The Borromeo String Quartet evolved from a summer project at the Curtis Institute of Music in 1989 to one of the most admired ensembles in the world. Its concert in the Barns at Wolf Trap will display the emotion and spirit that characterize its unique interpretation of classical and contemporary works.

Violinist Nicholas Kitchen grew up in North Carolina, where his mother runs the Duke University String School and his father, a math professor at Duke, has been the organist at a local church for the past 40 years. At Curtis, Kitchen met cellist Yeesun Kim, now his wife. Today these two founding members of BSQ share the stage with violinist Kristopher Tong and violist Mai Motobuchi.