All Posts A-Z
- Chamber Music for Novice-level Players
- “Fall Worldwide Play-In” grant cycle now open!
- Creating a Culture of Listening: Exploring Conscious Listening Workshops with Steinway Artist Hsing-ay Hsu
- 2017 Worldwide Chamber Music Workshop Guide
- 2017 Worldwide Play-In Brings Players Together Across the Globe
- 2018 ACMP Worldwide Chamber Music Workshop Guide
- 2018 Worldwide Play-In Weekend – Let the Playing Begin!
- 2019 Livestream Masterclass – Explore Tango Rhythms & Debussy Quartet Without Leaving Home!
- 2021 Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award: The Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music
- 2022 Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award: The Music Conservatory of Westchester
- 2022 Worldwide Play-In: International Highlights
- 2022 Worldwide Play-In: U.S. Highlights
- 2023 Worldwide Play-In Weekend: May 19-21
- 2024 Worldwide Play-In Events
- 25% ACMP Discount for Tamarack Arts: August 12 – 15
- 70 Years of ACMP – A Nod to Our Founder, Helen B. Rice
- 8 ways for violinists to improve posture – from The Strad
- A Broken-Hearted Matt Haimovitz Laments his Goffriller’s Broken Neck
- A conversation with filmmaker Hilan Warshaw
- A Musician’s Puzzle
- A new way to support ACMP: Holiday Shopping!
- A new website and free membership for all
- A Space for Everyone
- A special birthday gift: a newly commissioned chamber work!
- A Tribute to Candice Chin (1976 – 2022)
- A Wonderful Day of Chamber Music at MCW!
- ACMP – Livestream Masterclass: Learn chamber music without leaving the house
- ACMP 2023 Giving Report
- ACMP 75th Anniversary Worldwide Play-In Weekend: May 13-15, 2022
- ACMP and CMA: Partners in chamber music!
- ACMP Announces 2nd sponsored ensemble for From the Top with Christopher O’Riley
- ACMP appoints Stephanie Griffin as Executive Director
- ACMP at the CMA National Conference
- ACMP Board and Outreach Councils Look to the Future
- ACMP Board Member Marjana Rutkowski receives the title of Emeritus Citizen of Porto Alegre
- ACMP Fall Updates 2019
- ACMP Field Trip – A Time to Meet Members and Make New Partnerships
- ACMP Film Club: “Through the Darkness”
- ACMP Film Club: A Late Quartet
- ACMP Foundation Announces the Return of the Community Music Program
- ACMP Honors Kitty Benton with the Helen Rice Award
- ACMP Honors the Founder of IMSLP Public Domain Music Library
- ACMP Listening Club: Brahms Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34
- ACMP Listening Club: Demystifying Charles Ives with violinist Gregory Fulkerson on Sunday, December 8 at 2pm ET
- ACMP Listening Club: Schubert Octet in F major, D. 803
- ACMP member adventures in Ecuador
- ACMP member cycles around the world with her dog, violin and ACMP directory!
- ACMP Member Discount for Early Music Week in New Hampshire: July 25-28
- ACMP Member Discount for Inside Music Academy
- ACMP Member Home devastated in Colorado Fire
- ACMP Members’ Holiday Music Gatherings
- ACMP Presents Its First Interactive Live Stream Chamber Music Masterclass – exploring Piazzolla and Prokofiev
- ACMP Receives Grant from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
- ACMP Representatives Gather in the Netherlands
- ACMP Sponsors FROM THE TOP with Christopher O’Riley
- ACMP Spring/Summer 2018 Newsletter
- ACMP Supports From the Top on NPR and Spreads the Word About ACMP
- ACMP supports the Afghan National Institute of Music
- ACMP Updates – Announcing the 2018-19 Season
- ACMP Updates – Announcing the 2019-20 Season
- ACMP Updates – Fall 2018
- ACMP Virtual Worldwide Play-In: March 20 & 21, 2021
- ACMP’s Going Places Program Brings U.S. & International Players Together in Tokyo, Japan
- Amateurs and Contemporary Music: The Prevailing Winds
- AMCP Eighth Annual Worldwide Play-in Weekend, March 7 & 8, 2020!
- An ACMP Love Story
- An Interview with the Dalí Quartet: Winners of the 2023 Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award
- An orchestra that lives up to the ideals of the United Nations
- Announcing a New Partnership with SHAR Music
- Announcing the 2018 Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award
- Announcing the 2019 ACMP Worldwide Chamber Music Workshop Guide
- Announcing the 2019 Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award
- Announcing the 2022 Holiday Caption Contest Winners!
- Announcing the 2023 Holiday Caption Contest Winners!
- Announcing the 2024 Worldwide Play-In Weekend: May 17-19
- Another flying cellist lands in Ecuador
- Arts Council England Announces Broader Focus for Arts Funding
- ATTN ACMP WINDS: 20% discount on The Imani Winds Chamber Music Festival this August!
- Away, Away to the UK
- Breakfast with Joshua Bell on May 9 in NYC: 15 Free Tickets for ACMP Members
- Ca Tombe Bien (it all worked out in the end). String quartet parts reunite?
- Calvin Wiersma class on Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time”: Sunday, April 7, 3pm ET
- CAMMAC receives the 2024 Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award
- CelloBello Website Offers Extensive Resources for the Dedicated Cellist
- Chamber Music Brings Young Musicians Together
- Chamber Music Fridays at the 92nd Street Y starts up again on February 4, 2022
- Chamber Music in France! The Trouville-sur-Mer Workshop Report
- Chamber Music Master Class in DC
- Chamber Music Workshops Look to the Internet in 2020
- Classical Music World Worries Over Clampdown On Trade In Rosewood
- Commissioned Chamber Music Work for ACMP
- Connecting the generations through music
- Debussy and Zarvos -The Music of the 2019 ACMP Livestream Masterclass
- Dutch Treat: ACMP to the Rescue!
- Dvorák Cello Conversion Kit
- Dvořák: The Chamber Music Survey with Martinů Quartet
- ECUADOR, MEXICO AND SPAIN: WINE & FRIENDSHIP
- Eighth Annual ACMP Worldwide Play-In 2020 – Reports
- English Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams Born On This Day in 1872
- Eugene Drucker and Hilan Warshaw discuss “Secret Song”
- Even Classical Music Is Getting Faster These Days
- Explore Schubert’s Octet with Peter Fender
- Featured ACMP Member Michael Knoch
- Featured ACMP Member Virginia Feldman
- Floryse Bennett (1946 – 2020) – a remarkable ACMP member!
- For ACMP Member and Retired CEO, Music is the Fountain of Youth
- Giving Back to the Community: ACMP and Music for Food
- GO FOR BAROQUE……an early music workshop in NYC
- Hand-written Chopin Score Bought by Warsaw Museum
- Happy Halloween! “From the Top” Young Musicians share some Scary Fun
- Harmonizing Decades: A 2024 Follow-up to our 1996 Quartet session
- Hausmann Quartet Livestream Concert sponsored by the SoCal Chamber Music Workshop
- Historic Bassoon Brings Two Generations of Musicians Together for a Special Concert in Palo Alto
- Holocaust Survivor Gives the Gift of Music to Bronx Schoolgirl
- Home Coaching Report: David Yang in Belgium
- Honoring our History – Remembering Clinton B. Ford
- How to convert a Merton Music 2-up Booklet to a Single-Page PDF
- How to Hold a Play-In
- How to hold a Play-In: January 28, 2023, 2pm ET on Zoom
- How to put on a great adult chamber music workshop
- Imperfect Pitch – Excerpts From an ACMP Member’s Anecdotes on a Familiar Obsession
- In memoriam: John Dexter, longtime coach and former violist of the Manhattan String Quartet
- Inaugural Concert – ACMP Villa Musica Chamber Music Club, San Diego, CA
- Inside Music Academy Book Club Starts July 2, 2022
- Introducing new IAC Chair, Sean Knox
- JamKazam: Playing Chamber Music Over the Internet – For Real!
- Join ACMP at the CMA National Conference in Houston, February 13-16, 2025
- Just Play – ACMPs new micro-grant program – makes its first grant
- Just Play Concert: ACMP Members in California perform Beethoven and Gabriela Lena Frank
- Kitty Benton and the Return of “The Flying Cellist”
- Kronos Quartet “50 for the Future” Online Masterclasses: Saturday, November 12, 2022 and Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 2pm Eastern on Zoom
- Kronos Quartet Master Class Live-Stream and Repertoire
- Kronos Quartet Master Class Repertoire Reveal:
- Kronos Quartet Second Master Class: Saturday, April 15
- Last-minute opportunity for Advanced Cellists: Full-Scholarship to Music Mountain’s Chamberfest (July 4 – 9)
- Learn to Improvise with Bassist Hilliard Greene
- Legendary violinist Kyung Wha Chung’s top tips for musicians
- List your Summer or Fall Workshop in the CMA Directory of Festivals, Schools and Workshops
- Live Stream Tango Quartet Masterclass Feb 10
- Location search: By proximity? Or in a specific location?
- Love at First Note
- Luke Fleming’s online Chamber Music Master Class: Sunday, June 26, 2pm EDT on Zoom
- Making Time for Making Music – Amy Nathan Discusses Her New Book with ACMP
- Meet ACMP Pianist and Educator James Daly
- Meet Joel Epstein: violinist, violist, writer, arranger, educator and ACMP member since the 1970s
- Message from a Member – Donald H. of Cincinnati, Ohio
- Mini Coaching Videos For Strings With PUBLIQuartet
- Mini Coaching Videos For Winds with Imani Winds
- Music and the Holocaust
- Music for Two Violins: Personal Reflections on a Forgotten Genre
- Music Ideas for the 2019 Play-in
- Music Teachers Make Their Mark with Personal Connections, High Standards and Infectious Passion
- My Papa Haydn, The Ultimate Therapist
- NAOC Adventures in Vancouver, Canada
- New ACMP Partnership Brings ACMP Players to Community in Queens, NY
- New addition to the ACMP Home Coaching Grants Program
- New Adult Amateur Workshop: Winterhaven at Avaloch Farm
- New Directions Cello Festival!
- New Horizons Introduces New Chamber Music Camps
- New Listening Club Video: Peter Fender on Schubert’s Octet
- New Masterclass Video: Calvin Wiersma coaches Messiaen!
- New Video Coaching Tools for Chamber Music Players
- New Video Coaching Tools for Chamber Music Players
- New Video: The April 15 Kronos Quartet Master Class
- New York String Studio shares Tips and Treats video series
- News of Note 2024
- Not Your Grandmother’s Quartet
- Notes from the Rehearsal Studio: Learning the “Quartet for the End of Time”
- October is ACMP Drop-in Month! Pick a piece, find new players, DROP IN and PLAY CHAMBER MUSIC!
- Online Chamber Music Resources At A Glance
- Online Early Music Master Class with Andrew Appel
- Over 80 musicians gather for a Play-In at the 92nd Street Y
- Pachelbel would be amazed!
- Picking Wedding Music for that Special Day
- Play-In Season in British Columbia, Part I: Nanaimo
- Play-In Season in British Columbia, Part II: Vancouver
- Playing for Good: The Mystic String Quartet and Big Lux
- Press Release – Livestream Masterclass 2020
- Public Libraries’ Latest Offering: Musical Instruments
- Puccini and Piazzolla in the Pizzeria
- Q&A: Taking up the cello in later life
- Reading Recommendations by ACMP Members 2019
- Remembering ACMP member Jo Margaret Farris
- Remembering Louise Jean Hauser Russo: Educator and Philanthropist
- Renowned violinist thanks childhood teacher for her dedication to music
- Report from the Netherlands: Excerpts from “Amateurs in European Music”
- Resources to Play Online
- Rice University Chamber Music Club Partners with ACMP
- Rochester Report: An Interview with NAOC Councilor Roberta Zalkind
- Seventh Annual ACMP Worldwide Play-In Reports, 2019
- Sixth Annual Play-In Connects Players Worldwide
- Sixty years after its founding, the Houston Civic Symphony is going strong
- Speaking Up for Amateur Chamber Music Players
- String Insiders Offers Free Auditor Passes to ACMP Members for OSSI (Online Solo Strings Intensive)
- String Quartet Playing as a Model of Sanity and Self
- String Quartet Self-Coaching
- Study Suggests Music Improves Your Mood
- Sue Mistretta celebrates 10 years of Mountainside Chamber Music in Nelson, B.C.
- Summer Reading Recommendations by ACMP Members
- Support ACMP through holiday shopping!
- Syrian Violinist Helps Canadian Community Hear His Song
- Take a bow: Australian Chamber Orchestra’s 400-year-old cello to make its debut
- Taking Practice to a New Level
- Talented Teen Latest Loan Recipient from Chicago’s Stradivari Society
- Telegraph Quartet Livestream Concert sponsored by the SoCal Chamber Music Workshop
- The Alaria Chamber Ensemble’s Spring Session Begins on February 21, 2022 in NYC
- The Art and Science of Measure Numbering
- The Art of the Steinway Piano
- The Artistry of the Violin Maker
- The Daraja Music Initiative: 15 years of Music and Conservation in Tanzania
- The Joy Of Jamulus!
- The Queen of Paradise Orchestra Project of Papua New Guinea
- The Truth About Listening to Music While You Work
- Tickets now available for the Kronos Quartet Masterclass on November 12
- Timbre Reveal: a sneak peak at ACMP’s new app-in-progress
- Travels and Adventures with ACMP Pianist Nicholas King
- Twisting for Solos, the Violist Is a Quartetʼs Odd Player Out
- Two CMA Events this Week to Celebrate National Chamber Month in NYC: May 17 and 18
- Two left hands! On playing Christopher Walken’s left hand in “A Late Quartet”
- Two new videos: ACMP Film Club
- Violin Case to be Auctioned for Itzhak Perlman Charity
- Virtual Worldwide Play-In Sessions Information
- Vivere la Musica – Exploring the Love of Playing!
- Watch How Violins Get Made in the Stradivari Hometown
- Watch the 2020 Livestream Masterclass with the Jasper String Quartet
- Watch the Kronos Quartet Master Class on YouTube
- What Does Chamber Music Really Do For a Student’s Playing?
- Win 2 tickets to Peoples’ Symphony Chamber Concerts!
- Wine, Weiner and Witt
- Winter in Vermont: Decoda launches its first-ever adult amateur retreat
- Worldwide Play-In 2017 Press Release
- Young Gifted and Classical: The Making of a Maestro – Meet Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason
- Young Musicians Experience Chamber Music at the Soundscapes Chamber Music Workshop, Providence, Old Lyme, CT
Latest Articles
Q&A: Taking up the cello in later life
The senior years in life are often associated retiring, slowing down or playing golf. But Mavis Himes had a different idea: She took up the cello. It was a long-held dream, one that she needed to act on. Six years later, she is still going strong, despite setbacks like a bicycle accident and an arduous recovery.
Read More ↗
Support ACMP through holiday shopping!
It's almost the holiday season and you can support ACMP by holiday shopping at our store! We have 2 new original cartoon mugs, holiday cards, cute cocktail napkins and a book by Lucy Miller-Murray.
Read More ↗
Music for Two Violins: Personal Reflections on a Forgotten Genre
For the past seven years ACMP coach Gabriel Schaff has had the pleasure of discovering a corner of the chamber music repertoire that he now considers to be undervalued and under-explored: music for two violins. Read about the gems of this repertoire, from the Baroque era through the twentieth century.
Read More ↗
A Space for Everyone
Ohio-based ACMP cellist Melanie Bernhardt had a workshop experience that prompted her to contemplate one of the most difficult questions we face as we age or simply develop health problems that affect our playing: When should one put down one’s instrument? Should friends discourage friends from playing when their physical capabilities are compromised?
Read More ↗
Sixty years after its founding, the Houston Civic Symphony is going strong
Houston, Texas has a long-standing arts tradition, including the region's oldest community orchestra, The Houston Civic Symphony. The group was founded in 1964, and sixty years later it's still going strong!
Read More ↗
Winter in Vermont: Decoda launches its first-ever adult amateur retreat
The Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall, Decoda, is launching its first-ever adult amateur chamber music retreat at the historic Marlboro Music Festival campus, Potash Hill in January 2025. Read Stephanie Griffin's interview with Decoda clarinetist and workshop organizer Alicia Lee.
Read More ↗
ACMP Listening Club: Demystifying Charles Ives with violinist Gregory Fulkerson on Sunday, December 8 at 2pm ET
Join violinist and Ives scholar Gregory Fulkerson on Sunday, December 8 at 2pm Eastern for an in-depth discussion of Charles Ives' life, background and music, with a special focus on his String Quartet no. 1 (1896- 1902), in celebration of the groundbreaking composer's 150th birthday!
Read More ↗
ACMP Listening Club: Brahms Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34
Get ready to dive into Brahm's Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34 with Peter Fender on Sunday, November 10 at 2pm on Zoom. Learn more about the background of this masterwork and get pro tips on interpretation and performance practice.
Read More ↗
Join ACMP at the CMA National Conference in Houston, February 13-16, 2025
Join ACMP for an action-packed chamber music vacation in Houston, Texas this February at the CMA National Conference. We're making history! For the first time in ACMP's long-standing relationship with CMA we are collaborating with them on their annual conference as a Partner Organization. We've made sure there are many fabulous activities of interest to all of you who play chamber music for pleasure.
Read More ↗
ACMP Film Club: “Through the Darkness”
Celebrating Schoenberg at 150: Watch Hilan Warshaw's documentary film and meet him at ACMP Film Club on Sunday, October 6 at 2pm ET on Zoom.
Read More ↗
The Daraja Music Initiative: 15 years of Music and Conservation in Tanzania
Since 2017, ACMP member clarinetist and nonprofit leader Alexys Bush has traveled to Tanzania, Africa where she teaches general music and clarinet for the Daraja Music Initiative (DMI), for whom she serves as Assistant Director. DMI bridges music education and the conservation of Tanzania's national tree - the African Blackwood, also known as ebony - used to make clarinets, oboes, piccolos, and some string fingerboards. It's not too late to get involved in DMI's 15th anniversary season as a volunteer!
Read More ↗
Playing for Good: The Mystic String Quartet and Big Lux
The Mystic Quartet joins forces with hip-hop violinist Big Lux in a unique and highly creative concert program, "Harmony Not Hate," on as a benefit for the Southern Poverty Law Center at 4pm on October 19 at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church in Mystic, Connecticut. Read about the thinking behind the program, their discovery of new works through the Kronos Quartet "Fifty for the Future" online library, and their adventures working with a renowned hip-hop artist - and support their cause!
Read More ↗
How to convert a Merton Music 2-up Booklet to a Single-Page PDF
Struggling to convert those pesky booklet-style Merton Music pdfs in IMSLP to a single-page pdf that you can easily print or read on your iPad? ACMP member Tom Frenkel has figured it out! Read his handy guide.
Read More ↗
Win 2 tickets to Peoples’ Symphony Chamber Concerts!
Read More ↗
ECUADOR, MEXICO AND SPAIN: WINE & FRIENDSHIP
Music can bridge cultural divides and connect people from all over the world. Read Catalina Paredes' story about the "Just Play" concert in Quito on July 27, 2024.
Read More ↗
New Listening Club Video: Peter Fender on Schubert’s Octet
Out now! Watch the video recording from our recent Listening Club event with British conductor, composer, and educator Peter Fender on Franz Schubert’s delightful Octet in F major, D. 803.
Read More ↗
CAMMAC receives the 2024 Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award
On Tuesday, July 16, 2024, Corinne Bergeron presented ACMP's annual Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award to CAMMAC (Canadian Amateur Musicians - Musiciens Amateurs du Canada) in Harrington, Québec. CAMMAC is the first international recipient of this award since it was launched in 2016.
Read More ↗
ACMP supports the Afghan National Institute of Music
ACMP gave a grant to the Afghan National Institute of Music (ANIM) in Braga, Portugal, in support of its unique and varied chamber music program. Read ACMP's interview with ANIM's founder and director, Dr. Ahmad Sarmast
Read More ↗
Play-In Season in British Columbia, Part II: Vancouver
Vancouver NAOC councilor Christina Wolf hosted the official ACMP Vancouver Worldwide Play-In event on May 20, 2024 at Arts Umbrella on Granville Island. Twenty string players and two pianists were in attendance, from Vancouver and its outlying suburbs, Vancouver Island, Bellingham, Washington and The Bronx, NY.
Read More ↗
Play-In Season in British Columbia, Part I: Nanaimo
This Play-In season, Stephanie and her partner Hilliard Greene attended ACMP Play-Ins in British Columbia, Canada, starting with a visit with Jane Stein Wilson in Nanaimo.
Read More ↗
Load More