Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections, 2015.196.34, Connecticut Historical Soc…

Flyer: The Bohemian Quartet

Datec. 2012

MediumPaper

ClassificationsInformation Artifacts

Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections

DescriptionEphemera relating to teaching artist Stanislaus Renard, the Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program mentor in Roma fiddle playing in Year 15 (2012-2013), with apprentice Ioanida Costache.

2015.196.34: flyer, The Bohemian Quartet

Object number2015.196.34

CopyrightIn Copyright

NotesSubject Note: The Year 15 Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship between Stanislaus Renard CT with Ioanida Costache MA focused on the unusual tradition (in the US anyway) of the techniques and repertoire of Romani fiddle playing taught by experienced Roma violinist Stan Renard to a young Romanian apprentice with Roma roots. They covered mostly the Romanian Lautari tradition of playing but also introduced Bulgarian, Turkish, and other Romani traditions as well as improvisation within the form. The apprentice spent 2014 on a Fulbright to Romania to study this music, so she learned many things that helped her prepare for the experience there. Together they gave a stellar concert of 11 traditional music pieces for the required presentation, at the Polish American Foundation headquarters in New Britain CT, and also at a Master Class at Connecticut College. Biographical Note: Stanislaus Renard is a virtuoso violin player in the Romani tradition. In his native France he began violin studies as a child, and moved to the US in 2002. He founded The Grammy-nominated Bohemian Quartet based in Providence, Rhode Island in 2005, to play and promote music of the Roma. Stan served as a mentor in the Southern New England Traditional Arts Program in 2012-2013, teaching techniques and repertoire of Romani fiddle playing to Romanian apprentice Ioanida Costache who has Roma heritage. They covered mostly the Romanian Lautari tradition of playing but also introduced Bulgarian, Turkish, and other Romani traditions as well as improvisation within the form. An experienced and dedicated educator, Stan holds the positions of Associate Dean and Associate Professor and Coordinator of Arts Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Oklahoma, and he has been the Executive Director of the Monteux School and Music Festival of Hancock, Maine. Subject Note: The Southern New England Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program is a CCHAP initiative since 1997 that fosters the sharing of community-based traditional (folk) artistic skills through the apprenticeship learning model of regular, intensive, one-on-one teaching by a skilled mentor artist to a student/apprentice. The program pairs master artists from RI, MA, or CT with apprentices from one of the other states, as a way to knit together members of the same community or group across state lines. Teaching and learning traditional arts help to sustain cultural expressions that are central to a community, while also strengthening festivals, arts activities and events when master/apprentice artists perform or demonstrate results of their cooperative learning to public audiences. The Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program at the Connecticut Historical Society manages the program in collaboration with the Folk Arts Program at the Massachusetts Cultural Council and independent folklorist Winifred Lambrecht who has a deep knowledge of the folk arts landscape of Rhode Island. Primary funding for the program comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, with support also from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, the Institute for Community Research, and the Connecticut Historical Society. Additional audio, video, and photographic materials exist in the archive relating to these artists. Cataloging Note: This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-245929-OMS-20.

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