The American Music Project is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and underwriting performances of American classical music of the past as well as selectively commissioning new works from American composers.

AMP presented Kontras Quartet concert in Chicago

In a return engagement presented by the American Music Project June 7 in Chicago, the Kontras Quartet performed a wide array of neglected American music from Amy Beach, Walter Piston, John Harbison, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Gabriella Smith.

The event garnered enthusiastic reviews from Chicago Classical Review and the Hyde Park Herald.