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.
SoCal 2021 Participant Concert
Lowell Liebermann Piano Quintet Op. 34 4th Movement Allegro Brutale
Joyce Pan and Peter Chang - Violin, Alex Navarro - Viola, Michael Gintz - Cello, Helen Kim - Piano
Mélanie Bonis Piano Quartet No. 1 in Bb Op. 69 2nd Movement Intermezzo: Allegretto Tranquillo
Carolyn Lowenthal - Violin, Katherine Bukstein - Viola, Liz Varnhagen - Cello, Bill Horne - Piano
Benjamin Britten String Quartet No. 2 Op. 36 1st Movement
Julie Park and Susan Soong - Violin, Kevin Jim - Viola, Hans Brightbill - Cello
Grażyna Bacewicz Piano Quintet 3rd Movement: Grave
Doug Green and Edith van Huss - Violin, Evan Young - Viola, Peter Lert - Cello, Marian Drandell Gilbert - Piano
Edward Elgar String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83 1st Movement Allegro Moderato
Randy Fisher and Anita Felix - Violin, Kate Capra - Viola, George Weiss - Cello
Manoir de Mes Reves / Blues en Mineur
Django Reinhardt / Stephane Grappelli Arr. David Balakrishnan
Hervé Brönnimann and Bruce Windoffer - Violin, Ariel Schwartz - Viola, Janet White - Cello
Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio in C minor Op. 66 4th Movement: Finale Allegro Appassionato
Amy McGuire - Violin, Elizabeth Elliott - Cello, Lydia Wu - Piano
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.
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
