The Blue Hill Concert Association’s 2026 season concludes with a performance by the Isidore String Quartet, from New York City. The concert will begin at 3:00 pm on Sunday, March 29, at the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill, 22 Tenney Hill.
During the intermission members of the audience can enjoy refreshments, view works by Blue Hill painter, Shelli Alford, and then meet with representatives from the featured cultural institution, New Surry Theatre in Blue Hill.
Julliard School of Music brought together these four musicians, and their work has won them a first place at the prestigious Banff International String Quartet Competition. Isidore String Quartet “cultivates joyful, accessible, and intimate experiences that create community.”
For the concert on the 29th of March, Isidore will present works by Haydn, Childs, and Dvo?ák. The program will begin with Haydn’s vigorous 1797 “Sunrise” Quartet. Reflecting the quartet’s diversity, Isidore will perform Billy Childs’s new String Quartet No. 4, “American Mosaic,” which was composed for the group and premiered by Isidore just last month. The piece is a “riveting meditation on America’s black-white race relations,” reflecting the multiracial diversity of the quartet. The final piece will be Anton Dvo?ák’s 13th string quartet, composed shortly after he had returned to Prague from the United States in 1895.
Tickets are $35 and can be purchased at the door or at the website: www.bluehillconcertassociation.org. Admission is free for anyone 21 and under and for music teachers.
