Similar to the EMERGE Virtual Workshop & Performance, the EMERGE[edu] Residency is designed to host daily reading sessions, masterclasses, (such as writing for the string quartet, extended string techniques, etc…) and Q&A’s with industry leading musicians.

This University/Conservatory model is designed to help cultivate the voices of emerging university & conservatory students

 RESIDENCY DETAILS

• Group workshops, incorporating 15-minute reading session and critique for each composer per day for three days

• Seminars/masterclasses from the quartet 

• Composer Masterclass: Offering input and advice on trade professionalism and real life experience

• Access to The Julius Quartet’s digital chamber concert

• Recordings of all three workshop days and the EMERGE New Music Concert. The digital workshop and concert will be professionally recorded and sent to each participant. 

• Possible future performances of the composer’s work at Julius Quartet’s next in-person concert 

EMERGE CONCERT

• To close the workshop, the Julius Quartet will select a predetermined number of composers to feature at the EMERGE Concert

• Selected students will be asked to prepare a short introduction prior to the first reading and to be presented at the EMERGE virtual concert

• The performance will take place on the final day of the EMERGE workshop

• The virtual concert will be professionally recorded and sent to each participant. 

• Commercial sale of the work performed at the workshop by The Julius Quartet is prohibited