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Chamber Music Society on Tour

From Berkeley to Boston – from Miami to Milwaukee – from Seattle to Sioux Falls, the Chamber Music Society performs numerous concerts on tour each year, reaching new audiences and loyal friends well beyond the walls of Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City. The Chamber Music Society’s touring program has sent Artists of the Society and guests to more than 150 cities across the United States, Canada, Australia, France, and Japan. Touring programs have gone to virtually every major city in the United States, including Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC.

Tour Stops during the 2007-08 Season

CMS will take three programs on tour during the 2007-08 season, replicating programs offered during the 2006-07 season in New York: “Pianos/Pianists,” a dynamic program of works for two pianos, four hands; “Music for Winds,” presenting works for wind instruments; and “England 1900-1930, A Musical Renaissance,” featuring music written as English composition was experiencing a rebirth.

The schedule of stops currently includes (list as of 2/28/07):

  • Fairfield University, Fairfield CT—Saturday, October 13, 2007
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA—Sunday, October 28, 2007
  • Calgary Pro Musica Society, Calgary, Alberta—Monday, November 5, 2007
  • Vancouver Friends of Chamber Music, Vancouver, British Columbia—Tuesday, November 6, 2007
  • LaJolla Music Society, LaJolla CA—Saturday, November 10, 2007
  • Fairfield University, Fairfield CT—Saturday, November 10, 2007
  • Ace Gallery, Los Angeles CA—Sunday, November 11, 2007
  • Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa CA—Tuesday, November 13, 2007
  • Baton Rouge Symphony, Baton Rouge LA—Sunday, January 27 2008
  • New Orleans Friends of Music, New Orleans, LA—Monday, January 28, 2008
  • University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN—Friday, February 1, 2008
  • University Musical Society, Ann Arbor MI—Saturday, February 2, 2008
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA—Sunday, February 3, 2008
  • Fairfield University, Fairfield CT—Saturday, February 16, 2008
  • Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook University—Saturday, March 1, 2008
  • Anchorage Concert Association, Anchorage AK—Sunday/Monday, March 2-3, 2008
  • Friends of Chamber Music, Denver, CO—Wednesday, March 5, 2008
  • Phoenix Chamber Music Society, Scottsdale, AZ—Thursday, March 6, 2008
  • Grinnell College, Grinnell IA—Thursday, March 6, 2008
  • Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Cerritos CA—Friday, March 7, 2008
  • Chamber Music Monterey Bay, Carmel CA—Saturday, March 8, 2008
  • Chamber Music Society of Louisville, Louisville, KY—Sunday, March 9, 2008
  • Cleveland Chamber Music Society, Cleveland OH—Tuesday, March 11, 2008

For more information on an individual tour dates, contact the presenter directly.

For information on booking a CMS tour in your town, contact Pat Winter at
Opus 3 Artists.

National Concert Hall in Taiwan invites CMS to Perform

The Chamber Music Society has received a very exciting invitation from the National Concert Hall in Taiwan to to help celebrate its 20th Anniversary. CMS Artists will journey to Taiwan over the Thanksgiving weekend this fall to present a series of events in Taipei and other cities. Pianist Wu Han, violinists Ani and Ida Kavafian, Paul Neubauer, viola, cellist David Finckel, and clarinetist Anthony McGill will play concerts, give master classes, and hold press events in several locations:

  • November 20: Master class with Ida Kavafian and Anthony McGill; Press conference, Taipei
  • November 22: Master class with Wu Han and Ani Kavafian; Concert, Taichung
  • November 23: Concert at the National Concert Hall, Taipei
  • November 24: Master class with Wu Han and Paul Neubauer; Concert, Tainan

The concert repertoire is Mozart’s “Kegelstatt” Trio, Weber Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, and Schumann’s E-flat major Piano Quintet.

CMS Residency in Danville, KY

CMS is delighted to announce that we anchored a brand new chamber music festival in a short residency in Danville, Kentucky this past May. The Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass opened on Friday, May 25 with a private concert for patrons of the Festival, but two public concerts were also part of the offerings:

  • Saturday, May 26 at 5 PM—Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Schubert
  • Sunday, May 27 at 5 PM—Dvorak and Brahms

Participating artists were Andre-Michel Schub and Wu Han, pianos; Ida Kavafian and Joseph Silverstein, violins; Paul Neubauer, viola; David Finckel, cello; and DaXun Zhang, double bass.

Go to our blog at www.IntermissionImpossible.org for a look at CMS at the Festival.

The Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass was produced by Centre College’s Norton Center for the Arts in cooperation with Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill.