2026 Dates
February 21-22 and February 28 and March 1, 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, March 1st, 2026
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 March 1st starting at 1 pm:
- 1:00 pm: CAMP RECITAL
- 3:00 pm: CHAMBER MUSIC MASTERPIECES with Cecilia Archuleta, violin; Miriam Shames, cello; Jane Harty, piano
- FREE Tickets for Camp participants; Half-price for Family and Friends
Welcome to the 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 h ave you join us. Come with a group, or on your own and we will try to match you up!
Our Coaches:
Cecilia Archuleta, violinist, enjoys a varied and colorful career as a chamber musician, orchestral player, and soloist. In her native Los Angeles, she studied violin with Eudice Shapiro, Paul Shure, and was privileged to count Camilla Wicks, Henryk Szeryg and Jascha Heifetz among her mentors.In the Northwest Cecilia has performed with Seattle Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, Pacific NW Ballet Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra and Auburn Symphony Orchestra. She is currently concertmaster of Thalia Symphony Orchestra. In chamber music (her greatest love), Cecilia has performed with the Philadelphia String Quartet for twelve seasons at the Olympic Music Festival, and the renowned Onyx Trio Series at Town Hall. She is on faculty with the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Guild, and Midsummer Musical Retreat, where she coaches adult chamber ensembles.
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. She is a chamber music specialist and recently published a new 3-volume edition of the Irish Songs of Sir Hamilton Harty who was her great-uncle
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, pending registration.
