The Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble is a Boston area chamber music ensemble. Founded in 2000, the group presents concerts of music for

woodwind Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and re ...

and

stringed instruments String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the st ...

throughout

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. They perform music from the standard chamber music

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as well as music by

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composers.

History

The Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble was founded in 2000 by students from The

Boston Conservatory Boston Conservatory at Berklee (formerly The Boston Conservatory) is a private performing arts conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in dance, music, and theater. Boston Conservatory was founded ...

. The original instrumentation of the ensemble was flute, violin and cello, however the group soon expanded to include other woodwind and stringed instruments. The ensemble took its name from flutist and composer Bonnie Cochran's piece entitled, ''Amaryllis''—the first piece ever performed by the ensemble.

External links

The Amaryllis Chamber Ensemble website

References

American instrumental musical groups Contemporary classical music ensembles Chamber music groups Musical groups established in 2000 {{Classical-ensemble-stub