String Quartet Intensive

JUNE 22–28, 2025

Ages 11–18

The Walnut Hill String Quartet Intensive provides advanced young string players an exceptional week of coachings, master classes, and a private lesson with inspiring faculty dedicated to each student’s growth. Students are placed in a string quartet according to age and level and will work extensively on two pieces from different eras, culminating in a performance at the end of the week. This year our renowned faculty includes Jennifer Elowitch, Julia Glenn, Christine Grossman, and Kee-Hyun Kim. Please see bios below.

The String Quartet Intensive takes place on the beautiful campus of Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA, outside of Boston.

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About the Program

Details

Students will participate in one string quartet throughout the week.
Each quartet will study two works—one classical, and one from a later period.
Repertoire will be assigned in advance.
Each string quartet will receive two coaching sessions per day from different faculty members.
One hour-long private lesson is included with tuition.
The week will also include masterclasses and social activities.
Accepting applications for violin, viola, and cello.

Auditions

Recorded auditions are required for all applicants. The deadline is March 1, 2025.

Please upload two videos directly to SLIDEROOM.
Please record two movements—one each from different musical periods (i.e.: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century, or Contemporary)
Recordings from a recent recital or performance are suitable if the material meets the requirements above.
Recordings made on smartphones are also accepted. Please use the following guidelines when recording:
- Record in landscape mode, in a room with good lighting and acoustics and no background noise.
- Label the file with your name, the name of the piece, and composer
- Submissions can be recorded with or without accompaniment

Current Walnut Hill students or returning String Quartet Intensive students do not need to submit a video.

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Tuition & Fees

Faculty

Jennifer Elowitch

Violinist Jennifer Elowitch is Director of Music at Walnut Hill School for the Arts, where she was the recipient of the E. E. Ford Faculty Award for Exceptional Merit in 2016 and 2021. Co-Founder and Artistic Director Emerita of the Portland Chamber Music Festival in Maine, she is the Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and performs often with the Boston Symphony.

Julia Glenn

Violinist and Boston native Julia Glenn '07 recently joined the Naumburg-winning Lydian String Quartet and the faculty of Brandeis University after teaching for three years at the Tianjin Juilliard School in China, where she served as violin and music theory faculty and was a member of the Tianjin Juilliard Ensemble. Julia is a graduate of Walnut Hill School for the Arts, New England Conservatory, Harvard University, and Juilliard’s C.V. Starr doctoral program.

Christine Grossman

Born and raised in New York City, Christine Grossman began playing the violin at the age of five, piano at the age of ten, and viola at sixteen. She received both her Bachelors and Masters degrees in viola performance from the Juilliard School. Ms. Grossman served as the Principal Violist with the Kansas City Symphony from 2008 until 2019. Before moving to Kansas City, Ms. Grossman previously held positions with the Pacific Symphony in Southern California, Opera Pacific, Delaware Symphony, and was a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Grossman was formerly in the California Quartet, based in San Diego. Notable performances and festival appearances include Portland Chamber Music Festival (ME), Laguna Beach Music Festival (CA), Great Lakes Music Festival (MI), Festival Mozaic (CA), Emerald City Music Festival (WA), Breckenridge Music festival, Colorado Music Festival, Kingston Chamber Music Festival (RI), and Missouri River Festival of the Arts. Recent collaborations include a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall with Ensemble Ibérica, as well as solo appearances with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra and Kinnor Philharmonic. Ms. Grossman was the viola professor at the International Center for Music at Park University in Parkville, MO, from 2013 until 2019.

Kee-Hyun Kim

Cellist Kee-Hyun Kim ‘01 is a founding member of the Grammy-Award winning Parker String Quartet, Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University and winners of both the Cleveland Quartet Award and first prize at the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition. Mr. Kim is a graduate of Walnut Hill School for the Arts and New England Conservatory, where his principal teachers were Paul Katz and Laurence Lesser.

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Questions? Please contact Jennifer Elowitch at jelowitch@walnuthillarts.org.

Walnut Hill School for the Arts reserves the right to cancel a course that fails to meet the required minimum enrollment. All payments are due in full at the time of registration and non-refundable. Refunds will only be issued in the event of program cancellation due to low enrollment.

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