Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, Washington
We hosted the Corigliano Quartet this last week in a residency designed to allow our student composers to work all week with a top-notch string quartet. Reports from the students, the Quartet, and from audiences in attendance at both Friday night's open reading of the eight new student works and at Saturday evening's culminating concert was that the Quartet's residency was an unqualified success.
The quality and variety of the eight student compositions premiered on Friday night was staggering. If one of the attributes of a good teacher is their ability to allow each student to develop their own individual style, then instructor and composer Janice Giteck is a great teacher: each of the eight student compositions developed its own compositional language, each different, one from the next.
On Saturday night, the Corigliano Quartet played with passion and verve in a program that included works by Mozart, Corigliano, Silverman, and Maggio.
Photo of the Corigliano Quartet courtesy of Cornish College of the Arts, Michelle Smith-Lewis, photographer.
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