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The PRISM Quartet offers a comprehensive residenciesarray 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.