About the Quartet Project
Chamber music teachers around the world have expressed a pressing
need for new, high quality works for beginning and intermediate string
quartets. The Quartet Project meets that need with a wealth of exciting
new music for beginning, intermediate, and advanced string quartets.
Workshop testing of the music is central to the vision of the Quartet
Project. Merely claiming that pieces are suitable for beginning players is
not enough. One must be certain that they actually are.
Therefore, the Quartet Project is being developed in conjunction with
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)
and the Third Street Music School Settlement (New York, NY).
Our partner organizations host workshops in which student string quartets rehearse music from the Quartet Project
with their faculty coaches. The rehearsal process concludes with a mini-residency, in which the quartets work
directly with composer Geoffrey Hudson. Afterwards, all participants comment on and evaluate their experiences
with the music. Geoffrey Hudson uses this feedback from students and teachers to revise and refine the Quartet
Project.
Quartet Project workshops began in the fall of 2008 and will continue through 2010.
The Quartet Project will culminate in publication of the six-volume collection in 2011. Publication will coincide with
a concert in which quartets from all partner organizations come together to perform selections from the collection.
Generous gifts from a handful of foundations and more than 60 individual donors have allowed Hybrid Vigor Music
to launch the Quartet Project. We are currently seeking funding for the final phase. To find out how you can help
support a vigorous future for chamber music please contact us .
