Recording Project: Fundraising Campaign

Description

As a quartet, our mission is to champion music that showcases the diversity of repertoire written by Latin American composers or inspired by artists from that part of the world.

Because of this, the repertoire we play often is by lesser known composers whose music may have never been professionally recorded.

By making more video recordings of our work available on YouTube, we will remove any geographical or monetary barriers between our ensemble and potential audiences across the globe.

Making the music we love more accessible expands our reach and increases our impact as a quartet.Your one-time, targeted donation towards this project of one hundred dollars or more will go a long way towards making this project a reality this summer.

Our goal is to raise a total of $4,900 dollars by the end of July 2024 to cover the video and audio engineering costs as well as the space rental to produce twenty minutes of high quality media that can be streamed indefinitely.

If you wish to be acknowledged for your contribution, we would love to include your name in the description of each video as one of our sponsors as a small token of our appreciation.

Repertoire to be recorded

• Julian Orbón, String Quartet No. 1. Mov I: Allegro (Cuba)

Written in 1951, Orbón’s only string quartet incorporates strong elements of Latinamerican rhythms while combining tonal and atonal harmonies.

CLICK HERE to listen to an excerpt from a live recording

• Claudio Santoro, String Quartet No. 3. Mov I: Allegro (Brazil)

Santoro composed 10 string quartets. No. 3 was written between 1953 and 1954 and belongs to his Nationalistic period.

CLICK HERE to listen to an excerpt from a live recording

• Amos Gillespie, Shadow Effect for String Quartet in 3 movements (USA)

Inspired by selected poems by Mexican writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Dedicated to the KAIA String Quartet.

CLICK HERE to listen to an excerpt from a live recording