Borromeo String Quartet

The visionary interpretations of the Borromeo String Quartet have made it one of the most sought-after string quartets in the world. Lauded for its absolute mastery of the complete Beethoven and Bartók quartet cycles, the ensemble is currently focused on the work of Dmitri Shostakovich. The Borromeo Quartet’s long-standing and celebrated residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been called “one of the defining experiences of civilization in Boston” (Boston Globe); and its ongoing concert series at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York has been hailed as “one of New York’s best kept secrets” (New York Sun). In April 2007, the Borromeo Quartet received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. Members Nicholas Kitchen (violin), Kristopher Tong (violin), Mai Motobuchi (viola), and Yeesun Kim (cello) are the faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the New England Conservatory of Music as well as at Dai-Ichi Seimei Hall in Tokyo, and will return this summer for a fourth season in residence at the famed Taos School of Music in New Mexico.