Imagine a world without chamber music! ACMP keeps chamber music alive, not just on concert stages but in your home, local community music schools, and at the chamber music workshops you look forward to all year. Think of the friends you have made on your travels and your local community through the ACMP Directory and at events and workshops supported by ACMP.
Today, on Giving Tuesday, please play your part in supporting our international community of passionate amateur chamber players and the world’s only grants program for adult amateur chamber music. All donations, large or small, help ACMP spread and foster the singular joy of playing chamber music for pleasure.
Find workshops and events all over the world
Meet players in your area, on your travels, and online
Learn more about chamber music through our coaching grants, blog articles, online events, and social media
In supporting ACMP's mission - through your donations and advocacy, and by helping us build a worldwide community of passionate amateur chamber musicians
Apply for funding for your workshops and community programs for amateur musicians of all ages. Grants are awarded to programs offering active participatory chamber music experiences to adult amateurs and youth 13 and over
Guidelines ApplyThe Home Coaching program encourages musicians who meet regularly as a group to engage a professional coach in order to gain musical insight, develop efficient rehearsal skills and exchange musical ideas.
Guidelines ApplyACMP awards up to $500 to individuals or organizations towards expenses for public Play-Ins. A Play-In is a participatory chamber music event, where all in attendance bring their instruments and play chamber music for pleasure in small and large ensembles. Listeners are also welcome, but Play-Ins are not concerts.
Guidelines ApplyACMP awards up to $300 to help chamber music ensembles showcase work they have rehearsed and prepared in an informal concert setting. All players in the ensemble must be members of ACMP with a profile in the Directory of Chamber Musicians.
Guidelines ApplyACMP awards grants of up to $500 to membership organizations to present concerts that provide performance opportunities for multiple adult amateur chamber music ensembles.
Guidelines ApplyEach year, ACMP’s Board of Directors gives the Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award for Excellence and Diversity in Chamber Music to a chamber music organization or ensemble demonstrating an outstanding record of chamber music education to diverse communities. The award is given in honor of former ACMP Board Member and long-time newsletter editor Susan McIntosh Lloyd (1935 – 2018) and celebrates her life-long commitment to education.
Guidelines ApplySelf-rating can be tricky! But it is an essential tool to get the most of your chamber music experiences through the ACMP Directory of Chamber Musicians. Read ACMP’s handy guide to help make your assessment. And please remember: you can edit your profile and change your playing level at any time!
An easy guide to searching the ACMP directories by location.
Master Class VideoACMP’s first online master class with the Kronos Quartet on Saturday, November 12, 2022 was a success! Congratulations to the three groups from Idaho State University, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and SUNY New Paltz who performed so beautifully. Watch the November class and sign up now to play on April 15.
Watch the video of ACMP’s online workshop “How to Hold a Play-In” with panelists Peter Aupperle, Susan Alexander, Michael Knoch, Virginia Feldman, Phyllis Kaiden and Bob Myers. Get some expert tips on holding a Play-In and organize one yourself for ACMP’s 2023 Worldwide Play-In Weekend, May 19 – 21.
Violinist and educator Jill Schultz shares tips on how to find satisfying chamber music repertoire for novice-level players
CMA and ACMPChamber Music America (CMA) and ACMP are finding new ways to support one another in our shared mission of supporting the field of chamber music worldwide. In January 2023, ACMP gave its first public panel discussion at the CMA National Conference: “Coaching your Audience” on best practices for working with adult amateur musicians.
Planned GivingACMP is grateful to have received a generous bequest from the late Louise Jean Hauser Russo, who passed away on December 3, 2020 at the age of 99.
Just Play Concert VideoCalifornia ACMP members Sue Soong, Kevin Jim, Angus Davol and Julie Park perform an ambitious program of Beethoven and Gabriela Lena Frank at their concert in Albany, California, supported in part by ACMP.
Watch the video!
At a GlanceACMP is committed to helping music lovers worldwide in their efforts to keep chamber music alive over the Internet throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and beyond.
JamKazamSusan Alexander shares her insights on JamKazam with links to her user-friendly how-to guide.
