Borromeo String Quartet Returns to Gardner Museum, Tours Virginia, and Heads West

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.