Dublin Guitar Quartet
Stave Sessions
Your Concert Experience
- Stave Sessions events at Crystal Ballroom are general admission standing room, with limited seating at high and low tables.
- Doors will open and bar service will begin one hour before the performance.
Brian Bolger
Pat Brunnock
Tomas O’Durcain
John O'Shea
Called “a quartet with a difference” by the Irish Times, the Dublin Guitar Quartet is the first classical guitar quartet dedicated to modern and contemporary music. On eight-string and eleven-string acoustic guitars—and occasionally electrics—the foursome brings fresh perspectives to the stage through bold commissions and their own arrangements. First heard on our Debut Series in 2015, they return to Boston with a program featuring works by Philip Glass, Rachel Grimes, Nikita Koshkin, and Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, arranged for four guitars.
Program
NIKITA KOSHKIN Changing the Guard
PHILIP GLASS Piano Etudes Nos. 2, 9, 16 and 20
RACHEL GRIMES Book of Leaves
I. Every Morning
II. The Corner Room
III. Every Morning, Birds
IGOR STRAVINSKY Rite of Spring
“Intricate detail and a near-orchestral palette of sound backed by hall filling power.”
The Washington Post
Featured Artists
Videos
Dublin Guitar Quartet – “Aheym” by Bryce Dessner (The National)
Crystal Ballroom Information
Stave Sessions is generously supported by
the Thonis Family.
This performance is made possible in part by support from Vivo Performing Arts' Amy & Joshua Boger Innovation Fund.