Chamber Music Magazine

Chamber Music is the only national magazine dedicated to the art and business of small ensemble music. A benefit of CMA membership, it’s essential reading for everyone in the chamber music community.

Featured Articles

News, profiles, interviews, resources, and more from Chamber Music Magazine

Summer 2025
Features | July 15, 2025

How Fiddle Camp Freed Me

A violinist rediscovers music, and herself, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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Spring 2025
Features | April 24, 2025

Early Music, Later On

In its fiftieth season, Music Before 1800 confronts existential questions.
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Winter 2025
Features | February 4, 2025

Roscoe’s Big Picture

Roscoe Mitchell is the inaugural recipient of CMA’s Executive Award.
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Issues

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Fall 2023
Essays | November 15, 2023
The Excellence Playlist
Songwriter, composer, vocalist, poet, and educator Moor Mother shares a playlist based on the theme of excellence.
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Fall 2023
Features | November 2, 2023
Whose Excellence?
Composer, educator, pianist, MacArthur Genius Vijay Iyer shares his perspective.
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Fall 2023
Pianist Van Cliburn in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory during the Tchaikovsky International Music Competition in 1958.
Features | November 2, 2023
In it to Win It
What do chamber music competitions tell us?
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Fall 2023
Features | November 2, 2023
Gold Standards and Ineffable Qualities
How do notions of excellence figure into writing and thinking about music?
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Fall 2023
Features | November 1, 2023
Briefly Glimpsing Excellence, Along the Way
An essay on excellence, written by Ambrose Akinmusire.
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Summer 2023
Features | August 14, 2023
Setting New Standards
Three novel programs approach longstanding issues of approach longstanding issues of gender inequity head-on.
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