“An exceptionally talented group... With bows flying and notes swirling, this quartet has a bright future ahead” – Ponca City News

The Balourdet Quartet received the Grand Prize at the 2021 Concert Artists Guild Victor

Elmaleh Competition as well as the top prize in the 2021 Premio Paolo Borciani in Reggio Emilia,

Italy. The group also received the Gold Medal in the 2020 Fischoff National Chamber Music

Competition, the Gold Medal and Audience Award at the 2021 Chamber Music Yellow Springs

Competition, and the Second Prize in the 2019 Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music

Competition.

Flutist and educator Adam W. Sadberry is paving a distinctive career with his citizenry,

creativity, and vibrancy both on and off stage. As a winner of Concert Artists Guild’s 2021 Victor

Elmaleh Competition, he is making his debuts with Chamber Music Detroit, Newport Classical,

Scottsdale Performing Arts, Macon Concert Series, Strings Music Festival, Pro Musica: San

Miguel de Allende, Northeast Kingdom Classical, Glema Mahr, Dumbarton Concerts, and more.

Adam makes his debut at Merkin Hall in NYC in March 2023 where he will premiere a

composition by Dameun Strange that is inspired by Adam’s late grandfather and unsung hero of

the Civil Rights Movement, L. Alex Wilson.

Program:

• HUGO WOLF Italian Serenade
• FELIX MENDELSSOHN String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 44, No. 2
• HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS Assobio a Jato (The Jet Whistle)
• AMY BEACH Theme and Variations, Op. 80