2025 Educational Residencies
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The 2025 Educational residencies for the Pierrot Chamber Music Festival for masterclasses and informal performances for Festival Participants include Terra String Quartet and Voyager Reed Quintet.
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Educational Residencies
Master Classes with Special Guest Artists
Each summer, guest artists present special master classes that focus on topics of interest to chamber musicians. Past special guest artists have included Lawrence Dutton, violist with the Emerson String Quartet, David Alan Miller, international known conductor and Music Director/Conductor of the Albany Symphony, and members of the Imani Winds. Past guest artists have included members of the Imani Winds; Erick Friedman, Elissa Lee Koljonen, Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, violinists and Timothy Eddy, cellist with the Orion String Quartet; Tara O’Connor, flutist with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Jeff Scott, hornist with Imani Winds, Erik Ralske, hornist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Richard King, principal horn of the Cleveland Symphony and Charles Barker, principal conductor of the American Ballet Theatre. Special guest artists for 2024 to be announced.
July 22nd
Terra String Quartet
Harriet Langley, violin
Amelia Dietrich, violin
Chih-Ta Chen, viola
Audrey Chen, cello
Top prizewinners at the 2025 Bordeaux and Wigmore Hall International
Quartet Competitions, the Terra String Quartet is a vibrant young international ensemble based in New York City. They are composed of graduates of The Juilliard School, The New England
Conservatory, Harvard University, and the Curtis Institute of Music. Known for their sincere storytelling, commitment to artistic excellence, and versatile approach to repertoire, TSQ strives
to foster conversation and genuine human connection through their performances and pedagogy.
TSQ is the 2024-25 fellowship Ensemble-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music, where they coach undergraduate chamber group ensembles, as well the 2024–25 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-
in-Residence at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts. They have performed at numerous festivals and venues across the world, with recent concerts at Capital Region Classical, Rockport Music, Guarneri Hall, Chamber Music Raleigh, Randolph College, and the Emilia-Romagna Festival in Italy. TSQ is invested in education and community work, having been the ‘23-24 Project Music Heals Us Arts Leadership Ensemble, and they were also chosen as the inaugural Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival’s Professional Fellowship Quartet at East Carolina University. Their mentors and coaches include the members of the Brentano Quartet, Ara
Gregorian, Hye-Jin Kim, and Marcy Rosen.
TSQ has won top prizes at the 2025 Bordeaux Quartet Competition, the 2025 Wigmore Hall Quartet Competition, the 2023 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, the 2023 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, and the 2022 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. They were also awarded the Christine and David Anderson Career Development Prize at the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition. In their spare
time, they enjoy playing Mahjong and learning about instruments and bows.
July 24th
Voyager Reed Quintet
Megan Wojtyla, oboe
Nikhil Bartolomeo, clarinet
Jarod Apple, saxophone
Miguel Posadas, bassoon
Timothy Hanley, bass clarinet
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Eclectic and versatile, Voyager Reed Quintet was formed in Brooklyn, New York in the summer of 2022. Our ensemble’s mission is inspired by the golden records aboard NASA’s Voyager
spacecraft. The quintet aims to explore the shared humanity of our players and audiences by performing music that traverses stylistic boundaries. We are inspired by the intersections of a wide variety of music, particularly that of living composers, jazz and popular music,
contemporary classical music, and older works made new to the reed quintet medium through transcriptions and arrangements. Since its inception, Voyager Reed Quintet has performed throughout the northeast, most notably
at The Juilliard School, the Imani Chamber Winds Music Festival, and Lincoln Center’s “Summer for the City” Concert Series. For 2024, the quintet was selected to be the recipient of
an Ensemble Forward Grant from Chamber Music America (supported by The New York Community Trust), allowing Voyager to expand the scope of its mission to include community outreach efforts, as well as working with composers Kevin Day, Andrew List, and Mara Keen to perform and record new works. In its second season (2023-24) the ensemble was a semifinalist at the 2024 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition and made their international debut at the International Clarinet Association conference in Dublin. Now in its third season, the Voyager Reed Quintet has completed a tour of Texas, served as the resident chamber music ensemble for
the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra, and is set to release its first full-length album in summer 2025.
In high demand as educators and clinicians, Voyager Reed Quintet has been invited to give concerts and masterclasses at Boston Conservatory, University of Houston, Texas Music
Educator’s Association Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca College, University of Delaware, and SUNY Oneonta.