Community Arts
Community Arts
Minneapolis Guitar Quartet premieres three new works Funding to present the world premieres of recently commissioned works by Minnesota composers Wade Oden and Maja Radovanlija, and California composer Ian Krouse. A total of three performances and one workshop will be presented at White Bear Lake Center for the Arts and Sundin Music Hall in St Paul.
Julie Andersen: Eagan Art House Executive Director; Bethany Brunsell: Music teacher, performer; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Operations Director; Marisol Chiclana-Ayla: Artist, Board Chair at El Arco Iris; Jamil Jude: Theatre artist; Tricia Khutoretsky: Public Functionary Curator and Co-Director; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy Executive Director; Dayna Martinez: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; Coleen McLaughlin: Arts Midwest Director of External Relations; Tom Moffatt: Silverwood Park Supervisor; Osman Mohamed Ali: Somali Museum of Minnesota Founder and Executive Director; Kathy Mouacheupao: Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support, Corporation Cultural Corridor Coordinator; Adam Napoli-Rangel: Artist; Heather Rutledge: ArtReach Saint Croix Executive Director; Djenane Saint Juste: Afoutayi Dance Company Founder; Andrea Sjogren: Hopkins Public Schools Youth Programs Coordinator; Dameun Strange: Composer, Performer; Melissa Wright: Twin Cities Public Television.
Zhen Zou: Education, general management, artistic; Emmy Carter: Fundraising, education, artistic; Kevin Vollmers: Fundraising, audience development, organizational development; Liane Olson: Administration, fundraising, community education; Marjorie Fedyszyn: Artistic, education, volunteerism; Colleen Zuro-White: General administration, organizational development, volunteerism; Tisidra Jones: Artistic, administration; Tiffany Kong: Computer systems, administration, organizational development; Nicole Matter: Administration.
ACHF Arts Access
We intend to reach approximately 325 audience members with three performances of three new works for guitar quartet. All of the audience members will be hearing these pieces for the first time. At all three performances, attendees will be asked to complete a brief survey to help us determine how audience members learned about our project and whether they are first time audience members at a Minneapolis Guitar Quartet concert. The performance at Sundin Hall will be recorded on audio and video, allowing performers and composers the opportunity to further study and evaluate the project, and interaction with audience members at the less formal educational performances will provide helpful feedback before the Sundin Hall concert.
Our most significant outcome was probably the successful presentation of the new work StarWaves by Ian Krouse. This is a very difficult piece requiring the inconvenient use of an eight-string guitar, but the enthusiastic response of the audiences and our own personal enjoyment of the piece guarantee that we will play this piece on many more concert programs in the future.
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