Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival presents a virtual mini-festival: Nov 30 - Dec 2

Encouraged by enthusiastic audience response to its virtual September Festival, the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival is expanding its virtual concert programming with Mini-Festivals in 2020 and 2021.

Artistic Directors Timothy Summers and Raphael Bell have invited old and new Festival friends, including a few artists from the September Festival, to record performances in their hometowns of New York City, Boston, and Berlin, among others. These performances will be released in three Mini-Festivals over the next nine months and will join a select group of performances from our September Festival in a permanent Listening Room on the Festival’s website.

The first Mini-Festival will take place November 30 – December 2, with a single major classical work released at 10:00am each day. The video recordings will be shared free of charge on the Festival website, and will be available through March 4.

Visit the Festival’s online listening room for the full schedule of performances.

A Bento Box of program notes, musical insights, discussions, and artist biographies will accompany the video performances on the Festival’s website. Summers has also developed a visual tool which decodes the audio of the performances for harmonic content. This color-based analysis “helps the audience to listen closer and look further,” he says.