residencies
harvard university
BLODGETT ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
The Harvard University Department of Music has announced that the Chiara Quartet has been named Blodgett Artists-in-Residence for 2008-11. The Chiara will be in residence at Harvard for four one-week periods each academic year beginning in October 2008. During its time on campus at Harvard, the Chiara Quartet will perform free public concerts and work directly with Harvard students by providing lessons and instruction, and by reading student compositions. The quartet's inaugural performance will be Oct. 31, 2008, at 8 p.m. in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall.
The Blodgett Artist-in-Residence program, made possible through a gift from Mr. and Mrs. John W. Blodgett Jr., has been at Harvard for 22 years. The program provides for distinguished artists and ensembles to spend time at the Department of Music and also invites artists to lecture and perform in a variety of musical disciplines. Recent Blodgett Distinguished Artists and Chamber Music ensembles have included the Mendelssohn String Quartet, the Ying Quartet, Neba Solo, Greg Osby, Jean Claude Risset, and Sir Harrison Birtwistle.
"Harvard looks forward to welcoming the Chiara Quartet in 2008," said Ingrid Monson, chair of the Department of Music. "We are impressed by the ensemble's efforts to expand the audience for chamber music by finding new ways to engage listeners, and feel their commitment aligns well with Harvard's goal of bringing innovative musicians to campus who will connect with the entire Harvard community."
www.music.fas.harvard.edu/performance.html
university of nebraska-lincoln
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music announced the hiring of the Chiara String Quartet as lecturers and Artists-in-Residence in the School of Music beginning August 2005.
The Chiara String Quartet's assignment in the School of Music includes teaching applied lessons and coaching graduate students and experienced undergraduate students in the area of chamber music along with their continued performance schedule statewide, nationally, and internationally. They are also helping to develop a program in Arts Entrepreneurship with the UNL College of Business Administration. In the summer the Chiara members are artists-in-residence at the Chamber Music Institute at UNL, a week-long, tuition-free program designed for superb young artists (of college age and above) who love chamber music and who wish to explore careers in chamber music performance. (http://www1.unl.edu/music/CMI/)
Dr. John W. Richmond, Professor and Director of the School of Music, says this opportunity will bring UNL to a new level of prominence and visibility in the worlds of chamber music, string performance, and orchestral music.
"There are very few schools in the U.S. that have both a fine resident string faculty and a separate, internationally renowned resident string quartet. The presence of the Chiara Quartet in our School of Music will position UNL with the University of Texas-Austin School of Music and the University of Colorado-Boulder College of Music in this regard. At UT-Austin, the resident quartet there is the Miro Quartet, predecessors to the Chiara in the Arnhold Residency at Juilliard. It's a very special community of professional music schools that takes this step."
greenwood music camp
Since the summer of 2006 the Chiara Quartet has been in residence at Greenwood Music Camp, a five-week camp for exceptional high school musicians in Cummington, MA. Founded in 1933, Greenwood was a pioneer and model for many other music programs. Its founders believed that a life that combined the profound sharing and communication of the chamber music experience with a supportive, family-like daily life, would lead to extraordinary musical and social growth.
The Chiara members serve as faculty at Greenwood, where they teach lessons, coach chamber groups, and play concerts..