The Beo Concert Experience
Beo String Quartet brings a modern performance sensibility to the classical stage — intimate sound, precision, and programs built like stories.
We pair deep repertoire with original work and carefully curated new music, shaped by years of touring, recording, and audience-facing educational performance.
Designed for the room
Whether in a traditional hall or a nontraditional space, we design each program deliberately — with a clear arc, strong pacing, and music that leaves a mark. Programs are adaptable in length and format, and can be tailored to suit your audience and series.
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Programs
Choose a program lane below, or let us design a custom arc for your series, audience, and space. Programs are available in 60, 75, or 90 minutes, with optional pre-concert remarks and talkback.
Stories
Narrative-driven programs built like arcs—seemingly disparate works combine to illuminate the classics and give new music a familiar emotional footing. Old and new sharpen each other in real time, inviting any listener into a moving experience.
Common formats: 60 / 75 / 90
Optional add-ons: pre-concert remarks · talkback · curated listening notes
Modern Masters
From contemporary minimalism to new voices, we explore the music being written now—work that captures our evolving world in sound. Visceral and immediate, these pieces tell modern stories through familiar instruments and newly expanded color.
Common formats: 60 / 75 / 90
Optional add-ons: composer context · talkback · new-music listening guide
Deep Repertoire
Canonized classics of chamber music—presented with companion works that clarify the architecture, sharpen the emotional journey, and deepen the listening experience.
Common formats: 60 / 75 / 90
Optional add-ons: pre-concert remarks · talkback · program notes
Art of Fugue: A Living Introduction
A Beo signature project. We guide the audience through Bach’s Art of Fugue—revealing its poetic beauty as the counterpoint intensifies, demonstrating how the double fugues work, and placing the unfinished masterpiece in its human and historical context. Then we perform the complete work.
Common formats: 75 / 90
Optional add-ons: extended Q&A · educational version for students
Beo Originals
From El Balcón to 19|20, multimedia programs that weave technology, modernism, and evocative chamber music into a singular experience. Technology is used to expand expression—not as an effect, but as a tool to move the medium forward.
Common formats: 60 / 75 / 90
Optional add-ons: onstage demo · talkback · tech notes for venues
Sample Programs
A few examples of how we shape arcs—balancing clarity, contrast, and emotional momentum.
Sample Program 1
In a Life
Variation becomes biography—music that traces identity across time: memory, rupture, tenderness, and return.
Program
Philip Glass — String Quartet No. 3 “Mishima”
Sean Neukom — El Balcón
— Intermission —
Bedřich Smetana — String Quartet No. 1 “From My Life”
Sample Program 2
Culture as Sound
How place and inheritance become color—rhythm, accent, and atmosphere shaping form across centuries.
Program
Joseph Haydn — String Quartet, Op. 74 No. 3 “Rider”
Three Chinese Folk Songs
Gabriela Ortiz — “Mictlan” from Altar de los Muertos
— Intermission —
Claude Debussy — String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
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Sample Program 3
Thanks
A modern act of gratitude beside a timeless one—music as devotion, healing, and hard-won peace.
Program
Sean Neukom — Cassette Tape (Beo Original)
— Intermission —
Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132