For the 2020 Austin Chamber Music Festival, You Provide the Chamber

With the annual event online in your home, chamber music doesn't get any more intimate

"...evenings spent in Bates Recital Hall listening to classical music played by virtuosic ensembles, courtesy of the Austin Chamber..."

June 26, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Chargaux at the 2017 Austin Chamber Music Festival

This dynamic Brooklyn-based string duo proves that the Austin Chamber Music Festival has many more colors than its name suggests

"...the globe. Make whatever assumptions you choose about the music made with these instruments and the musicians who play..."

July 7, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Review: 2018 Austin Chamber Music Festival

How the Attacca Quartet, Emerson Quartet, and invoke played

"...This year’s Austin Chamber Music Festival features three weeks of what Artistic Director..."

July 17, 2018 Arts Post by Robi Polgar

La Follia Plays J.S. Bach’s Greatest Chamber Music

Choosing Bach’s top chamber works may be impossible, but the baroque ensemble made a convincing case for five not-easy pieces in this concert

"...Choosing Johann Sebastian Bach's greatest chamber music compositions isn't something I can imagine doing myself,..."

Oct. 20, 2017 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Chamber Music Center’s My Life

This concert of works by Brahms, Smetana, and Fujiwara contrasted autobiographical stories told within music by young composers and mature ones

"...that have been honed by a lifetime of making music...."

Jan. 27, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Why Chamber Music?

For the folks who play it, it's the intimacy and democracy and unity and fun

"...I speak not of songbirds, of course, but of chamber musicians...."

July 11, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Chamber Music Festival 2010

There's no better way to get to know a musician than chamber music

"...By the time the 2010 Austin Chamber Music Festival wraps up, its audiences will have encountered..."

July 30, 2010 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

Austin Chamber Music Center: Is that a bow in your pocket, or ... ?

For ACMC's next concert, Hot Enough for Ya, the aim is clear: Let's talk about sex

"...For its most recent series, the Austin Chamber Music Center invited audiences into a raucous concert setting..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

2012 Austin Chamber Music Festival

Michelle Schumann's cause for excitement

"...is pretty effusive by nature. Still, when the Austin Chamber Music Center artistic director declares she's giddy about something,..."

June 29, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Chamber Music Festival 2010

Week two brings to Austin two eminent string quartets and a rockin' jazz trio

"...Throughout the year, the Austin Chamber Music Center celebrates the traditions of chamber music with..."

July 16, 2010 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

Austin Chamber Music Center Chamber of Diversity

"...by Ken Hunt The office of the Austin Chamber Music Center sits atop a hair salon in an..."

June 30, 1995 Arts Feature

Austin Chamber Music Festival: The aria of Anne Frank

For the first time in its 11-year history, the annual Austin Chamber Music Festival will present an opera: the Texas premiere of Grigori Frid’s The Diary of Anne Frank

"...Most of the year it's known as the live music capital of the world, but when it comes to..."

July 13, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Austin Chamber Music Festival

As the Austin Chamber Music Festival marks its 10th summer of celebrating the intimate joys of chamber music, it will be the last for Felicity Coltman as Austin Chamber Music Center director

"...Felicity Coltman. It's been the season of the Austin Chamber Music Festival, a time when the director of the..."

June 30, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Chamber Music Center Performathon

Hundreds of chamber musicians fill Dell Hall with nine full hours of classical sounds

"...Getting a nine-hour fix of live popular music is no problem in Austin. Scarcely a weekend goes..."

April 29, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Chamber Music Festival 2010

The chance to connect with professional musicians is at the heart of the festival

"...At first glance, the Austin Chamber Music Festival seems easy to grasp: 10 concerts by..."

July 23, 2010 Arts Feature by Michael Kellerman

2010 Austin Chamber Music Festival Schedule

"...The 14th annual festival of chamber music stretches across four weeks, with an opera, eight..."

July 9, 2010 Arts Feature

Austin Chamber Music Festival: St. Lawrence String Quartet

This concert was a lesson in active listening from an active, assured, exceptional ensemble

"...Austin Chamber Music Festival: St. Lawrence String QuartetBates Recital Hall, UT..."

July 21, 2017 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

2008 Austin Chamber Music Festival Schedule

"...12:30pm, Armstrong Community Music School, 901 Barton Springs Rd. Thursday, July 24..."

July 11, 2008 Arts Feature

Austin Chamber Music Festival: Marian Anderson String Quartet

At the end of a tragic week, the Marian Anderson String Quartet reached for grace and tendered it to us

"...events in the days leading up to its Austin Chamber Music Festival concert. None of the Bryan-based ensemble's members..."

July 15, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Austin Chamber Music Festival 2014 Concert Schedule

"...(See "Austin Chamber Music Festival Sixth Annual Pride Concert," p.27) St. James..."

July 11, 2014 Arts Feature

Austin Chamber Music Festival 2016 Schedule

"...Dedman, University of Texas campus. For more information, visit www.austinchambermusic.org...."

July 8, 2016 Arts Feature

Three more events at the 2017 Austin Chamber Music Festival that are “Outside the Bachs”

"...provide the live soundtracks to assorted short films. The music runs the gamut from Astor Piazzolla to Schubert to..."

July 7, 2017 Arts Feature

Words and Music

This year's Austin Chamber Music Festival and Austin Classical Guitar summer series really get lit

"...time you combine words or literature or plays and music, they enhance each other in such a special way...."

July 8, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A Guide to Austin Classical Music

The virtuosi who know the score and make beautiful music happen here

"...word "classical" throw you. In the context of classical music in Austin, it doesn't mean formal. It doesn't mean..."

April 26, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Robert Faires' Top 10 Classical Music / Dance Treasures of 2016

The richest work in dance and classical music this year ran the gamut from a dance in a backyard pool to an opera about Cold War brainwashing

"...a West Campus mansion, seeing and revisiting five original dance/music collaborations set in different rooms made this a movable..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Margaret Perry: A Life of Music

Classical community honors the late educator in concert Friday

"...for her memorial service: No photos, no speeches, just music. Considering how she'd devoted her life to music, that..."

May 23, 2018 Arts Post by Robert Faires

P.G. Moreno Can’t Get Enough “Adventurous Music” and Austin’s More Interesting For It

Epistrophy Arts leader talks past, present, and holy grail bookings

"...Having weathered the ubiquitous pandemic hiatus, local improvised music advocates Epistrophy Arts came back strong with two presentations..."

Aug. 29, 2022 Music Post by Michael Toland

KMFA's New Home Brings the Community Into Contact With Music

Austin's classical music radio station has a new building where people can see the sounds

"...and interact. There's a gallery that helps visitors experience music beyond what radio can provide – something delivered joyfully..."

Jan. 29, 2021 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Forget Decorum: Music Fans Holler Their Appreciation for the Symphony

And the classical music crowd goes wild

"...was a canny move on the part of ASO Music Director Peter Bay. It guaranteed that every person present..."

May 28, 2021 Features Feature by Robert Faires

Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2015

Leaving deep impressions from 2015's dance and classical music works were the unexpected elements, like screen doors, trees, and car horns

"...1) Miró Quartet (UT Butler School Of Music)..."

Jan. 1, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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