New Orleans Chamber Players

Founded in 2018, New Orleans Chamber Players is devoted to inspiring and enriching the lives of Gulf Coast audiences through the professional performance of exceptional small chamber music repertoire (1-6 players) and conducted chamber music ensemble (7-12 players)

We seek to touch people's lives through the ineffable beauty of chamber music.

We seek to prepare professional chamber music performances with the finest classical musicians, almost always drawn directly from New Orleans.

We seek to foster joy, awe, inspiration.

We week to cultivate reflection, meaning, presence, connection, and emotional wellbeing.

We desire intimacy and creative collaboration through captivating and rich repertoire, drawn both from time-tested masterpieces to modern, innovative living composers.

In short, we want to bring you off the edge of your seat, and invite you to come alive.

Core Values:

- Excellent, professional level music making complemented by innovative and engaging programming
- Audience-centered experience emphasizing artistic performance as an avenue of connection and community well-being
- Creativity via the commissioning of new music for chamber ensemble
- Musician camaraderie and platform for individualistic expression
- Entrepreneurship as means to creating a better world

Testimonials

"It truly was a wonderful evening of music."
-Margaret Shields, Board Member, New Orleans Friends of Music

"It was a great concert....we especially liked the way the French horns and bassoons blended with each other and were pretty blown away by the lead clarinet. "
-Michael High, patron

"The music was some of the best I've heard.... in quite some time. I was moved."
-Dave Hurlbert, Executive Director, Marigny Opera House