About – The Chamber Players of Canada

The Chamber Players of Canada is a group made up of some of the best musicians from across Canada that varies in size for concerts, recording, and touring. The Chamber Players have performed a wide range of music from the great masterpieces of the 18th and 19th century to some of the most exciting chamber music works of the 20th and 21st century. They have regularly been praised for their strong commitment to Canadian composers.

The Chamber Players of Canada have recorded a series of critically-acclaimed CD recordings on the ATMA, CBC and CMS Classics labels. Each of their seven recordings have earned the full five stars on the CBC Radio show Sound Advice. Their most recent recording, Mozart Piano Concertos with Janina Fialkowska has received unanimous praise and was selected as one of the top CD’s of 2007 by the Ottawa Citizen. It has so far received excellent reviews from publications around the world including BBC Music Magazine, CBC’s sound Advice, the Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette. Their recording, Chamber Music of Eldon Rathburn, was named one of the top 10 classical CD’s of 2006 by the Montreal Gazette and recently received a glowing review in the American Record Guide. Their recording of Schubert’s Trout Quintet was named one of the top five classical CD’s of 2005 by Montreal’s La Presse.  They record many times each year for CBC Radio and Radio-Canada, and a recent television broadcast of Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ has been broadcast on Vision TV, PBS and around the world to over 126 different countries on EWTN. The Chamber Players of Canada have performed on many prestigious series and at several of the most important Canadian festivals.

The Chamber Players of Canada recently performed on the CBC Almonte series, at Festival of the Sound and for Chamber Music at Ste. Pétronille. They performed in Ottawa in May 2008 and May 2009 as part of the Canadian Tulip Festival’s Celebridée series, the only other musical performers on this series being pianist Angela Hewitt and the Theatre of Early Music. They were the only classical artists to play at the grand opening of Ottawa’s new Shenkman Theatre in June, 2009.