Chicago Q Ensemble is honored to be joining the roster at the Gesher Music Festival of Emerging Artists, June 24th through July 1st. This is a festival in St. Louis, co-founded by our cellist Sara Sitzer, which connects classical chamber music with the Jewish experience. We’ll be giving performances as a quartet, and in collaboration with other Gesher artists.
Well, our 2 CDs have been released, FJORDS is a thing of the past (or is it?? stay tuned…), and summer is fast approaching. So, what next, you ask? Exciting things, to be sure! We are currently planning and rehearsing for several upcoming events…
Our CD release party on Sunday was a big moment for us. _Amy Wurtz String Quartets _is our debut album, we worked EXTREMELY hard on it, and it took a lot of ovarian fortitude to put it out there to the world. I was nervous that some mean reviewer would just tear it to pieces, because sometimes people do that. Nobody has done that. In fact, the response to the album has been great …
