Chamber Music Guild

Registration is open now for the November 9th Discovery Workshop!

Discovery Workshop - Chamber Music Guild Love to play chamber music? Never played chamber music but always wanted to? If you are an amateur adult musician or a student musician, come and join us for a fun-filled day meeting and playing with other musicians and exploring the wonderful world of chamber music.

Have you purchased your tickets for Sounds by the Sound yet? https://fundraiser.support/SoundsByTheSound

Sounds by the Sound Invitation

We are at capacity for pre-formed groups for our upcoming Discovery Workshop, but individuals can still register. We particularly need more violas!

Registration is open now for the March 23rd Discovery Workshop.

Discovery Workshop - Chamber Music Guild Love to play chamber music? Never played chamber music but always wanted to? If you are an amateur adult musician or a student musician, come and join us for a fun-filled day meeting and playing with other musicians and exploring the wonderful world of chamber music.

Ops 5, Episode 3 of The Counterpoint Club podcast is live now. "Activism Through Music" Is available on all major podcast platforms or the TCC website.

Opus 5: Episode 3: Activism Through Music – The Counterpoint Club Opus 5: Episode 3: Activism Through Music Op. 5, Episode 3 is an unabridged interview with Curtis Stewart. Curtis is a Grammy Award-nominated violin soloist, composer, Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, professor at The Juilliard School, and member of award-winning ensembles PUBL...

Episode 2 of our podcast – The Counterpoint Club – is available now! Listen to "Classical Wellness" on all popular podcast platforms or on the TCC website.

Opus 5: Episode 2: Classical Wellness – The Counterpoint Club Opus 5: Episode 2: Classical Wellness Op. 5, Episode 2 begins the first of three episodes in a new format, full-length interviews. We recorded great interviews with three fantastic guests, and we decided to share these unabridged conversations as complete episodes. We begin these guest interviews wi...

Ops 5 of our podcast – The Counterpoint Club – has launched! Listen to Episode 1 "The Missing Link – Maddalena Lombardini's Six String Quartets." Available on all popular podcast platforms, or on the TCC website.

Opus 5: Episode 1: The Missing Link – Maddalena Lombardini’s Six String Quartets – The Counterpoint Club Opus 5: Episode 1: The Missing Link – Maddalena Lombardini’s Six String Quartets In the first episode of Opus 5 of The Counterpoint Club, The Missing Link: Maddalena Lombardini’s Six String Quartets, we explore the string quartets by Maddalena Lombardini, “mother of the string quartet,” an...

Registration is open for the Solo & Ensemble Prep Workshop, January 29th at Seattle Waldorf High School.

Solo & Ensemble Prep Workshop - Chamber Music Guild Chamber Music Guild presents a one-day workshop on chamber music and performance techniques for small ensembles who will compete in an upcoming Solo & Ensemble event. High school music teachers can help their student instrumental ensembles prepare for their performances by sending them to this works...

If you are unable to come to our fundraising event this Sunday but would like to support our chamber music programs, consider making a gift through GiveBIG! https://www.wagives.org/organization/Chambermusicguild

Get your tickets today for our May 7th fundraising event at Tinte Cellars Tasting Room in Georgetown!

Cheers to Chamber Music! Please join us at Tinte Cellars in Georgetown to celebrate and support inspirational chamber music experiences for youth and adults. Guests will enjoy intima...

Our first Solo and Ensemble Prep Workshop!

On we would like to encourage you to consider a gift in support of our chamber music programs: https://www.chambermusicguild.org/support

We just found out that our Artistic Director, Skyros Quartet will be playing on Northwest Focus Live tonight at 8pm on Classical KING FM 98.1 - tune in if you can!

CMG Artistic Director Skyros Quartet is performing Grieg at the National Nordic Museum tomorrow at 2pm. Looks like a great concert!

Grieg for Four The Northwest Grieg Society presents "Grieg for Four" as part of their 2022-23 season.

CMG Artistic Director Skyros Quartet will be performing with Philharmonia Northwest in its season opening concert, Reinvention. From the Philharmonia Northwest website:

“Our season opener explores how modern composers reinvented music of the past. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw was inspired by how music can “suddenly take you to the other side of Alice’s looking glass, in a kind of absurd, subtle, technicolor transition,” and wrote Entr’acte after hearing one of Haydn’s String Quartets. Based on Handel’s Concerto Grosso, Arnold Schoenberg‘s Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra is a rebellion against the Handelian style. Igor Stravinsky‘s charming Pulcinella is based on songs of the 18th-century composer Giovanni Pergolesi, with modern harmonies and orchestration.”

Julia Tai, Conductor
Town Hall Seattle
Sunday, October 9 @ 2:00PM

PROGRAM:
Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
Arnold Schoenberg: Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra in B-flat major (after Handel’s Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 7)
Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite

Sign up now for the November 5th Discovery Workshop! This is the same type of workshop previously called Day of Madness.

Discovery Workshop - Chamber Music Guild Love to play chamber music? Never played chamber music but always wanted to? If you are an amateur adult musician or a student musician age 13 or older, come and join us for a fun-filled day meeting and playing with other musicians and exploring the wonderful world of chamber music.

We think string instruments are beautiful as they are, but here are some funny ideas.

How to Add a Little Sparkle to Your Stringed Instrument | Strings Magazine If you’re longing to personalize your musical style—add a little bling to your strings, as it were—here's where you might find just the right gear to make you cheer.

Chamber Music Guild updated their website address.

Consider a gift of support during GiveBIG2022!

Support Chamber Music Madness on Washington Gives MissionChamber Music Madness provides educational and inspirational chamber music experiences for youth and adults, fostering life-long learning and an ever-expanding community of chamber music players. Our programs empower generations of musicians by providing access to...

Listen to the 5th and final episode of the 4th season (Opus) of our podcast, hosted by Skyros Quartet!

Opus 4: Episode 5 – The Neverending Story – The Counterpoint Club Opus 4: Episode 5 – The Neverending Story Published December 21, 2021 by Editor The final episode of Opus 4 is all about the end. How do we know we’ve gotten there? For musicians of all levels, it can be extremely tricky to know when something is ready, when the practice and rehearsals are over,...

Check out the latest episode of The Counterpoint Club podcast, "I Know What You Did Last Summer: Chamber Music Edition."

Opus 4: Episode 4 – I Know What You Did Last Summer: Chamber Music Edition – The Counterpoint Club Opus 4: Episode 4 – I Know What You Did Last Summer: Chamber Music Edition Published December 14, 2021 by Editor In the fourth episode of Opus 4 of The Counterpoint Club, I Know What You Did Last Summer, the Skyros Quartet goes on a tour of music festivals! In the history segment, Justin discusses...

Today is ! Please consider a gift in support of our youth chamber music programs! http://www.chambermusicmadness.org/support/

"Rock ’n’ Roll Never Dies," Opus 4: Episode 3 of The Counterpoint Cub podcast is available now! Subscribe through your favorite podcast platform, or listen online on the TCC website.

Opus 4: Episode 3 – Rock ’n’ Roll Never Dies – The Counterpoint Club Opus 4: Episode 3 – Rock ’n’ Roll Never Dies Published November 23, 2021 by Editor In the third episode of Opus 4 of The Counterpoint Club, Rock ’n’ Roll Never Dies, the Skyros Quartet examines how the spirit of originality and pushing boundaries found in rock music has its roots in classi...

A string player's nightmare, but this shows some fast thinking under pressure!

Ray Chen Breaks a String – Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Ray Chen breaks a string during a performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, conducted by Ludovic Morlot.Seattle Symphony Live: https://live.seattlesympho...

An exciting milestone for our chamber music podcast!

The Counterpoint Club Join The Counterpoint Club with the Skyros Quartet as we explore chamber music history, rehearsal ideas, performance techniques, and conversations with special guests - all with a dash of frivolity! The Counterpoint Club is a program of the nonprofit organization Chamber Music Madness located in Sea...