Portland String Quartet

🎻 Meet Katherine, our guest violinist for this weekend's concerts!

Katherine Liccardo is an active pedagogue and performer throughout Maine. She's been on the faculty of the Center for Preparatory Studies in Music at Queens College for 14 years, and has served on the faculty of Kneisel Hall’s Program for Maine Students and Berkshire Summer Music in Massachusetts.

She's performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and The Kennedy Center, and is currently committed to serving local communities in Maine. Katherine is the associate director of Vigorous Tenderness, an immersive outdoor concert series that amplifies marginalized voices in classical music and democratizes new/experimental music. She also works with Shelter Music Maine, an organization that brings music to unsheltered communities across the state.

Come see Katherine play with the PSQ on ✨Saturday, April 11 at Shaker Village or Sunday, April 12 at Portland Conservatory of Music!✨ Tickets in bio!

“Point of Departure” explored what it means to begin again — to leave one idea behind and step into another.

Chamber music like this feels vulnerable: no hiding, just listening and responding in real time.

Grateful. Onward. ✨

Join us on our next musical journey - Point of Departure ⛵

Featuring works by Prokofiev, Eleanor Alberga, Ken Benshoof, and Webern, this program explores moments where each composer met a juncture and charted new territory through their work.

You can hear us in Portland at Mayo Street Arts on 2/21 and in Vermont at Brattleboro Music Center on 2/22! Tickets for both on our website! 🎟️ psqmaine.org

Introducing our Telling Room Poets and Ambassadors! Tomorrow during the PSQ's winter solstice concert, In the Dark, poems by Avery Olson, Lily Jessen, Len Harrison, Anna Grey Bergstrom will be read by Len Harrison, Julietta (Jules) Vázquez and Perla Ingabire.

These poems were written in response to a workshop that the PSQ had at the Telling Room - we played some of Bach's Art of the Fugue (the feature piece of the concert) and chatted about the solstice, light, dark, and other themes.

We're so excited for these incredible works to be shared tomorrow at Mechanics' Hall!