 at the Hudson River) over the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge to Route 9G, turn left onto Route 9G, drive north 3.3 miles, turn left onto Entrance Road, then turn left onto Campus Road.
About the Venue
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