From the directors:

As in years before – though in ever-growing degree – it is a great pleasure for us to announce a new season for the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival. This fall will be our 9th season of concerts; over the years we've had much motion of personal and professional kinds, but we are happy as ever to return to beautiful Charlottesville to play chamber music with friends from all over the world. We are particularly grateful for all the support we have received from family, friends, our board of directors, and the listening public. We will continue to bring back all the best we can have, from wherever we are, to play music and enjoy the warmth in Central Virginia.

This year's concerts cover as wide a range as any series we have presented yet. We travel through improvisations (using invented instruments), over classics of Vienna (backwards), across the pond, into abstraction, and finally into some of the more searching chamber music of Mozart, valedictorially. There should be some sights to see.

And as ever, we will have musicians coming from all over the world to present the works as clearly and warmly as possible. We have quite a few newcomers this year: violinist Jennifer Koh (who is married to returning Charlottesville veteran Benjamin Hochman) comes from New York, as do violinist Soovin Kim, percussionist David Cossin, and cellist Edward Arron; from London comes violist Joel Hunter; from Paris, via Mamaroneck, pianist Mimi Solomon; from Los Angeles, violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, and from Valencia, Spain, flautist Julia Gallego, Our audiences will recognize many from the past as well: violinists Jesse Mills, Colin Jacobsen, and Jennifer Frautschi; violists Nicholas Cords and Dov Scheindlin; German cellist Konstantin Pfiz; and British clarinettist Matthew Hunt.

We are looking forward enormously to this season's concerts, and extend again our thanks to all who help make it possible.

Sincerely,

	Raphael Bell Co-director		Timothy Summers Co-director