National String Project Consortium (NSPC)

Robert Jesselson was the Director of the USC String Project for 15 years. When he became President of ASTA in 2000 he helped to create the National String Project Consortium (NSPC) to promote string playing and enable string players to become string teachers. In 2020 NSPC Executive Director Beth Reed and the NSPC Board decided to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the NSPC by commissioning Brian Balmages to write a piece for a Virtual Orchestra composed of string players from the 41 sites in 22 states. The piece was premiered with a live orchestra of string players and teachers, plus the video, in Orlando at the ASTA conference on March 5, 2020.

For more information about the NSPC go to www.stringprojects.org