Photo by Jori, and more in CMW's Flickr account by clicking here.

PSQ rehearsal at Magali's apartment, with special guests Ljova and Inna.

Rehearsal video (<2 MB): Rehearsal

Kirby and Josh teach violists and cellists how to play Angeline the Baker on YouTube.
(click on the image below)

Thanks to Jori, there is an ever-expanding treasure trove of CMW event photos now available for online public viewing.

Click here to visit CMW's Flickr account (and bookmark the link!).

Photos by Jori.

More photos in CMW's Flickr account.

Photos by Jori.

I was incredibly impressed with the obvious interest the students have
in their instruments and the music they were playing. It was wonderful
to see the next generation of musicians at the beginning of their
musical careers. –Louis Bourbon

Great audience and was fun to hear Scotland with an orchestra. Great job that CMW is doing. –Lou Bourbon

A pre-workshop scene that I loved witnessing: Phase II and III students
were put in charge of helping to tune younger students and teaching them
the workshop tune. For a change, I felt like I didn't need to be in the
room for these things to happen!

-Minna Choi, CMW staff

Photos by Jori.

Bonus photo of Luis leading post-workshop step dancing during Phase II.

Photos by Jori.

A new aspect of CMW’s weekly staff meetings are “dashboards,” where a member of staff gives an update to the rest of the staff about a particular administrative task that they have been working on throughout the year. I have been in charge of our instruments for the last couple of years and volunteered to do the first dashboard on our beloved violins, violas and cellos. I handed out a synopsis of my dashboard (which you can see below), gave a short presentation, got some valuable feedback from my colleagues and then gave a tour of our instrument supply closet.

I would be happy to give anyone a personal tour of our instrument storage facility (which shares space with the CMW nursery) or the instrument supply closet and workbench (which shares space with Arlyn’s dining room). Please come on by anytime to 1392 Westminster Street and ask for Jesse, the male kind.

Download instrument dashboard synopsis: State of the Union

-Jesse Holstein, PSQ

Click here for the official announcement of our new initiatives to share the CMW model.

"This is an opportunity to both strengthen what we do here in Providence and to share our innovative methods with other communities and institutions. As we’ve thought strategically about our work in the last five years, we’ve been concerned primarily with growing and strengthening our model of a community-based string quartet. Sharing this approach is the next step; we’re extremely grateful to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for enabling us to build on our Fellowship Program, and we’re excited to support a broad array of young professional musicians and students interested in joining this discussion and experiencing this type of work." -Sebastian Ruth, PSQ