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Diane Monroe
Michael Morgan
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Larry Rachleff
Theodore Sizer
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Audiences around the world respond with exhilaration
to what the critics call the "razor sharp intensity" and "heart
stopping" performances of the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet.
Quickly establishing itself as one of the most important string
quartets performing today, the Borromeo Quartet has been hailed
by The New York Times as "outstanding" and the Boston Globe as "simply
the best there is." Every season, the Borromeo Quartet performs
in major venues across three continents. Highlights of recent seasons
included engagements in some of the foremost music centers in New
York, Boston, San Francisco, and Philadelphia, as well as extensive
international tours of the Far East and Europe. www.borromeoquartet.org
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from the Borromeo String Quartet's residency.
May
2003
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The American pianist Jonathan Biss has
established a flourishing international reputation with his performances
throughout North America and Europe. He has appeared with the National
Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra,
the Minnesota Orchestra and the symphonies of Baltimore, Cincinnati
and San Francisco. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with
many acclaimed artists, including Isaac Stern, Andras Schiff, Pinchas
Zukerman and Midori. His exceptional promise has been recognized
with the Gilmore Young Artist Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant,
Lincoln Center's Martin E. Segal Award, and the Andrew Wolf Memorial
Chamber Music Award. www.jonathanbiss.com
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to view photos from Jonathan's residency.
November
2004
Jonathan returned in April 2007 to perform a benefit concert
with his mother, the violinist Miriam Fried. Click here
to view event photos.
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Maxine Greene is Professor
Emerita at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is also
Founder of the Center for the Arts, Social Imagination, and Education.
Dr. Greene teaches at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts
in Education, and is past president of the American Educational
Research Association, the American Educational Studies Association,
and the Philosophy of Education Society. www.maxinegreene.org
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Click
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to view photos from the Providence Quartet's Salon at Maxine
Greene's apartment.
January
2007
Click here to view
documentation from Imagining Art + Social Change,
featuring Maxine Greene's keynote address.
March
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Bob
Jaffe is the Founding President of Rhode Island Citizens
for the Arts, the state's arts advocacy organization. An accomplished
actor, director, and producer, he currently heads Erimax Theatrical
Productions.
www.erimaxtheatrical.com
For over fifty years the Juilliard String
Quartet has been an international presence and an American institution.
It performs with emotional intensity, technical precision, and intellectual
rigor in concerts given across the globe, while in the United States
its members have been educators, mentors, and champions of new music.
Over the course of its fifty-year history the quartet has premiered
over sixty new works by American composers. Since 1962 the Juilliard
Quartet has been quartet-in-residence at the Library of Congress,
where in 1997 it inaugurated the renovated Coolidge auditorium.
The Juilliard Quartet is also quartet-in-residence at The Juilliard
School in New York, where all four members are on the faculty. www.juilliardstringquartet.org
Since winning First Prize at the 1998 Banff International
String Quartet Competition and the prestigious Naumburg Chamber
Music Award in 2000, the Miró String Quartet has captivated
audiences around the world, dazzling listeners with its youthful
intensity and mature interpretations. Formed in 1995, the Miró Quartet
met with immediate success, winning the First Prize at the 50th
annual Coleman Chamber Music Competition in April 1996, and the
following month taking both the First and Grand prizes at the Fischoff
National Chamber Music Competition. In residence at the University
of Texas at Austin, the Miró String Quartet is the first ensemble
to win the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.
www.miroquartet.com
Click here
to view photos from the Miró String Quartet's residency in November
2006.
Diane Monroe is frequently heard at
such renowned venues as the Marlboro, Caramoor, Sitka, Verbier,
North Sea Jazz, and Mellon Jazz Festivals. She has appeared in concert
with Yo-Yo Ma, performing the string quartets of Henry Cowell at
BAM, joined the Ethos Percussion Ensemble in concert at the Weill
Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and performed as guest soloist in
both Wall to Wall presentations of Kurt Weil and Irving Berlin at
Symphony Space in New York City. Her recitals throughout the U.S.
include Town Hall and Merkin Hall in New York City, Schoenberg Hall
in Los Angeles, Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C., and Pickman
Hall in Boston.
www.monroesbow.com
Michael Morgan has led the Oakland East
Bay Symphony for over a decade. He has appeared with the New York
Philharmonic several times at the invitation of Leonard Bernstein,
and has also conducted the New York City Opera, the National, Haifa,
Baltimore, Houston, Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta and Vancouver Symphonies,
as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
After winning the Hans Swarowski International Conductors Competition
at age 23, he became assistant conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony
Orchestra, under Leonard Slatkin. He makes over 100 annual appearances
in the nation's schools, and is widely regarded as an expert on
the importance of arts education and minority access to the arts.
www.oebs.org
The Muir String Quartet has long been
acknowledged as one of the world's most powerful and insightful
ensembles, distinguishing itself among audiences and critics with
its "exhilarating involvement" (Boston Globe),"impeccable voicing
and intonation" (San Francisco Examiner) and "unbridled musicality"
(American Record Guide). The quartet appears annually on the major
chamber music series throughout North America and Europe. In keeping
with the quartet's namesake, the great naturalist, explorer and
Sierra Club Founder, John Muir, the quartet donates proceeds from
its much-touted EcoClassics, Inc. recordings to a variety of conservation
organizations and programs supporting young musicians. The Muir
Quartet is the Quartet-in-Residence at Boston University.
www.muirstringquartet.com
Click here to purchase the Providence
String Quartet's recording of Franz Schubert's Cello Quintet with
special guest Muir String Quartet cellist Michael Reynolds.
Hailed for its exquisite artistry, technical
mastery, and astute approach to concert programming, the Orion
String Quartet is one of the most admired chamber ensembles
on the international music scene. The members of the Quartet have
worked with such legendary figures as Pablo Casals, Rudolf Serkin,
Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Serkin, András Schiff,
Wynton Marsalis, members of TASHI and the Beaux Arts Trio, as well
as the Budapest, Végh, Galimir and Guarneri String Quartets. The
Orion Quartet performs in the world's leading concert halls and
serves as Quartet-in-Residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center, Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, and New York's
Mannes College of Music.
www.orionquartet.com
Read about the Providence Quartet's coaching with Tim Eddy here.
Larry Rachleff is the Music Director
of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Music Director of the San Antonio
Symphony, Professor of Conducting and Music Director of Rice University's
Shepherd School Orchestras in Houston, and Music Director of Chicago's
Symphony II, an orchestra consisting of members of the Chicago Lyric
Opera Orchestra. Mr. Rachleff has appeared as guest conductor with
such prestigious orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the
Seattle Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony
and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 1993 he was selected as
one of four American conductors to lead the Cleveland Orchestra
at Carnegie Hall under the mentorship of Maestro Pierre Boulez.
www.ri-philharmonic.org
Theodore
Sizer, Professor Emeritus at Brown University, is also
Visiting Professor of Education at Harvard University. He is the
Founder and Chairman of the Coalition of Essential Schools, and
has written many books on the subject of redesigning public schools.
www.essentialschools.org
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Click
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from Education, Art, and Freedom:
An
Exploration of Philosophy and Pedagogy.
May
2004
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The Grammy-winning Turtle Island String
Quartet, since its inception in 1983, has been a singular force
in the creation of bold, new trends in chamber music for strings.
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has proclaimed TISQ to be "a unified voice that
truly breaks new ground - authentic and passionate - a reflection
of some of the most creative music-making today." Turtle Island
fuses the classical quartet aesthetic with 20th century American
popular styles, and by devising a performance practice that honors
both sensibilities; the state of the art form has inevitably been
redefined. The Turtle Island String Quartet has journeyed into Folk
and Bluegrass styles, Swing Jazz, Be-Bop, Classical Indian forms,
Funk and R&B, New Age, Rock and Hip-Hop, Bossa Nova and Salsa...a
repertoire consisting of hundreds of ingenious arrangements and
originals. www.tisq.com
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to view photos from the Turtle Island String Quartet's residency.
March 2004
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