Chamber Players was founded in 1971 to fill a need for a fully professional musical and educational ensemble in the Long Island region. As the first independent, regional group of its kind in the nation, Chamber Players subsequently became the model for other regional chamber music societies throughout the country. In 1996, the organization was re-organized to better reflect its artistic mission as well as the make-up of its “international quality”  artist roster.  In 1998, the ensemble name was changed to Chamber Players International.  That same year we created our community concerts initiative as well as an ongoing musical education component.

In 2011 Chamber Players will maintain subscription concert series at the annual Long Island Mozart Festival 2011 at Old Westbury Gardens and at the De Seversky Center on the campus of New York Institute of Technology, also in Old Westbury. Other concert events will take place at the Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay, at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City, as well as on-going events at the Long Island Children’s Museum in Uniondale.

CPI’s artistic mission is three fold:

• To bring chamber and chamber orchestral concerts of the highest quality to audiences throughout the LI Region;
• To provide community and educational concert programs free of charge or at minimal cost to the disadvantaged, the elderly, to elementary, middle and high school students including music students throughout the region.
• To present unique and dynamic international repertory as well as rarely performed masterworks of the chamber music literature. 

ACTIVITIES IN 2010-11    

CPI maintains a variety of concert series including:

The Long Island Mozart Festival, the region’s largest annual, outdoor classical music festival May 27-29, 2011 at the famed Old Westbury Gardens in Old Westbury. The Festival features a series of large scale programs with our international class performers supported by the LI Mozart Festival chamber orchestra. As a priority, the LIMF has also presented programs for young people and families including interactive concerts for children, historical, period dance and fencing demonstrations, Mozart-era puppet shows and entertainments, tours of the Old Westbury Gardens, carriage rides, and a food court.  The Festival attracts 2,500 to 3,000 persons daily. 

To reinforce its commitment to the community, the Festival has also given public school and community ensembles the unique opportunity to perform at the festival, including: the Nassau County Girl Scouts Choir, the Herricks High School orchestra, the Gemini Youth orchestra (Island wide membership), the Uniondale High School Orchestra, the North Shore High School Madrigal Choir,  the LI High School of the Arts dance ensemble, etc.

Musical Cuisine, a champagne brunch and music series taking place at the De Seversky Center, NY Institute of Technology in Old Westbury LI. This series of six events annually features a wide variety of chamber music programs with our international class artists and unique repertory. The ambience is beautiful as well as relaxed and includes a pre-concert lecture demonstration. Concerts at Planting Fields: the ensemble also maintains an ongoing series of concert events at the Planting Fields Arboretum in Coe Hall, as well as various other sites on the grounds of this unique and beautiful 400 acre facility. Concerts take place in conjunction with on-site exhibits and important activities on the grounds.