Chamber music
This genre contains some of the world's greatest music, the best writing by composers drawn to the intimacy and purity of chamber music. This, by extension, tends to attract the very finest musicians.
Outstanding opportunities
While Lamp has always hosted week-long Chamber Music Academies with guest faculty ranging from Colin Carr, Kim Kashkashian to Jane Coop, we now offer a range of longer term opportunities designed to give emerging ensembles and individual players the opportunity to focus on their chamber music goals, whether that's hatching a new ensemble, expanding repertoire or preparing for an important competition, all with the guidance of Lamp's unparalleled faculty.
Colin Carr: Cello
16 - 21 April, 2024
Colin Carr appears throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher. He has played with major orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, the orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia, Montréal and all the major orchestras of Australia and New Zealand. Conductors with whom he has worked include Rattle, Gergiev, Dutoit, Elder, Skrowasczewski and Marriner.
With his duo partner Thomas Sauer he has played recitals throughout the United States and Europe including New York, Boston, Philadelphia and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Colin has played complete cycles of the Bach Solo Suites at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Gardner Museum in Boston and in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver.
As a member of the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio, he recorded and toured extensively for 20 years. Chamber music plays an important role in his musical life. He is a frequent visitor to international chamber music festivals worldwide and has appeared often as a guest with the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets and with New York's Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Recent CD releases include the complete Bach suites on the Wigmore Live label and the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Variations on the MSR Classics label with Thomas Sauer. Colin is the winner of many prestigious international awards, including First Prize in the Naumburg Competition, the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Award and Second Prize in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition.
He first played the cello at the age of five. Three years later he went to the Yehudi Menuhin School, where he studied with Maurice Gendron and later William Pleeth. He was made a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1998, having been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston for 16 years. In 1998, St. John’s College, Oxford created the post of “Musician in Residence” for him, and in September 2002 he became a professor at Stony Brook University in New York.
Colin’s cello was made by Matteo Gofriller in Venice in 1730. He makes his home with his wife Caroline in an old house outside Oxford, England.
For more information: http://www.colincarr.net/
Tuition (does not include housing)
Individual $600
Duo $800
Trio $1000
Quartet $1200
Who’s eligible?
The program is open to young professional cello and chamber music masters students as well as talented undergrads.
Jane Coop: Piano
23-28 April, 2024
Jane Coop is one of Canada’s most prominent and distinguished artists, was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. For advanced studies her principal teachers were Anton Kuerti in Toronto and Leon Fleisher in Baltimore.
At the age of nineteen she won First Prize in the CBC’s national radio competition (the Young Performers Competition), and this, along with First Prize at the Washington International Competition, launched her career. In the early years she made recital debuts at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall (now called Weill Hall), and gave concerto performances with the Toronto Symphony, the Calgary Philharmonic the Victoria Symphony and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra. In 1976 she was invited to tour the New England States as soloist with Mario Bernardi and the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada in Mozart’s Concerto in D minor, K.466.
Her commitment to teaching is centered around her long time position at the University of British Columbia’s School of Music, where she was a senior professor and Head of the Piano Division. In 2003 she was designated Distinguished University Scholar, and in 2007 she received a Killam Teaching Award. In 1992 she was the founding Artistic Director of the Young Artists’ Experience – a summer chamber music program in Whistler, BC, for 14-18 year old students. Its mandate was to give the young people a wide exposure to art and life, thus offering in the daily schedule yoga, composition, poetry, philosophy and visual art as well as music.
In December 2012, Jane Coop was appointed to the Order of Canada, our country’s highest honour for lifetime achievement. She was also appointed to the Order of British Columbia in May, 2019.
For more information: https://www.janecoop.com/
Tuition (does not include housing)
Individual $600
Duo $800
Trio $1000
Quartet $1200
Who’s eligible?
The program is open to young professional piano and chamber music masters students as well as talented undergrads.
Kim Kashkashian: Viola
14-20 May, 2024
Tuition (does not include housing)
Individual $600
Duo $800
Trio $1000
Quartet $1200
Grammy award-winning violist Kim Kashkashian has been hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “an artist who combines a probing, restless intellect with enormous beauty of tone.” Internationally recog-nized as a unique voice on the viola, her legendary work as a performing and recording artist and ped-agogue is renowned worldwide, and she has tirelessly worked to broaden the range of technique and repertoire of the viola. Equally at home in both traditional and contemporary repertoire, the multi- Grammy nominee has commissioned, premiered, and collaborated with composers including György Kurtág, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt, Peter Eötvös, Ken Ueno, Lera Auerbach, Hosokawa and Tigran Mansurian. Her orchestral engagements include orchestras of Berlin, London, Vienna, Milan, New York, and her recitals and chamber appearances have taken her to major stages globally, where she also appears with her Trio Tre Voci, and in duo partnerships with pianist Robert Levin and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky. She is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory and is founder and Artistic Director of Music for Food, a musician-led hunger relief initiative.
For more information: https://www.kimkashkashian.com/
Who’s eligible?
The program is open to young professional viola and chamber music masters students as well as talented undergrads.
Nicolas van Poucke: Piano & Chamber Music
TBD June, 2024
Tuition (does not include housing)
Individual $600
Duo $800
Trio $1000
Quartet $1200
His discography is steadily growing, with his latest solo album, "In The Moment," being a direct-to-disc vinyl album featuring two unedited takes of Beethoven sonatas. The album has been praised for its technical skill and emotional depth. His previous release, "The Schumann Collection Vol. l" on TRPTK, received glowing reviews, with critics noting Nicolas's ability to approach the "musically and psychologically complex world of Schumann with natural ease.” The release of "The Schumann Collection Vol. ll" is eagerly anticipated.
Who’s eligible?
The program is open to young professional pianists and chamber music masters students as well as talented undergrads.
Nicolas van Poucke, a Dutch pianist, has been lauded as a "true poetic musician" by De Volkskrant after a recent performance. Born into a musical family, Nicolas started taking piano lessons at six years old and went on to study with David Kuyken and Jan Wijn at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He was also coached by renowned pianists Martha Argerich, Murray Perahia, and Alfred Brendel.
Nicolas has been performing extensively both in his home country and nternationally since a young age. He has been a soloist with various orchestras, most recently performing with the Dutch Chamber Orchestra. Nicolas has given recitals at prestigious venues such as Het Concertgebouw, the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Concertgebouw de Vereeniging Nijmegen, and made his London debut at the Royal Festival Hall in London with Chineke! Orchestra conducted by Roderick Cox performing Beethoven's third piano concerto.