Kansas City String Quartet Program™ 15th Anniversary
The Kansas City String Quartet Program™ celebrated with a Wine Tasting on March 7, 2008!
Our 2nd annual Fundraiser in the Crossroads First Friday took place at the super cool Arts Incubator · 115 West 18th Street · Kansas City, MO.
Guests enjoyed premium wines, live music from Faculty members: violinist, Elizabeth Suh Lane and cellist, Matthew Johnson, as well as performances by student ensembles.
Be sure to check back soon for information about other upcoming events!
Join us for our 15th year celebration at the Kansas City String Quartet Program™ this summer.
- The 2008 Tina Davidson Composer Residency featuring critically acclaimed composer, Tina Davidson, and her composition, Paper, Glass, String and Wood.
- Tina Davidson’s first appearance in Kansas City.
- Paper, Glass, String and Wood performed by the KCSQP Faculty and Students in concert: August 9, 2008, 2: 30 p.m. Pembroke Hill Hall Student Center.
Rehearsing and performing Paper, Glass, String & Wood with students will be a riveting experience for everyone – professional performers, students, and audience. Performing with students allows them into the process of music making and infects them with the spirit of performance. Working with a living composer is a unique experience valuable for all students.
- Ms Davidson will introduce students to composing, contemporary music and the life of a composer.
- Davidson, first classical composer to receive the Pew Fellowship, the largest such grant in the US, creates music that stands out for its emotional depth and lyrical dignity. She has been acclaimed for her “vivid ear for harmony and colors” (New York Times) and her works of “transfigured beauty” (OperaNews). Over her twenty-five year career, Davidson has been commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra, OperaDelaware, Concertante, Kronos Quartet, Mendelssohn String Quartet, and Cassatt Quartet. Her music has been widely performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Florida Symphony, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Long-term residencies play a major role in Ms Davidson’s career. As composer-in-residence with the Fleisher Art Memorial (1998-2001), she was commissioned to write for the Cassatt Quartet, Voces Novae et Antiquae, and members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She also created the city-wide Young Composers program to teach inner city children how to write music. She was composer-in-residence as part of the innovative Meet The Composer “New Residencies” with OperaDelaware, the Newark Symphony and the YWCA in Delaware (1994-97). During this residency, she wrote the critically acclaimed full-length opera, Billy and Zelda.