- Um, I think anything outside of music
that members bring to a group can be useful.
The various gifts that people have,
I think every group is different, but...
For instance, in our group,
our cellist, Greg Beaver, who's also a Rice graduate,
had started his degree program here as an undergraduate,
as a double major with music and computer science.
So, he's been very happy to use his skills
to develop our website for instance,
which is www.kiaraquartet.net,
to basically promote us on the web,
which is incredibly important nowadays.
I'm the group finance person,
so I had to learn a little bit about accounting.
I'm still working with that.
Becca is our contact person.
She's wonderful with sending out cards and emails
and all that kind of thing.
And Julie maintains our library of music
and does our scheduling.
So, we all have important jobs.
We're also always trying to take
the things that we care about personally,
and be able to somehow contribute them
to the work of the group,
which is fun.
I'm also trying to start, for instance,
to do some graphic design work on the side,
but I'm hoping that that will help us
to save some money as well as a group.