OUR MISSION

Chamber Project St. Louis embraces the communicative and collaborative nature of chamber music to create interactive performances reflecting a 21st-century audience, and to create partnerships with both traditional and non-traditional venues, all types of artists, institutions, and the community.

We will accomplish this mission by these core commitments:
  • The highest possible artistic level in the musical performance of chamber music.
  • Engaging programming that inspires unexpected thought provoking experiences for the audience.
  • Creating deep connections with our audiences before, during, and after performances both verbally and musically promoting personal responses to the music through audience participation.
  • Developing non-traditional audiences reflecting the diversity of our environment and a new generation of concert goers in intimately social settings.
  • Commitment to the performance of chamber music from revered classics to living composers.
  • Developing outreach and education initiatives that will further our commitment  and love for the community we serve by creating meaningful, active listening experience for underserved  communities and audiences.
GET INVOLVED

In August of 2011, Chamber Project St. Louis has filed the paperwork to transition to a non-profit organization. We believe in the power of the arts to enhance our great city and surrounding communities and we want to invite you to become an essential part of this movement. The support of our audiences over the past seasons encouraged us to take this new step.  We are a small organization and every contribution, big or small, makes a profound impact on our ability to expand our mission. By supporting us with a financial gift, you have a tangible and direct impatct on your community. We promise to keep you informed of everything we are doing and we are honored to have your trust. As we embark down this path, we will continue to provide intimately social concert experiences, but we will also be able bring these experiences to more people, especially those that may not have the opportunity to connect with the arts. We are so excited to have you join us in this mission!
OUR BOARD
        Artistic Directors:

                Adrianne Honnold
                Dana Hotle
                Jennifer Gartely
                Laura Reycraft

        Board Members:

              Leigh Deusinger, president of the board
                Phil Duyff
                Joyce Lynn Griggs

        Advisory Board:

                Amadi Azikiwe
OUR STORY
How did this Chamber Project St. Louis idea take shape? Well, of course over a nice glass of wine and perhaps some cheese and maybe a little Prokofiev.... Back in 2007, Dana, Laura, Adrianne, and Jen started having a conversation. When you are a musician, and you arrive in town, you automatically look for other musicians to hang out with. It is natural, you have done it for years in music school. You talk about music, listen to music, and almost all conversations come back to music....(often musicians joke about how many seconds it will take for music to come up in a conversation).

When we all arrived in town through various avenues, we started thinking, what do we LOVE? What do we LOVE to listen to, what do we LOVE to go to concerts to hear, what music do we LOVE to perform? What music did we want to fill our lives with? What music did we want to share with the people in our lives?  Well, the ladies of chamber project came together and decided to take the jump into creating a chamber music ensemble, because this is what we are passionate about. This experience, this music, is meaningful to us. We want to share that passion with our city and our community and to do it in a new way.

We knew without question we wanted to things a little different than the status quo. We were determined to connect with our audience in a meaningful way. How can this group better reflect the world we live in, how can we not be boring and stuffy and how can we smash through all of those “classical” music stereotypes? We wanted to create experiences that would be meaningful to the classical music aficionado, but also to the person that perhaps has never heard a saxophone up close before or has never even heard of the viola.

Everything is non-traditional, our venues, our attitude, our instrumentation, but mostly we want our audience to know that the music was about them and their reactions, their experience with the music, and that those reactions and experiences are fascinating and important, and we wanted to hear about them.

Now, did we have the courage to do it? To be vulnerable and put this musical product out there and hope people will come and want to listen? A leap of faith and several brainstorming meetings later, we were ready to take the plunge. With great joy we discovered that YES, people want this to be a part of their lives as much as we want it in ours! There is not a way to describe the feeling of creating something from a place of passion and seeing people reach out and want to hear more. It is a lot of work, but it is worth every minute.

We love what we do, we love our audiences and we want to connect with our community of music lovers and create a new listening and thought provoking experience at every Chamber Project St. Louis concert. We hope you'll join us.