Education and Outreach

Education and outreach are a vital part of the mission of Quogue Chamber Music. For the past several years, we have sponsored performances by chamber music groups at local elementary schools in Quogue, East Quogue and Hampton Bays. The program has introduced hundreds of students at these schools to high-quality, live classical music. In Hampton Bays, the musicians have worked directly with the music teacher to develop programs that illustrate the concepts being taught in class. The children always have lots of questions for the performers — both about their instruments and about how they became professional musicians.

In 2020, due to the pandemic, we resorted to distributing two video programs to the schools. In 2022, Connect Five, the same woodwind quintet that created those videos, returned to perform in person, thoroughly engaging several hundred children in Hampton Bays and Quogue. This spring, the Cecilia Trio will present a program in Quogue, Hampton Bays and Riverhead, introducing many more young minds to the pleasures of chamber music.

In addition to support from our generous donors in the community, the outreach programs by Quogue Chamber Music have been supported in 2020, 2022, and again in 2024 by grants made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Huntington Arts Council, Inc.