The PRISM Quartet offers a comprehensive
array
of residency services, with the goal of enriching the cultural
landscape of host communities. Services include saxophone masterclasses,
chamber music workshops, outreach concerts at centers for seniors
and the disabled, children's concerts, lecture demonstrations,
open
rehearsals, and composer forums. Residency services may range
from a single service in conjunction with a formal performance
to ten days of extensive residency programming. Services are tailored
to the needs and resources of the community and presenter.
PRISM has maintained its own Philadelphia Residency Program since
1994 with support from the NEA, Pew Charitable Trusts, the William
Penn Foundation, The Samuel S. Fels Fund, the Selmer Company,
the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and Chamber Music America. Three
institutions host the Quartet in this program:
Settlement Music School, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and
the Kardon Institute of the Arts for People with Disabilities.
The program has seen PRISM conduct over 150 services for music
students, the disabled, and elementary school children in Philadelphia's
urban Empowerment Zones.
PRISM
has also presented residency services at notable institutions
nationwide, including the Curtis Institute of Music, the Eastman
School of Music, the Oberlin Conservatory, Purdue University,
the Universities of Vermont, Illinois, Michigan, and Southern
California, the Interlochen Arts Academy, Ithaca College, Brigham
Young University, and Georgia Southern University. PRISM has conducted
long term residencies with the acclaimed Visiting Artists Series
in Davenport, Iowa, the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association in Southbend,
Indiana, and the Walden School for Young Composers in Dublin,
New Hampshire.
