Coleman Chamber Music Association

Coleman Chamber Music Association Founded in 1904, Coleman is one of the oldest organizations in the United States dedicated to the presentation, understanding, and enjoyment of chamber music.

Founded in 1904 by Alice Coleman (later Alice Coleman Batchelder), the Coleman Chamber Music Association is one of the oldest organizations in the United States dedicated to the presentation, understanding, and enjoyment of chamber music. Coleman presents an annual series of six chamber music concerts in Pasadena, California at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium (the location marked on the map).

PLEASE NOTE — Regrettably, the April 19, 2026 Coleman concert by Quatuor Ébène has been cancelled.Caltech's Beckman Audi...
03/25/2026

PLEASE NOTE — Regrettably, the April 19, 2026 Coleman concert by Quatuor Ébène has been cancelled.

Caltech's Beckman Auditorium has been closed for emergency maintenance and repairs. It is not expected to reopen until late in Fall 2026. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by this cancellation.

To refund your ticket(s), please make your request to the Coleman office prior to May 27th so that all refunds can be concluded before the end of Coleman's fiscal year. If you wish the value of your ticket(s) to be considered a tax-deductible contribution, we would be most grateful and will provide a tax receipt upon request.

Please contact the Coleman office by emailing [email protected], or by calling or texting 626-793-4191.

Please join us for our 2025-26 season!▪︎Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (November 9, 2025)▪︎The Queen’s Six (Dec...
07/05/2025

Please join us for our 2025-26 season!

▪︎Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (November 9, 2025)
▪︎The Queen’s Six (December 14, 2025)
▪︎Valencia Baryton Project (January 18, 2026)
▪︎Isidore Quartet (February 15, 2026)
▪︎Quatuor Ébène (April 19, 2026)

Get the details on our website:
http://colemanchambermusic.org

We're sorry to have to let you know that Sunday's concert by the Isidore String Quartet is being postponed due to the on...
01/10/2025

We're sorry to have to let you know that Sunday's concert by the Isidore String Quartet is being postponed due to the ongoing fire impacts in the San Gabriel Valley and beyond. We plan to reschedule the concert, but no date has been set yet.

If you already have tickets to the event, please hold on to your tickets and we will be in touch with more details.

Thank you for your understanding.

Just three more days until you can experience this joy for yourselves! Join us this Sunday for what promises to be an ex...
03/07/2024

Just three more days until you can experience this joy for yourselves! Join us this Sunday for what promises to be an exceptional musical experience.

We're looking forward to concerts soon in Pasadena on March 10 Chamber Music Association and March 17 in Tucson Early Music - join us!!

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble performs on Coleman's series on April 16. If you're planning to att...
03/02/2023

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble performs on Coleman's series on April 16. If you're planning to attend (and we hope you are!), you should know that there have been a few changes to the originally announced program.

Molbe's “Air Arabe” and Glinka's "Trio Pathetique" will replace the Brahms sonata shown in our brochure, and the pianist for this special event will be Caroline Palmer, rather than Simon Crawford-Phillips as originally announced.

And don't forget that our season closing concert by the Calidore String Quartet is just two weeks later, on April 30.

Please join us...there's nothing quite like experiencing remarkable music in the company of others!

Coleman is thrilled to announce our 2022-23 season of concerts! Details can be found at http://colemanchambermusic.org.T...
06/05/2022

Coleman is thrilled to announce our 2022-23 season of concerts!
Details can be found at http://colemanchambermusic.org.

The full slate of six performers features:

• Jerusalem Quartet
• Dover Quartet
• Pražák Quartet
• Wu Han, Philip Setzer, and David Finckel
• Academy of St Martin in the Fields Wind Ensemble
• Calidore String Quartet

Series and individual concert tickets are on sale now.

We hope you will join us to be reminded once again that music is magic!

02/27/2022

▶︎▶︎ APRIL CONCERT CANCELED ◀︎◀︎

Caltech has now asked us to cancel our April 3 concert by the Quatuor Ébène.

We will be contacting those of you who have purchased tickets for the concert to arrange for refunds. If you have questions, please contact us by calling 626-793-4191 or by sending an email to [email protected].

Our "season" now consists of just a single remaining concert, the Miró String Quartet with Martin Beaver, Violin, and Clive Greensmith, Cello on May 22.

We hope you will be able to join us.

02/10/2022

▶︎▶︎ MARCH CONCERT CANCELED ◀︎◀︎

Caltech has asked us to cancel our March 13 concert by the Esmé Quartet.

We will be contacting those of you who have purchased tickets for the March concert to arrange for refunds. If you have questions, please contact us by calling 626-793-4191 or by sending an email to [email protected].

Our "season" now consists of two planned concerts: Quatuor Ébène on April 3, and the Miró String Quartet with Martin Beaver, Violin, and Clive Greensmith, Cello on May 22.

We hope you will be able to join us.

01/16/2022

▶︎▶︎ JANUARY & FEBRUARY CONCERTS CANCELED ◀︎◀︎

We're very sorry to have to update last month's news to let you know that, in addition to today's planned concert by Quicksilver, the February 20th concert by Cuarteto Casals has been canceled.

Caltech, on whose campus we present our concerts, has requested that these concerts not go forward, in accordance with the school's current guidelines for indoor events.

Those of you who purchased tickets for today's concert will be receiving refunds very soon, if you have not already done so. We will be contacting those of you who have purchased tickets for the February concert.

If you have questions, please contact us by calling 626-793-4191 or by sending an email to [email protected].

With these cancelations, we now look forward to our first concert being the March 13th performance by the Esmé Quartet. We hope you will join us!

12/27/2021

▶︎ JAN. 22 QUICKSILVER CONCERT CANCELED ◀︎

We're sorry to have to let you know that our planned season-opening concert by Quicksilver on January 16th has been canceled.

Due to the increasing prevalence of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Caltech has requested that this concert not go forward, in accordance with the school's current guidelines for large in-person gatherings.

We have been contacting those of you who have purchased tickets for this concert, either individually or as part of a series purchase, and refunds will be forthcoming for the value of the January tickets.

If you have questions, please contact us by calling 626-793-4191 or by sending an email to [email protected].

We're now looking forward to beginning our shortened series on February 20th, when Cuarteto Casals will perform pieces by Haydn, Dvořák, and Mendelssohn. We hope you will join us!

Hello, friends. Finally some good news:The Coleman Chamber Music Association invites you to join us in welcoming back li...
10/19/2021

Hello, friends. Finally some good news:

The Coleman Chamber Music Association invites you to join us in welcoming back live chamber music performances!

We are pleased to announce the 118th season of Sundays with Coleman concerts which will begin with Quicksilver, a baroque ensemble performing a variety of compositions from the early 17th century entitled “Early Moderns: The (Very) First Viennese School.”

Our season this year consists of five performance. For artists, dates, and ticketing information, please visit our website at http://www.colemanchambermusic.org/.

12/17/2020

▶︎ 2020-21 CONCERTS CANCELED ◀︎

We hope you have safely weathered these past months of COVID-19. This period has been challenging for all of us!

For months, Coleman remained cautiously optimistic about the 2020-2021 concert season. However, the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, Health Department closure of indoor venues, and limitations against gatherings for live performance have forced the Coleman board of directors to make the difficult decision to cancel what would have been Coleman’s 117th season of presentations.

For details, see the post on our website at http://www.colemanchambermusic.org/2020-21-concerts-canceled/.

To stay informed as we share special events, and to make sure you don’t miss the announcement of our 2021-22 season of concerts, please join our email list using the big blue SIGN UP button at the top of our page.

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