Borromeo String Quartet : Acclaim

Marathon performance of Bartok's string quartets

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500

"Though not the first Bartok marathon in my experience, it was the most intense, performed at a high standard that brought you so deeply into the music's inner workings that you wondered if your brain could take it all in ... The music's mystery, violence, and sorrow become absolutely inescapable." -- David Patrick Stearns | November 13, 2012, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Borromeo speaks of the leap music can make with the help of technology

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0400

"The quintessential American quartet, the Borromeo, transforms its concerts into events both audible and visual." -- BY JOAO MARCOS COELHO | September 12, 2012, ESTADAO

Borromeo Quartet conclude their Traversal of the Beethoven Quartets

Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0400

"There really is something different about the Borromeo’s ensemble. They are always cohesive and focused as a group, but there is a remarkable freedom in their musical interaction... This was in fact the first time I have heard a really successful traversal of the three last quartets, either in the concert hall or on a recording." -- By Michael Miller | June 16, 2012, THE BERKSHIRE REVIEW

Bytes and Beethoven

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0500

"The digital tide washing over society is lapping at the shores of classical music. The Borromeo players have embraced it in their daily musical lives like no other major chamber music group." -- Dan Wakin | January 14, 2011, NEW YORK TIMES

Build a 'Living Archive' to Map a Group's Evolution

Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

"The Borromeos use recordings to reveal their progress and deep musical knowledge to audiences." -- By Rory Williams | May 12, 2012, STRINGS magazine

Borromeo Quartet sensational, educational

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

"The four movements of Schubert's quartet had everything a listener could want: drama, intensity, passion, delicacy, exceptional lyricism and interesting lines. The Borromeo played with a controlled abandon that was not only immaculate but left the audience wanting more." -- Geraldine Freedman | April 30, 2012, BERKSHIRE DAILY GAZETTE

Borromeo Quartet completes traversal of Beethoven's String Quartets

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

"A sense of existential struggle is written into this howling, premonitory music, and the Borromeo dramatized that element, pushing instruments and techniques to their outermost limits."

-- BY Jeremy Eichler | April 18, 2012, BOSTON GLOBE

Borromeo String Quartet: Plugged-in Mendelssohn

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400

"Technology has changed the scope of our world. New advances are catapulting us forward, yet the Borromeo String Quartet is using this race into the future to take us closer to our past."

-- BY Trista Bernstein | March 23, 2012, SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE

Beethoven on Parade

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0400

"It was an utterly gripping performance, from the hushed but frenetic viola entrance, through the long crescendo, to the triumphant fortissimo." -- By Steve Osborn | March 12, 2012, CLASSICAL SONOMA

NEC students match energies with Borromeo Quartet

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

"To play alongside the Borromeo String Quartet is to risk seeming bland. Violinists Nicholas Kitchen and Kristopher Tong, violist Mai Motobuchi, and cellist Yeesun Kim purvey musical fervor, extremes both fierce and intimate." -- By Matthew Guerrieri | February 28, 2012, BOSTON GLOBE

Online Music Scores Cause Copyright Controversy

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

"The Borromeo String Quartet has gone digital." -- By Sarah Freeman | FEBRUARY 24, 2012, INFORMATION IN SOCIAL CONTEXT

Turning Heads Without Turning Pages

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500

"Schubert's scratchy handwriting and notational shortcuts made reading the notes from the balcony difficult, but seeing the original creation onstage was oddly moving." -- By Madeline Zehnder | February 1, 2012, THE SOPHIAN

Computers and the Classics

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

“When we all play from the entire score, rather than from copies of our individual parts, it completely changes the nature of the conversation.” -- By Jason Victor Serinus | Jan 1, 2012, PREVIEW MASSACHUSETTS

As it Was, Is, and Will Be

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500

"The Boston-based Borromeo String Quartet are a fearless ensemble who appear to savour every sonic and and atmospheric challenge."

-- By Donald Rosenberg | Jan 1, 2012, GRAMOPHONE magazine

Musical Coral Reef: Borromeo Quartet

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500

"All the members played with blazing conviction, giving every phrase a direction, shape, and sense of purpose that swept you through the contrapuntal complexities. And they captured the astonishing range of moods and emotions in the work, from gemütlich Viennese charm to anger, tenderness and more." -- BY James C.S. Liu | NOV 29, 2011, BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER

Rock-Solid Borromeo in Rockport

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0400

"Speaking of multifaceted aesthetic triumphs, the Borromeo String Quartet is at the top of its game." -- By Michael Rocha | July 17, 2011, BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER

Quartet to Present a Sonic Collage

Sat, 07 May 2011 00:00:00 -0400

"Mr. Kitchen, who is also a founder of the Borromeo String Quartet, is hardly stuck in the technological past. He shows abiding respect for those whose innovations in electronics have furthered the musical arts." -- By Phillip Lutz | May 7, 2011, NEW YORK TIMES

The Borromeo perform at Virginia Commonwealth

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0500

"The Borromeo String Quartet is the rock star of chamber music at present."

-- By Clarke Bustard | Feb 13, 2011, LETTER V: Virginia Classical Music

Borromeo gets back to Beethoven

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0400

"The Borromeo's playing was restless and insistent, from the piece's edgy opening to the coda, played with a thrilling sense of abandon." -- By David Weininger | Sept 28, 2010, BOSTON GLOBE

Summerfest: Masterworks and Premieres

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400

"The Borromeo has always impressed with their uncanny sense of cohesion and unity; as a great pianist plays a solo work with complete control and purpose, so too do the members of the Borromeo Quartet subsume their personalities into a marvelous gestalt which brings to life the notes of composers." -- By Christian Hertzog | Aug 12, 2010, SAN DIEGO.COM

Borromeo brings vibrancy to SummerFest

Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400

"It's hard to think of Haydn as a composer of "new music." But the Borromeo String Quartet found a way to make the 1797 String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 76, seem as if the ink were still dry on the page. Or, in the case of the Borromeo, still flickering on its laptops." -- By James Chute | Aug 8, 2010, SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE

Borromeo Quartet opens Taos School of Music season

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

"One of the Borromeo's trademarks is their unusual use of contemporary technology to enhance the musical experience ... each quartet member also reads the full score of music they play from a Macintosh MacBook Pro during live performances." -- By Ariana Kramer | June 20, 2010, THE TAOS NEWS

Quartet brings new technology to the music stand at Rockport Music Festival

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400

"Chamber music hasn’t changed for generations. Think that’s true? Examine what the Borromeo String Quartet is doing, and think again." -- By Keith Powers | June 11, 2010, CAPE ANN BEACON

Ideal Victorian Gothic Setting for Borromeo at its Best

Mon, 24 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400

"When the Borromeo String Quartet is playing at its best, as it was in the Forsyth Chapel at Forest Hill Cemetery on Sunday, May 23, it is hubris to pen a critique of their performance." -- Lee Eiseman, BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER

Borromeo packs a real wallop

Mon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400

"It was a feast of lush sound and vivid playing." -- By Joseph Dalton | May 17, 2010, TIMES UNION

Computers help quartet find music, turn pages on stage

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 -0400

"For the celebrated Borromeo String Quartet, the future is now." -- BY GERALDINE FREEDMAN | MAY 13, 2010, THE DAILY GAZETTE

Peter Toth and the Borromeo Quartet give Carmel a majestic weekend of music

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

"In addition to becoming one of the most renowned chamber groups in the world, Borromeo started incorporating a new technology into its concerts that may end up changing the entire classical music world..." -- Adam Joseph, MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY

The Borromeo and Emerson String Quartets

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

"These extraordinary musicians live inside the music they play." -- BY LLOYD SCHWARTZ | DEC 9, 2009, BOSTON PHOENIX

The Borromeo String Quartet at Jordan Hall

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

"The Borromeo String Quartet hardly need the press, but it was awfully nice to be able to catch them in concert. As expected, they brought an element of transcendence to what was, at least from this particular vantage point, a crazy weekend." -- LUCID CULTURE

Borromeo Champions "Old" and New Masters

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500

"The Borromeo’s performance was what most composers can usually only dream of: clean, passionate, exquisite." -- By Vance R. Koven | Dec 1, 2009, BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER