The 24th Annual
Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival
September 7-17, 2023
​Let our world-class artists amaze you with their passion and virtuosity!

Welcome to the 2023 Festival
A word from Co-Artistic Director Raphael Bell about this year's festival
Tim and I are tremendously excited about the upcoming Festival and presenting concerts in the beautiful settings of The Paramount Theater, Old Cabell Hall, Second Street Gallery, and Christ Episcopal Church and King Family Vineyards. We hope you decide to attend them all! ​
Our musicians' roster this year is a dream: extraordinary pianists, fantastic string players, superb wind players, and a renowned harpsichordist. They bring with them possibilities of repertoire that should delight fans of Romantic ensemble music, Baroque concertos, and much music in between and up to the moment. ​
We are especially excited to venture into new territory this year with our Grand Finale concert on September 17th, presented by The Paramount Theater. In a first for the Festival, four of our soloists are teaming up with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra (VSO) to perform a symphonic program that includes Beethoven's Triple Concerto and the beloved Symphony No. 7 in A Major. Conducting is our old friend and many times Festival alum Eric Jacobsen, Artistic Director of The Knights, and now Music Director of the VSO. ​
There is so much to be enjoyed this year at the festival. Please take a look at the detailed programs here, read about our musicians here.  We look forward to seeing you at the concerts!
Founders and Artistic Directors Timothy Summers and Raphael Bell
GRAND FINALE CONCERT
Sunday, September 17 at 3:00 pm
The Paramount Theater 
Paramount Presents, in association with the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival:
VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 
Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Raphael Bell, Tessa Lark, Orli Shaham, Timothy Summers, Festival soloists
All ticket sales for this concert are through The Paramount Theater Box Office.​
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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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Thank you to our Sponsors
  • Janice Peskin, in loving memory of Henry Peskin
  • The Maurice Amado Foundation
  • The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation
  • Bama Works Fund at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation​​
  • ​The Ruffledog Fund
  • Virginia Cenedella
  • The Vesta Lee Gordon Fund at the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation​
  • Radio sponsors: WTJU and WVTF
​​with special thanks to: Tessa G. Ader and Terry E. Grant​​​​
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
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