Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle
Balourdet Quartet
June 1
Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle
June 1
Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle (HVCMC) celebrates its 75th anniversary season and launches its signature June Concert Series with the award-winning Balourdet Quartet. Returning for the second consecutive year following its highly acclaimed HVCMC debut, the Balourdet will perform well-loved chamber music classics by Haydn and Smetana, alongside new works by Paul Novak and Nicky Sohn.
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 64, No. 5, “The Lark” (1790)
Paul Novak
impossible inventions (2024) Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment in Music Composition at Brigham Young University
Nicky Sohn
Galaxy Back to You (2024)
Bedřich Smetana
String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, Z mého života (From My Life) (1876)
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Eat & StayBard 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.
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