Featured Soloist: Nicholas Kitchen, violin
September 23 & 25, 2005

Nicholas Kitchen, whose musicianship has been hailed by the New York Times as "thrilling, vibrant and captivating," is a founding member of the Borromeo String Quartet. With a multifaceted career as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, teacher, arts administrator and media innovator, Kitchen is one of the country's most active musicians.

His appearances as soloist and chamber musician have taken him across the United States and to more than 25 countries. He has worked with many distinguished conductors, including Michael Tilson Thomas and Otto Werner Mueller, and has recorded for Denon, Albany, Arabesque, Centaur and Image Recordings. Kitchen is Artistic Director of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival as well as a frequent guest artist at international music festivals, including the Spoleto Festival in the US and Italy, and the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival in Canada.

A recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Medallion for Artistry and the Presidential Scholar in the Arts award, Kitchen began his career performing in his home state of North Carolina where he made his debut with the North Carolina Symphony at age 12. His pioneering audio and visual work includes recording and producing CDs and DVDs of live concerts (primarily of the Borromeo Quartet), culminating in a collaboration on the "Four Seasons" with violinist Midori and the Cotuit Center for the Arts. Artwork created by children and professionals in response to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons." were synchronized and projected along with Midori and the Borromeo Quartet.

Nicholas Kitchen began his study of violin at Duke University with Giorgio Ciompi. At age 16, he went on to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, with David Cerone and Szymon Goldberg, and subsequently, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with James Buswell. He plays the A. J. Fletcher Stradivarius, a violin purchased expressly for long-term loan to him by the A. J. Fletcher Foundation of Raleigh, NC.

Mr. Kitchen plays Brahms' Double Concerto with cellist Yeesun Kim on September 23 and 25, 2005.

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