Now in its 16th season, the award-winning Colorado Chamber Players (CCP) is a diverse chamber ensemble of 12 distinguished musicians who produce and perform over 50 concerts annually. Founded in 1993, the CCP celebrated its “Crystal” anniversary season in 2008-09, featuring guest pianist Jeffrey Kahane.

The CCP has toured throughout the United States, Spain and Brazil, and released its first CD – Uplifting Discoveries from a Generation Lost – on the Centaur label in 1997. In 2008, the CCP was awarded a grant from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund to record, produce and distribute Bruce Adolphe’s “The Tiger’s Ear: Listening to Abstract Expressionist Painting” – to be released in 2010. The CCP’s Colorado premiere of “Tiger’s Ear” received extensive media attention and critical praise.

One of the group’s priorities is meaningful programming for audiences from all walks of life.  To further this goal, and as a recipient of Chamber Music America’s Ensemble Residency Award, the CCP began a residency at The Children’s Hospital in Colorado in 2008 – including concerts for patients and chamber music coaching for medical staff; the ensemble previously received the prestigious award in 2000. In 2006 and 2008, the CCP received the Creativity Award from the Adams County Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD); also in 2006, the ensemble was one of two recipients of the William and Alice Hosokawa Fellowship. The CCP further served as ensemble-in-residence at both the Mizel Arts Center (1996-2006) and with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra (2000-2006).

The CCP has received other significant grants from Meet The Composer (2008), National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Colorado Council on Arts, The Denver Foundation, The Janus Foundation and Xcel Energy Foundation. As well, the group regularly records at the Colorado Public Radio studios for radio broadcasts, reaching 25,000 listeners a year in the Rocky Mountain region. The CCP has commissioned works by composers Scott Higgins, David Mullikin, Benjamin Tomkins, David Waldman and Katrina Wreede, as well as New York-based poet Kate Light (“Einstein’s Mozart: Two Geniuses,” 2006).  A commission by Gabriela Lena Frank, winner of the Joyce Award, will be premiered in 2011.