CHAMPS Informance-November 6th, 2011

Austin is extremely lucky to have a program like CHAMPS (Chamber Music in Public Schools). This unique program offers free weekly chamber music coachings, and bi-annual concerts to thirteen public middle schools and high schools in the Austin area for free. We have been fortunate enough to coach for the CHAMPS program for the last two years. Working with our students at Anderson High School and Akins High School every week has been a pleasure and a very rewarding experience for us as coaches.

Last Sunday, we participated in an "informance" with Will Fedkenheuer of the Miro Quartet, Aiana String Quartet, our students at Akins High School, and students from Murchison Middle School. We had the opportunity to coach our string quartet from Akins High School, and then perform and receive a coaching from Will Fedkenheuer, all in front of an audience.

Here is a photo of us with our students from Akins High School after the performances:

From left to right: D'Auriel, Marina, Sarah, Justin, Alyssa, Jesus, Willie, and Jose
(thank you to Alyssa's mom for the photo!)


To learn more about the CHAMPS program, or the Salon Concert series, you can visit this website: http://salonconcerts.org/