university of nebraska-lincoln
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Music announced the hiring of the Chiara String Quartet as lecturers and Artists-in-Residence in the School of Music beginning August 2005.
The Chiara String Quartet's assignment in the School of Music includes teaching applied lessons and coaching graduate students and experienced undergraduate students in the area of chamber music along with their continued performance schedule statewide, nationally, and internationally. They are also helping to develop a program in Arts Entrepreneurship with the UNL College of Business Administration. In the summer the Chiara members are artists-in-residence at the Chamber Music Institute at UNL, a week-long, tuition-free program designed for superb young artists (of college age and above) who love chamber music and who wish to explore careers in chamber music performance. (http://www1.unl.edu/music/CMI/)
Dr. John W. Richmond, Professor and Director of the School of Music, says this opportunity will bring UNL to a new level of prominence and visibility in the worlds of chamber music, string performance, and orchestral music.
"There are very few schools in the U.S. that have both a fine resident string faculty and a separate, internationally renowned resident string quartet. The presence of the Chiara Quartet in our School of Music will position UNL with the University of Texas-Austin School of Music and the University of Colorado-Boulder College of Music in this regard. At UT-Austin, the resident quartet there is the Miro Quartet, predecessors to the Chiara in the Arnhold Residency at Juilliard. It's a very special community of professional music schools that takes this step."