"They have established standards of chamber music performance
equal to any in the world," in the words of the Washington Post.
And The New York Times said, "They appealed to the heart and the
head, offering a warm, seductively luxurious sound and an
impressive precision and unity of purpose."
Among today's most exciting and innovative chamber music
ensembles, The
American Chamber Players were
formed in 1985 by Miles Hoffman from a core group of artists of
The Library of Congress Summer Chamber Festival. The ensemble
performs repertoire ranging from familiar masterpieces to
neglected gems to newly commissioned American works, and its
fascinating and delightful programs with varied instrumental
combinations have been as enthusiastically praised as its
extraordinary, dynamic performances.
They have toured throughout North America, engaged and
re-engaged by prestigious concert series from Florida to
British Columbia, and they have traveled to Paris for a series
of special gala concerts at the Paris Opera and the Bibliothèque
Nationale. They have also been heard countless times on National
Public Radio's Performance
Today and
on local radio stations throughout the United States, and they
are the resident ensemble of the June Chamber Festival at the
Kreeger Museum, in Washington, DC.
The Gila Valley Arts Council wishes to thank the many
supporters, all of the individual and business Arts Council
members and major contributors, Freeport McMoRan Copper and
Gold, Graham County Board of Supervisors, the United Way of
Graham County, and the Graham County Community Foundation that
make this all possible by their financial support. These
performances are also supported in part by the Arizona
Commission on the Arts with funding from the State of Arizona
and the National Endowment for the Arts.
