Curiosity Concert -- 2 Family Programs This Weekend in Greenwich

The Greenwich Alliance for Education has received a matching grant of $4,768 from the CT Office of the Arts to bring a New Haven-based quartet — the Haven String Quartet — to lead a master class with Tuning In To Music Students and perform a free family concert at Greenwich Library.

The Alliance is delivering this program in partnership with the Greenwich Arts Council’s Curiosity Concerts, Music Haven, Greenwich Library, and Connecticut School of Music. All of the organizations are contributing to the program’s full budget.

The master class was given to dozens of students who participate in the Tuning In To Music, a project of the Greenwich Alliance for Education, that provides free private and semi-private instrumental music lessons for students in grades 4 through 12 who could not otherwise afford music lessons. The overall goal of the program is being realized as students from underrepresented populations are joining the GPS flagship ensembles in middle and high school. Annually Tuning In To Music funds lessons for nearly 70 students during the school year, culminating in a year end recital.

Select students have been invited to perform with the Haven String Quartet in a public recital on Nov. 7, at 1 p.m. at Greenwich Library’s Cole Auditorium.

The student concert will be followed by a free family concert at 2 p.m. Saturday featuring the Haven String Quartet.

That family concert is free but reservations are required and may be made at www.CuriosityConcerts.org.