Eastman Underscores Chamber Music's Importance

The Eastman School of Music is renewing its longstanding commitment to a historically important form of music that holds significant potential for the future.

The Department of Chamber Music, approved last winter, builds on the "Eastman Initiatives" that the school has developed over the past several years as a response to the changing culture and marketplace for classical music.

As large symphony orchestras redefine their roles, chamber ensembles offer additional opportunities to musicians. Small groups often can reach new audiences by taking music out of traditional concert halls and into rural communities, schools, clubs, even shopping malls.

At Eastman, more than 50 ensembles are formed each semester, including string, piano, woodwind, brass, percussion, and mixed groups.

Plans include an experimental "Eastman Chamber Music Society" to present concerts of mixed chamber music groups as well as an award program to recognize and encourage groups that have been playing together for at least a year and want to pursue more concentrated study as an ensemble.

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