Welcome to the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival!
In the past twenty years we have charted, together with our patrons and musical colleagues, a very special musical journey. We’ve explored a breadth of music, mined the core repertoire, discovered new sounds and rhythms. Our musical travels take us all over the world, but we always look forward to returning to our hometown. Our colleagues who have played here remember the warm welcome and appreciative audiences, and many of them are making the trip to Charlottesville this year to celebrate this milestone with us. Whether you have been with us all along, or are just discovering the Festival, we hope you will enjoy the music.
This year, we’ll dive deeply into favorite pieces by Beethoven, Dvořák, and Schubert and explore echoes of other times and places by Debussy, Enescu, Roussel and many others. You may detect a theme of folk music running through the program, from Hungarian dances in Brahms to the joyful Bohemian rhythms of Dvořák, from Stravinsky’s Italian dances to Respighi’s Gregorian chants. We have the wonderfully evocative Berio Folk Songs from Kentucky, Sicily, Sardegna, Auvergne, Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as the grooves of Paul Schoenfield’s Café Music from much closer to home. And the chansons of Jacques Brel will transport us to 1960’s Paris!
With events planned for almost every day of the festival, we look forward to sharing a great season with you!
This year, we’ll dive deeply into favorite pieces by Beethoven, Dvořák, and Schubert and explore echoes of other times and places by Debussy, Enescu, Roussel and many others. You may detect a theme of folk music running through the program, from Hungarian dances in Brahms to the joyful Bohemian rhythms of Dvořák, from Stravinsky’s Italian dances to Respighi’s Gregorian chants. We have the wonderfully evocative Berio Folk Songs from Kentucky, Sicily, Sardegna, Auvergne, Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as the grooves of Paul Schoenfield’s Café Music from much closer to home. And the chansons of Jacques Brel will transport us to 1960’s Paris!
With events planned for almost every day of the festival, we look forward to sharing a great season with you!
The Co-Founders & Co-Artistic Directors
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Tim Summers
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Raphael Bell
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