For Presenters
Present the Embassy String Quartet
The quartet performs throughout the East Coast and travels internationally. Each engagement is built around the audience it is written for — from embassy receptions to college recital halls.
A Cultural Proposal
The Embassy String Quartet requests the pleasure of bringing music beyond borders to your series, embassy, university or private occasion.
Presenter InquiryFormats of Engagement
Article I
Programs
Full-length concert programs for subscription series, churches, museums and community concert organizations, with remarks from the stage where wanted.
Article II
Residencies
Multi-day engagements combining public concerts with performances at retirement communities, schools and cultural institutions in the same region.
Article III
Embassy Events
Programs built around the culture of a host nation — the quartet's founding work, developed through residencies at the embassies of South Africa, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France and Portugal.
Article IV
University Performances
Concerts paired with masterclasses, coachings and open rehearsals for string players and chamber groups.
Article V
Educational Engagements
Shorter, spoken presentations for students and first-time audiences, introducing the string quartet through the music of their own and other cultures.
Article VI
Cultural Collaborations
Partnerships with cultural institutions, museums and presenting organizations that place chamber music in dialogue with a culture, a collection or an occasion.
Article VII
Private Performances
Salon concerts and private receptions, presented with discretion. Private engagements are never published with an address.
Available Programs
Revolutionary German Quartets
Three German-language voices at the moment each broke with what came before — Beethoven's late vision framed by Strauss's youthful classicism and Wolf's sunlit Italian detour.
Quartets of the Americas
Music of the Americas — North and South — gathered around Dvořák's “American” Quartet, the work of a European visitor who heard a new continent's voice before it had been written down.
The Northern Quartets
A late-autumn program of northern light — Bohemian chorale, Haydn at his most severe, and Grieg's only completed quartet.
Press & Promotional Materials
- Quartet biography (short and full length)On request
- High-resolution ensemble photographsOn request
- Sample programs and repertoire listsOn request
- Technical and stage requirementsOn request
- Press materialsOn request
Materials are sent directly by the quartet's Artistic Director. Write to embassystringquartet@gmail.com with your venue, date and audience, and the relevant package will follow.
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