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Young Artists Conert II: Strings

The Clubhouse at Madeline Island

Young Artists Conert I: Strings

Happy Hour Concert: Strings

Chamber Music for Strings provides intensive study and performance of string chamber music repertoire. Each summer, 32 talented young musicians are grouped according to age and ability and immersed in our curriculum, with daily coaching and twice-weekly private lessons from our resident quartets and individual faculty. Each week brings a different ensemble-in-residence and individual faculty members to Madeline Island Chamber Music, giving students a breadth of input from renowned chamber musicians.

Chamber Music for Strings

Madeline Island Chamber Music

Young Artists Concert: Winds

Windscape

Happy Hour Concert: Wind

Master Class: Windscape

Chamber Music for Winds is a one-week summer woodwind quintet program on the retreat-like setting of Madeline Island. Students will have private lessons along with daily chamber music rehearsals and coaching from Windscape, our 2024 Ensemble-in-Residence. Performance opportunities, master classes, and faculty presentations round out a week of intensive study of woodwind quintet repertoire.

Chamber Music for Winds

Student string quartets perform and receive feedback in an open setting with Arianna String Quartet.

Master Class: Arianna String Quartet

Andrés Díaz, Sabina Thatcher, and Fellowship String Quartet Students.

Andrés Díaz, Sabina Thatcher, and Fellowship String Quartet Students

Fellowship string quartet young artists perform selections from engaging composers of our time. 

Music of Our Time

Bayfield Presbyterian Church

Midsummer Night Music Fundraiser with the American String Quartet

Wild Rice Retreat

Fellowship string quartets perform selections from chamber music works. 

Young Artist Concert: Fellowship Quartets

Known for their luxurious sound, the internationally acclaimed American String Quartet continues to champion the music world with their performances of both traditional and groundbreaking repertoire. Having performed in all fifty states and in the most important concert halls worldwide, we are elated to invite this fearless and adventurous quartet to Madeline Island Chamber Music. Since its inception more than 45 years ago, the quartet continues as the Resident Quartet of the Aspen Music Festival since 1974, and Manhattan School of Music since 1985, while premiering and performing new music around the world.

American String Quartet

Fellowship string quartets perform and receive feedback in an open setting with the American String Quartet.

Master Class: American String Quartet

The New York Times hails the Jupiter String Quartet as “an ensemble of eloquent intensity that has matured into one of the mainstays of the American chamber-music scene. The quartet has performed across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Americas in some of the world’s finest halls, including New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. In 2012, the Jupiter Quartet members were appointed as artists-in-residence and faculty at the University of Illinois, where they continue to perform regularly, maintain private studios, and direct the chamber music program.

Jupiter String Quartet

Student string quartets perform and receive feedback in an open setting with Brooklyn Rider.

Master Class: Brooklyn Rider

Student string quartets perform selections from chamber music works. 

Young Artist Concert: String Quartets

The Arianna String Quartet are an integral part of our educational program, which is why we are so fortunate to host them at Madeline Island every year. As performers, they’re also crowd pleasers! Formed in 1992, the Arianna String Quartet garnered national attention by winning the Grand Prize in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Since 2000, they have been the full-time string faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Now in their 31st season, their recordings of the complete quartets of Beethoven for Centaur Records have been highly praised.

Arianna String Quartet

Students from the Seminar for Advanced Wind Chamber Music program perform wind quintets.

Young Artists Concert: Wind Quintets

Student string quartets perform at Bell Street Gallery.

Happy Hour Concert

This is your only chance to enjoy our wonderful woodwind quintet! Since their debut in 1996, The Prairie Winds have captivated audiences throughout North America with performances that present the finest wind quintet literature in concert programs that entertain as well as enlighten. The Prairie Winds have performed at a number of celebrated music festivals, including Ravinia in Chicago. The members of the quintet pursue active musical careers outside the group as faculty at the University of Illinois, and members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra of Chicago and San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.

Madeline Island Chamber Music

Jun 29, 2024

Young Artists Conert II: Strings

Jun 29, 2024

Young Artists Conert I: Strings

Madeline Island Chamber Music