We will be hosting our 2nd Winter Workshop over Christmas break at the BC Conservatory of Music. If you are not familiar with this wonderful genre of classical music, please listen to some string quartets or piano trios. All the great composers have written for this genre, and instrumentation for chamber music can range from a smaller group of duo, trio, quartet to larger ensembles such as quintet, sextet, septet or octet.
For instrumentalists, playing in chamber groups is in fact far more challenging than playing in orchestras for two main reasons. First of all chamber music is written one person to a part so there's no room to hide as everyone plays an important role. Also, there is no conductor to lead the ensemble, so therefore whoever has the melody, which could be anyone in the group at any moment, needs to be the leader, and everyone else has to follow
To find out more about this opportunity to try out some chamber music, visit www.pacificchambermusic.org
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