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Make Music Find workshops and events all over the world Make Friends Meet players in your area, on your travels, and online Grow Learn more about chamber music through our coaching grants, blog articles, online events, and social media Play Your Part In supporting ACMP’s mission - through your donations and advocacy, and by helping us build a worldwide community of passionate amateur chamber musicians Continue to ACMP Join Login Grants Players Coaches Organizations Events & Workshops Benefits Donate Home Search Blog About Staff Boards of Directors Councils Add an Event Add an Organization Apply for a Coach Listing Historical Newsletters Guide to Playing Levels Contact Email Newsletter Store Translate Blog About Benefits Contact Translate Donate Login Join & RenewJoin Login Players, Organizations & CoachesFind Players Players Coaches Organizations Events & Workshops Events & Workshops Events & WorkshopsGrants ♭ ♭ May is Chamber Music Month! 2024 Worldwide Play-In Events ACMP’s Official Worldwide Play-In Weekend takes place from Friday, May 17 through Sunday, May 19, 2024 but we have extended the whole Worldwide Play-In initiative to encompass Play-Ins throughout May, which is National Chamber Music Month here in the United States, and early June. Keep checking this article and the ACMP Events and Workshops Directory for public Play-Ins near you! Find a Play-In near you! Find a Play-In near you! Chamber Music in Canada Sue Mistretta celebrates 10 years of Mountainside Chamber Music in Nelson, B.C., Canada Sue Mistretta is an ACMP member cellist in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. Read ACMP’s interview with Sue to learn more about the adult amateur music scene in Nelson, her life as an adult beginner, and her experience co-creating a chamber music workshop with her cello teacher Jeff Faragher from the ground up and running it for ten years. Maybe you would like to take a trip to beautiful Nelson, B.C. for one of her workshops this summer. Hurry to make the Early Bird” discount deadline of May 1. Visit Nelson this summer! Visit Nelson this summer! Featured Orchestra An orchestra that lives up to the ideals of the United Nations Ever since the United Nations was founded nearly 80 years ago, it has stood for nothing less than peace, justice, and better living for all humankind.” When it comes to living up to those ideals, nowhere does that happen more than every Wednesday night in a nondescript office across from UN headquarters. Featured Member Meet Joel Epstein Violinist, violist, writer, arranger, educator and ACMP member since the 1970s Violinist, violist, writer, arranger, and educator Joel Epstein has been a member of ACMP since the 1970s. Get to know Joel and read about his book Music for the Love of It: Episodes in Amateur Music-Making” and about his important work teaching music to status-less children in Israel. ACMP Film Club A conversation with filmmaker Hilan Warshaw In the lead-up to the ACMP Film Club event about Hilan Warshaw’s Secret Song” on Sunday, February 18 at 2pm ET, ACMP’s Executive Director Stephanie Griffin had the pleasure of catching up with Hilan, and asking him about how his background as a musician led to a unique career as a filmmaker with a primary focus on musical subjects. Notes from the Rehearsal Studio Learning the Quartet for the End of Time” In advance of the live and live streamed masterclass on Sunday, April 7, 2024, ACMP interviewed the four intrepid adult amateur musicians who took on the first and sixth movements of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.” For the clarinetists, pianists, violinists and cellists among you, I hope you will be inspired to delve into Messiaen’s masterwork yourselves! Featured Member Meet ACMP Pianist and Educator James Daly You may have been wondering about the people featured in the mockups for ACMP’s new Timbre app-in-progress. AI was not involved in any way – all those people are real members of ACMP with profiles in our Directory of Chamber Musicians. California-based pianist and educator James Daly is the man in the header image for the blog article about Timbre. Read all about his path to becoming a musician and educator and enjoy a 20% ACMP member discount on his original T-shirts and other merchandise. ACMP Encounters Harmonizing Decades A 2024 Follow-up to our 1996 Quartet session When ACMP member violinist Gualtiero Morpurgo was visiting the United States from Milan in 1996, he found fellow violinist Mark Atkins in the ACMP Directory. Mark organized a string quartet session with Gualtiero, and later in life learned of his touching life story. ACMP Giving Report 2023 ACMP Foundation has awarded a total of $193,875 USD in its 2023 fiscal year to date, distributed over four grants programs. Grants The ACMP Foundation awards grants to foster the playing of chamber music for pleasure by people of all ages and skill levels from all over the world. Since its founding in 1993, the ACMP Foundation has awarded over 3,000 grants totaling over $4 million dollars for ongoing programs and special projects promoting participatory chamber music activities worldwide. ACMP grant recipients include workshop presenters, nonprofit organizations, regional and national institutions, individuals, and ensembles. The ACMP Foundation does not require non-profit/charity status for grantees (501c3 in the U.S.). Workshops and Community Music Programs Apply for funding for your workshops and community programs for amateur musicians of all ages. Grants are awarded to programs offering active participatory chamber music experiences to adult amateurs and children. Guidelines Apply Home Coaching The Home Coaching program encourages musicians who meet regularly as a group to engage a professional coach in order to gain musical insight, develop efficient rehearsal skills and exchange musical ideas. Guidelines Apply Play-In ACMP awards up to $500 to individuals or organizations towards expenses for public Play-Ins. A Play-In is a participatory chamber music event, where all in attendance bring their instruments and play chamber music for pleasure in small and large ensembles. Listeners are also welcome, but Play-Ins are not concerts. Guidelines Apply Just Play ACMP awards up to $300 to help chamber music ensembles showcase work they have rehearsed and prepared in an informal concert setting. All players in the ensemble must be members of ACMP with a profile in the Directory of Chamber Musicians. Guidelines Apply Impresario ACMP awards grants of up to $500 to membership organizations to present concerts that provide performance opportunities for multiple adult amateur chamber music ensembles. Guidelines Apply What does ACMP mean to you? Join ACMP A long and generous tradition of providing a network for players, and a source of useful information on chamber music and performance” — Ronald M Costell, cello The best Facebook avant la lettre” for chamber music players” — Henri van den Hombergh , Violin , Nijmegen, Netherlands A tremendous resource for networking, and a community of similarly chamber-music-crazed individuals!” — Stephen Poppel, clarinet Education, opportunity!” — Shari Ebert, violin A portal to promised serendipities. Some get to be tangible.” — Marjana Viero Rutkowski, cello A worldwide resource not found in kayaking or cross-country skiing” — Gary Leisman, flute As a chamber music junkie, ACMP is a great resource!” — Arlene Hajinlian, piano An excellent resource for all things amateur adults need to know to find and play together” — Rita Spillman, piano A great international family of musicians connecting players around the world. I found many friends by our community and even during the pandemic we kept well connected” — Stephan Brandel, violin The way to stay connected to chamber music, the heart of my life…” — Julie Fulkerson, violin An important database and support group” — Linda Plaut, violin Very valuable resource and community builder for chamber music players and...