Crescent City Chamber Music Festival
The Crescent City Chamber Music Festival (CCMF) will commemorate its sixth anniversary with seven free public concerts at venues throughout New Orleans from September 30 to October 10, 2021.
I am thrilled to be back home in the city that I love, teaching music and also working to grow the Crescent City Chamber Music Festival from right here in New Orleans. ~Festival Director and native New Orleanian, Luke Fleming
This year’s theme is “(Over)Come Together” and will bring together 21 world-class chamber music artists as well as prominent New Orleans classical musicians. This year’s festival will welcome Ensemble-in-Residence the Escher String Quartet, an American string quartet based in New York City, where they serve as Artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. And, as always, the festival will once again feature the renowned Manhattan Chamber Players, a collective of New York-based musicians who have delivered compelling performances of the most moving pieces that the chamber repertoire has to offer year-after-year at CCCMF.
It is important to the festival’s mission that we continue make our community outreach and free performances available to people from all walks of life. We will, of course, follow all COVID-19 protocols in place at that time. ~Luke Fleming
Crescent City Chamber Music Festival Details
Free Public Concert No. 1
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Felicity Church
Opening Night BYOB Gala
Jason Vieaux, Guitar with the Escher Quartet
6:30 PM Doors Open
7:30 PM Concert
Free Public Concert No. 2
Friday, October 1
Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church
“Music for the End of Time”
The Escher Quartet and member of the Manhattan Chamber Players
Music by Strauss, Barber, and Messiaen
6:30 PM: Doors Open
7 PM: Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A
7:30 PM: Concert
Free Public Concert No. 3
Sunday, October 3, 2021
Saint Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church
“…in the Age of Noise”
The Escher Quartet and Friends
Music by Antonín Dvořák, Béla Bartók, and George Walker
World premiere of a new work by Andrea Casarrubios
3:30 PM: Doors Open
4 PM: Concert
Free Public Concert No. 4
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Recital Hall, UNO Performing Arts Center
“Treasures of NOLA”
All performers are local New Orleans Classical musicians
Music by Brahms, Schubert, and Vaughan Williams
6:30 PM: Doors Open
7 PM: Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A
7:30 PM: Concert
Free Public Concert No. 5
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Urban South Brewery
Casual Classical Music with Beer Pairings
Special Beer Flights available for purchase
7 PM: Concert
Free Public Concert No. 6
Friday, October 8, 2021
Recital Hall, UNO Performing Arts Center
“A Celebration of Virtuosity”
Manhattan Chamber Players
Music by Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn
6:30 PM: Doors Open
7 PM: Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A
7:30 PM: Concert
Free Public Concert No. 7
Sunday, October 10, 2021
Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church
2021 Season Finale Concert: “A Hymn to Music”
Reception to follow
Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Aaron Copland
World premiere of a new work by Andrea Casarrubios
3:30 PM: Doors Open
4 PM: Concert
For more information, please visit http://crescentcitychambermusicfestival.com/
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