Every summer, Interlochen Arts Camp's Advanced String Quartet program welcomes high school musicians who focus on learning complete string quartets.
The 16 students are divided into four quartets, and each quartet learns one movement of a four-movement string quartet by a major composer.
During the first half of camp, this summer's Advanced String Quartet students learned a quartet by Franz Joseph Haydn.
During the second half, they learned a quartet by Felix Mendelssohn.
Hear each quartet perform its individual movement of the quartet on demand below.
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet in A minor (op. 13)
Quartet 1
Kana Aihara, violin I, Roseville, MN
Ingrid Buschkopf, violin II, West Allis, WI
Adele Kelley, viola, Glendale, CA
Benjamin Gruenbaum, cello, Cos Cob, CT
Quartet 2
Minji Kim, violin I, Ann Arbor, MI
Hugo Chen, violin II, Taipei, Taiwan
Amanda Wu, viola, Bellevue, WA
Jacqueline Yang, cello, London, UK
Quartet 3
Ian Jiang Johnson, violin I, Hsin Chu City, Taiwan
Vladimir Tsiper, violin II, Eagan, MN
Delia Zacks, viola, St. Louis, MO
Max Salzinger, cello, Carmel, IN
Quartet 4
Kaitlyn Lien, violin I, San Antonio, TX
Fanglin Yuan, violin II, Yorktown Heights, NY
Christopher Johnson, viola, Snellville, GA
Adam Zeithamel, cello, Iowa City, IA
The quartets are coached by Alex Shiozaki, Lenny Schranze, Tim Shiu and Alan Rafferty.
Michael Culler engineered the audio recordings with support from Eli Braddock, Matthew Clark, Alex Hagopian and Stefan Wiebe.
