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As our patron HRH the prince of Wales enjoys visiting us and helping with the charity work that we are involved in, he also enjoys listening to the quartets playing and visits us regularly. As well as HRH the Prince of Wales we have The Rt Hon Sir Adam Butler, Dr David Cohen, Sir David Ramsbotham GCB CBE, Sir Edwin Nixon CBE, Alexander Stirling and The Rt Hon The Lord Woolf of Barnes as Vice Presidents who will also try and help us to raise funds for the nurturing of young talent in this country.
HRH the Prince of Wales has been our patron for many years now and we are very proud as well as thankful of all the work he has done to help us over all this time. We always find that the prince of wales always has time to come and watch the events that we are running and he also has ideas of his own to help us and with such an illustrious person we find he is very beneficial to us from foreigh sources.
With the help of HRH, the Foundation aims to encourage and teach young players, introduce new audiences to the string quartet repertoire and take music and musicians into classrooms, particularly in underpriveleged areas.
The Jupiter String Quartet, formed at the Cleveland Institute of Music, is now based in Boston. The quartet spent 2002 performing throughout the USA and Germany at various chamber music festivals, including the Jeunesses Musicales (Weikersheim and Aub, Germany), Yellow Barn Festival (Vermont), Caramoor Festival (New York), Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival (Michigan), and Takacs String Quartet Seminar. This year, in addition to competing in the London International String Quartet Competition, it will perform concerts in St. Louis, Boston, Washington, D.C., and New Hampshire.
The quartet has studied with a number of respected chamber musicians, including the Artemis String Quartet, Shmeul Ashkenazi, Timothy Eddy, Paul Katz, Joel Krosnick, Robert Mann, Henry Meyer, the Takacs String Quartet, and Donald Weilerstein.
The quartet's members hold degrees from The Cleveland Institute of Music, The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Oberlin College/Conservatory, and Yale University. They also have attended a number of other chamber music festivals, including the Taos School of Music, The Quartet Program, Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival, the Banff Centre, and the Isaac Stern Seminar.