Meet the Composer

ETHEL performs works by five students participating in the Grand Canyon Music Festival's annual summer training program, the Native American Composers Apprentice Project, In 2001 the Grand Canyon Music Festival inaugurated the Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP), an intensive tutoring program on the art of composition for string quartet. The 2010 composers-in-residence, Raven Chacon and Trevor Reed will work with students from 5 Navajo and Hopi high schools. Those student works are then work-shopped, premiered, toured, and recorded by ETHEL, the NACAP 2010 ensemble-in-residence.