About CME

The story of the Chamber Music Experience begins in 2023, when Jonathan Grossman set out to bring memorable chamber music experiences to his local community of West Hempstead, Long Island. What began as a small initiative to provide free violin loans to local students through the West Hempstead Violin Gemach soon expanded into a broader effort, presenting community concerts, educational programs, and interactive musical experiences for participating students and the wider community.

OUR STORY

A hallmark of CME's programming is the rediscovery of overlooked music and forgotten voices. Its concerts have introduced audiences to remarkable chamber music composers whose work has rarely been heard, including Antoni Stolpe, Joaquín Malats, William Hurlstone, and Fernand Halphen. Beginning with a Fall 2024 program featuring Holocaust composer Vladimir Dyck—including the revival of one of his unpublished works—and continuing with A Diary in Sound, which tells the story of Dutch-Jewish composer Dick Kattenburg through his rediscovered music and historical research, CME is also committed to bringing deserving but neglected Holocaust composers back to the concert stage.

REDISCOVERING FORGOTTEN VOICES