Organization

The Boston Chamber Music Society, BCMS, presents the most extensive and longest-running chamber music series in New England. Founded in 1982 by cellists Bruce Coppock and Ronald Thomas with a group of enthusiastic music colleagues, BCMS is an ensemble of superb musicians who come together in different combinations to prepare and perform chamber music. Over the last three decades, BCMS has built a reputation for impassioned performances, ripened over time by the long personal and professional histories of its member musicians. BCMS invites guest artists, chosen for their particular affinity for, and mastery of, the works they will play, to join the ensemble on stage, expanding the artistic possibilities to virtually all works in the chamber music repertoire.

BCMS is distinguished in Boston’s musically fertile region for its enduring performance standards. The ensemble playing demonstrates the perfect combination of control and freedom that comes from years of collaboration: individual musical personalities find expression without dominating. The effect is one of the miracles of music—sheer aesthetic beauty.