There are a variety of Chamber Music Workshops, Conferences, Master Classes and less formal Get-togethers for amateur and student musicians, generally for strings (violin, viola, cello and double bass) winds (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon) and piano although some conferences limit the type of instrument or include additional instrumentation or voice. Additionally there are sessions in Baroque and Renaissance ensemble techniques on modern and period insturments. Each workshop has its own unique atmosphere generated from varying formats of scheduling, coaching and performance.
Young Musicians Festival, Evanston, Wyoming, USA
Wollongong Music Camp, Pymble, Australia
Chamber Music Summer School, Mount Buller, Victoria, Australia
Chamber Music Holidays, Vienna, Budapest and Esterhaza; Prague
Stringwood, Lanesboro, Minnesota, USA
Winterstrings, Lanesboro, Minnesota, USA
Brown University Chamber Music Weekend, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Early Music Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Le Domaine Forget, St-Irénée, Québec, Canada
Chamber Music with Triple Helix, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Chamber Music Institute, New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Putney Chamber Music Intensive, Putney, Vermont, USA
Chamber Music in Spain, Jimena de la Frontera, Spain
Manhattan String Quartet, Beethoven Workshop, Danbury, Connecticut, USA
Debussy String Quartet Workshop, Paris, France
DaPonte Weekends, St. Petersburg, Florida; Windham, New York; Rockville, Maryland, USA
Weekend Workshops, Somerset, New Jersey, USA
Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Chamber Music Festival for Strings, Indian Hill, Littleton, Massachusetts
Summer String Fling, Indian Hill, Littleton, Massachusetts
Musical Passages, Sierra Cabrera Mountains, Spain
Musical Passages, Provence, France
Musical Passages, Italian Adriatic
Lighthouse Chamber Players Weekend, Orleans, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Austin Chamber Music Workshop, Austin Chamber Music Center, Austin Texas, USA
La Pellegrina, Bechynì and Mikulov, Czech Republic
Chamber Music Connection, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, USA
Interlochen, Interlochen, Michigan, USA
Interlochen Chamber Music Conference, Interlochen, Michigan, USA
CAMMAC, Lake MacDonald, Québec, Canada and Cedar Glen, Ontario, Canada
Somerset Chamber Orchestra, Brymore School, Cannington, Somerset, England
Brandeis Summer Music Festival, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Dartington International Summer School, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon
Annual Chamber Music Festival, Bozeman, Montana, USA
Kinhaven Music School, Weston, Vermont, USA
London Mastercourse, London, England
Violin Masterclass, Keshet Eilon, Western Galilee, Israel
Max Aronoff Viola Institute , Bastyr University, Bothell, Washington, USA
American School of Double Bass, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Baroque Chamber Music Week, Headington School, Oxford, England
Aberystwyth International Music Summer School, Douwe Egbert, Tanners, Wales
Scotia Festival of Music, Dalhousie Arts Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada
Luzerne Music Center, Lake Luzerne, New York, USA
Camp Musical de l'Estrie 1999, Université Bishop's, Lennoxville, Qc, Canada
Kincardine Summer Music Festival, Kincardine, Ontario, Canada
Kent/Blossom Music, Kent, Ohio, USA
International School for Musical Arts, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario
Icicle Creek Summer Chamber Music Institute, Leavenworth, Washington, USA
Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Brunswick, Maine, USA
SummerKeys, Lubec, Maine, USA
The Chamber Music Conference and Composers Forum of the East, Bennington, Vermont, USA
Madeline Island Music Camp, Madeline Island, Wisconson, USA
Yellow Barn Music School and Festival, Putney, Vermont, USA
Lincoln Center Presents Great Performers, New York, New York, USA
Summer Quartet Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Hidden Valley Music Seminars, Carmel Valley, California, USA
International Baroque Institute, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Clarinet Connection, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
String Quartet Workshop, Newagen, Maine, USA
Palo Alto Chamber Music Workshop, Santa Cruz mountains, California, USA
Euromusica, Loches, Loire valley, France
Apple Hill, E. Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA
Ameropa Chamber Music Course and Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Northern Arizona University Summer Music Camp, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
The Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Florida State Summer Music Camps, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
International Workshops, Glasgow, Scotland
Summer Music West, San Francisco, California, USA
American-Russian Piano Institute and Competition, St Petersburg, Russia
Northwestern Chamber Music Institute at Sinsinawa, Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, USA
Play Week West, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
KentMusic, Kent, Connecticut, USA
SummerTrios, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Kneisel Hall, Blue Hill, Maine, USA; Tuscany, Italy
International Chamber Music Course of Capellades, Capellades, Spain
Round Top Center, Damariscotta, Maine, USA
Kamloops Interior Summer School of Music, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Midsummer Musical Retreat, Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, USA
Amherst Early Music Festival, Storrs, Connecticut, USA
Chico Chamber Music Workshop, Chico, California, USA
Classical Music teaching World Wide Program, Nice, France; Fes, Morocco; Malorca, Spain
Portland String Quartet Summer Workshop, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA
Britt Summer Camps, Jacksonville, Oregon, USA
The Audubon Quartet's Intensive String Quartet Performance Seminar, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Chamber Music Workshop, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Princeton Chamber Music Play Week, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA
Dublin Chamber Music Group, Termonfechin, Co. Louth, Ireland
UAF Summer Fine Arts Camp, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
The Marrowstone Music Festival & Institute, Port Townsend, Washington, USA
Summer at the Conservatory, Edmonton, Alberta
Arrowbear Music Camp, Arrowbear Lake, California, USA
Music Making - Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Mideast Workshop, La Roche College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Australian Festival of Chamber Music, Townsville, North Queensland, Australia
Kammermusik Woodwind Camp, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Blue Lake, Twin Lake, Michigan, USA
Flathead Lake Music Camp, Kalispell, Montana, USA
International Music Camp, Dunseith, North Dakota, USA
Crane Summer Camps, Potsdam, New York, USA
Brevard Music Festival, Blue Ridge Mountains, Brevard, North Carolina, USA
Aspen Music School, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Verbier Festival and Academy, Verbier, Switzerland
Soundfest Chamber Music Festival, Cape Cod, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
Round Top International Festival-Institute, Round Top, Texas, USA
Point CounterPoint, on Lake Dunmore, Vermont, USA
The Piano Institute at Colby, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA
Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, California
MidAmerica Chamber Music Institute, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, USA
Meadowmount School of Music, Lewis, New York, USA
The Ithaca College Chamber Music Institute, Ithaca, New York, USA
International Institute for Young Musicians, Cincinnati, Ohio and Santa Barbara, California, USA
Oregon Festival of American Music, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Taos School of Music Summer Chamber Music Program, Taos, New Mexico, USA
Summer String Academy, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
ENCORE School for Strings, Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio, USA
Chautauqua School of Music, Chautauqua, New York, USA
The James Conlon Choral Workshop, Carnegie Hall, New York, New York, USA
California Summer Music, Pebble Beach, California, USA
Cannon Music Camp, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA
Banff Music Center, Banff, Alberta Canada
Adamant Music School, Adamant, Vermont, USA
Music at Port Milford, Port Milford, Ontario, Canada
Ashland Chamber Music Workshops, Ashland, Oregon, USA
Kammermusik, Castle Zell an der Pram, Austria
Summer Institute of Chamber Music, University of Redlands, Redlands, California, USA
Amadeus in Provence, Bonnieux, France
Sonata Piano Camp, Bennington, Vermont, USA
Kammermusik Woodwind Camp, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Beethoven's String Quartets: A Classical or Modernistic Legacy?, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. Canada
Chamber Music Northern California Workshops, Hayward State University, Hayward, California, USA
Mastercourse with János Bálint, Passau, Bavaria, Germany
Pacific Rim Summer Festival, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Strings 2000, Williamstown, New Jersey, USA
Philadelphia Amateur Chamber Music Players, Settlement Music School, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, USA
ACMPSA Play Days, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Bella Nota, Burgundy, France
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