The Ebony Strings Quartet, comprised of Stephanie Matthews and Naira Underwood (violins), Adiza Sanchez-Rahim (viola), and Hugh Lesure (cello), was established at The Juilliard School in 2006. The quartet strives to achieve the highest level of musicianship and is dedicated to exploring new works. String quartet works have been commissioned by composers Cristina Spinei, Ulysses Owens, Ricardo Romaneiro, and Tarik Ghiradella. Most recently, the quartet was invited to debut Cristina Spinei’s Strung Along at the New York Choreographic Institute at Lincoln Center. Other notable performances include performing at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, Alice Tully Hall, the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas, and a guest appearance at the Treetops Chamber Music Series in Stamford, Connecticut. The Ebony Strings has participated in the Chamber Music Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where they worked with the internationally acclaimed Chiara String Quartet. The ensemble has also worked with members of the Juilliard String Quartet, Guarneri String Quartet, and Mendelssohn String Quartet. The group has been featured in the Houston Sun Times and has made numerous television appearances, including a performance on NBC's The Today Show. In 2007, the Ebony Strings was invited to perform for the Black Girls Rock! Awards hosted by DJ Beverly Bond in conjunction with VH1's Hip-Hop Honors at the Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater. The Ebony Strings Quartet is devoted to supporting and developing numerous educational and outreach programs throughout New York City and the tri-state area. The quartet is in residence at the Queensborough Community College - CUNY in Bayside, New York. They were recently invited by the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society to conduct presentations at the W. W. Smith Humanities Magnet School and the Catherine Street Community Center in Poughkeepsie, New York. Members of this dynamic ensemble can be cited for working with a wide array of noteworthy artists across all genres of music, including Bonnie Hampton, Fred Sherry, Itzhak Perlman, Arnold Steinhardt, PJ Morton, Diane Monroe, Karen Clark-Sheard, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Wynton Marsalis, Nas, Fabolous, Kanye West, Regina Carter, Lalah Hathaway, Kelly Price, Tony Williams, Seymour Lipkin, Kim Burrell, Donnie McClurkin, and Richard Smallwood.
HI THANKS FOR THE ADD ON, YOUR SOUND IS OUTSTANDING I ALSO PLAY THE HARP JUST STARTED BACK AFTER YEARS OF NOT PLAYING. AND I..M ALSO LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO GO TOO TOUCH UP ON MY PLAYING. I LOVE THE PAGE KEEP PLAYING YOUR HEART..S OUT AND MAY GOD BLESS EVERYTHING YOU DO.
Thanks so much for the Add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends! We've just added two new blogs about Umano, plus four more new compositions, making ten on our space. We hope you and your friends visit us and enjoy our music, too. We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy. Although it's not an original thought, it also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other. We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large. What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
Hello Ebony Strings, I hope all is well! Your true potential your motivation and determination make you- unqestionable Up we rise like a rose in a cold city! May your week be filled with motivation and determination! XX~
Your true potential
Even though you were delt a dark hand The strides you will make are unaniable your motivation and determination make you- unqestionable Your possibilities and your end are but to- grand Your true potential
Seeing only the bad never seeing it all Intimidated by everything you never had Made to fill unequal or limited by statics- stated But a true reality saves us before we fall Our true potential
What a beautiful video! It's great to get to see what you all do. As a classical singer it's a goal of mine to collaberate with a string ensemble; i dont know if there is anything more beautiful than when artist come together to inspire the world around them.
Thanks for being my Myspace friend's, and i hope that one day are path's will intersect to work together.
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