Coleman Chamber Competition

Join us for the 61st annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition, which provides young musicians (and savvy audience members) with a chamber music experience of unparalleled intensity. Finalists will vie for the $7,500 Alice Coleman Prize, the $4,000 Coleman-Barstow Prize for Strings, and the $4,000 Coleman-Saunderson Prize for Winds or Brass. The Competition is open to the public, free of charge. The winners will be presented in concert Sunday, April 29, 2007, at 3:30 p.m.

The Competition began in 1947 as the Coleman Auditions for young, non-professional performers; today's competing ensembles must have an average age of less than 26. An abbreviated list of past winners includes Glenn Dicterow; Grant Gershon; Jeffrey Kahane; Anne-Marie McDermott; Paula Robison; Nathaniel Rosen; Morton Subotnick; the Ahn and Janaki trios; eighth blackbird; and the Calder, Cavani, Colorado, Pacifica, Tokyo, and Vega quartets. Competition judges have included Jascha Heifetz; Natalie Limonick; Mehli Mehta; Gregor Piatigorsky; Artur Rubinstein; Eudice Shapiro; Arnold Steinhardt; Henri Temianka; the Beaux Arts Trio; and the Amadeus, Budapest, Opus One, and Smetana Quartets.

Competition Information and Application

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Coleman Chamber Music Association