We make good use of our living room and kitchen for our rehearsal and planning space.ĬM: We’re gone two-thirds of the time on the road, so when we’re here we have to fit in recording sessions, making videos, working out new tunes. TW: We all live together in one apartment. How much time do you all invest in rehearsing separately and when collaborating? Well-Strung collaborates with many other kinds of artists including Gay Chorus groups. TW: Yes, otherwise I wouldn’t have pursued music, even privately. The quartet Well-StrungĬM: Fourth grade for me! We’re both very grateful for the public school systems we went to because they had those programs, and you find that less and less now. Who is it really serving? Anyway, I realized Well-Strung was a good opportunity for performing and entertaining in a new way. I respect that, but I was getting nervous that it was an over-saturated industry. One of my issues with music academia was that most of the people in it weren’t drawn to performing or entertaining people, and people felt self righteous to keep the craft alive. I was working in an investment bank when I heard about Well-Strung performing. There were two or three years that I left it completely. Trevor Wadleigh: I first moved to NY to pursue a Master’s of Music at Manhattan School of Music, but then I didn’t go! I decided I didn’t want to do music, but apparently here I am doing music.

What brought you to NYC? “Amazing Race” photo by John Paul Filo at CBS Exceptionally charming and thoughtful, Chris and Trevor talk about their competitive natures, musical backgrounds, and meaningful friendship While the four friends in the Well-Strung quartet live together in NYC, including musicians Edmund Bagnell and Daniel Shevlin, Chris and Trevor took an intermission to pursue their dreams of competing on The Amazing Race. Initially YouTube sensations, Well-Strung found fame in the world of social media with a Classical meets Contemporary fusion and have performed at many LGBT Pride festivals as well as for Hillary Clinton, former President Obama, and the Vatican. Chris Marchant and Trevor Wadleigh of Well-Strung, a New York City based quartet, found passage from the strings of their instruments into the strands of competition in The Amazing Race.

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