PRIZM Ensemble
PRIZM Chamber Music Festival
June 10-15, 2013 at Shady Grove Presbyterian Church
The PRIZM Chamber Music Festival aims to provide talented young musicians and amateurs the greatest possible exposure to professional-level chamber music. The festival also hopes to introduce people to subjects in music education that may not be readily available. Participants in the PRIZM Chamber Music Festival will have daily chamber music rehearsals, coachings, and solo masterclasses. There are evening faculty concerts and pre-concert chamber music performances featuring festival participants. Select students will be invited to perform chamber music and un-conducted orchestral repertoire with the festival faculty. Students will have options of taking daily courses in music history, music appreciation, and music theory.
Placement Performances for the 2013 Summer Festival are coming up next week, on May 13th and 14th!
If you have registered for the 2013 festival and have not received a placement performance time, please let us know as soon as possible at info@prizmensemble.com.
Remember, you must register by Sunday, May 12 and play a placement performance on May 13th or 14th to be eligible to perform with the faculty in the side-by-side concert.
Our Wonderful 2013 PRIZM Chamber Music Festival Faculty!
Clarinet: Carina Nyberg Washington
Bassoon: Lecolion Washington
Flute: Alice K. Dade, Columbia, Missouri
Oboe: Anna Pennington,West Point, New York
Horn: Dan Phillips
Violin: Daniel Gilbert
Violin: Searmi Park, Los Angeles, California
Viola: Anthony Gilbert
Cello: Paul Vest
Cello: Caitlin Sullivan, New York, New York
Piano: Peter Miyamoto, Columbia, Missouri
Voice: Mary Wilson
The PRIZM Ensemble has always wanted to take the PRIZM Chamber Music Festival model of chamber music teaching into target schools in the community.
This week, that dream became a reality.
We are proud to announce PRIZM in the Schools! Starting this week we will be working with students at:
Hickory Ridge Middle School (HRMS)
3920 Ridgeway Road
Memphis, TN 38115
Mr. Phillip Joyner, Director
As a preview of the project, the PRIZM Ensemble performed alongside the Hickory Ridge Middle School Orchestra at the 2013 ArtsFest.
Program Format
HRMS will assemble 2-4 groups from the school orchestra and band (string quartet, wind trios, brass quintets, etc.), and the PRIZM Ensemble members will have weekly coachings with these groups over a four-week period. They will work to improve both the group's and the individual player's chamber music performance skills, stage presence, and overall facility on their instrument. These small groups will then perform on the HRMS Spring Concert along with a performance by the world-class musicians of the PRIZM Ensemble. In addition to this performance, the PRIZM Ensemble will also perform for the entire student body at HRMS.
As an added reward, select participants from these student groups will also receive subsidized tuition to attend the 2013 PRIZM Chamber Music Festival!
We are honored that Dru Davison has championed our cause, and we are excited about this new and all future collaborations with area schools.
Stay tuned for more information about the wonderful faculty of the 2013 Chamber Music Festival.
Registration still open!
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The PRIZM Ensemble consists of a group of artists from various organizations and disciplines who are interested in creating fun and exciting performances and exhibitions with a commitment to arts education and to bridging the gap between the performer and the audience in order to enhance the overall performance experience. PRIZM is focused on bringing the beauty and transcendence of the arts to as broad an audience as possible.
photo by Chip Pankey