 Many
music lovers know Miles Hoffman as the Music Commentator for National
Public Radio’s flagship news program “Morning Edition” and
a regular on the network’s “Performance Today.” Hoffman
also is the leader of the American Chamber Players, a leading chamber
music ensemble he founded and has been performing with for more
than 20 years, and who will perform at Berea College Nov. 9.
The performance is scheduled for 8 p.m. in Phelps Stokes Chapel.
The event is free and open to the public, and is a 2006-07 Stephenson
Memorial Concert.
The American Chamber Players was formed by Hoffman in 1985 from
a core group of artists of the Library of Congress Summer Chamber
Festival. The six members of the ensemble perform a repertoire
ranging from familiar masterpieces to modern and newly commissioned
American works.
The group has toured throughout North America, engaged by concert
series from Florida to British Columbia, and performed at the
Paris Opera and the Bibliotheque Nationale. The ensemble has
been heard countless times on National Public Radio’s “Performance
Today” and on local radio stations throughout the United
States. The American Chamber Players also have recorded the music
of Mozart, Bruch, Bloch, Stravinsky and other composers which
is distributed internationally.
 Hoffman, violist with the American Chamber Players and the group’s
artistic director, made his recital debut in 1979 and has since
appeared frequently around the country in recital, as chamber
musician and as soloist with many orchestras in addition to his
association with the ACP.
A graduate of Yale University and the Juilliard School, Hoffman
also is one of America’s best known and most highly regarded
music educators. He is the author of the “NPR Classical
Music Companion: Terms and Concepts from A to Z,” and his
musical commentary “Coming to Terms” was heard weekly
throughout the United States for 13 years – from 1989 – 2002 – on
NPR’s “Performance Today.” As Music Commentator
for the network’s “Morning Edition” program
now, he is regularly heard by a national audience of nearly 14
million.
The five other musicians who make up the American Chamber Players
are also highly accomplished musicians who perform as soloists
and with ensembles and orchestras nationally and internationally.
For more about the American Chamber Players, visit www.ACPlayers.com.
For a complete Berea College Convocations schedule, visit www.berea.edu/convo.
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