Cat's Piano Quartet

Cat and her partner were winners in last year's ensemble festival and during the winners' recital they saw a piano quartet perform, and Cat loved the idea of being part of a quartet.  So Sarah put this group together from her studio.  Cat's piano partner was her duet partner last year and the two of them are the same age; the other two are siblings and are older.  The group chose to perform two pieces Mack Wilberg performed for his American Piano Quartet (whom Cat and I saw perform at BYU this summer, though MW is no longer part of the group).  They learned "Stars and Stripes Forever" and "Sicilienne" by Bach.  Stars and Stripes was the longer, harder of the two and the group spent months working on it.  They began learning Sicilienne more recently.

Just like Jack and Eliza, this group competed in the ensemble festival the week after their studio recital.  This is them warming up at Sarah's house before we went over to the competition, and a video of their judged performance, made by one of the other parents.

Alas, Cat's group was not chosen to participate in the winners' recital.  But the fact that they worked so hard to get things together (and considering how tricky it was to get all four of them together to practice at a time) and that they memorized both of those pieces, and that they really sounded great, they should be very proud.  I'm pretty sure they'll work together again next year and there's even talk of an entire quartet recital.  We'll see.

...and since I have to include a picture of all my Hogwarts students at the end of their studio recital...