Austin Chamber Music Center, Austin Classical Guitar, and Conspirare, with the support and encouragement of the Still Water Foundation, collaborated in the 20-21 season to support one another and share ideas during the COVID pandemic as we transitioned to in-home, streaming performances. Collectively we are…
Favorite Things We’ll return to our Friday Intimate Concert and Saturday Synchronism Concert format with five programs from October through April. Instead of going into homes for Intimate Concerts we are thrilled to partner with KMFA to present all five concerts in the brand new…
Review: Timeless chamber music fest enchants in a historic Austin setting By Michael Barnes, Austin 360, June 2, 2021 The tree remembers. Or so I imagined as the Schumann Chamber Players opened the Austin Chamber Music Festival during an enchanted evening on the lawn of…
See This Show: Austin musicians bolster ‘The Power of Friendship’ to benefit storm victims By Michael Barnes, Austin 360, March 2, 2021 Perhaps because several of its leaders count as genuine visionaries, the Austin classical music community is unusually innovative, as well as collaborative….
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 By Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle, June 26, 2020 If this were any ordinary summer, Austinites could count on finding…
Singing Pride: The work of LGBTQ composers celebrated in a free concert By Sightlines, July 6, 2019 For 11 years, the Austin Chamber Music Festival has presented a free concert that celebrates the creative contributions of LGBTQ composers. Composer Russell Reed curated and presented the…
A Concert of African Diaspora Composers, from the 18th Century to contemporary Puerto Rico For this year’s award-winning Black Composers Concert, curator Artina McCain taps composers of African descent from Europe, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. By Dana Wen, February…
Review: Beauty on Water ‘Beauty on Water’ Kicks off Season for Austin Chamber Music Center by Rebecca Johnson, Arts Around Austin, October 3, 2018 This past Saturday, I checked out Austin Chamber Music Center’s season opener, “Beauty on Water” at Northwest Hills United Methodist Church. It…
Review: 2018 Austin Chamber Music Festival How the Attacca Quartet, Emerson Quartet, and invoke played by Robi Polgar, Austin Chronicle, July 17, 2018 This year’s Austin Chamber Music Festival features three weeks of what Artistic Director Michelle Schumann calls “hardcore chamber music,” as a stellar…
Julius Eastman to The Fullest For its annual Pride Concert, Austin Chamber Music Festival presents “Femenine,” a masterpiece of the late queer, Black composer who was once all but forgotten By Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Sightlines, July 5, 2018 When minimalist composer Julius Eastman died…
Austin Chamber Music Festival: St. Lawrence String Quartet This concert was a lesson in active listening from an active, assured, exceptional ensemble By Robi Polgar, Austin Chronicle, July 21, 2017 What is “active listening”? A lesson: As explained – nay, taught – by Geoff Nuttall,…
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 By Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle, July 7, 2017 Tight shot of a violin and a viola –…
Austin Chamber Music Festival reveals stories in the songs By Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, July 5, 2017 The latest trend in chamber music — storytelling — might also be the most ancient cultural practice in human history. Yet as Michelle Schumann, artistic director of the…
Enraptured by chamber music at the Blue Bash By Michael Barnes, Austin 360, June 12, 2017 Listen closer. Chamber music demands it. You will be rewarded beyond measure. I’ve been away from live chamber music for a while. I’m back. Never going away again. The…
