For the Love of Music
SoCal Chamber Music Workshop
The SoCal Chamber Music Workshop (SCCMW) is a 1-week workshop for adult amateur and professional chamber musicians, age 18 and above. Our participants include strings, piano, and winds. 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.
The 2022 workshop will be held July 24 – 30, 2022. We will include details about Covid-19 safety protocols for the 2022 workshop as the pandemic evolves. Proof of vaccination is required.
Celebrating Works By Women Composers!
For the 2022 workshop, we are encouraging 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. Our optional assignment for 2022 is the Ethyl Smyth string quartet in E minor available on IMSLP.
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 includes string quartets and quintets which are not yet published and would be appropriate for chamber musicians at our workshop to play. The winner of this competition, announced May 15, 2021 is 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
