Amateur orchestras
Beijing International Chamber Orchestra
Founded as an intercultural project in September 2007, the Beijing International Chamber Orchestra brings together professional and amateur musicians of all nationalities and ages. Our repertoire includes orchestral and chamber works across multiple genres from Baroque to Jazz, echoing melodies from China as well as Hollywood.
COSM Orchestra
Chamber Orchestra of Science and Medicine in New York City
Encore Tours
At Encore, we design specialized itineraries for all types of orchestral ensembles including chamber orchestras, jazz ensembles, marching bands and symphony orchestras.
As your musical selections are chosen to enhance your group's strengths, so should the company representing you in the tour planning process reflect your commitment to excellence in your art. From coordination of instrument transportation and rental, to great flights and dynamic venues, direct billing, and on-line support, our expertise will help you to create memories that last a lifetime for your participants.
Northport Community Orchestra, Northport, NY
The mission of The Northport Community Orchestra (NCO) is to contribute to the community's quality of life through free public performances of classical music, while providing a fulfilling artistic experience for adult professional, amateur, and advanced student musicians on Long Island.
St. Thomas Orchestra, WestChester, New York
The St. Thomas Orchestra provides performance opportunities for skilled avocational musicians, serious musical students and professional musicians at a high quality level and enhances cultural offerings available to the community by presenting extremely affordable live performances of the standard orchestral repertoire.
Amateur chamber music societies
ACMS
The Amateur Chamber Music Players of South Australia, an organization of amateurs and professionals who "like to meet at organised venues as well as at home to play music, share our music resources, and develop our knowledge and experience of chamber music."
Amateur Chamber Music Players - Southern African Chapter
ACMP Office Telephone & Fax: [021] 683 2023
Email: amacham@mweb.co.za
CAMMAC: Canadian Amateur Musicians
"CAMMAC is a non-profit Canadian organization which provides opportunities for musicians (singers and instrumentalists) of all levels to meet other musicians and to make music together in a relaxed, non-competitive atmosphere."
Chamber Music Player’s List
Chamber music players mailing list for the discussion of playing techniques, repertoire, individual instrument playing questions, instrument selection, management and whatever else pertains to chamber music playing.
Farnham Chamber Music Club
Farnham Chamber Music Club (Farnham, UK) maintains a list of, mostly amateur, musicians who can contact fellow members in order to sing or play a specific item of chamber music. There are monthly concerts at which music prepared in this way can be performed.
info@fcmc.org.uk
Making Music
(UK) Supporting and championing voluntary music.
Mazer Quartet Society, Stockholm
The Mazer String Quartet Society is a chamber music association which has amongst its membership amateur musicians (both experienced and inexperienced), professional artistes and listeners. The one thing they all have in common is a love of chamber music. Many of Sweden's foremost chamber musicians play together with more or less skilled amateurs. The society has been of great importance in the development of the Swedish string quartet.
Music For People
"Music for People (MfP) is a grass-roots organization dedicated to re-vitalizing music making for individuals and groups and to promoting music as a means of self-expression. The belief that making improvisational music can be a joy to everyone is one of the central tenets of our philosophy."
Orchestervereinigung Sindelfingen e.V. (OVS)
"Viele Musiker schätzen es, mit anderen Kammermusik zu spielen - ohne auf Einkommen zu zielen. Ob Berufs- und/oder Laien-Musiker zusammen kommen, sie betreiben
Liebhaber-Kammermusik. Dabei kann es sich um erste Anfänge eines Zusammenspiels handeln oder auch um hoch professionell gespielte Musik Literatur.
Für
Reisende, für
Hinzuziehende und auch für
Anfänger in Sachen Kammermusik ist es manchmal schwierig,
die ersten Kontakte zu finden. Ihnen ist dieser Abschnitt gewidmet."
Quartet Mailing List
A mailing list devoted to playing techniques, repertoire, individual instrument playing questions (volin, viola, cello), instrument selection, quartet management and whatever else pertains to quartet playing.
Southend Chamber Music Club
UK - contact Mrs Melodie Wyeth, Secretary
on +44 (0)1702 540428
WCAMS.com
West Coast Amateur Musicians Society in British Columbia, Canada.
Miscellaneous organizations
Benslow Music Trust
Benslow, in Hertfordshire, Britain, offers courses to amateurs playing Classical, jazz, light music, Chamber Music, early music and the rest - Benslow has something to offer all amateur musicians of whatever age or ability with a year-round programme of day music courses, residential music courses and summer music schools.
Cobbett Association
An international research organization dedicated to the study, evaluation and preservation of rare and neglected chamber music of special merit.
Hawksbridge Institute, New Hampshire, USA
HAWKSBRIDGE INSTITUTE is a music education conference center dedicated to the promotion of String Orchestra programs in public schools.
Located in seacoast NH, we offer workshops, seminars, and concerts for music teachers and their students.
Levine School of Music
Levine School of Music in Washington D.C. Georgetown area has chamber music courses offered for both adults and students.
LYRA String Quartet
LYRA String Quartet, Inc., a non-profit arts organization in Atlanta, GA, offers concerts, workshops and programs for amateur players and schools.
Part time musician.com
This site is for all of the part-time musicians out there: people who love music and live to perform it, but who also work other jobs as well. As part-timers, we have unique constraints and challenges to solve, and these often require solutions that don’t match up perfectly to “expert advice”. We hope to share these solutions here, at PartTimeMusician.com.
Lots of interesting things on this site.
