Students participating in the Chamber Ensembles Program explore music from five centuries of chamber music literature. The types of ensembles vary from semester to semester. Recent groups have included wind and string ensembles with harpsichord, wind quartets and quintets, and the Trinity-Wesleyan brass ensemble. Groups are formed at the beginning of each semester to rehearse each week; later in the semester, there are opportunities for performance in a variety of settings, both formal and informal. Coaches for the ensembles are drawn from a group of distinguished musicians from the Hartford area, many of whom are first-chair players in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Participation is by audition, and 0.5 course credit is earned for Music 105.