Quartets from Baltimore to San Francisco participated in last season's Institute which included master classes by the Mendelssohn String Quartet and guests Robert Mann and Joel Krosnick, and a Joel Krosnick and Marcy Rosen in rehearsal, WISQ 2000 live performance on WFDD radio by one of the participating quartets. The group that played on the radio broadcast, the Fry Street String Quartet, went on to win the Gold Medal and the Millennium Prize in the 2000 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The Institute will accept a maximum of five string quartets of exceptional caliber. The program is not open to individual players. Participants should be serious players who are professionally oriented toward a career as chamber music artists.
Admission is by competitive selection.
Each quartet must submit a high-quality audition tape in cassette form not more than 30 minutes in length unless a live audition is prearranged. All participants receive full tuition scholarships covering coaching sessions, master classes and tickets to public concerts. Participants will be housed in double occupancy rooms in a comfortable hotel a short distance from the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, James Dunham was violist of the Cleveland Quartet from 1987 through its Grammy-winning final recordings and concerts in December 1995. With the Quartet, he performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Far East, and the former Soviet Union.