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Interested in finding out some of the repertoire we've played? Here's a list of everything we've done over the past several years, with the most recent first:

Spring Concert: Nicholas Music Center, May 16, 2025

OUR CITY, OUR PEOPLE, OUR MUSIC

  • Aaron Copland, “Appalachian Spring”

  • Eric Watson, “Dialogue for Tabla and Orchestra”

  • Robert Langenfeld, “Under the Night Sky in the Philippines” (Premire)

  • Arturo Marquez, “Danzon No. 2”

Spring March 2, March 23, April 27, 2025

“GROOVE” (with the Voyager Reed Quintet)

  • Philip Glass

  • Geroge Gershwin

  • Leonard Bernstein

  • Jean-Phillip Ramea

Winter Concert: Nicholas Music Center, December 13, 2024

“A VERY MERRY BRUNSWICK”

  • Leroy Anderson, “A Christmas Festival”

  • Antonio Vivaldi, Traditional “Winter Miracle”

  • Traditional “Christmas Concertante”

  • Leroy Anderson, “Buglers Holiday”

  • Alan Silverstri/Glen Ballard, “The Polar Express”

  • Robert Cohen “Sleep, Little Baby, Sleep”

  • Douglas Meyer, “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”

  • George Frideric Handel, “Hallelujah Chorus form the Messiah”

  • Leroy Anderson, “Sleigh Ride”

    Fall Salon, October 5, October 19 October 23, November 17, 2024

“SALON: THIS IS AMERICA”

  • Philip Glass, “Quartet Satz”

  • Jorge Tabarés, (World Premier) “Divertmento”

  • Rhiannon Giddens, “Ath the Purchaser’s Option”

  • Florence Price, “Five Folk Songs in Counterpoint”

Spring Concert: Nicholas Music Center May 17, 2024

“NBCO IN BLUE”

  • Chick Corea, “Spain”

  • Mary Lou Williams, “Zodiac Suite Selections”

  • Duke Ellington, “Take the A Train”

    • The Jerry Weldon Sextet

  • Geroge Gershwin, “Rhapsody in Blue”

  • Paul Barbarin, “Bourbon Street Parade”

    Spring Salon, April 20, May 1, May 11, 2024

“SALON AMERICANA”

  • Antonin Dvorak, “Allegro ma non troppo”

  • Jennifer Higdon, “Sky Quartet: Blue Sky”

  • Jessie Montogomery, “Strum”

  • George Gershwin, “Lullaby”

  • William Grant Still, “Lyric Quartet: The Sentimental One”

  • Duke Ellington, “Take the A Trainl”

Holiday Concert: Nicholas Music Center

“HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS”

  • Leroy Anderson, “A Christmas Festival”

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams, “Fantasia on Greensleeves”

  • Julius Chajes, “Hanukkah Song”

  • Martin Sedek, “Love is Enough”

  • Morton Lauridsen, “O Magnum Mysterium”

  • George Frideric Handel, “Hallelujah Chorus” from Messiah

  • Leroy Anderson, “Sleigh Ride”


Fall Salon November 1, November 15, November 19, 2023

“HAUNTED DANCE”

  • Camille Saint-Saëns, “Danse Macabre”

  • Joseph Haydn, “Witches’ Minuet”

  • Dmitri Shostakovich, “String Quartet #8”

  • George Cohen, “Restless Moon”

  • William Bolcom, “Ghost Rags”

  • Astor Piazzolla, “Death of an Angel”


Spring Salon February 5, February 11 and 25, 2023

“THE CLARINET: Then and Now”

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581, 4. Allegretto con variazioni”

  • Max Reger, “Clarinet Quintet in A Major: Vivace”

  • John Corigliano, “Soliloquy”

  • Samuel Livingston, “Quiet Summer Night”

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, “Quinte: Larghetto”

  • Paul Hindemith, “Clarinet Quintet: Schneller Ländler”

Fall Salon October 9, 16, and 29, 2022

  • Sergei Rachmaninoff, “String Quartet No. 2”

  • John Cage, “String Quartet No. 4 parts”

  • Leos Janacek, “String Quartet No. 2”

  • Maurice Ravel, “String Quartet”

  • Johannes Brahms, “String Quartet No. 1”


Spring Salon April 24, 2022

“RESISTANCE”

  • Mykola Lysenko, “String Quartet No. 1”

  • Kurt Weill, “Wie Lange Noch”

  • Viktor Ullmann, “String Quartet No. 3”

  • Frederic Chopin, “Etude Op. 10, No. 12”

  • Mikos Theodorakis, String Quartet No. 2”

  • Francis Poulenc, “Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon”

  • Valentin Silvestrov, “Prayer for Ukraine”

    NBCO Video Project February 2022

    “SUBVERSIVES”

  • Charles Ives, “String Quartet No. 1”

  • Ethel Smyth, “String Quartet in E minor”

  • Igor Stravinsky, “3 Pieces for String Quartet”

  • Ignatius Sachno, from “12 Country Dances”

  • George Antheil, “String Quartet No. 2”

  • Dmitri Shostakovich, “String Quartet No. 2 (“For Sylvia Beach”)”


    NBCO Video Project January 2021

    “CREDO”

  • Mohammed Fairouz, “String Quartet ‘The Named Angels’”

  • Maurice Ravel, “String Quartet in F Major”

  • Kevin Puts, “String Quartet No. 1: ‘Credo’”

  • Libby Larsen, “String Quartet No. 2, ‘Emergence’”

  • William Bolcom, “Three Ghost Rags”

    Living Roon Salons - March 2020–September 2021
    ”Music in the time of COVID”

    Winter Salon January 19–25, 2020
    ”EXTENDED TECHNIQUES”

  • Andrew Norman, “Peculiar Strokes”

  • Johannes Brahms, “String Quartet No. 1: III Allegretto molto moderato”

  • Lou Harrison, “String Quartet Set: III. Estampie”

  • Bela Bartok, “String Quartet No. 4: IV. Allegretto pizzicato”

  • Morton Feldman, “Structures”

  • Benjamin Britten, “Cello Suite”

    Fall Salon November 9-16, 2019

    “MYTHOS”

  • Alfred Hill, “String Quartet No. 2, A Maori Legend in Four Scenes: 1. The Forest”

  • Mauricio Kagel, “Pan”

  • Terry Riley, “The Wheel and Mythic Birds Waltz”

  • Aaron Copland, “As it Fell Upon a Day”

  • Molly Herron, “Moon Shift" (World Premiere)

  • Stacy Garrop, “Athena Triumphant”

    Concert June 2, 2019

  • FRAGMENTS

  • Elena Kats-Chernin, “Zoom and Zip”

  • Thea Musgrave, “Green"

  • Caroline Shaw, “Entr’acte"

  • Benjamin Britten, “Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge”

    Spring Salon | March 30–31, 2019
    "HOMAGE"

  • Timo Andres, “Thrive on Routine”

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “String Quartet No. 14 (“Spring”)”

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky, “String Quartet No. 4: Suite”

  • William Bolcom, “Three Rags for String Quartet"

  • Leoš Janáček, “String Quartet No. 2: Intimate Letters”

    Concert February 9–10, 2019

  • TRANSCENDENCE

  • John Tavener, “Mahashakti”

  • Henryk Górecki, “Harpsichord Concerto, Op. 40”

  • Arvo Pärt, “Tabula Rasa”

    Winter Salon January 27, 2019
    "AFTER CLARA II"

  • Jennifer Higdon, “Impressions - I. Bright Palette”

  • Clara Schumann, Selected lieder

  • Germaine Tailleferre, “String Quartet”

  • Ethyl Smith, ”String Quartet in E minor: I. Allegretto lirico”

  • Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Selected songs

  • Libby Larsen, “Emergence: II. Reactive”

    Fall Salon | October 7, 2018

    “IMPRESSIONS”

  • Claude Debussy, “String Quartet in G minor: II. Assez vif et bien rythmé"

  • John Luther Adams, “Wind in High Places: I. Above Sunset Pass”

  • Charles Griffes, “Two Sketches on Native American Themes”

  • Jennifer Higdon, “Impressions: III. To the Point”

  • Missy Mazzoli, “Death Valley Junction”

  • Maurice Ravel, "String Quartet in F Major: II. Assez vif

    Concert May 20, 2018

    TAKE FLIGHT

  • Christopher Cerrone, “High Windows”

  • Howard Hanson, “Serenade”

  • Mason Bates, "Icarian Rhapsody"

  • Shruthi Rajesekar, “Son of Pandu”

  • Bela Bartok, “Divertimento”

    Spring Salon | April 22, 2018  
    "ANGELS & DEMONS"

  • Franz Schubert, "String Quartet No. 14: Death and the Maiden"

  • Aaron Jay Kernis, “Musica Celestis”

  • Stacy Garrop, "String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels"

  • Mohammed Fairouz, “The Named Angels”

  • Jessie Montgomery, “Voodoo Dolls"

    Winer Salon | January 21, 2018  
    WANDERLUST

  • Antonin Dvorak, “String Quartet No. 12: American"

  • David Lang, “Ark Luggage"

  • Gabriela Lena Frank, "Leyendas, An Andean Walkabout” 

  • Alexander Glazunov, “Five Novelletten”

  • John Adams, "Fellow Traveler"

    Fall Salon | November 19, 2017

    “BAD ATTITUDE”

  • Stacy Garrop, “String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels”

  • George Antheil, “String Quartet No. 2: For Sylvia Beach”

  • Ludwig van Beethoven. “String Quartet No. 11: Serioso”

  • Dmitri Shostakovich, “String Quartet No. 10”

  • Libby Larsen, “String Quartet No. 4: Emergence”

     Fall Salon | October 1, 2017
    "AFTER CLARA"

  • Fanny Mendelssohn, “String Quartet in E-flat”

  • Amy Beach, “Quartet for Strings”

  • Jennifer Higdon, “Sky Quartet”

  • Caroline Shaw, “Limestone and Felt"

  • Libby Larsen, “String Quartet No. 4: Emergence”

    Concert | June 3, 2017

    begBORROWsteal

  • Michael Daugherty, "Strut"

  • Alexa Canales, “Once More”

  • Sebastian Currier, “Next Atlantis”

  • John Corigliano, “Voyage”

  • Dmitri Shostakovich, “Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a (arr. Barshai)”

    Spring Salon | May 7, 2017
    "HIDDEN VARIABLES"

  • Johann Sebastian Bach, "Art of the Fugue: Contrapunctus XIV”

  • Charles Ives, “String Quartet No. 1: From the Salvation Army”

  • Ludwig van Beethoven, "String Quartet No. 10 - Allegretto con Variazioni"

  • David Wolfson, "Deep Woods"

  • Terry Riley, "G Song"

  • Dmitri Shostakovich, "String Quartet No. 8: Allegretto"

    Winter Salon |  January 29, 2017
    "DARK MATTER"

  • Jeffrey Ryan, “Quantum Mechanics: I. Fission”

  • Bela Bartok,  “String Quartet No. 5 - IV. Andante”

  • Felix Mendelssohn, “String Quartet No. 6: Requiem for Fanny”

  • John Luther Adams, “The Wind in High Places”

  • Pavel Haas, "String Quartet No. 2: II. The Moon and I”

  • Jeffrey Ryan, “Quantum Mechanics: III. Fusion”

    Fall Salon | October 30, 2016
    "BEGINNINGS"

  • Joseph Haydn, “String Quartet No. 1”

  • Ludwig van Beethoven, “String Quartet No. 1”

  • Michael Nyman, “String Quartet No. 3: Beginning”

  • Caroline Shaw, “Entr'acte”

  • Terry Riley, “Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector”

Concert | June 4, 2016

FOUR X 4

  • Judd Greenstein, “Four on the floor"

  • Jinsil Lee, “The Beginning”

  • Mohammed Fairouz, “The Named Angels: I. Mikhael’s Thunder”

  • Alberto Ginastera, “Concerto per corde”

    Spring Salon |  April 24, 2016

  • Antonin Dvorak, “String Quartet No. 3: III. Allegro energico - Trio”

  • Osvaldo Golijov, Selection from “Yiddishbbuk”

  • Anqi Liu, “Pastoral”

  • Mohammed Fairouz, “The Named Angels: I. Mikhael's Thunder & III. Jibreel at Hira”

    Winter Salon | January 30, 2016

  • Caroline Shaw, “Punctum”

  • Ludwig van Beethoven, “String Qt. No. 13 in B-flat Major: IV. Alla danza tedesca V. Cavatina”

  • Kevin Puts, “Credo”

    Fall Salon | November 22, 2015

  • Juan Antonio Simarro, “String Quartet No. 1”

  • Pedro Vilarroig, “String Quartet No. 2: 1st and 3rd mvmt”

  • Joaquin Turina, “La oración del torero”

  • Enrique Granados, “Piano Quintet: Molto presto”

    Concert | June 7, 2015

    REFLECTIONS  

  • Aulis Sallinen, “Aspekteja Peltoniemen Hintrikin surumarssista (Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik’s Funeral March)”

  • Liza Sobel, “Skin” 

  • Wojciech Kilar, “Orawa”

  • Stephen Paulus, “Concerto for Organ, Strings and Percussion” 

    Spring Salon | May 3, 2015

  • Einojuhani Rautavaara, "Notturno e Danza"

  • Arvo Pärt, “Fratres”

  • Liza Sobel, “Skin”

  • Erkki-Sven Tüür, “Conversio”

  • André Previn, “Song”

    Spring Salon | March 7, 2015

  • Caroline Shaw, “Punctum”

  • Augusta Read Thomas, “Eagle at Sunrise” from “Sun Threads”

  • Terry Riley, “Good Medicine Dance" from 'Salome Dances for Peace”

  • Anqi Liu “⭕️

    Winter Salon | January 11, 2015

  • Philip Glass, String Quartet No. 2: "Company"

  • Samuel Livingston, “Quintet in C Major”

  • John Corigliano, “Soliloquy”

  • Dmitri Shostakovich, “String Quartet No. 7”

    Celebration Weekend, Part 1 | June 15, 2014

  • Edgar Girtain IV, “Four Catalan Songs”

  • Arvo Pärt, “Fratres”

  • Lou Harrison, “Estampie” from String Quartet Set

  • Christopher Theofanidis, “Visions and Miracles”

  • Tarik O'Regan, “Triptych”

     June 14, 2014 Part 2

  • Aaron Copland, “Quiet City”

  • Igor Stravinsky, “Concerto in E-flat Major (Dumbarton Oaks)”

  • Benjamin Britten, “Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings"

  • Aaron Copland, “Appalachian Spring”

     June 13, 2014 Part 3

  • Franz Schubert, “String Quartet No. 12 in C minor (Quartettsatz)”

  • Paul Moravec, “Vince & Jan: 1945”

  • Lou Harrison, “String Quartet Set”

  • Astor Piazzola, “Tango, for four”

Concert May 5, 2013

VISIONS

  • Franz Liszt, “Angelus! Prière aux anges gardiens”

  • Aaron Jay Kernis, “Musica Celestis”

  • Joel Phillips, “Ark of My Dreams”

  • John Adams, “Shaker Loops”


    Concert February 23, 2013

    TRANSFORMATIONS    

  • Geminiani/Wiancko, "La Follia: Variations for String Orchestra”

  • Edgar Girtain IV, “Finger of Death about Four in the Morning”

  • Paul Moravec, “Morph”

  • Astor Piazzola, “Quatro Estaciones Porteñas (Four Seasons of Buenos Aires)”