Community Engagement
Within our hometown of Columbus, OH and wherever else music may take us, Carpe Diem is passionate about sharing music to nourish communities. Carpe Diem regularly performs programs designed to relate specifically to audiences of all demographics, communicating the relevance of chamber music to their lives. Scroll down to discover how Carpe Diem can enrich your hometown.
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Free performances at senior communities, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, hospice centers, hospitals, Alzheimer care units, and incarcerated populations.
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Up close and personal—the quartet interacts with K-12 students, a musical experience for the entire classroom! Carpe Diem also works with school string programs in side-by-side, sectional, masterclass, and individual instruction settings.
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Concerts for children at Head Start Centers offering a quality musical experience to preschool-aged children—at no charge to the facility or parents.
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Concerts of intimate, interactive music making. With the younger listener in mind, Carpe Diem engages the audience with playful musical selections, discussion, and Q&A.
“The Carpe Diem String Quartet was generous to donate their time and visit my 6th-grade students via zoom. My students had little background knowledge about classical music, and the quartet did an excellent job of engaging them at the very start of the visit by demonstrating the sounds that each string instrument can make, from the high squeak of a violin to the low groan of the cello. They played a wide variety of concert clips for my students, from fiddle to classical, to show the breadth of possibility for a quartet and the range of each instrument. Throughout the presentation, they explained their setup as a quartet, why they choose to stand as they play, and the technology they use to read sheet music. At the end of the presentation, my students were excited to learn about each musician's journey - what encouraged them to start playing music, what they remembered about their very first concerts, and how they persevered through years of difficult practice.”
~Emma Lattes, E.L. Haynes Public Charter School, Washington D.C.
