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Jasper String Quartet Wins 2016 Educator Award
Fischoff is delighted to announce that Jasper String Quartet has been selected as winner of the 2016 Fischoff Educator Award. This national award recognizes the educational outreach work of Fischoff Competition alumni who have demonstrated outstanding and imaginative programming for children and youth in the United States. It honors musicians who have established professional careers in chamber music, and have proven their ability to successfully build a career in both chamber music performance and outreach education.
As winner of the Fischoff Educator Award, Jasper String Quartet will receive a coveted endorsement from Fischoff, a cash award, and a week of community outreach programs in the South Bend region October 24-27, 2016 as part of Fischoff’s award-winning Arts-in-Education Residency.
In 2008, the Jaspers swept through the competition circuit, winning the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize in the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the Grand Prize at the Coleman Competition, First Prize at Chamber Music Yellow Springs, and the Silver Medal at the 2008 and 2009 Fischoff Competitions. They were also the first ensemble honored with Yale School of Music’s Horatio Parker Memorial Prize, an award established in 1945 and selected by faculty for “best fulfilling…lofty musical ideals.”
The Jaspers have been hailed as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad) and “powerful” (New York Times). “The Jaspers…match their sounds perfectly, as if each swelling chord were coming out of a single, impossibly well-tuned organ, instead of four distinct instruments.” (New Haven Advocate)
Fischoff’s Educator Award Residency is sponsored by Wells Fargo
From the Top Backstage at Fischoff to Air Week of June 15
Fischoff has enjoyed a long relationship with the hit NPR show From the Top with host Christopher O’Riley. And through an exciting collaboration, a new show called From the Top Backstage at Fischoff will air next week! The show is an hour-long program featuring the 2015 Fischoff Competition’s Junior Division. With interviews, performances and competition rounds, you will get a sneak peek into the essence of the Junior Division.
From the Top Backstage at Fischoff will air nationally starting Monday, June 15. To check your local NPR station’s program schedule, click here. The show will also be available via From the Top’s podcast and website. In the Michiana area, WVPE 88.1 will air the program on Friday, June 19 at 7:00 pm.
Be sure to tune in and be part of this unprecendented opportunity showcasing the best junior chamber musicians in the nation!
From the Top Backstage at Fischoff
Fischoff has enjoyed a long relationship with the hit NPR show, From the Top, hosted by Christopher O’Riley. We are pleased to announce a new collaboration – a show called From the Top Backstage at Fischoff. The show will dedicate an hour-long program to the 2015 Fischoff Competition’s Junior Division. Through interview, performances and competition rounds, Backstage at Fischoff will capture the essence of Fischoff’s Junior Division. The unique experience that musicians have at Fischoff will be shared with 700,000 national listeners in the fall of 2015. This is an unprecedented opportunity to showcase the best junior chamber musicians in the nation during Fischoff Competition weekend, May 8-10, 2015.
Live streaming will also be available at www.fischoff.org on Saturday, May 9, 8:30 a.m. – 6:40 p.m., and Sunday, May 10, 11:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Contact fischoff@fischoff.org for further information.
Telegraph Quartet – Winner’s Tour This Week!
Gold Medal and Grand Prize Winners, Telegraph Quartet, tour the Midwest in the 2014 Double Gold Tour!
The Grand Prize Winners, Telegraph Quartet, return to the Midwest to perform concerts, masterclasses & other community outreach programs. To view their entire schedule, visit our website here.
A Recap of Akropolis Reed Quintet Educator Residency
Fischoff’s 2015 Educator Award winner, the Akropolis Reed Quintet, performed brilliantly throughout the Northern Indiana community in a series of educational outreach programs. We are grateful to each member for their perfessionalism shown at each of the ten performances. More than 2,600 children, youth and adults were inspired by their musical performances and unbridled enthusiasm for chamber music.
In the words of Akropolis Reed Quintet:
As winner of the 2015 Fischoff Educator Award, we were given an opportunity to share our music through games, masterclasses, and even a children’s story with students of all ages in South Bend, Indiana from March 23-26. The Fischoff organization is based out of Notre Dame University, and our relationship with Fischoff is now almost 5 years old.
We gave 5 elementary school presentations, 5 middle school clinics, and one riot of an orchestra clinic for the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra. The above video is a short excerpt from our theatrical rendition of “The Best Story,” a children’s book which every student we visited had read in class prior to our visit. The story presentation was part of Fischoff’s S.A.M I Am (Stories and Music) program, a flagship for a Fischoff education residency.
We truly enjoyed getting in character for each S.A.M. I Am rendition of “The Best Story.” Matt was “dad,” donning a tie, baseball cap, and a pipe! Tim was a crazed monkey at the wheel of a school bus, Andrew played a mean (figuratively and literally) pirate, and best of all, Ryan got to dress as Aunt Jane (sun hat and shall included).
At our middle school clinics we introduced students to chamber music, and we even allowed them to help us makeour music better through a new interactive activity in which they dissected and reorganized our music, leading them to think more critically in their own music making.
Matt’s background in teaching combined with Akropolis’ diverse set of personalities and skills makes education a natural fit for Akropolis. We love it, and we’re grateful to Fischoff for the 2015 Educator Award and for a gratifying week in South Bend.
View pictures from the entire week here!
Akropolis Reed Quintet Akropolis Reed Quintet Wins Fischoff’s 2015 Educator Award, Starts Residency
Akropolis Reed Quintet was selected as the winner of the 2015 Fischoff Educator Award, which recognizes the educational outreach work of Fischoff Competition alumni who have demonstrated outstanding and imaginative programming for children and youth in the United States while maintaining professional careers in chamber music. Akropolis won the 2014 Fischoff Competition’s Senior Wind Division Gold Medal.
Wholly committed to reaching out and fortifying the next generation of music mavericks, Akropolis created their 2013 Fall Education Tour, funded by over $5,000 raised by a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign. Ranging from interactive melody games for elementary students, master classes for middle and high school ensembles, and composer forums and business workshops for college musicians, Akropolis harnesses its creativity, energy, and versatality to make music a personal and lasting experience for all students.
Akropolis Quintet will present several S.A.M. I Am (Stories & Music), the flagship program of Fischoff’s Arts-in-Education residencies. These programs reinforce the importance of reading through the power of music. S.A.M. I Am programs allow children, ages 5-10, to hear books transformed with flair and imagination. The programs integrate music with literacy, storytelling and drama. Akropolis will use props and their instruments to represent characters, themes, and moods from the story. A special creative writing contest is being added to challenge the participating 3rd graders. A winner from each school will be recognized and the Akropolis Quintet will read the winning story.
Schedule
| March 23 | John Young Middle School, Mishawaka, IN | Wind & String Workshop |
| March 24 | Elm Road Elementary School, Mishawaka, IN | S.A.M. I Am Program & Writing Contest |
| St. Adelberts Elementary School, South Bend, IN | S.A.M. I Am Program & Writing Contest | |
| Notre Dame Orchestra, University of Notre Dame | Reed Workshop | |
| March 25 | Harrison Primary, South Bend, IN | S.A.M. I Am Program & Writing Contest |
| Swanson Primary, South Bend, IN | S.A.M. I Am Program & Writing Contest | |
| Christ the King School, South Bend, IN | Band Workshop | |
| March 26 | Darden Primary, South Bend, IN | S.A.M. I Am Program & Writing Contest |
| LaSalle Academy, South Bend, IN | Band Workshop | |
| Robinson Community Learning Center, South Bend, IN | S.A.M. I Am Program |
New Junior Division Wind Prize Sponsored by the American Brass Quintet
Fischoff and the American Brass Quintet are pleased to offer a new $500 prize for the most outstanding wind ensemble in the Junior Division of the 2014 Fischoff Competition. This is a separate prize from the Junior Division gold, silver and bronze medals.
The award is offered to encourage the growing number of young, excellent wind ensembles throughout the United States.
Fischoff Wins 2014 Leighton Award for Nonprofit Excellence
CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST FOR 3RD GRADERS
Reinforcing the importance of reading through the power of music.
Through Fischoff’s Arts-in-Education Residency and the S.A.M. I Am program, we are offering an opportunity for area 3rd graders to participate in a creative writing contest! The winner will be honored on Monday, November 11th at Aeolus Quartet’s performance at Barnes & Noble in Mishawaka.
Entry forms can be picked up at Barnes & Noble or downloaded. Forms are due October 30th.
