The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music has received a $12,000 grant, which will allow the organization to host a series of concerts in alternative spaces and introduce new audiences to chamber music.
Apple Hill is one of only eight chamber music ensembles to receive a grant from Chamber Music America’s 2016 Residency Partnership Program. The grant program supports ensembles and presenters in building appreciation for chamber music through community-based residencies.
Beginning in the fall and continuing through spring, the Apple Hill String Quartet will perform 10 concerts for diverse audiences at a variety of alternative locations: a small town country store; a major medical facility associated with Dartmouth College; for senior citizens at a retirement facility; for elementary, middle and high school students in the Monadnock region; for physically challenged and teenagers with disabilities at a residential facility; for diverse youth at Boston’s Project STEP; and for community activists and business professionals through Rotary Club presentations. These events will be free and open to the public, but targeted specifically to the clientele associated with each venue.
Director Lenny Matczynski said, “I’m so pleased that Chamber Music America is supporting something that Apple Hill has always believed in — free concerts in alternative spaces so that we can introduce new audiences to chamber music.”