Violinist Francesca dePasquale, violist Margaret Dyer, cellist Julian Schwarz, along with violinist and Birch Festival Artistic Director and Co-Founder Yevgeny Kutik, will perform a program titled Shostakovich and Bach, highlighting the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and J.S. Bach. The program will include: J.S. Bach’s Contrapunctus 1; Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8; Bach’s Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich hiermit, BWV 668; Bach’s Contrapunctus 4; and Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 9. There will be a pre-concert talk at 2:15pm hosted by Shostakovich scholar Matthew Heck. An informal reception, open to all ticket holders, will follow the performance. Berkshire County Students and a guardian may attend for free.