The CSO String Quintet in residency at the Center for the Creative Arts
The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera’s String Quintet and Wind Quintet not only perform on stage for their traditional series concerts, but are also spending time in area schools and community settings.
This season, the CSO String Quintet is now in residency at the Center for the Creative Arts. The quintet is there once a month working with the students in the Advanced/Intermediate Strings classes and working on coaching, rehearsal critiques, performances, and more.
This program seeks to increase the knowledge and proficiency of instrument and performance techniques, increase awareness of music as a professional career, and provide an opportunity for students to see and interact with musicians in their working environment.
CCA Strings teacher Jessica Peck says, “I am very excited about this opportunity for string students at CCA to be able to work with and be mentored by professional musicians. It not only helps them to improve many technical skills, it also allows them to see that music can become a career in the future if they so choose."
The CSO’s community education programs for students is the largest arts education initiative by a performing arts organization in the community, annually serving over 30,000 students through four educational programs: Ensembles in the Schools, Young People’s Concerts, Strings in the Schools, and the CSO Youth Orchestras. Annually, the CSO invests nearly $400,000 in its music education initiatives.
The CSO String Quintet in residency at the Center for the Creative Arts