Quadratum intends to produce intelligent, self-reliant young people through rigorous musical doings, direct-impact service projects, and demanding expeditions. These offerings are available to elementary through high school students. Through these fundamental programs, we reëstablish experience as education; honor and stretch the capacities of able young people; and encourage rhetorical skills that contribute to their personal analytical abilities and generate lively dialogue amidst their peers. Ultimately, our members aim for balance and strength physically and intellectually.
Musically, we thoroughly cover traditional Ghanaian Drumming and Singing, and we are privileged to percuss on authentic drums carved in Ghana from native wood and skins. We also teach South Indian (Carnatic) Solkattu and both accompanied and unaccompanied choral musics ranging from 16th century polyphony to newly-composed works, including those by Quadratum director Brian Parks. Students learn the grammars and syntax of music notation such that they can competently write basic musical sentences. We play the drums frequently in educational and festival settings. And the Quadratum choral assemblage, Schola Quadratum, sings many times a year in both liturgical and concert settings. Philosophically, we teach that music goes far beyond its performed realization. We strive to understand that musical events – pitches that last an amount of time – are comprehensible…at least to a point. We’d like to approach that point.
Our students work monthly at intense service sites such as the Men’s and Women’s Extensions in Marietta ; Murphy-Harpst Children’s Center in Cedartown; and LifeLine Animal Project in Tucker (all towns in Georgia). They make meals for scores of people at a time, talk and dine with the residents and young people they serve, and do whatever tasks are asked of them at these service sites.
Our students take strenuous hikes on the regular, and once a year they go on a ski trip. This is no doubt one of the most beloved annual events in Quadratum’s calendar. In July 2026, they embarked to England for a weeklong Choral Residency at Exeter Cathedral, where they enacted daily Evensong and a Choral Eucharist all while living collaboratively, cooking for each other, and jumping off rocks into the ocean (the Brits call it Coasteering). Our next such trip is in July 2028 to St. David's Cathedral in Wales.
To recommend a young person who enjoys such doings or for any other inquiries, write us at our email address: directors@quadratum.online.
For more information, visit the Quadratum website: www.quadratum.online