Quartet Project featured

Longtime CMW collaborator Geoff Hudson's Quartet Project was featured in the most recent issue of Chamber Music, a publication of Chamber Music America.

Easy contemporary music for string quartet—a gap in the repertoire. Geoffrey Hudson, an American composer, has begun to fill it by writing pieces that progress in difficulty. He hopes to offer “a new entry point into chamber music,” he says, “that grapples with the music of our time.”

Most of his quartets are short, witty, instructive pieces, contemporary in their rhythms and harmonies. Hudson hopes to publish six volumes, titled the “Quartet Project,” in the fall of 2011. He envisions each volume containing 20 miniatures and one full-length work.

“I’m enough of an old fuddy-duddy,” says Hudson, “to think that kids today need to broaden their communication skills. I would have quit the cello long ago if I hadn’t started playing with other people. If you learn three chords on a guitar, you can play in a band with your friends. Rock music is so satisfying that way, with no authority figure telling you what’s right or wrong.”

Download the entire article by Katherine Millett here. View a December 2008 post about CMW's involvement in the Quartet Project here.