Mr. Kitchen's appearances as a soloist and chamber musician have taken him across the United States and to more than 25 countries, performing in many of the world's most illustrious concert halls, including the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Tonhalle in Zurich, Dvorak Hall in Prague, the Opera Bastille in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Suntory and Dai-Ichi Semei Halls in Tokyo, and Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Library of Congress in Washington. 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.

Mr. Kitchen is a frequent guest artist at many international music festivals, including the Spoleto Festival in the U.S. and Italy, the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, the Stavanger Festival in Norway, Chamber Music Northwest, the Orlando Festival in the Netherlands, the Prague Spring Festival, the Music Isle Festival in Korea, the and Santa Fe and La Jolla Chamber Music Festivals. In addition to his work with the Borromeo Quartet, he performs as a member of the critical acclaimed Music From the Copland House Ensemble. In 2006 Mr. Kitchen completed a six-year tenure as Artistic Director of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival where he introduced their popular Adventures in Chamber Music series.

A recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Medallion for Artistry and the Presidential Scholar in the Arts award, Mr. Kitchen began his career performing in his home state of North Carolina. Since his debut with the North Carolina Symphony at the age of twelve he has made appearances in his home state every season, including single-concert presentations of the complete works for Solo Violin of J. S. Bach and performances with the North Carolina and Greensboro Symphonies. In 200X he premiered a violin concerto written for him by composer Stephen Jaffe with the Greensboro Symphony.

Mr. Kitchen is a highly sought after teacher and lecturer in the U.S. and abroad, and is on the faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he works with the institutions Learning through Music program. The Borromeo Quartet's exploratory public discussion series at the conservatory called"Early Evenings with the Borromeo" regularly attracts standing-room-only crowds. Mr. Kitchen has developed a multimedia children's outreach program in collaboration with the NEC and the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival. The program features live performances along with video projections of his creation focused on composer biographies and targets both public school children and developmentally disabled children and young adults. In addition, the Borromeo Quartet serves as an advisor to Community MusicWorks of Providence, Rhode Island, an organization dedicated to enriching the lives of inner city youths and families through classical music.

In 2003 Mr. Kitchen created the pioneering Living Archive Recorded Performance Series, which produces CDs and DVDs of live concerts (primarily of the Borromeo Quartet) around the world. In 2005 he collaborated with violinist Midori and the Cotuit Center for the Arts on a multimedia performance of the Four Seasons. The work integrated 390 works of art that had been created by local children and professionals at an "Art Day" event in responses to the music and the poems of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Mr. Kitchen is currently collaborating with the Library of Congress on a series of educational materials which hope to encourage enthusiasm and sensitivity to the arts.

Mr. 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, the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston with James Buswell. Mr. Kitchen 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., as well as the Goldberg "Baron Vita" Guarneri del Gesu on loan to him courtesy of the late Miyoko Yamane Goldberg and the Smithsonian Museum.

Bio courtesy of www.borromeoquartet.org