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SoCal Chamber Music Workshop
The 2025 workshop will be held July 20 – 26, 2025. Applications are now closed. We accept individual participants who will be placed into a new ensemble each day with a chamber work assignment for the day as well as preformed groups. The optional assigned piece for 2025 is Beethoven Op. 18 No. 3.
The SoCal Chamber Music Workshop (SCCMW) is a 1-week workshop for adult amateur and professional chamber musicians, age 18 and above. This workshop is ideal for Advanced, Expert or above chamber music players according to the ACMP Playing Levels. Our participants include strings, piano, and winds (winds and pianists will be playing with strings and the best chance for winds and pianists to be accepted is to come with a preformed group). We gather for a week in July at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Musicians spend their days working on chamber music repertoire while receiving coaching to improve the quality of their musicianship in an ensemble. Our environment is welcoming, positive, and social while encouraging each musician to push beyond their limitations. For more details about the workshop, please see the following links: About SoCal, The Week in Detail, Special Projects, FAQs, SoCal 2024 Participant Concert Program.
New! SoCal Sessions - Interviews with Coaches
SoCal 2024 Photo Album
SoCal 2023
Reading Julius Eastman's "Gay Guerilla"
Danzon!
Celtic Jig Grooves
Jeff and Kindra - such love!
Tchaikovsky!
Del Sol Outdoors - Tango!
Mobile Library
Positively negative!
SoCal 2022
Celebrating Works By Women Composers!
During the 2022 workshop, we encouraged our participants to explore works written by women composers. Many of these beautiful works have been hidden from the spotlight and excluded from the traditional chamber music canon. We have curated a list of chamber works by women for you and your group to explore: Women Chamber Works. We have also purchased dozens of these works by women for our SoCal Library so that they are available to play at the workshop for years to come.
For the 2021 workshop, we sponsored a “Call for Scores” competition for best contemporary chamber piece written by a living woman composer who resides in California. This included string quartets and quintets which were not yet published and would be appropriate for chamber musicians at our workshop to play. The winner of this competition, announced May 15, 2021 was Erika Oba with her piece, “Akoya.” For more details about this project click here.
A video from our time as the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop
