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The Balourdet String Quartet Live Performance

Concerts International concludes their fifty-first chamber music season on Tuesday, April 2 in Harris Concert Hall with 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner The Balourdet String Quartet.

Darel Snodgrass talks with all four members of the quartet about their program, featuring two giant works of the string quartet repertoire, how they formed, and the charming story of their name.

Balourdet Quartet Memphis Concert 4/2/2024 in Harris Concert Hall at the University of Memphis campus. Presented by Concerts International (cimemphis.org)

I began piano lessons at age 6, trumpet at age 9, and began teaching myself the guitar at 10. My electronics knowledge comes from my father, who had the RCA television and stereo shop in my hometown of Pocahontas, Arkansas for nearly 20 years. My dad is still fixing televisions at age 79.