The mission of the Association is the non-profit promotion of chamber music activity and education in Europe. For this purpose the Association shall organize chamber music activities , for example, courses, educational events and conferences, as well as editing pedagogical materials and cooperating with music institutes. The Association shall make proposals and initiatives to enhance the position of chamber music activity.

ECMTA recruites both institutional and private members. The Association organizes the administration and the registration and gives information of the activities organized in the future.

The Association expresses its will to cooporate with other pedagogic associations and institutions like EPTA, ESTA; EVTA; AEC; European music academies and conservatoires.

In 2001-2004 teachers of six European music institutes worked under a Socrates Program Project: Chamber Music Curriculum Profile. The original Partner Institutes were Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, Debrecen University, Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences/ Music Department, Estonian Music Academy, Hochschule für Musik, “Franz Liszt”, Weimar and Universität für Music und Darstellende Kunst, Wien.

During the project it proved impossible to create a common curriculum of chamber music, because the institutes are so different. The focus was put more into the importance of well organized chamber music studies within the curriculum of each institute. More can be accomplished in educating a musician, if instrument studies include ensemble practice. Instrumental, pedagogical and social skills improve through coporation with other instrumentalists. Playing in an ensemble is practice for work life with all its possibilities.

Annual fees:

• Individual Member: 65 euros
• Institutional Member: 130 euros
• Contributing member (non-teacher, non-musician, individual or institution): 30 euros minimum

Annual fee 2011 is payable January 2011

For new members

• Take a look at the Rules of the ECMTA
• Return the membership form completed to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 
• Pay the membership fee after receiving an invoice for payment.

For current members

• Current members should only use this form if any information has changed.

Chair

• Evan Rothstein, Guildhall School of Music, London; Université de Paris 8 - Saint Denis; Indiana University Summer String Academy, Bloomington

Vice Chair and Treasurer

• Keijo Aho, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki

Members

• Alexandre Bonduryansky, Moscow State Conservatory
• Carsten Dürer, Staccato Editions, Düsseldorf
• Filippo Faes, Conservatorio "A. Steffani", Castelfranco Veneto
• Michael Flaksman, Hochschule für Musik, Mannheim
• Petras Kunca, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius
• Anna Prabucka-Firlej, Academy of Music, Gdansk

Deputy Members

• José Manuel Gil de Galvez, Concerto Malaga
• Merja Soisaari-Turriago, Jyäskylä University of Applied Sciences