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Read our blog from our Summer 2014 trip to Bolivia and Brazil
Read our blog from our Summer 2014 trip to Afghanistan
View our photo scrapbook from our 2013 trip to Bolivia

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Afghanistan Outreach 2014
Afghanistan National Institute of Music

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Two members of Cuatro Puntos are being sent by the United States Embassy to teach at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul for 4 weeks in 2014. 

The Afghanistan National Institute of Music was founded in 2009 to help rebuild the musical culture of the country after many years where all types of music were entirely banned under an oppressive regime. The school primarily educates street kids- those who previously sold items on the streets to support their families. These students are given the opportunity to receive a rounded education centered in music. The musicians of Cuatro Puntos are honored to have been selected to be a part of this important work rebuilding a war-torn country through music. 

Commission of new composition for Afghanistan National Institute of Music

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Dr. Sadie Harrison
Cuatro Puntos has commissioned United Kingdom- based composer Sadie Harrison to write a piece of music for viola and rubab to be premiered at a concert in Kabul, Afghanistan. This piece will represent the peaceful and equal co-existence of our two cultures. The juxtaposition of the viola, a uniquely western instrument, with the rubab, the national instrument of Afghanistan, represents the ideal of how both cultures can mingle and interact in constructive ways, while still maintaining their uniqueness. This piece will be premiered in Kabul by American violist Kevin Bishop and a young rubab student from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. The piece will be published by the University of New York Press. Click here for more information.

South America 2014

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Cuatro Puntos Global Outreach-
Concert/Education Tour of South America


Concerts and workshops to be given in Brazil, Bolivia, and other countries

Participating musicians: Mary Matthews, Steve Larson, Annie Trépanier, Aaron Packard, Pablo Issa Skaric, Kevin Bishop, Holly Bishop, Brandon Norton, Joshua Horsch




Bolivia Tour 2013

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Cuatro Puntos Global Outreach-
Concert/Education Tour of Bolivia
August 25 - September 7, 2013

Five musicians from Cuatro Puntos performed concerts on prestigious international festivals and taught masterclasses with local students.  Visit our "Bolivia Tour 2013" to see all we did, and watch our video of a performance at the Jornadas de Música Contemporánea 2013, complete with photos of our workshops with Las Orquestas Sinfónicas de Tarija and at the Institute Laredo in Cochabamba.

Participating musicians and teachers: Pablo Issa Skaric, Mary Matthews, Kevin Bishop, Holly Bishop, Josh Horsch


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