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Chamber Music Institute

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Chamber Music Institute at the Farm was a camp for teenaged string players from 1983-1998, with the Philadelphia String Quartet as the faculty. [1] It was for high school aged string players to study chamber music, and held as part of the Olympic Music Festival near Quilcene, WA. [1]

Students at the Barn in a spoof photo of their coaches in the PSQ

The Chamber Music Institute was held on a renovated dairy farm on the Olympic Peninsula. The Philadelphia Quartet had moved to Seattle in 1960.[2] At the farm, they performed concerts for the public every weekend in the barn. [3] The camp enrolled 16-25 students from around the Pacific Northwest, and they were in residence at the farm for a four-week period.

Alumni who became professional musicians include Grant Donnellan, professor of violin at Western Washington University; [4]Glenn Donnellan, violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra; [5]and Richard O'Neill, violist with the Takács String Quartet. [6]

In 1999, the camp was discontinued, though the Olympic Music Festival ran for some years after that. The name Olympic Music Festival changed hands, [7]but the concert series still runs as "Concerts-in-the Barn".[8] [9]

At the "Anti-Contest- Concert"- String Quartet as mice

From 2000, the camps moved through a non-profit organization known as Chamber Music Madness.[10] This including summer Camp Nirvana for String Quartets, held at Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA. The faculty included Irwin Eisenberg, violinist; and Leslie Marckx, cellist. Camp Nirvana ran from 2001-2008. The chamber music summer camps have continued in north Seattle.

Student trio in Anti Contest as "Passionate Pink Pigs"
Seattle music camp in the Zen Garden 2022
Summer camp in the Zen garden, 2024

References

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Summer Camp Recital Program July 2024
  1. ^ "Philadelphia String Quartet - Free Music Archive". freemusicarchive.org. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  2. ^ TIME (1966-10-07). "Orchestras: Flying the Coop". TIME. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  3. ^ chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://jchsmuseum.com/Resources/WorkingDraft_CityofDreams-9-28-19.pdf
  4. ^ "Grant Donnellan | College of Fine and Performing Arts | Western Washington University". cfpa.wwu.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  5. ^ "Glenn Donnellan | Kennedy Center". The Kennedy Center. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  6. ^ https://www.takacsquartet.com/.
  7. ^ "There is Still Time to Take in Two Iconic Chamber Music Festivals". Northwest Prime Time. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
  8. ^ https://www.ptleader.com/stories/concerts-in-the-barn-returns-for-eighth-season,169175
  9. ^ https://www.nwpb.org/2021/07/30/classical-music-venues-with-non-classical-histories-trillium-woods-farm/
  10. ^ "Chamber Music Madness – The Counterpoint Club". Retrieved 2024-10-30.
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