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                                Chamber music as rehearsal, performance, teaching and administration

                                the string quartet 

                                The activity of playing in a string quartet, at its best, is rooted in the principles of positivity, empathy, flexibility and shared purpose. In this setting, the four players function as a model community whose work explores a vast range of ideas, emotions, and interactions that mirror the topography of human experience. The string quartet--working with each other, the instruments, and the compositions--serves as the Boston Public Quartet's deepest and most direct mode of communication with each other and with those who are willing to listen.

                                Boston Public Quartet

                                BPQ is a professional string quartet, a team of teaching artists, and co-organizers of musiConnects. 
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                                Photography: © Renee DeKona
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                                Betsy Hinkle, violin

                                Founder and Executive Director

                                "...we all learn how to connect – melody and harmony, eyes and ears, teachers and students, friends and classmates."

                                - Full Profile here -
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                                Jason Amos, viola

                                Patron Liason

                                "As a violist, I think chamber music is the most rewarding form of musical expression."


                                - Full Profile here -

                                Marji Gere, violin

                                Rehearsal Coordinator
                                "...when I’m in a chamber music group that is constantly balancing the acts of listening and giving, supporting and demanding, analyzing and creating, imagining and maneuvering; my senses, my intellect, my body, my character, and my soul feel stretched to new limits."
                                - Full Profile here - 
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                                Michael Dahlberg, cello

                                Concert Manager
                                 "...But I don't feel that I owe Nintendo for [my playing music today], it was the chamber music I was playing at the time that really convinced me music was the path I was to take..."

                                - Full profile here -
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                                Where You Can Find Us

                                Community Events
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                                Teaching at each of our Community Sites

                                - our upcoming events can be found on our Calendar page -