Newport String Project Community Concert

The Newport String Project is a chamber music performance and youth mentoring program that aims to build community through music by crossing boundaries of generation, heritage, and economic circumstances. The project accomplishes this by having its resident ensemble, the Newport String Quartet, work with 40 students each week in a robust curriculum of activities that includes individual lessons in violin, viola, or cello, together with a lively student performance series—all at no cost to the families. In addition to teaching, the Quartet is featured in a popular and innovative public concert series where each concert features music from the standard chamber music canon, music by lesser known or forgotten composers, music by underrepresented or new voices, and music of our time. We seek to use the language of music to cultivate the social cohesion necessary for our community to thrive.

Music brings people together in a myriad of ways. We use…