For the past five years, young composers who are out on their own for the first time and discovering what it means to be professional have found themselves invited to spend a week at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. The seven-day workshop centers on a string quartet that each young composer has written especially for Santa Fe, and also includes rehearsals and discussions with the Flux Quartet and finally performances of the new works in a Festival concert.
The Festival's Artistic Director, composer Marc Neikrug, says the Young Composers String Quartet Project was designed for young people out of the university and halfway into the professional world. "I'm looking for the ones that have come to a level where they can work with professionals, and quickly, and the ones who show real promise, real talent, real profundity."
