The Boise Chamber Music Series, supported by Boise State’s Department of Music and the Boise Chamber Music Society, continues its 2009-2010 season with the Borealis String Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. Tickets are $25 general and $20 for students and seniors, with proceeds benefitting the Music Department Scholarship Fund.

The Borealis String Quartet features violinists Patricia Shih and Yuel Yawney, violist Nikita Pogrebnoy and cellist Shih-Lin Chen. Founded in British Columbia in 2000 with Chen joining in 2006, the ensemble has been praised for its passionate style and refined interpretation of classical repertoire, from Beethoven to Haydn to Grieg. Thanks to a generous loan from the CHIMEI Culture Foundation, the quartet plays a Giovanni Battista Rogeri violin (Cremona, 1698), a Lorenzo Storioni violin (Cremona, 1780), a Pietro Giovanni Mantegazza viola (Milano, 1791) and a Lorenzo Storioni cello (Cremona, 1778). The 2008-2009 season included performances at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.

The Boise Chamber Music Series will continue Feb. 5 with the New York Woodwind Quintet, now in its 60th season and featuring five internationally recognized wind performers. The season will close April 16 with the award winning, Yale-trained Enso String Quartet.

Inquiries should be directed to Jeanne Belfy at ext. 6-1216 or jbelfy@boisestate.edu. For more information, visit the BCMS Web site.

Photo credit: Steven Lemay