**Immersive Residency**

#  Cali Immersive Residency: PUBLIQuartet

 

 

**PUBLIQuartet** is a multi-GRAMMY-nominated improvising string quartet known for expanding the language of chamber music. Blending classical tradition, improvisation, contemporary music and American multiculturalism, PUBLIQuartet creates performances that feel immediate, exploratory and deeply connected to the present moment.

 

  Date   Recent

- Oct 13, 2026, 12:00 - 6:30 p.m.
- Oct 14, 2026, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
- Oct 16, 2026, 12:00 - 4:30 p.m.
- Oct 17, 2026, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

 

  

 Organizer 

- [College of the Arts](/events?school%5B595%5D=595)
- [John J. Cali School of Music](/events?school%5B588%5D=588)
 
 

   

  ![PubliQuartet](/sites/default/files/styles/720x480/public/2026-06/26-27%20Immersive%20Residency%20Guests%20-%20PubliQuartet-photo-by-Lelanie-Foster.jpg?h=46a87453&itok=taDWtog5)  

 

 

    

 



**Genre-bending and Improvising String Quartet**

During their Cali Immersive Residency, PUBLIQuartet will work with students on creative collaboration, improvisation, chamber music, new music and genre-expansive performance. Their visit offers students a model for how a 21st-century ensemble can build repertoire, reimagine tradition and engage with urgent cultural questions through sound.

“A perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music.” —*The Washington Post*

## Public Events Schedule

### Tuesday, October 13, 2026

- **Business Class: Teaching Improvisation to Non-Musicians**  
    12 – 1:30 p.m.  
    Feliciano School of Business, Montclair State University
- **Improvisation Workshop: “Four Pillars”**  
    2:30 – 4 p.m.  
    Leshowitz Recital Hall, Chapin Hall, Montclair State University
- **Composition Readings**  
    4:30 – 6:30 p.m.  
    Leshowitz Recital Hall, Chapin Hall, Montclair State University

### Wednesday, October 14, 2026

**Cali Midweek Series: Immersive Residency Performance PUBLIQuartet**  
2 p.m.– 3 p.m.  
Leshowitz Recital Hall, Chapin Hall, Montclair State University  
**Reservations Recommended.**

[**Reserve Free Ticket**](https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/CALI/1631/event/1477928?eventidlist==)

A performance by the multi-GRAMMY-nominated improvising string quartet known for blending contemporary classical music with jazz, world music and other genres. This very special midweek will feature a sneak preview of PUBLIQuartet’s brand new improvisations on Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" Quartet (D. 810), followed by a discussion on their creative process. *Followed by reception in lobby.*

### Friday, October 16, 2026

- **“Hero Levels” Workshop**  
    12 – 1 p.m.  
    Leshowitz Recital Hall, Chapin Hall, Montclair State University  
    **The Hero Levels: Gamifying the Practice Room with 25 Fantasy Etudes to Slay Evil**  
    What if practicing felt like casting spells in epic boss battles? DragonScales: The Hero Levels – 25 Fantasy Etudes to Slay Evil invites string players into a fully immersive practice and performance experience where fantasy storytelling, game mechanics, and serious technique converge. In this session, Nick Revel will demonstrate how Hero Levels fuse narrative, audio play-along recordings, and progressive etudes to create a flexible and engaging educational tool for players of all levels while leaving time for group play-alongs and Q&A.  
    There are three difficulty modes of technical passages, extended techniques, workbook theory, and improvisation—while your hero character battles to slay evil.
    
    
    - Easy level is “Story” mode (Suzuki book 2-5)
    - Medium level is “Noble” mode (Suzuki book 5+)
    - Advanced level is “Legend” mode (Concerto level)
- **“Mindbody Fortitude”: Performance Anxiety and Injury Management Workshop**  
    1–2 p.m.  
    Leshowitz Recital Hall, Chapin Hall, Montclair State University  
    You've spent hours daily in the practice room refining your craft, but are you supporting and protecting the body that sustains your ability to execute?Are you training your mind to deal with the ups and downs and pressures of performances, auditions, reviews, travel, social networking, self promotion and disappointment? This class will discuss strategies for self care and building a routine that supports sustainability, mental and physical health - from performance anxiety, to exercise, breathing, injury prevention and what to do when things go sideways.
- **Chamber Music Coachings**  
    2:30–4:30 p.m.  
    Leshowitz Recital Hall, Chapin Hall, Montclair State University

### Saturday, October 17, 2026 

**Bridges Series Concert**  
7:30 p.m.  
Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, New York City  
129 West 67th Street, New York, NY 10023

[**Tickets $30**](https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/publiquartet/)

Rhythm Nation celebrates American rhythmic traditions as an expression of bodily autonomy and tacit history keeping. From the jagged grooves of **Daniel Bernard Roumain**’s *String Quartet No.1: X* (an homage to Malcolm X), to the otherworldly textures of Sun Ra’s “Interstellar Low Ways,” to the lyricism of **Duke Ellington**’s “Come Sunday,” this wide-ranging exploration will also feature movements from **Fodé Lassana Diabate**’s *Sunjata’s Time*. Each of the pieces on the program evokes a distinct rhythmic world, reflecting the plurality of American movement(s) and protecting the unspoken spirit of their lineage’s narratives.

Applauded by *The Washington Post* as “a perfect encapsulation of today’s trends in chamber music,” and by *The New Yorker* as “independent-minded,” multi-Grammy-nominated **PUBLIQuartet** is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. Hailed for their “magnetic momentum and energy” (*Feast of Music)* “thrilling immediacy” of their “boldly imaginative” playing (*BBC Music Magazine*), PubliQuartet “brings both technical mastery and freewheeling joy to their music playing” (Feast of Music). The quartet comprises Curtis Stewart and Jannina Norpoth, violin; Nick Revel, viola and Hamilton Berry, cello.

 

   Topic 

- [Arts & Culture](/events?topic%5B92%5D=92)
 
 

  Audience 

- [All Audiences](/events?audience%5B995%5D=995)
 
 

    

 

##  Current Students

View the complete list of events, including exclusive classes and workshops for Cali students on [Inside Montclair](https://inside.montclair.edu/events/cali-immersive-residency-publiquartet).

 

 

 

 

 

  

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[Fall Dance 2026](https://www.montclair.edu/events/fall-dance-2026-department-theatre-and-dance)

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- Location   Alexander Kasser Theatre
 
 

 

 



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