The BSQ performs with winners of the 2025-26 BSQ Guest Artist Award. The GAA provides students of the New England Conservatory the opportunity to perform with the Borromeo String Quartet in Jordan Hall. Awarded annually, students are chosen through a three-day audition process which includes solo playing and chamber music reading with the BSQ. Established in 2001, there have been over 80 winners to date in performances spanning more than 20 years.

Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No.2
Britten: String Quartet No. 2
Dvorak: String Quartet in A-flat Major

JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)
String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2, Hob. III:32
I. Moderato
II. Capriccio. Adagio — Cantabile
III. Menuetto. Allegretto — Trio
IV. Fuga a quattro soggetti. Allegro

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904)
String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major, Op. 105
I. Adagio ma non troppo — Allegro appassionato
II. Molto vivace
III. Lento e molto cantabile
IV. Allegro non tanto

Sanlıkol The Demons and Humans of Siyah-Kalem

Kernis String Quartet No. 4 'Oasis' (2018)

Beethoven String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130

Igor Stravinsky Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914, rev. 1918)

J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue No. 4 in C-sharp minor, BWV 849, arr. Nicholas Kitchen (1722)

Dmitri Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major, arr. Nicholas Kitchen (1950–51)

Caroline Shaw Entr’acte (2011)

Vijay Iyer Dig the Say (2012)

Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D. 810 “Death and the Maiden” (1824)

The BSQ and Verona Quartets join forces to perform three masterworks of the string literature.

Dmitri Shostakovich ‐ Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11

George Enescu ‐ String Octet in C Major, Op. 7

Felix Mendelssohn ‐ String Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20

The BSQ and Verona Quartets join forces to perform three masterworks of the string literature.

Dmitri Shostakovich ‐ Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11

George Enescu ‐ String Octet in C Major, Op. 7

Felix Mendelssohn ‐ String Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20

The BSQ and Verona Quartets join forces to perform three masterworks of the string literature.

Dmitri Shostakovich ‐ Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11

George Enescu ‐ String Octet in C Major, Op. 7

Felix Mendelssohn ‐ String Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20

J.S. BACH, arr. N. KITCHEN Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 849

SHOSTAKOVICH, arr. N. KITCHEN Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major, Op. 87

STRAVINSKY Three Pieces for String Quartet

CAROLINE SHAW Entr’acte

VIJAY IYER Dig the Say

SCHUMANN Piano Quintet, op. 44