The Arianna String Quartet is pleased to announce the Arianna String Clinic, the region’s newest solo and chamber music performance clinic for students from 14-22 years of age. 
The mission of the ASC is to provide high school and collegiate string students with an intensive learning environment focused on chamber music and solo repertoire. The Arianna Quartet has developed a highly effective and proven curriculum that offers students innovative new tools for individual and group problem solving, methods for gaining interpretive insights, and creative rehearsal and practice techniques through informed decision-making that will empower students in their practice and performances.  Students may audition as preformed ensembles, or as individuals for placement into chamber groups.

Hailed for their outstanding musicianship, the Arianna String Quartet has firmly established itself as one of America's finest chamber ensembles. Formed in 1992, they garnered national attention by winning the Grand Prize in the 1994 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and First Prize in both the Coleman and Carmel Chamber Music Competitions.  They were also Laureates in the 1999 Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition.  The Arianna String Quartet has appeared throughout North America, Europe and Asia, including critically acclaimed debuts at Orchestra Hall in Chicago and Tokyo's Suntory Hall, and have been heard on live nationally broadcast performances in Osaka, Japan, on Canada’s CBC radio, several times as part of Chicago’s prestigious Dame Myra Hess Series, and on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” program.  Highlights for 2011 include concert tours in Brazil, South Africa and Canada.

Students may audition as individuals or in pre-formed string quartets.  For students outside the suggested age range, please contact the Arianna Quartet for extra application information.

AUDITION OPTIONS:
Live Auditions
If you would like to audition in person, we will contact you to arrange an audition time once your application is received.  Live auditions may performed without accompaniment.

Recorded auditions:
If you prefer, you may submit a high quality DVD video recording of audition repertoire.  Works composed for your instrument and piano may be performed without accompaniment. No editing within selections and no audio enhancements. Audition repertoire should be a minimum of 10 minutes of total playing time, and only complete movements (or shorter works) should be submitted. 

Audition requirements
Please prepare a representative solo work of a level of difficulty equal to, or greater than the following:

VIOLIN: Concertos by Bruch, Lalo, Mendelssohn, Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin by Bach, Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano
VIOLA: Stamitz Concerto, Bach Suites for Solo Cello (arranged for Viola), Campagnoli Caprices
CELLO: Concertos by Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Saint Saëns, Boccherini or Lalo, Bach Suites for Solo Cello, Popper Etudes
(NOTE: Choosing more difficult repertoire will not necessarily increase your odds of acceptance.  If you have any questions about your repertoire, please feel free to contact the Arianna Quartet at 314-749-4968.)

Groups that would like to be considered for the ASC as pre-formed quartets should submit a live, unedited performance DVD of two works or movements of contrasting style.

Auditions need not be professionally recorded. DVDs cannot be returned to you unless a self-addressed mailer with sufficient postage is enclosed.

Audition materials should be received by March 31st, 2012.

Please submit audition materials to along with
completed application form to:
Arianna String Quartet
Music Department
University of Missouri, St. Louis
One University Blvd.
St. Louis, MO
63121

For more information and for answers to questions, please contact the Arianna String Quartet:
Tel: 314-749-4968 / Email: cellobaldwin@gmail.com