Welcome to Kammermusik Workshops 2009

Kammermusik Workshops, Inc., is a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to providing musical growth for adult musicians through provision of chamber music workshops.

The workshops typically take 30 - 50 players from all over the USA and abroad for a three to seven days of chamber music playing and instruction under the guidance of professional coaches. The players are enthusiasts, but have other lives, too ... nurses, physicians, physicists, computer specialists, lawyers, accountants, engineers, teachers, retired. The standards range from good amateur to professionals who want to broaden their chamber music experience.

In 2009 we are again organizing winter and summer workshops at the beautiful Sunrise Springs Inn and Retreat.

The Winter Weekend Workshop will be held from Sat Feb 14 - Mon Feb 16 2009. Two workshops will run in parallel. One will be the challenging Richard Strauss Sonatina No. 1 in F, 'From an Invalid's Workshop' for wind (flutes, oboes, clarinets, basset horn, French horns, bassoons and contrabasson/double bass), conducted and coached by Dennis Godburn and Tom O'Connor. There is just one vacancy left, for contrabassoon. The other will be the Chamber Music Workshop for winds and piano, coached by Carol Redman. In addition, Dennis Godburn will hold a Woodwind Masterclass on Friday Feb 13. This class is now full.

Further information on the February 2009 workshops is now available on the private members' page, which will be updated regularly between now and the workshop itself. The last update was January 22 2009.

The Summer Workshop will be held from Sun July 12 - Sat July 18 2009, ending with a concert on the Saturday evening. This is an intensive coaching/playing week for flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons and horns, based upon wind quintets, with professional coaches in each instrument. Piano accompanists are also welcome. Registration for the Summer workshop is open. Flute and clarinet places are filled and applicants for these instruments will go on the waiting list.

The new UK Fall Workshop was held in Oxford, England in late September, in the historic college St. Edmund Hall of Oxford University, with distinguished coaches from the UK. The music consisted of large ensembles such as the Mozart Gran Partitta and the Strauss large wind works, piano sextets and trios and quartets. We plan to repeat this workshop in two years time, from Sep 26 - Oct 1, 2010.

Please help us by shopping for sheet music and accessories from Hickeys Music- an excellent online store, who are a valued sponsor of Kammermusik Workshops.

Some of these workshops have been made possible through the generosity of ACMP - The Chamber Music Network, and the Clinton B. Ford Fund of its ACMP Foundation, an organization that promotes chamber music activities for amateur musicians.

Keith Bowen
President of Kammermusik Workshops, Inc.

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This page updated February 62009