Cuatro Puntos ("four points" in Spanish) is a non-profit organization that works to amplify persecuted, silenced or underrepresented musicians and their unique styles of music. Based in Connecticut, Cuatro Puntos is the parent organization for the performing group Cuatro Puntos Ensemble, and incorporates this flexible ensemble into many projects. Cuatro Puntos’ work is long-term project based, and projects often last many years. A project usually consists of a partnership with a musician or musical group who considers their art form as silenced, persecuted, or underrepresented. Through logistical and financial support, and often via musical partnerships with our permanent ensemble, Cuatro Puntos develops opportunities to spotlight the underrepresented musician or art form. The material results of a project vary, but they most often include: a recorded album (distributed on an international label), live concerts, commissions of new music, video projects, and music creation based on an intercultural dialogue model.
Our album discography chronicles our most in-depth projects, and are published on Naxos, Toccata Classics, Métier, and Arkadash labels:
This year's coming album releases include:
The quality of our work has been praised around the world, with airtime on NPR, BBC, and glowing reviews by Fanfare Magazine. Cuatro Puntos Ensemble, in its various formats, has performed extensively throughout the United States as well as in Bolivia, Brazil, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Afghanistan as they work alongside underrepresented musicians. Tracks from our albums have been included on the soundtrack for films produced in England, Australia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and our organization has presented at prestigious universities such as New England Conservatory (Boston), Columbia University (New York), Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (Germany), and Goldsmiths College (London).
Cuatro Puntos is a 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in 2012 in Hartford, Connecticut. It is run by a board of volunteers and is led by founding executive director Kevin Bishop.
We invite you to explore our website to experience our projects. You may interact by listening to our albums or watching our videos. If you are in New England (or an area where we are touring), you can join us at a live concert.
Connect with us!
Facebook: CuatroPuntosChamberMusic
Instagram: CuatroPuntos.CT
Youtube: CuatroPuntosChamberMusic
Spotify: Cuatro Puntos
Phone: 860-498-3279
Email: Executive Director - [email protected]
Our album discography chronicles our most in-depth projects, and are published on Naxos, Toccata Classics, Métier, and Arkadash labels:
- Ji bo sê kes çay (preserving traditional Kurdish music)
- Through The Eyes of Children (highlighting American middle school students who speak out against youth violence)
- Ameen Mokdad’s The Curve and The Curve Live From Hartford (highlighting musical oppression by extremists in Iraq)
- Jaipur to Cairo (underrepresented composers/genres of the Middle East)
- Sounds of Persia (traditional and modern Persian music for santur & strings by Reza Vali)
- Rosegarden of Light (partnering with young musicians in Afghanistan)
- Sounds of the Silk Road (improvised maqaam music)
- Unsilenced (music recorded in 2023 by Afghan musicians who are in hiding inside the country.)
This year's coming album releases include:
- Contemporary Ukrainian Composers (commissioned composers inside Ukraine who wrote their works in 2022 and 2023)
- Songs of Love & War (music by Afghan composer/pianist Arson Fahim, and played by him with Cuatro Puntos Ensemble)
- Uncaged (Sadie Harrison & women poets in Afghanistan)
- Symphony of Resilience (orchestral music by Afghan composers)
- Coming Home (David Macbride about diversity in Hartford)
- From The Countryside (Kurdish music alongside folk classical standards)
The quality of our work has been praised around the world, with airtime on NPR, BBC, and glowing reviews by Fanfare Magazine. Cuatro Puntos Ensemble, in its various formats, has performed extensively throughout the United States as well as in Bolivia, Brazil, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Afghanistan as they work alongside underrepresented musicians. Tracks from our albums have been included on the soundtrack for films produced in England, Australia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and our organization has presented at prestigious universities such as New England Conservatory (Boston), Columbia University (New York), Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (Germany), and Goldsmiths College (London).
Cuatro Puntos is a 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in 2012 in Hartford, Connecticut. It is run by a board of volunteers and is led by founding executive director Kevin Bishop.
We invite you to explore our website to experience our projects. You may interact by listening to our albums or watching our videos. If you are in New England (or an area where we are touring), you can join us at a live concert.
Connect with us!
Facebook: CuatroPuntosChamberMusic
Instagram: CuatroPuntos.CT
Youtube: CuatroPuntosChamberMusic
Spotify: Cuatro Puntos
Phone: 860-498-3279
Email: Executive Director - [email protected]
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
Cuatro Puntos is dedicated to amplifying silenced, persecuted & underrepresented musicians and their unique styles of music.
Cuatro Puntos is dedicated to amplifying silenced, persecuted & underrepresented musicians and their unique styles of music.
At a time when we are bombarded every day by images of the world in crisis, The Rosegarden of Light is a joyful celebration of musicians who share a fundamental right to express themselves through the universal language of music.”
- Blackmore Vale Magazine, review of The Rosegarden of Light album