Welcome to Kammermusik Workshops 2010

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 2010 we are again organizing winter and summer workshops at the beautiful Sunrise Springs Inn and Retreat and also in the historic St. Edmund Hall college of Oxford University, UK. The dates will be:

The Winter Weekend Workshop: from Friday Feb 19 - Sun Feb 21 2010. Note that this is the week after Presidents' Day (due to availability of coaches. The programme will be centred on wind decet music, and the coaches will be Douglas Dunston, Laura Dwyer, Tom O'Connor and Christopher Weait. This workshop is full. Workshop details including groups and music are now available on the Members' page. If you have difficulty in accessing this page, please email the Secretary.

The Summer Workshop will be held from Sun July 11 - Sat July 17 2010, 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 is open.

The UK Fall Workshop, first held in Oxford, England in 2008, in the historic college St. Edmund Hall of Oxford University, will be held from Sep 26 - Oct 1, 2010, with distinguished coaches from the UK led by clarinettist and Royal Academy of Music professor Angela Malsbury. The music will again consist of large ensembles such as the Mozart Gran Partitta, piano sextets and trios and quartets. We expect registration to open in February.

The detailed programmes for 2010 are under development. Some of the 2009 website information remains accessible so that potential participants can obtain an idea of the activities. During this period some links will not work - please be patient!

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 7 2010