Education
Tippett Quartet Education Projects
The Tippett Quartet has a serious commitment to working with children by making chamber music an interactive and exciting experience. This is an important feature of their educational work as it will inspire younger generations to become more involved in music making.
We work closely with the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust giving workshops and concerts.
Please don’t hesitate to contact the quartet if you are interested in one of the workshops below:
“New Discoveries”
Composition is an integral part of musical training and with their experience of the many and varied forms of contemporary music the Tippett Quartet can offer Quartet composition workshops for aspiring composers.
This opportunity will give any composer direct contact with the performers, enabling new ideas and techniques to be explored and most importantly a chance to hear the composition.
The Tippett Quartet would also be able to work with dance or art companies in producing a multimedia visual art project.
“Purcell to Piazzola – A Young Persons Guide to the String Quartet”
An informative recital/talk, which presents a variety of contrasting works to display how the approach to String Quartet writing has changed over the past 300 years.
“The inner workings of the String Quartet”
An interactive recital/talk that will cover:
- The role each individual player takes whilst playing in a quartet.
- How different composers have written for the instruments to create specific effects
- Exploration of new sounds and textures in contemporary composition.
- How to rehearse in a string quartet – making challenging passages easier and improving the overall quartet sound.
- A chance to have a go on the instruments that make up a string quartet.
This workshop can be tailored to suite a younger audience:
Exploring the members of the string family
How each instrument works
The sounds that can be produced and how this is achieved
How the four instruments blend together
Chance to have a go on the instruments and play as a string quartet
The Tippett Quartet have a serious commitment to working with children by making chamber music an interactive and exciting experience. This is an important feature of their educational work as it will inspire younger generations to become more involved in music making. We can therefore modify our workshop
programmes to accommodate a younger audience – please contact us to discuss any particular ideas that would be appropriate.
