For the Love of Music
SoCal Chamber Music Workshop
The SoCal Chamber Music Workshop is a 1-week workshop for adult amateur and professional chamber musicians. Our participants include strings, piano, winds, and voice. 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 2021 workshop will be held July 25 – 31, 2021. Given the Covid-19 pandemic, we are considering several different options for the 2021 workshop. We hope that we will be able to hold an in-person workshop at Scripps similar to prior years, although with additional safeguards for health in place. Alternatively, we are considering virtual workshop options. We will have a more definite plan in early 2021. Please check back then!
SoCal 2023
Gay Gorilla!
Eastman's Gay Gorilla Reading
Eastman's Gay Gorilla Reading
SoCal 2022
Celebrating Works By Women Composers!
This year and next, 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.
As part of this initiative we are sponsoring 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 will receive a $1000 prize. For more details and information on how to apply click here.
A video from our time as the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop
