Center for the Creative Arts Hosts CSO String Quintet for Once-A-Month Residency

The role of a symphony orchestra in today's environment is to not only bring audiences to the concert hall for their performances, but to also take the music into the community. The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera's String Quintet and Wind Quintet not only perform on stage for our traditional series concerts, but are also spending a significant time in area schools and community settings.

This season, the CSO String Quintet is now in residency at the Center for the Creative Arts (CCA). The quintet is there once a month working with the students in the Advanced/Intermediate Strings classes and working on coaching, rehearsal critiques, performances, and more. This program seeks to increase the knowledge and proficiency of instrument and performance techniques, increase awareness of music as a professional career, and provide an opportunity for students to see and interact with musicians in their working environment. CCA Strings teacher, Jessica Peck, says "I am very excited about this opportunity for string students at CCA to be able to work with and be mentored by professional musicians. It not only helps them to improve many technical skills, it also allows them to see that music can become a career in the future if they so choose."

The CSO's community education programs for students is the largest arts education initiative by a performing arts organization in the community, annually serving over 30,000 students through four educational programs: Ensembles in the Schools, Young People's Concerts, Strings in the Schools, and the CSO Youth Orchestras. Annually, the CSO invests nearly $400,000 in its music education initiatives and continues to thrive and grow because of the community it serves.

About CSO

The mission of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera is to inspire, engage, and enrich the greater Chattanooga community through music and music education.

The 2014-15 season marks 82 seasons for the CSO, which played its first concert on November 5, 1933. The CSO, conducted by Music Director Kayoko Dan, consists of top players from the Chattanooga area as well as from across the southern region. The CSO performs a full season of Masterworks, Pops, Chamber, and Volkswagen Series concerts from September through May, as well as a variety of community, education and engagement events throughout the year.

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