The Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East (CMC) is a summer conference that brings together amateur musicians, professional faculty, and composers-in-residence to study and play chamber music.
Alan Carter, founder and director, was a professor of music at Middlebury.
[3][4] Throughout the conference week, participants attend coaching sessions on assigned chamber music works.
Composers-in-residence are commissioned to write new works that are played by participants and faculty during the conference weeks.
The faculty present free performances that are open to the public.