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This is your October “Letter from the Chair”, although I’m not sure we’re going to call it that very often anymore. If you’re here, reading, you probably are aware that we’ve changed how we do…

“Amazing”, “OMG they are so good,” “How can just four players make so much sound?” “How can just four players make me feel so much?” These are just some of the comments brought on as…

This image is of REM Island, a platform off the coast of Holland. It was taken over for use as a “pirate” radio station in 1964. “Pirate Radio” refers to radio stations broadcasting without a…

Plucking and strumming are not quite the same things: Violinists usually use draw a bow across the string to get it to vibrate and break sound, but they can also, pluck and strumm, and well,…

Dvorak celebrated “American” quartet is one of 15 that remain popular to this day on chamber music performance programs. Dvorak’s writing seems to make not only string players happy but also audiences! The “Amercian” is…

Patricia Morehead, Composer and oboist, describes sources of her work and the way these ideas are manifest in the writing of “Night Sky”, for String Quartet: “My inspiration for Night Sky began with a fascinating presentation…

A few weeks ago QSCM Artstic Director and Madoc Quartet Violinist Sebastian Sallans programmed Patricia Morehead’s “Night Sky” for string quartet into the All Terrain Tour Program. He then had to call the composer for…

MQ: Madoc Quartet! Madoc, a small community, known mostly mid point between Toronto and Ottawa on highway 7. And Madoc has its own string quartet: MQ. The Madoc Quartet is a professional string ensemble based…