The Austin Chamber Music Center creates chamber music experiences that connect, educate, and inspire our community.
Founded by Felicity Coltman in 1981 to offer a summer chamber music workshop to junior and senior high school musicians, the Austin Chamber Music Center immediately added school-year classes that met on Saturdays. Arts education remains central to ACMC’s mission. The summer workshop and school-year Academy are programs for artists of all ages and experience levels to learn to play chamber music with peers and explore music composition, theory, and other electives. Beginning with McCallum Fine Arts Academy in 1997, ACMC also collaborates with 10 Austin schools to provide intensive chamber music coaching to band and orchestra students throughout the year. Graduates of ACMC’s educational programs include many professional musicians, including the cellist of the Jupiter String Quartet, violist of the Maia Quartet, principal oboist with the National Symphony, principal flutist of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, principal bassoonist of the Houston Symphony, principal clarinetist of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, multiple members of the Austin and San Antonio Symphonies, and countless music educators.