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Event Tag: Older Adults
Event Tag: Older Adults
- DaPonte String Quartet workshop
- Biccari Music Festival & Cultural Immersion Programs
- Manchester and the Mountains Chamber Music Workshop
- The Krakauer Institute for Intensive Summer Study
- Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Adult Academy for Chamber Music – Spring 2026
- Adult Chamber Music Workshop – Brevard Music Center
- Northeast Chamber Music Seminar (formerly Lake Placid Chamber Music Seminar )
- Amateurs Academy of Chamber Music in Budapest (Hungary)
- Chamber Music Essentials for Late Starters and Intermediate Level Players
- NashvilleCMS Adult Chamber Music Intensive
- Sicily Music Holidays – Salina, September 2026
- Midsummer Musical Retreat
- Take Note’s 5th Annual Recital
- Sicily Music Holidays – Scopello, May 2026
- Conscious Listening Explorations
- Chamber Music Reading – Sunday 4 pm at the 92nd Street Y
- Alaria Chamber Music Classes, Fall Term, 2025
- tonebase Cello Intensive at Carriage House Violins
- tonebase Violin Intensive at Carriage House Violins
- Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Adult Academy for Chamber Music – Fall 2025
- Tacoma Adult Strings Camp
- Amherst Chamber Ensembles Chamber Music Workshop
- Chamber Music Workshop Evening Edition
- Chamber Music Workshop
- Adult Chamber Music Connections Camp
- CDSS Early Music Week at Pinewoods
- Opus 74 Music Summer Program in Flaine, France
- Meisterkurs für Kammermusik
- Women and Non-Binary Bassists Play-In
- Chamber Music Workshop
- Madison Bach Musicians 11th Summer Chamber Music Workshop
- Winter Harbor Music Festival Chamber Music Workshop
- Mountainside Cello Focus
- Mountainside Chamber Strings Summer Camp
- Musique En Provence: The Krakauer Institute for Intensive Summer Study
- The Chamber Music Experience @ CIM
- SSC Adult Chamber Music Play-In
- Taconic Music International Festival, Italy
- Free Chamber Music Sampler for Adults
- Tuscany Adult Amateur Cello Workshop
- Amherst Early Music Festival
- Academy of chamber music in Budapest
- Louisville Chamber Play-In
- ChamberFest Adult Intensive
- Manchester and the Mountains Chamber Music Workshop
- Dakota Chamber Music
- Not Quite Ready for Carnegie Hall Players
- Adult Chamber Music Retreat
- Kammermusik Oxford Workshop 2025
- Juilliard Extension: Folk and Fiddle Traditions for Classical Strings
- Music at Montalto
- Brookline Music School Community Chamber Orchestra
- Winter Chamber Music Classes at CMC
- Adult Academy Concert
- Chamber Music Workshop for Strings, Winds and Brass
- Apple Hill Summer Chamber Music Workshop
- Midsummer Musical Retreat
- The Chamber Music Center of New York Adult Intensive Workshop
- Adult Chamber Music Intensive
- Friends of Music Concerts, Inc
- Friends of Music Concerts, Inc
- Decoda Winter Retreat
- Eighth Annual APA International Chamber Music Festival 2026 (ICMF2026)
- Church Street School Chamber Music Reading Party!
- CCM Adult Chamber Play-in
- Adult Chamber Music & Chamber Orchestra Reading Party
- Friends of Music Concerts, Inc
- Friends of Music Concerts, Inc
- Alaria Chamber Music Classes, Spring, 2026
- Chamber Players
- Boston Adult Chamber Music Intensive Session 1
- Summer Music Retreats at the CAMMAC Music Centre
- Online Guest Lecture with Philip Setzer (Emerson String Quartet) – Bartok 6th Quartet
- Chamber Musicians of Northern California (CMNC) Chamber Music Workshop – June 15 & 16, 2024
- SSC Adult Chamber Music Play-In
- Chamber Music Play In
- Tapestry Cello Play In!
- Madison Bach Musicians Summer Chamber Music Workshop
- Heartland Chamber Music Adult Workshop
- Adult Amateur Chamber Music Workshop
- International Cello Workshop for Adults
- Perennial Muse™ presents a Free Online Cello Workshop for Adult Beginners with Kate Dillingham, cello
- Chamber Music Seminar
- 2024 Chaparral Chamber Music Workshop
- Sparkling Strings Workshop 2
- Sparkling Strings Worksop 1
- VQ Discovery Haydn Emperor
- Mountainside Chamber Strings
- Cello Focus
- Vancouver Island Adult Amateur Chamber Group Weekend
- CMC Chamber Music Workshop
- Dakota Chamber Music
- Académie des Arts Flaine
- International Cello Workshop Adult Amateur
- Manchester and the Mountains Chamber Music Workshop
- Juilliard Extension: Folk and Fiddle Traditions for Classical Strings
- International chamber music academy in Budapest (Hungary)
- Group improv “In C” as part of Recital with (Literary) “Points of View”
- SSC Adult Chamber Music Play-In
- Adult Chamber Music Workshop
- Adult Chamber Music Workshop
- Sixth Annual APA International Chamber Music Festival 2024 (ICMF2024)
- Amateur Chamber Music Retreat
- Apple Hill Summer Chamber Music Workshop
- Winter Harbor Music Festival Chamber Music Workshop
- Milford, CT Play-In
- The Chamber Music Center of New York – Adult Intensive Weekend
- Island Sonata
- CelloChanWoods
- Saturday Play-in for Greater Bethesda and DC Metro area musicians
- ACMP WORLD WIDE PLAY-IN WITH SONG-SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF NORTH GEORGIA
- Adult Chamber Music 5-day Workshop
- Dakota Chamber Music
- Skills and Drills for Intermediate level chamber music players at Summertrios
- Play-In session
- Denver Chamber Music Festival Adult Amateur Workshop
- Lake Placid Chamber Music Seminar
- Maplewood Chamber Music Workshop
- Heartland Chamber Music Adult Workshop
- Austin Chamber Music Workshop
- Be Better with Bergonzi – 20th Anniversary
- Termonfechin Chamber Music Weekend – October 2023
- Termonfechin Chamber Music Weekend – May 2023
- Jazz Workshop
- Finding Your Voice
- Chamber Music Essentials
- Summertrios Intensive Workshop
- Summer Cello Workshop
- ProAm Workshop
- Early Music Week at Pinewoods
- Chamber Music Workshop of the Composers Conference
- Tucson Adult Chamber Players
- Cello Focus 2023
- Canet Clàssic – la festa de la música clàssica amateur
- 88 fingers, second edition
- Chamber Music Play-In for Adult Players
- Exploring the Science of Dendrochronology, and how it applies to musical instruments
- 2023 Madison Bach Musicians Summer Chamber Music Workshop
- Amateurs Chamber Music Academy in Budapest
- Juilliard Extension Course: Folk and Fiddle Traditions for Classical Strings
- Manchester and the Mountains Chamber Music Workshop
- New Directions Cello Festival
- Assisi Performing Arts Festival
- Midsummer Musical Retreat
- Garth Newel Amateur Chamber Music Retreat
- Diller-Quaile’s Adult Chamber Music Workshop
- Diller-Quaile’s Adult Chamber Music Workshop
- Third Street Music School – Choir, Strings, and Chamber – Adult Programs Concert
- Denver Adult Strings Camp (DASC) Chamber Program 2023
- Midsummer Musical Retreat (MMR)
- Tuscany Adult Amateur Cello Workshop July 2023
- Nutmeg Studio: Piano or Chamber Music Masterclass – Denver CO
- Nutmeg Studio NYC Masterclass – Manhattan
- pianoSonoma Cabernet
- pianoSonoma Rosé
- All Ages Play-In at the New School of Music
- Play-In session in Lake Forest, CA!
- International Prague Chamber Music Masterclasses
- Chamber music at the Waal River
- Dublin Chamber Music Group – Termonfechin Weekends
- CCM Adult Chamber Music Play-In
- Senior Chamber Music at the 92nd Street Y
- Birch Creek Chamber Music Retreat
- Birch Creek Wind Ensemble Retreat
- Tusany Adult Amateur Cello Workshop
- Tusany Adult Amateur Cello Workshop
- VMAC
- BaroccoLab (AIMA) – Music at San Petronio
- BaroccoLab (AIMA) – Handel’s Terpsicore
- DaPonte String Quartet Adult workshop
- Midcoast Amateur Cello Workshop Week 1
- Early Music Week at World Fellowship Center
- BaroccoLab – Music for the Royal Fireworks
- Sunmmertrios Intensive Workshop 2022
- Summertrios ProAm Workshop 2022
- Inside Music Academy
- Inside Music Academy
- Midcoast Maine Amateur Cello Workshop Week 2
- Midcoast Maine Amateur Cello Workshop Week 1
- Maplewood Chamber Music Workshop
- Maplewood Chamber Music Workshop
- Maplewood Chamber Music Workshop
- Chamber Music Workshop – Fivesparks Music Festival
- Chamber Music Workshop – Fivesparks Music Festival
- Delgani Virtual Adult Chamber Music Workshop
- Adult Amateur Program- Brancaleoni International Music Festival
- Adult Chamber Music One-Day Retreat
- Summertrios *New* Jill’s Skills and Drills Workshop 2022
- Gettysburg Chamber Music Workshop
- Chamber Music for Adults/Cancelled 2020 We hope to see you in 2021
- Academy of Chamber Music in Budapest
- Crowden Adult Chamber Music Summer Workshop
- pianoSonoma Music Festival
- Georgia Chamber Music Retreat
- Dakota Chamber Music 2020
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ACMP's 4th annual Holiday Caption Contest was a success, with 69 captions from 41 ACMP members. This year's winners are Valerie Matthews, Peggy Reynolds, and Matthew Greenbaum. Congratulations to everyone who came up with so many wonderful captions for this year's cartoon!Read More ↗
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