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‘Teaching, touring and technology’: the Curtis Institute’s Dover Quartet on the future of string playing

2024-08-29T09:15:00

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Thomas May visited the US’s pre-eminent conservatoire of music, the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, as part of the school’s 100th anniversary celebrations. While there, he spoke to the Dover Quartet’s cellist, Camden Shaw, about what being part of Curtis’s faculty means to him and to his colleagues, and to the ...

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When Curtis Institute president and CEO Roberto Díaz decided to secure funding for a string quartet of alumni to serve as faculty ensemble-in-residence, he was only partially reviving the school’s vaunted chamber music past. The Curtis Quartet, which formed in 1932, and the Guarneri Quartet are the eminent predecessors of the Dover Quartet – Díaz’s obvious choice to launch the idea…

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