Exploring Chamber Music: Strings - 2025-26 Term Registration
Sep 15 - Jun 15 (Monday)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ages 16-255 · Co-Ed
Music Center of the Northwest
Exploring Chamber Music - Term 1 (Sep - Oct)
Sep 15 - Oct 20 (Monday)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ages 16-255 · Co-Ed
Music Center of the Northwest
Exploring Chamber Music - Term 2 (Oct - Dec)
Oct 27 - Dec 08 (Monday)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ages 16-255 · Co-Ed
Music Center of the Northwest
Exploring Chamber Music - Term 3 (Jan - Mar)
Jan 26 - Mar 09 (Monday)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ages 16-255 · Co-Ed
Music Center of the Northwest
Exploring Chamber Music - Term 4 (Mar - Apr)
Mar 16 - Apr 27 (Monday)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ages 16-255 · Co-Ed
Music Center of the Northwest
Exploring Chamber Music - Term 5 (May - Jun)
May 04 - Jun 15 (Monday)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Ages 16-255 · Co-Ed
Music Center of the Northwest
About This Activity
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Intermediate and advanced musicians will explore the string quartet music of a different featured composer each term. Our goal is not to master a piece of work, but to be able to play through the piece and explore insights about these pieces as building blocks for the quartets that follow them. With faculty violinist/violist Kerry Bollinger providing the lead, primarily from the first violin part (but occasionally from the second or viola part as well), participants build confidence in repertoire which otherwise might be somewhat daunting to undertake in the usual one-person-on-a-part quartet mode. All improve musically through side-by-side playing with a professional musician and with each other. Month by month the group will explore a quartet from the early, middle, and later repertoire of Haydn’s string quartets.
Parts are provided FREE online, via links from the class webpage. Participants download and print their music in advance of each rehearsal. Please also number the measure numbers of your parts before class.
Not sure if this is for you? Speak to Ms. Bollinger or join us for a free virtual rehearsal to see for yourself!
Contact the office for more information.
Testimony from April 2020
“For me the joy and reward of this whole first year of Exploring Chamber Music has been exploring the repertoire-- a different quartet each week or two, with the opportunity to play and expand in a systematic way the quartets that we have actually engaged with, without concerns about perfection. For me the main value has been in the joy of exploring and expanding my OWN repertoire/SHARED repertoire, building the skills and confidence that such exploration enables. This ensemble is unique in offering that opportunity; quite a refreshing contrast with the familiar 'perfecting-one-piece-for-performance' structure.”
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