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.