Tanglewood 2-week quartet camp

December 29, 2009 at 12:08 AM ·

Has anyone ever taken part in the Tanglewood 2-week String Quartet program? If so, I'd be really interested in hearing your thoughts on it- what you liked about it, what you didn't like about it, etc.

Also, if anyone has any suggestions for other intensive chamber music camps, I'd like to hear those as well.

Thanks!

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Jude Ziliak

December 29, 2009 at 06:14 AM ·

I never attended the Quartet Seminar, but I studied with Bayla Keyes for four years. If you have the opportunity to work with her, take it. She is an amazingly communicative and very intelligent chamber musician and coach, and is deeply knowledgeable about the violin. I have heard nothing but good things about the BUTI Quartet Seminar.

Jude Ziliak

December 29, 2009 at 06:15 AM ·

Also, you might consider the Garth Newel Music Center in Virginia and Madeline Island Music Camp.

Kevin Tompkins

December 31, 2009 at 04:55 PM ·

thanks for the suggestions! would love to hear any others, as well

Brian Lee

December 31, 2009 at 05:26 PM ·

I don't know anybody who's attended the quartet program, but many of my friends went to the Orchestra program there. They said that it's an utterly exhilarating experience, that each day there, they seem to make a week's progress.

I heard that the food is horrible, though.

Patricia McCarty

December 31, 2009 at 11:39 PM ·

While mornings at the Meadowmount School of Music are reserved for personal practice, during afternoons all 7-week students participate in intensive chamber music coaching and rehearsals. Among 145 videos posted on the Meadowmount School YouTube channel are outstanding student chamber music performances from the past two summers, including string quartets by Brahms, Bartok, Dohnanyi, Walton, Shostakovich, as well as piano quartets and trios by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Dvorak. Here is a link to Brahms Quartet in A performed by 17 and 18 year old students last summer:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MeadowmountSchool#p/u/16/zrJjWj8i-u8

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