27th Annual
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival
September 8-19, 2026
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival
September 8-19, 2026
World-class musicians perform chamber music that spans the centuries in venues in and around Charlottesville.
More information coming soon!
Tickets on sale in July
All 2025 Festival subscribers and those who give $50 or more between June 1, 2025 and May 17, 2026 receive access to our pre-sale in June.
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The Pictures Project:
A collaboration with Charlottesville City Schools |
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This 2025-2026 collaboration centered on Modest Mussorgsky’s iconic piano work, Pictures at an Exhibition. This initiative supports our mission to deepen students’ engagement with chamber music by giving young people a meaningful, creative way to experience the connection between music and visual art.
The timeline:
September 15, 2025: Pianist Andrew Armstrong introduced the district’s 4th graders to Mussorgsky’s vivid musical scenes through his expressive teaching and performance of the piece.
Over the course of the fall semester: CCS art and music teachers guided students through the history of the piece and the artwork that inspired it, ultimately inviting them to produce their own artworks in response to the music. Although the program is designed primarily for 4th graders, students from other grade levels also participated.
In the winter: Student artwork was selected to be displayed at the culmination event in the spring.
March 25, 2026: The collaboration culminated with two events. Andrew Armstrong returned to Charlottesville to present a private concert for the students during the school day, and a free event for the community in the evening - both events featured the Mussorgsky piece along with selections of the student's artwork projected on the screen while Andrew performed, as well as a display of selected student artwork in the lobby. The evening event also featured pianist John Novacek performing his some of his own rags as well as joining Andrew at the piano for Grieg's Norwegian Dances and a 4-hand arrangement of Gershwin's An American in Paris.
The timeline:
September 15, 2025: Pianist Andrew Armstrong introduced the district’s 4th graders to Mussorgsky’s vivid musical scenes through his expressive teaching and performance of the piece.
Over the course of the fall semester: CCS art and music teachers guided students through the history of the piece and the artwork that inspired it, ultimately inviting them to produce their own artworks in response to the music. Although the program is designed primarily for 4th graders, students from other grade levels also participated.
In the winter: Student artwork was selected to be displayed at the culmination event in the spring.
March 25, 2026: The collaboration culminated with two events. Andrew Armstrong returned to Charlottesville to present a private concert for the students during the school day, and a free event for the community in the evening - both events featured the Mussorgsky piece along with selections of the student's artwork projected on the screen while Andrew performed, as well as a display of selected student artwork in the lobby. The evening event also featured pianist John Novacek performing his some of his own rags as well as joining Andrew at the piano for Grieg's Norwegian Dances and a 4-hand arrangement of Gershwin's An American in Paris.
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If you find value in the transformative power of music, we hope you will donate to the Foundation that makes the Festival possible. Your generosity helps keep ticket prices modest and accessible, and makes educational and outreach programs for area schoolchildren possible. With your support, Charlottesville’s own Virginia Chamber Music Foundation can bring virtuosic international and US musicians together in exciting collaborations, creating an annual chamber music festival of quality and substance that is attracting increasing attention nationally and abroad.
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All those who give $50 or more between June 1, 2025 and May 17, 2026, and 2025 Festival subscribers, receive access to our pre-sale in June.
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Thank You to our 2025 Sponsors and Partners!
Season Sponsor: Mrs. Tessa G. Ader
Anonymous, in celebration of the life of Carolee Copeland and her love of chamber music
Bama Works Fund at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Eastwood Farm and Winery
Jan Peskin, in loving memory of Henry Peskin
The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation
The Maurice Amado Foundation
The Paramount Theater
The Ruffledog Fund
Vault Virginia
Vesta Lee Gordon Fund at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Virginia Cenedella
Media Sponsors: WTJU & WVTF/Radio IQ
Anonymous, in celebration of the life of Carolee Copeland and her love of chamber music
Bama Works Fund at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Eastwood Farm and Winery
Jan Peskin, in loving memory of Henry Peskin
The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation
The Maurice Amado Foundation
The Paramount Theater
The Ruffledog Fund
Vault Virginia
Vesta Lee Gordon Fund at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
Virginia Cenedella
Media Sponsors: WTJU & WVTF/Radio IQ
Many Thanks to our 2025 Festival Program Book advertisers!
Listening Room
The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival's LISTENING ROOM houses select performances from our September 2020 Festival and the three “Mini-Festivals” which we were able to commission, thanks to the generosity of our patrons.
Photos by Janet Moore-Coll