Arts and Cultural Heritage Community Arts Learning Grant
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
Goals of the Quartet Project remain in 2017 as in the preceding 20 years. Students will 1) receive coaching in chamber music from professional musicians; 2) present a performance of major works performed by constituent ensembles, 3) present a major work for string orchestra sitting side-by-side with members of the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra. For 2017 we are excited to add to the program, the opportunity to perform and interact with fiddler, singer/songwriter, and disability activist Gaelynn Lea Tressler. Tressler will work with Duluth composer and arranger to craft a new work for fiddler and string orchestra which Quartet Project students and the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra will premiere at their joint concert on July 27. The Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra evaluates the effectiveness of the Quartet Project by the number of student participants, student and instructor written evaluations, comments from parents, audience attendance and response for the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra concert that features the Quartet Project, and by camp evaluation presented, post season, by the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra's Artistic Director/Conductor and Quartet Project Co-Director to the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra Board of Directors.
On July 28 the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra presented a public concert featuring Duluth fiddler, singer/songwriter, and disability rights activist Gaelynn Lea Tressler as soloist. Premiered on this program was a new five-movement composition by Gaelynn Lea entitled BODY OF WORK. Assisting her in the orchestration of this composition was Duluth composer Bradley Bombardier. Also participating in this concert were student musicians of the Quartet Project, an intensive, three-week chamber music workshop for area middle-school and high-school string players, now in its 21st year. The Quartet Project students also joined this LSCO strings in a performance of F.S.Kelly's Elegy - a performance we believe was likely a U.S.Premiere. The other culminating concert of the Quartet Project was given for family and friends on July 27th, in which constituent ensembles performed chamber music works for small groups.
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