ACMP offers Chamber Music scholarships.

To encourage the involvement and to raise the level of high-school age students in playing chamber music, ACMP Foundation will again offer a limited number of scholarships to string teachers in attendance at "Coaching Practicum" courses in June and July of this year. These programs take place within the context of Chamber Music of the Rockies at Beaver Creek the week of June 11-18, 2007, in Vail, Colorado and Credo Chamber Music, the week of July 1-8, 2007, in Oberlin, Ohio.

Participants at Beaver Creek will observe five hours of daily coaching by the Afiara String Quartet, residents at the Morrison Chamber Music Center of San Francisco State University. They will also receive one hour of daily coaching and instruction by quartet members.

Participants at Credo Chamber Music will observe three hours daily of coaching, one and a half hours of master class, and receive one hour of daily coaching and instruction by faculty from Juilliard, Oberlin, and Wheaton Conservatories, as well as from our country's leading ensembles.

The coaching of chamber music for students and adult amateurs has been a high priority of the Foundation for many years. Specific interest in the pedagogy of coaching grew from observation of chamber music activities at the many community music schools and youth orchestras supported by ACMP grants. Eighty-seven organizations, including 61 schools and 27 orchestras, currently receive support from ACMP.

For more information about the Chamber Music of the Rockies at Beaver Creek, contact Gall Seay at [phone] or visit www.coloradosuzuki.org. For information regarding Credo Chamber Music, contact Peter Slowik at [phone] or visit www.credochambermusic.org.