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WHO THE RESIDENCY IS FOR

 

The open call is addressed to:

 

– String quartets seeking to articulate, interrogate, and systematically develop their artistic practices through sustained, practice-led inquiry and research

– String quartets exploring historical repertoires, contemporary music, interpretative experimentation, artistic research, and performance-based knowledge production

– String quartets seeking methodological development through international exchange, rigorous critical reflection, documentation, and multiple modes of public presentation

– Individual violin, viola, and cello players interested in developing their practice within the context of string quartet performance and collaborative artistic inquiry

– Individual string players seeking to form a quartet within the residency and engage in sustained ensemble development, experimentation, and research

 

The residency welcomes established, emerging, and project-based string quartets, as well as individual string players applying independently. Selected individual players will be grouped into string quartets within the framework of the residency. 

 

Participants may work across conventional, expanded, experimental, interdisciplinary, or hybrid forms of quartet performance, provided that their proposed inquiry or individual artistic practice can be developed within the program’s reflective and practice-led structure.

 

Projects may enter the residency at different stages. A quartet may apply with an interpretative problem, a repertoire-centered inquiry, a developing performance, an existing interpretation requiring substantial reconsideration, or a broader framework for artistic research. Individual players may apply with a particular artistic practice, repertoire interest, interpretative question, technical approach, research interest, or broader area of inquiry that they wish to develop through quartet practice. Participants and ensembles may contribute specialized techniques, documentary materials, experimental methods, recordings, writings, or questions concerning contemporary quartet practice.

 

The format requires sustained engagement across both online and on-site stages. Participants should be prepared to:

 

– Articulate and contextualize their artistic practices

– Share performances, recordings, scores, texts, and pertinent working materials

– Engage critically and constructively with the practices of other players and quartets.

– Offer and receive rigorous artistic and critical feedback

– Discuss interpretative, historical, epistemological, and methodological questions

– Participate in listening, analysis, experimentation, rehearsal, documentation, and reflection

– Remain responsive to project transformation through sustained critical exchange

– Contribute to a shared working environment grounded in attentiveness, reciprocity, rigor, and responsibility

– For individual applicants, commit to the collaborative development and rehearsal process of the quartet formed within the residency

 

The program is particularly suited to players and ensembles that understand performance not merely as repertoire realization, but as an epistemic and artistic practice capable of transforming methods, collective relations, interpretative positions, and shared musical outcomes.