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The Quartet Project, created by composer Geoffrey Hudson from 2007-2014, is a collection of new music for graduated string quartets composed in six volumes. Modeled on Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos, and meant for musicians of all ages, it offers modern music for students' chamber studies beginning in Volume 1 with introductory pieces that are "easy contemporary music for string quartet", [1] and become increasingly more difficult though Volume 6.
The Quartet Project provides music which is "contemporary in sound and technique (i.e. including the use of glissando, pizzicato, and modern harmonies)" [2] early in players' studies, and is structured to accompany players as they advance to concert-level performance.
The Quartet Project has been workshopped and performed at, among other places, Community Music Works (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), Greenwood Music Camp in Cummington, Massachusetts, [4] and the Third Street Music School's Chamber Music Program in New York City. [5]
Selections include:
Beginner Miniatures (From Volumes 1 and 2)
Intermediate Miniatures (From Volumes 3 and 4)
Advanced Miniatures (From Volumes 5 and 6)
Additional Examples:
The Quartet Project tested its music with string students and faculty coaches in workshop settings hosted by its partner organizations, followed by a mini-residency with composer Geoffrey Hudson. The following organizations have hosted Quartet Project workshops: Community Music Works (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).
Quartetville is a virtual meeting place for string players of all abilities. The Quartetville website has been using Quartet Project miniatures to develop a Quartet Project Challenge concept. [9] This concept represents a series of free, world-wide online masterclasses for players of all ages and abilities. [10] Quartetville seeks to expand the Challenges to identify and use appropriate level quartet pieces from the complete string quartet repertory in order to offer young quartets entry points into playing string quartets. [11] In the Challenges, young quartets learn directly from high level professionals in a free, online environment. [12]
Quartet Project Challenge have been hosted by the following professional quartets:
Communities have come together to dedicate Volumes of the Quartet Project to master teachers:
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The Quartet Project, created by composer Geoffrey Hudson from 2007-2014, is a collection of new music for graduated string quartets composed in six volumes. Modeled on Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos, and meant for musicians of all ages, it offers modern music for students' chamber studies beginning in Volume 1 with introductory pieces that are "easy contemporary music for string quartet", [1] and become increasingly more difficult though Volume 6.
The Quartet Project provides music which is "contemporary in sound and technique (i.e. including the use of glissando, pizzicato, and modern harmonies)" [2] early in players' studies, and is structured to accompany players as they advance to concert-level performance.
The Quartet Project has been workshopped and performed at, among other places, Community Music Works (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), Greenwood Music Camp in Cummington, Massachusetts, [4] and the Third Street Music School's Chamber Music Program in New York City. [5]
Selections include:
Beginner Miniatures (From Volumes 1 and 2)
Intermediate Miniatures (From Volumes 3 and 4)
Advanced Miniatures (From Volumes 5 and 6)
Additional Examples:
The Quartet Project tested its music with string students and faculty coaches in workshop settings hosted by its partner organizations, followed by a mini-residency with composer Geoffrey Hudson. The following organizations have hosted Quartet Project workshops: Community Music Works (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).
Quartetville is a virtual meeting place for string players of all abilities. The Quartetville website has been using Quartet Project miniatures to develop a Quartet Project Challenge concept. [9] This concept represents a series of free, world-wide online masterclasses for players of all ages and abilities. [10] Quartetville seeks to expand the Challenges to identify and use appropriate level quartet pieces from the complete string quartet repertory in order to offer young quartets entry points into playing string quartets. [11] In the Challenges, young quartets learn directly from high level professionals in a free, online environment. [12]
Quartet Project Challenge have been hosted by the following professional quartets:
Communities have come together to dedicate Volumes of the Quartet Project to master teachers: