page_title: Chiara String Quartet
section_title: Education Work
hierarchical_section_title: Chiara String Quartet / Education Work
caption_attribution_description: The Chiara Quartet performs Mole Music for pre-schoolers in South Bend, IN
context_page_description: The Chiara String Quartet is an internationally performing professional string quartet based in Lincoln, Nebraska. The Group is the Quartet-in-residence at the School of Music in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is also the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University. The group is also in residence as faculty at the Greenwood Music Camp, a summer program for advanced high school musicians. The group's members are Rebecca Fischer and Hyeyung Julie Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; and Gregory Beaver, cello.
  In addition to traditional concertizing, in December 2006 the group began performing in bars and other unusual performance venues for a classical string quartet under the tagline "Chamber music in any chamber." This has brought them into bars such as The Brick in Kansas City, Missouri, the Rose in Brooklyn, Avogadro's Number in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Avantgarden in Houston, TX.
  On August 29, 2017, the members of the Chiara String Quartet announced that the 2017-2018 season would be their last; in the future, they will be focusing on solo performance and teaching careers.
context_section_description: The Chiara Quartet has developed extensive educational programs, including a musical version of David McPhail's Mole Music as well as several programs developed in concert with Young Audiences of New York between 2002 and 2004. The group has worked with Eric Booth extensively, and is mentioned in his book, The Music Teaching Artist's Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator (Oxford University Press, 2009). While on the roster of Astral Artistic Services, the quartet undertook a large-scale multi-visit residency at the Rhoads School sponsored by a Chamber Music America Residency Partnership grant.
caption: Chiara String Quartet performing Mole Music for young children in South Bend, IN
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