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QuartetWeb launched March 25, 2011.
www.quartetweb.org
The site is a continual work in progress. It is intended to be an international professional resource devoted to string quartet performers and compositions of the last hundred years or so and to connections between them. At its core is a data base, although it will present much more.
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Many thanks to all of you who have helped this project since it began, some months ago. I may be asking you questions in the future.
Comments are welcome. (But please read "About this site" first!)
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Paul Rapoport
Dr. Paul Rapoport
Professor Emeritus
School of the Arts
McMaster University
info@quartetweb.org
Multi-award-winning Cecilia String Quartet named SOCMI Faculty 2011 - News Release
Oakville, ON December 15, 2010 The Southern Ontario Chamber Music Institute (SOCMI) is delighted to announce a special one-week summer chamber music education program featuring the multi-international award-winning Cecilia String Quartet as faculty.
The Cecilia placed second at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2008 and was first prize winner at the Tenth Banff International String Quartet Competition in September, an accomplishment not achieved by a Canadian quartet since 1992. Two of its members are Institute alumnae and former Hamiltonians, violist, Caitlin Boyle and cellist, Rachel Desoer. Violinists Min-Jeong Koh and Sarah Nematallah complete the ensemble.
For more than 20 years SOCMI has been introducing serious, young string and piano students to the art of small ensemble music making. The highly intensive 2011 residential program is designed to appeal to individuals playing at a minimum Royal Conservatory grade 8 level, or equivalent. Dates are July 31 to August 7 at Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario.
Detailed registration and program description will be posted on www.socmi.org in January.
SOCMI is a registered not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of chamber music through the education of students and the music-loving public since 1988. The Institute is seeking to engage corporations, individuals and foundations in funding its 2011 program.
The Cecilia placed second at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2008 and was first prize winner at the Tenth Banff International String Quartet Competition in September, an accomplishment not achieved by a Canadian quartet since 1992. Two of its members are Institute alumnae and former Hamiltonians, violist, Caitlin Boyle and cellist, Rachel Desoer. Violinists Min-Jeong Koh and Sarah Nematallah complete the ensemble.
For more than 20 years SOCMI has been introducing serious, young string and piano students to the art of small ensemble music making. The highly intensive 2011 residential program is designed to appeal to individuals playing at a minimum Royal Conservatory grade 8 level, or equivalent. Dates are July 31 to August 7 at Appleby College in Oakville, Ontario.
Detailed registration and program description will be posted on www.socmi.org in January.
SOCMI is a registered not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of chamber music through the education of students and the music-loving public since 1988. The Institute is seeking to engage corporations, individuals and foundations in funding its 2011 program.
SOCMI Fall Concert Series
Photos courtesy of Janet Bedford, 'SNAP' Oakville
The Banff International String Quartet Competition is 30 years old in August.
The only "gold" Canada has won was in 1992.
This year, two Canadian quartets have qualified; Afiara and Cecilia.
Both groups have one SOCMI alum, Adrian Fung and Caitlin Boyle.
Root for the home teams!
BISQC - August 29 - September 5, 2010
Afiara String Quartet
Cecilia String Quartet
