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Chamber repertoire for oboe: a curated list

 Oboist and scholar Dr. Kelsey Maes has shared her 60-page list of chamber music with oboe with ACMP. The list is organized by country, style and time period and is easy to navigate with hyperlinks in a detailed table of contents. Explore the list and discover new pieces to play with oboe!

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Chamber music for bassoon: The George Zukerman Library

 Throughout his long life, Canadian bassoon legend George Zukerman collected a huge library representing three centuries of bassoon repertoire.  Concerti, chamber music, solo pieces – much of it hitherto unknown to the bassoon community. In tribute to this beloved Canadian musician, the Council of Canadian Bassoonists has digitized his collection and assembled this extensive online database.

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On coaching mixed chamber music with winds

 Professional flutist Jayn Rosenfeld reflects on her experiences coaching mixed chamber music for winds with strings, piano and other instruments, and shares a list of her personal favorite pieces.

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For this oboist, it’s not a job but a journey

 After a long career as an association manager, Sally Finney Timm has more time to play oboe and helps others find an outlet by chairing the International Double Reed Society's Avocational Players Committee. Read Sally's story about how she fell in love with the oboe and kept it going over so many years.

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Wind players shine in the Broadway Bach Ensemble’s chamber concert

 Every Spring the Broadway Bach Ensemble presents a chamber music concert featuring the orchestra's members and their friends in a wide range of small ensembles. Winds will come to the fore at this year's concert, at 7:30 on Thursday March 19 at Broadway Presbyterian Church in Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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Meet the Musician: Flutist Svjetlana Kabalin (Sunday, March 29, 2pm ET)

 Join ACMP for an interview and Q&A with Svjetlana Kabalin on founding and sustaining Sylvan Winds and expanding wind quintet repertoire.

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March Winds: Wind Chamber Music Appreciation Month

 This March, ACMP is proud to launch "March Winds": Wind Chamber Music Appreciation Month! It's an international grassroots movement to expand the awareness and appreciation of the rich repertoire of chamber music including winds.

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Kerry Graham: It’s never too late to learn the Baroque bassoon

 At age 50, Kerry Graham was living what many would consider a rich and full life, working internationally as a chemical engineer and doing pretty well.  But music, and especially the bassoon, kept tugging at her sleeve. She wanted to go back to school to learn the bassoon. Read Kerry's interview with ACMP Board chair Bob Goetz.

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Helen Rice and me!

 Professional flutist Jayn Rosenfeld grew up in a family of passionate amateur musicians and had a close personal connection with ACMP's founder Helen Rice. Read Jayn's story about her childhood experiences with some of the early pioneers of ACMP.

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The 2026 ACMP Haydn Challenge

 March 31 is Joseph Haydn’s birthday! It’s also a fabulous occasion to celebrate his contributions to the world of chamber music with a gift in his honor to ACMP…Throughout the month of March, we hope you will participate in the ACMP Haydn Challenge.

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Irreverent Friends, the True Inspiration Behind Clarinet’s Chamber Music Gems

 The Clarinet. When one thinks of the instrument, we are instantly taken on a rich journey of musical landmarks: New Orleans, Rhapsody in Blue, Mozart, Benny Goodman, top orchestras, your cousin’s wedding reception. Chamber music might not be at the top of the list, but indeed, clarinetists have inspired some of the finest pieces in history for the genre.

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Sound and Sustenance: A Report from the Del Sol Adult Chamberfest

 On a sunny weekend last month in San Francisco, 30 amateur chamber musicians from around the country gathered in the home of two members of the Del Sol String Quartet for the annual DEl Sol Adult Chamberfest. Neighbors would have heard strains of Britten, Janáček, Shaw, Golijov, Bunch, Beethoven and Brahms, along with laughter and good times!

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New ACMP video: “Everything you always wanted to know about bows but were afraid to ask” with Gabriel Schaff

 ACMP just released the video from Gabriel Schaff's recent online talk, "Everything you always wanted to know about bows but were afraid to ask." After an illuminating presentation on the evolution of the modern bow, the questions kept pouring in. There's so much to learn and discover from Gabriel and your colleagues in ACMP.

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Mozart in a Brewery! Our First Young ACMP Event

 Have you ever played Mozart in the middle of a brewery just for fun? That’s exactly what happened in early January when local Young ACMP members met up at Grimm Ales in Brooklyn. We co-hosted the event with ACMP member Ben Bregman, who brought music, friends new to ACMP, and a few of his young students and their parents.

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ACMP presents the 2025 Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award to the SoCal Chamber Music Workshop in memory of Ron Goldman

 This past Fall ACMP gave its 2025 Susan McIntosh Lloyd Award for Excellence and Diversity in Chamber Music to the SoCal Chamber Music Workshop in honor and in memory of SoCal's founder and long-time ACMP board member Ron Goldman. Watch my interview with Julie Park and read Adam Birnbaum's touching tribute to Ron.

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Turning ink blots into music – a discussion on the meaning and madness of notation

 Join Cal Wiersma and a live string quartet for an illuminating class about decoding musical notation and translating it back into a musical line, live in Brooklyn and live-streamed on YouTube.

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A New 5-Day Summer Home for Adult Chamber Musicians in Brevard

 Brevard Music Center is launching the inaugural Adult Chamber Music Workshop, June 3-8, 2026, and we could not be more excited to welcome adult amateur musicians to our beautiful mountain campus in Western North Carolina. The program features focused rehearsal time, inspiring coaching, great colleagues at your stand, and the simple joy of spending time immersed in chamber music.

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Charles Hsu – oncologist, violist, luthier

 Charles Hsu has packed a lot into his 33 years. Born in the New Jersey, he grew up in Taiwan, moved back to the United States to attend MIT, and, after a stint as a management consultant, pursued his medical studies at Yale and Harvard. Today, he is Dr. Hsu, a junior attending medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. But through all of these pursuits, there is his love of chamber music.

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The Oregon-Washington ACMP Play-In

 On January 17, 2026, 45 chamber musicians, ages 23-80, met at Portland State University's Music School Hall in Portland, Oregon for a Play-In organized by NAOC councilor Virginia Feldman.

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For the Love of It: A Legacy

 What to do with all that music, when you finally, reluctantly, stop playing? At 99, Phyllis Booth decided to gift her collection to Golden Chamber Music at Sleepy Hollow, where she and her late husband Wayne Booth had a long, joyful connection since shortly after its founding in 1969.

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