When: Saturday, January 11, 2025, 1:00 – 6:00 pm
Where: Sanborn Hall, Elizabeth St and Gray Chapel, 61 S Sandusky St, Delaware, OH
Who: Up to sixteen chamber ensembles of 3 to 6 members, and individual players will participate. Open to ensembles and individual players including strings, winds, and/or piano.
Awards: Each ensemble will receive comments, certificates, and participate in a reading session with distinguished professional chamber musicians and educators.
Repertoire:
- Up to two contrasting movements, around 10 minutes of total repertoire.
- Groups who only have one movement prepared may also participate. Individual players without a chamber group will be placed together with other individual players to participate in reading session(s) with a mentor.
Applications Due: Register by 11:55PM on Saturday, December 21, 2024.
Participation Fee: A non-refundable registration fee of $40.00 per member of ensemble is due online by December 21, 2024. Needs-based scholarship is available.
Event Description:Up to sixteen chamber ensembles and individual players will be invited to participate in this biennial Chamber Music Invitational event to be held on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University.
Open to instrumental ensembles made up of strings, strings with winds, strings with piano, mix of strings with winds and piano.
Each ensemble will have the opportunity to perform up to two contrasting movements of chamber works for a select panel of chamber artists.
The performances are free and open to the public. Written comments from a panel of experts will be provided to each participating ensemble after the invitational is complete.
After all ensembles have performed, there will be a reading of the finale movement of Beethoven String Quartet Op. 59, No. 3 (or other work) with members of the panel.
Individual players will be placed into a group and paired with a Chamber Music Mentor to help guide them through a reading of a chamber work to be determined by instrumentation and experience.
Event Host: Ohio Wesleyan UniversityWith the generous assistance of OWU Music Department, Dr. Richard Edwards, Professor of Music, Department Chair, and Deborah B. Price, Artistic Director Chamber Music Connection and Conductor OWU Chamber Orchestra
Invitational Panel Members will be announced soon.
Register early! Registration ends December 21, 2024!
Space is limited. Detailed event schedule will be made available by Monday January 6, 2025.