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 has been developed in conjunction with leading chamber music organizations from
across the United States, including: 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).
Between 2008 and 2010, our partner organizations hosted workshops in which student string quartets rehearsed music from the Quartet Project with their faculty coaches.
Each rehearsal process concluded with a mini-residency, in which the quartets worked directly with the composer Geoffrey Hudson. He collected feedback from students
and teachers and used it to revise and refine the Quartet Project.
Generous gifts from a handful of foundations and more than 100 individual donors have allowed Hybrid Vigor Music to launch the Quartet Project. Join them today and help
support a vigorous future for chamber music.
