2025 Dates
February 8-9 and 15-16, 2025
Music Northwest invites adult musicians to spend two weekends in intensive chamber music rehearsals with outstanding Northwest coaches. A minimum of at least 3 years of experience on an instrument is required. (strings, woodwinds, french horn, piano.)
Our program features coached rehearsals with artist-teachers.
Rehearsal venues are arranged individually with each ensemble and the Camp Director following registration. Options include private home, public venue, or coaching studio.
Already formed groups are welcome or we will match you up with an appropriate group.
For players wishing to be placed in a group, please send a brief recording by Oct. 31.
PUBLIC RECITAL with appropriate health protocols at St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, West Seattle
SUNDAY, FEB. 16, 2025
For more information, please contact: Jane Harty, Director at jane.harty@musicnorthwest.org
Tuition
Only the application fee ($25) is due with your registration form. You will be billed for tuition upon acceptance.
$325 Early Bird Tuition* (If application is received by October 31)
$375 Regular Tuition*
*Does not include $25 non-refundable application fee.
(After acceptance to our Camp, tuition is non-refundable).
All Coached Rehearsals are 90 minutes between 10 am and 4 pm on Saturdays, 1-4 pm on Sunday.
CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL: Sunday Feb. 16th starting at 1 pm:
- 1:00 pm: CAMP RECITAL
- 3:00 pm: MASTERPIECES FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO, featuring Quinn Price, violin with Jane Harty, piano
- FREE Tickets for Camp participants; Half-price for Family and Friends
Welcome to the 2025 Music Northwest Adult Chamber Music Camp! Those of you who have attended in past years know how much fun we have at our Camp and the high level of music making that develops over just a few days of rehearsals and coaching. If you are new to our Camp, we’d love to have you join us. Come with a group, or on your own and we will try to match you up!
Our Coaches
Jane Harty, pianist, is the Artistic Director of Music Northwest. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California and directs the highly acclaimed Music Northwest Concert Series. Her teachers included Blanche Bascourret de Gueraldi, a student of Cortot; Joanna Graudan, a student of Schnabel; and Nadia Boulanger. Her decades of university graduates are teachers and performers throughout the United States.
Joseph Gottesman is Director of Chamber Music Studies at the Seattle Conservatory of Music. His performing career has taken him to a wide variety of settings. He has toured most of the United States, as well as Central America and the Far East. In 2006 he was chosen as the viola soloist for Lincoln Center’s production of Bernarda Alba and performed as violist for the Broadway productions of Aida, Bombay Dreams, 110 in the Shade, as well as the national company of Phantom of the Opera. Mr. Gottesman served as Professor of Viola at Western Washington University, where he also coached chamber music and conducted performances of the WWU Chamber and Symphony Orchestras.
Quinn Price is a violinist based in Tacoma, Washington. He is an active freelance performer and teacher in the Puget Sound area, and currently plays as a member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and as Principal Second Violin of Northwest Sinfonietta. He holds performance degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and University of Texas at Austin.
Miriam Shames, cellist, earned a BA in Literature from Yale University and a Masters degree in Cello Performance from Juilliard and spent the following 12 years working in arts administration, including 5 years as Director of the Piatigorsky Foundation. She has served as Principal cellist of Philharmonia Northwest, Assistant Principal of the Tacoma Symphony, and has played with Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the Northwest Sinfonietta. Currently, Miriam maintains a busy private teaching studio and is director of Carlsen Cello Foundation, a non profit that loans fine cellos to deserving and talented students who cannot afford their own instrument.
Additional Artist-Coaches will be engaged for woodwind ensembles, pending registration.
