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Community Music Works musicians; photo by Mary Beth Meehan

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About the Quartet Project

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About the Quartet Project

The Quartet Project is being developed in conjunction with

seven leading chamber music organizations from across

the United States: Community MusicWorks (Providence,

RI), Drake University’s Community School of Music

(Des Moines, IA), the Greater Grand Forks Symphony

Orchestra (Grand Forks, ND), Indian Hill Music

(Littleton, MA), the MacPhail Center for Music

(Minneapolis, MN), Manhattan School of Music's

Precollege Division (New York, NY), and the Third

Street Music School Settlement (New York, NY).

Workshop testing of the music is central to the vision of the Quartet Project. Our seven

partner organizations will host workshops in which student string quartets work on music

from the Quartet Project with their faculty coaches. Afterwards, all the participants will have

a chance to comment on and evaluate their experiences with the music. Composer Geoffrey

Hudson will use this feedback from students and teachers to revise and refine the pieces.

This testing and revision process is essential to ensuring that the final product is both

musically satisfying and pedagogically sound. Quartet Project workshops will begin in the

fall of 2008 and continue through the spring of 2010.

The Quartet Project will culminate in publication of the six-volume collection and a concert in

which quartets from all partner organizations come together in a prominent venue to perform

selections from the collection. Publication is currently scheduled for 2010.

Hybrid Vigor Music is currently securing funding for this two-year project. Support will come

from individuals and foundations committed to supporting vitality in the creative arts and

ensuring a vigorous future for chamber music.

 
 

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Inspiration for the Quartet Project

 

Workshop dates for the coming year:

November 22, 2008

Third Street Music School Settlement, New York NY

December 1, 2008

Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, Grand Forks, ND

December 5, 2008

Community MusicWorks, Providence, RI

March 28-29, 2009

Drake University Community School of Music, Des Moines, IA

April 5, 2009

Indian Hill Music, Littleton, MA

Check back here for dates of additional workshops.