Tetra String Quartet

Help Tetra raise $7,500 this AZ Gives Day to support the Tetra Chamber Music Institute!  

Every donation up to $2,500 made by Arizona Gives Day (April 7th) will be DOUBLED with our matching gift campaign. 

Your support will:

• Help purchase a full sized cello for our TCMI Instrument bank
• Help us keep up with instrument repairs, bow rehairs, and freshen up strings for TCMI Students
• Expand TCMI's Financial Aid program to ensure that ALL students can participate in TCMI, regardless of socioeconomic status.

Donate today and help provide essential instruments, repairs, and tuition support for TCMI students:

$50 - Set of Violin Strings 
$100 - Bow Rehair
$450 - Cello Bow
$375 - Full Summer Tuition for Financial Aid Student
$450 - Cello Case
$750 - Full Year Round Tuition for Financial Aid Student
$3,000 - Full Size Cello

Tetra's mission:

The Tetra String Quartet is an Arizona nonprofit organization that serves the community and empowers the next generation through performing and teaching chamber music.

Tetra Chamber Music Institute (TCMI)

Through Tetra's Year-Round program and two summer workshops, TCMI trains young musicians to perform in small ensembles with excellence and channel their creative strengths to effect positive change in themselves and the community. Our programs focus on each student as an individual with the goal of nurturing each participant intellectually, emotionally, and musically.

Azure Family Concerts

Free, one hour Azure events are fun, friendly, and engaging performances where families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other sensory processing disorders can enjoy live concerts.

Songwriting Workshops and Concerts at Durango Juvenile Detention Center

Tetra serves youth at the Durango Juvenile Detention Center by presenting educational concerts, collaborating with their Guitar Club, and giving workshops that introduce youth to creative writing, song structure, rhythm, and melody. Local rap artist Colby Jeffers guides participants to write lyrics for their verses and chorus, and Tetra provides the music to the songs they create while facilitating conversations between youth and staff members. This spring, the workshops will expand to include recording days, allowing youth to professionally record their songs. 

Tempe Schools Residency

Tetra partners with the Tempe Union High School District to bring their chamber music curriculum to thousands of Title One middle and high school students. 

Educational concerts through Act One and the Musical Instrument Museum

Every year, Tetra presents free educational concerts for thousands of students from the Phoenix-metro area through partnerships with Act One, The Orpheum Theater, and the Musical Instrument Museum.

Friendship Village Artists in Residence

Since 2012, Tetra performs 16 concerts a year at Friendship Village in Tempe. They visit residents in memory care, the health care center, assisted living, and the general population.