Our String Quartet

Our string quartet was formed during the summer of 2005. Valerie, Melody, Peggy and I are all members of our local symphony orchestra. The orchestra's season runs from September to May. During the summer we have nowhere to play, so we decided to meet as a string quartet. It's been a very rewarding experience! We have a lot of fun playing together and we have improved over the two years since we started. We named our group, The Harmonia Quartet, because we work together very well; we work in harmony! We have played in public only a few times. This picture shows us playing at a block party in Oak Park. Our orchestra conductor lives on this block and he invited us to play by way of promoting our orchestra concerts.


More recently we played at Fitzgerald's in Berwyn, a famous club in this area (above). However, we played for a fund-raiser! It wasn't a regular concert. But, now we can say we played there! Hardly anyone listened to us -- most people were talking as we played. Oh, well!

This picture shows Peggy and Valerie at Fitzgerald's. We like to play all kinds of classical music, including Mozart, Haydn, Borodin, Dvorak, and Shostakovitch. It's thrilling to play in a string quartet because each person can find her own musical voice, as opposed to being a part of an immense wall of sound in an orchestra. The orchestral experience is wonderful, too, in another way.

Our next performance will be in October at a church during the morning service. We are available for hire at weddings!