The Galvin Cello Quartet has wrapped a full spring run of their "Voice of the Piano" program, bringing cello quartet arrangements of Mussorgsky, Schumann, Gershwin, and more to venues including the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Ashe County Arts Council's Ed Perzel Chamber Music Series in West Jefferson, the Enchanted Mountains series in St. Bonaventure, NY, the Greater Miami Youth Symphony's Miami Cello Institute, the Telluride Chamber Music Association, and Chamber Music in Yellow Springs. Looking ahead to summer, the Quartet will take up residencies at the Ascent International Cello Festival in mid-June, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival later that month, followed by Texas Cellos in August. Additional engagements throughout the summer include concerts with Princeton University on June 22, Austin Chamber Music Center on July 25, the Abbey Bach Festival on July 31, and Classical Music Chicago on August 18.

The Borromeo String Quartet had a packed March and April, opening with a sold-out appearance at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 15 before heading to Virginia for back-to-back concerts at the Feldman Chamber Music Society in Norfolk on March 16 — joined by Feldman artist-in-residence Alex Beyer — and the Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg on March 17. The Quartet returned to the Feldman on April 13 for the society's season finale, this time for a special octet program of Shostakovich, Enescu, and Mendelssohn at the Chrysler Museum of Art, co-presented with the Virginia Arts Festival; the same octet collaboration then traveled west for a performance at Southern Oregon University's Music Recital Hall in Ashland on April 18, presented by Chamber Music Concerts, followed by a performance in Brookings with the Partnership for the Performing Arts.

Cellist Tommy Mesa performs Wynton Marsalis' newly commissioned cello concerto on March 10 at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, alongside Interlochen Arts Academy students and members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under conductor Cristian Măcelaru. The concerto received its world premiere on March 7 at Interlochen with Yo-Yo Ma as soloist, with Mesa taking the baton for the Detroit leg of the "Imagine US: Celebrating America at 250" tour. This program marking both the U.S. semiquincentennial and a century of partnership between Interlochen and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.