Welcome to Kammermusik Workshops 2011-12

Kammermusik Workshops, Inc., is a non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to providing musical growth for adult musicians through provision of chamber music workshops. We cater mainly for woodwind players but some events include strings also.

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 2012 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 will be held from Sat 18- Mon 20 February 2012 (Presidents' Day weekend). The programme will be two of the great wind ensemble works, the Strauss Invalid Workshop and the Dvorak Serenade, and a Baroque Workshop (modern pitch). Instruments will include flute, oboe, clarinets in C, Bb, A, basset horn and bass clarinet, French horns, bassoons, contrabassoon and cello for the Strauss and Dvorak, and flutes, oboes, bassoons and strings for the Baroque workshop. The coaches will be Douglas Dunston, Tom O'Connor and Carol Redman.

The Summer Workshop will be held from Sun July 15 - Sat July 21, 2012 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.

The UK Fall Workshop, first held in Oxford, England in 2008, in the historic college St. Edmund Hall of Oxford University, will be held next from Sun 9 to Friday 14 September 2012 (departing Sat 15), 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. Exact dates will be announced during July or August.

All workshops are now open for registration.

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 October 12 2011