Nicholas Kitchen leads a many-faceted career as violin soloist, chamber musician, educator, video artist, arranger, arts administrator and technology innovator. He is on the Faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music and is Artistic Director of the Heifetz International Music Institute. Nicholas has performed in many of the world’s great concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Tonhalle in Zurich, Wigmore Hall in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, The Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea, the Dvorak Hall in Prague, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York and the Library of Congress in Washington. In 1989 Nicholas was one of the founding members of Borromeo String Quartet. The Quartet studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston where the Borromeo Quartet has now been Faculty Quartet in Residence for nearly 30 years. The Quartet has also for nearly 30 years presented cycles of string quartets – Shostakovich, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, 2 Beethoven Cycles to mention a few – at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Nicholas has also taught frequently for ProQuartet in Paris and given lectures on Beethoven manuscripts at Tanglewood and Ravinia as well as UCLA, the Colburn School, the Basel Conservatory and the Library of Congress. The Borromeo Quartet was ensemble in residence for NPR’s Performance Today, and also worked extensively with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Nicholas has been active expanding the repertoire for string quartet arranging Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier Books 1 and 2 for string quartet as well as the Goldberg Variations and numerous organ works. He has also transcribed for string quartet music by the great jazz pianist Bill Evans. Nicholas has created programs for school children to learn about the structure of classical music and combine it with techniques of animation and film making. In these programs the students create a video which is eventually shown in synchronization with live performance. Nicholas created and supervised a program called MatheMusica for KidZNotes in Durham, North Carolina funded by the North Carolina Arts Council. This program teaches mathematics, science and music in an integrated curriculum. Nicholas has been an innovator in the use of technology, pioneering the use of homemade USB page-turning pedals in order to always read from the complete score. This has led often to the opportunity to read from the composer’s manuscript, stimulating Nicholas’ work with Beethoven manuscripts. In 2003 Nicholas founded Living Archive which for many years allowed audience members to order CDs and DVDs of the concerts they had just attended. Presently Living Archive is reconstituting itself to become a music learning website featuring media from live performance. Living Archive recently released the Borromeo Quartet’s recording of Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach. Before the Heifetz Institute, Nicholas was Artistic Director for the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival for six years. Nicholas grew up in Durham, North Carolina where his mother teaches violin and founded and directed the Duke University String School. His father, a pianist and organist and Duke math professor, has run, for nearly 50 years, the extensive music program of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Nicholas performs on the Szymon Goldberg Baron Vitta Guarneri del Gesù. Nicholas worked extensively with Szymon Goldberg at the Curtis Institute of Music and his violin was donated to the Library of Congress by his wife, pianist Miyoko Yamane Goldberg. It was donated on the condition that Nicholas would perform with the instrument and serve as an advocate of the extraordinary artistic principles connected with Szymon Goldberg’s artistry and teaching.

Born in Brussels, Belgian American violist Dimitri Murrath has made his mark as a soloist on the international scene, performing regularly in venues including Kennedy Center (Washington), Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall (London), Kioi Hall (Tokyo) and Théâtre de la Ville (Paris). A first prize winner at the Primrose International Viola Competition, Dimitri Murrath has won numerous awards, including second prize at the First Tokyo International Viola Competition. In 2012, he was named laureate of the Juventus Festival, an award recognizing young European soloists. He is a 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient. With this award, Dimitri Murrath recorded and released his first solo album recording music by Vieuxtemps, Clarke and Hindemith in 2017. Dimitri Murrath began his musical education at the Yehudi Menuhin School studying with Natalia Boyarsky and went on to work in London with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He graduated from the New England Conservatory as a student of Kim Kashkashian. After 9 years on the viola and chamber music faculty at New England Conservatory, Dimitri Murrath joined the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2017. Dimitri Murrath participates in the Music for Food project, which raises awareness of the hunger problem faced by a large percent of the population and gives the opportunity to experience the powerful role music can play as a catalyst for change.

Hailed by the New York Times for her "focused intensity" and "remarkable" performances, cellist Yeesun Kim enjoys worldwide acclaim as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. A founding member of the Borromeo String Quartet, Ms. Kim has performed in over 20 countries, and in many of the world's most illustrious concert halls and Festivals. Highlights of her 2013-14 season include the World Premiere of Lera Auerbach’s String Quartet No. 7, "Désir", performances of the Bela Bartok quartet cycle at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival and in Boston at Jordan Hall, and appearances at the Orquesta Sinfonica de Xalapa Festival in Mexico, the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts, and the Terra di Siena Chamber Music Festival in Tuscany. The season welcomes multiple performances with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, and special collaborations with the Bill T. Jones Dance Company, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and also with cellist Antonio Lysy in a special multimedia production, Te Amo, Argentina. Recent highlights include a two-week residency at Suntory Hall in Tokyo to perform the complete Beethoven String Quartets, a cycle of Dvorak quartets at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the complete Bartok quartet cycle at the Curtis Institute of Music, performances at the International MIMO Festival in Brazil, the Morgan Library in New York, the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., and in Nara, Japan, Beijing and Shanghai, China. Ms. Kim has performed throughout Europe and Asia with the Borromeo, in duo with violinist Nicholas Kitchen, and as a soloist, including engagements with the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Opera Bastille in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Suntory Hall and Casals Hall in Tokyo, the Saejong Cultural Center in Seoul, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, the Library of Congress and Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. A much sought after chamber musician, she has been invited to perform at many festivals including Spoleto in the United States and Italy, Ravinia, Marlboro, Santa Fe, La Jolla, Rockport, Music at Menlo, the Prague Spring Festival, the Vancouver Chamber Music, the Stavanger Festival in Norway, the Evian and Divonne Festivals in France, and the Sejong Spring Festival in Korea. Her collaborations with other artists include appearances with Angelique Kidjo, violinist Joshua Bell and Pamela Frank; violists Roberto Dias, Kim Kashashian, Paul Neubauer, Roger Tapping; cellists Paul Katz, Gary Hoffman, Lawrence Lesser, and Alisa Weilerstein; pianists Christoph Eschenbach, Leon Fleisher, Gary Graffman, Wu Han, Menahem Pressler, Rudolph Serkin, and Russell Sherman; clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, and members of the Guarneri and Julliard String Quartets. As a member of the Borromeo Quartet since its inception in 1989, Ms. Kim has had extensive involvement with NPR's "Performance Today," the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Her radio and television credits also include "Live from Lincoln Center" and numerous appearances on WGBH in Boston, Radio France, and NHK Radio and Television in Japan. Recording credits include "Native Informant" featuring music of Mohammed Fairouz [2013], "As it was, Is, And will be" featuring music of Gunther Schuller [2011], "String Quartets" by Robert Maggio [2011], "Speak Like the People, Write Like the King" featuring music by Steve Mackey [2009], "Soul Garden: The Chamber Music of Derek Bermel" [2002] "Beethoven: Serioso" [2002], and "Ravel: String Quartet and Sonata for Violin & Cello" [1999]. Ms. Kim currently serves on the faculty of the New England Conservatory, in the cello and chamber music departments, and teaches each summer at the Taos School of Music in New Mexico. She has also taught at the McGill International String Quartet Academy in Canada, the Suntory Hall Fellows Academy in Japan, at the Seoul National University and National University of Arts in Korea, and for the Foulger Institute in New Jersey . A recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America's Cleveland Quartet Award, Lincoln Center's Martin Segal Award, and the Evian International String Quartet Competition as a member of the Borromeo Quartet, Ms. Kim has garnered numerous awards individually as well, including winner of the Ewha and Jungagng National Competitions in Korea, and the Seoul Young Artists Award for achievement in music and academics. Kim is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, with advanced degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music. Her teachers include Lawrence Lesser, David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Hyungwon Chang, and Minja Hyun. She plays a Peregrino Zanetto cello, circa 1576, one of the oldest in the world.