The collaboration between teacher and students lasted about two years, and grew to be a more extensive and demanding chamber music course than normal. This is already evident in a document listing shared aims and objectives, which was uploaded on CANVAS in the beginning of the course period. Here, the teacher and students agreed to:

• Lay the grounds for a future chamber music career on a professional level
• Achieve extraordinary artistic results through extraordinary work effort
• Develop as flexible and initiating ensemble musicians
• Study an extended and demanding repertoire
• Extended rehearsal schedule (four hours a week, or intensive periods)
• Extended concert activity on and outside campus
• Extended course activities, including managing practical aspects of the ensemble activity, producing PR material, writing reflective texts, recording rehearsals and concerts and upload them on CANVAS, and engage in an expanded collaboration with the chamber music teacher and main instrument teachers.

These aims demonstrate high artistic ambitions and strong motivation for chamber music. Perhaps even more important, the aims signal that more value, content and activities are included in the subject compared to the minimum requirements in the course curriculum. The subject is simply re-imagined as a much more important subject.

There is now doubt that the students and teacher put in extra effort. The number of rehearsals and concerts was substantial, as was both the range of covered repertoire and the variety of additional tasks. The quintet also attended external chamber music master classes, and arranged trips together outside campus to rehearse intensively. They held concerts outside campus, and took care of programming and managed practical issues themselves.