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. While our primary focus for now will be the five instruments in the standard wind quintet, we define wind instruments as all instruments from the woodwind and brass families.
As part of this initiative we will disseminate a steady stream of information about wind chamber music through articles on the ACMP website and social media. Many of the blog articles will contain links to scores and recordings of chamber music including winds that we know you will want to discover and play!
Why March Winds?
We have been listening to feedback from our members, and a common theme from the wind players in our community is that they struggle to find chamber music opportunities, because:
- There are currently not enough wind players in the ACMP Directory to form woodwind or brass trios, quartets or quintets
- String and piano players may not know about the exciting repertoire they could play with winds
- Workshop and Play-In organizers often find it easier to find repertoire and form groups with just strings and piano
- All those string players and pianists may not know what they are missing!
How you can get involved
- Read ACMP’s blog articles and social posts and share them with your personal networks (close friends, chamber music coaches, workshops you regularly attend, community orchestras, music schools, etc)
- Tell your wind player friends about March Winds and encourage them to join ACMP
- Obtain some sets of chamber music parts including winds (through IMSLP, sheet music stores or libraries) and invite some wind players to play with you
- Share your wind chamber music experiences in the ACMP Members Facebook group or by emailing us your stories
- Celebrate wind chamber music and the ACMP Haydn Challenge at the same time by exploring some of Haydn’s trio sonatas, divertimenti, cassations, marches and dances including winds
March Winds Updates (keep checking this page)
Video Interview
Meet the Musician: Flutist Svjetlana Kabalin (Sunday, March 29, 2pm ET)
Repertoire
Irreverent Friends, the True Inspiration Behind Clarinet’s Chamber Music Gems
Chamber music, the Horn and Friends
Chamber repertoire for oboe: a curated list
Chamber music for bassoon: The George Zukerman Library
The Ukrainian Chamber Music Encyclopedia: a resource for wind players
On coaching mixed chamber music with winds
Put a flute on it! Arrangements of Haydn string quartets for flute and string trio
Member Stories and General Articles
Kerry Graham: It’s never too late to learn the Baroque bassoon
For this oboist, it’s not a job but a journey
Wind players shine in the Broadway Bach Ensemble’s chamber concert
Music for winds, strings and piano at the first Berlin Play-In of 2026
Interview with Joe Wilson and Edward Guo
The Flute: Beloved of Amateurs
My journey with the Fula flute
What I learned from wind players
Past related blog articles
New Listening Club Video: Peter Fender on Schubert’s Octet
New Masterclass Video: Calvin Wiersma coaches Messiaen!
Mini Coaching Videos For Winds with Imani Winds
A special birthday gift: a newly commissioned chamber work!
Featured ACMP Member Michael Knoch
Kayana Jean-Philippe: The serious business of an amateur oboist
ACMP Member of the Month: Kwame Lewis
Optometrist by vocation, flutist by avocation
Historic Bassoon Brings Two Generations of Musicians Together for a Special Concert in Palo Alto
Measures of success
We know it will take a while but, over the years, we hope that March Winds will result in more and happier wind players in the ACMP community. Someday we would love to have a wind or brass quintet in every port! We also hope our string and piano players will have a lot of fun making new wind player friends and discovering new repertoire.
Wind player population in the ACMP Directory of Chamber Musicians as of March 1, 2026*
Woodwinds:
- Bassoon: 60
- Clarinet: 250
- Flute: 342
- French Horn: 78
- Oboe: 98
- Recorder: 67
- Saxophone: 24
Brass:
- Euphonium: 4
- Trombone: 9
- Trumpet: 22
- Tuba: 7
*The total ACMP population as of March 1, 2026 was 4756. This list includes everyone who plays these instruments as a primary or secondary (or third/fourth/fifth) instrument, and therefore there will be some overlap of people who play multiple wind instruments.
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