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- 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
- 2025 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 classical open mic night in Boston
- 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 2024 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 discount on Seth Knopp’s new course “Music Speaks”
- 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 born out of one woman’s dream
- An orchestra that lives up to the ideals of the United Nations
- And it’s launched! The new Timbre web app
- 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 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?
- Cal Wiersma Class: Rehearsal Techniques in Ravel’s String Quartet
- 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
- Celebrating the holidays with chamber music!
- 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
- Giving Tuesday is December 3rd!
- 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
- Here’s looking at you, Joe!
- 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 conversation with Kenji López-Alt: Chef, Food Writer and Amateur Violinist
- 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
- Member of the Month: Frank Song
- 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 Film Club Video: “Through the Darkness”
- New Horizons Introduces New Chamber Music Camps
- New Listening Club Video: Exploring Brahms Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34
- 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: Ravel’s String Quartet with Cal!
- 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
- Post-CMA Conference Recap 2025
- 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 2025 ACMP Haydn Challenge
- 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
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2025 Worldwide Play-In Events
May is Chamber Music Month! Celebrate with Play-Ins all month long, and during the Worldwide Play-In Weekend: May 16-18, 2025.
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New Video: Ravel’s String Quartet with Cal!
Cal Wiersma is back, sharing ensemble tips and tricks through the lens of Ravel’s String Quartet.
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Member of the Month: Frank Song
Frank Song, 28, may work remotely as a software engineer, but when it comes to music and the arts, he is all about being there, in person. With the flexibility to travel in his work, he seeks out concerts or museum exhibits in cities far beyond his home in Toronto. And while he’s at it, he takes along his violin to play chamber music. We caught up with Frank on a recent visit to New York, where he played chamber music with people he found through ACMP.
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Here’s looking at you, Joe!
One day before Haydn's 293rd birthday - a Haydn party happened in Manhattan. Haydn himself appeared (in the form of ACMP violinist, board member and host, Bob Goetz.) 30 players participated - one third of the participants were wind and brass players! Read about the party and get some fun repertoire ideas!
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Cal Wiersma Class: Rehearsal Techniques in Ravel’s String Quartet
Back by popular demand - ACMP is offering another live and live-streamed class with violinist and chamber music coach Cal Wiersma on chamber music rehearsal techniques in Ravel's String Quartet on Sunday, April 6 at 3pm ET.
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The 2025 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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Post-CMA Conference Recap 2025
The CMA Conference in Houston—four days of nonstop music, inspiring connections, a jam-packed ACMP Play-In and a surprise woodwind trio at the Menil Collection!
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New Listening Club Video: Exploring Brahms Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34
Out now! Watch the video recording from our recent Listening Club event with Peter Fender returning and going through Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34—an arrangement of an arrangement.
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An orchestra born out of one woman’s dream
Over the course of its 25 years, the Texas Medical Center Orchestra has earned national acclaim in becoming a fixture of the Houston musical community. But how it got to this point can be traced to the vision of one woman—Libi Lebel, who moved to the Houston area in the late 1990s as an aspiring conductor and simply wanted to find a group to lead.
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And it’s launched! The new Timbre web app
Just in time for Valentine's Day, ACMP is launching its new Timbre web app. Here's how to find it - and some handy tips on how to use it, too.
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Celebrating the holidays with chamber music!
Looking back on a festive holiday season,ACMP was especially inspired this year by how many of our members made music together in their homes as part of their celebrations. ACMP Executive Director Stephanie Griffin attended two of these, and a special jazz party on New Year's Day.
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ACMP member discount on Seth Knopp’s new course “Music Speaks”
Join pianist and Yellow Barn Artistic Director Seth Knopp in New York City for a unique new music appreciation course "Music Speaks" on February 22 and 23 and March 1 and 2. And enjoy a 20% discount as a member of ACMP!
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Announcing the 2024 Holiday Caption Contest Winners!
ACMP's 3rd annual Holiday Caption Contest was a success, with 61 captions from 32 ACMP members. This year's winners are Christopher Minarich, Ben Flanders and Susan Alexander. Congratulations to everyone who came up with so many wonderful captions for this year's cartoon!
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In conversation with Kenji López-Alt: Chef, Food Writer and Amateur Violinist
Kenji López-Alt is a renowned chef and James Beard Award-winning cookbook author. Perhaps he is best known for his work as a New York Times food columnist and the Chief Culinary Advisor for Serious Eats, and for his adventurous cooking videos on his own YouTube channel. But did you also know that Kenji is a life-long violinist and passionate amateur chamber musician? And that you can hear Kenji’s keynote address and play Brandenburg concerti with him and a festive mix of professional and amateur players at the Chamber Music America Conference in Houston on Saturday, February 15?
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ACMP 2024 Giving Report
ACMP Foundation awarded a total of $199,938 USD in its 2024 fiscal year (August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2024), distributed over five grant programs. These programs touched the lives of an estimated 6391 chamber music players in 16 countries.
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New Film Club Video: “Through the Darkness”
Watch the video of Stephanie Griffin's interview with documentary filmmaker Hilan Warshaw about his film, "Through the Darkness." The event, held shortly after the 150th anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg’s birth, explored the story of two extraordinary figures: composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) and Austrian Expressionist painter Richard Gerstl (1883-1908).
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A classical open mic night in Boston
Boston Community Chamber Music (BCCM) hosts its fifth open mic event on Saturday December 7 at 3pm at Somerville Music Spaces.
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Giving Tuesday is December 3rd!
This Giving Tuesday, please play your part in supporting ACMP's international community of passionate amateur chamber players and the world’s only grants program for adult amateur chamber music!
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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.
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Support ACMP through holiday shopping!
It's 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.
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