The Leonard Bernstein Award is given to one composer each year by the Bernstein family. Will Healy, Midsummer Music’s current composer-in-residence, received the 2023 Leonard Bernstein Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation. Created in 1988, the award honored Leonard Bernstein on his 70th birthday…. [Read More]

The 2024 Winter Strings Retreat is a musical journey that features the Suzuki Strings of Madison and the Griffon’s lesson program students from Green Bay and Door County. The Griffon String Quartet’s founding mission of providing music education to youth and underserved children in northeast Wisconsin was the pivotal catalyst… [Read More]

Midsummer Music’s resident string quartet performs Beethoven, Dvořák, and holiday favorites. The Griffon String Quartet, hailed for its “superb playing, palpable chemistry, spirit, and emotional connection,” will perform four pay-what-you-can holiday concerts in Green Bay and Door County. Featured musicians are Roy Meyer and Alex Norris, violins, Oryann Tsaig, viola,… [Read More]

Funds support the quartet’s work with marginalized communities in interactive programs. Midsummer’s Music’s resident string quartet, the Griffon String Quartet, received its second generous grant from Project: Music Heals Us to support its work with marginalized residents in Door County. The award targets those who may not have access to… [Read More]

November 2023   Dear Friend of the Griffon String Quartet, Growing up in the Midwest, as soon as the calendar turned to October, I became gleeful with anticipation of the upcoming holidays. Of course, Halloween was fun, giving me a chance to imagine a costume, create a haunted house in… [Read More]