Norfolk Chamber Music Festival–Yale Summer School of Music
Festival Artist Concerts | Summer 2024
JULY
Performances begin at 8 p.m. unless noted. Visit Emerging Artist Series (Fellows' series) for additional concert information.
![Tara Helen O'Connor and Beethoven](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-03/7.5.24%20likes%20dislikes_v2.jpg?itok=iQHSp9Yu)
FRI, JULY 5 | 8 PM
Charles Ives & the American Tradition | Ives: Likes & Dislikes
A look at a few of the composers Ives either liked or disliked — from BEETHOVEN and CÉSAR FRANCK to modernist composer EDGARD VARÈSE
![Brentano Quartet](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-07/7.6.24%20v2.png?itok=AqAkyK7q)
SAT, JULY 6 | 8 PM
Brentano Quartet
The Brentano Quartet in a program of quartet works by FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN, JS BACH, FELIX MENDELSSOHN, and BRUCE ADOLPHE, and FRANZ SCHUBERT.
![Brahms, Shifrin](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-03/7.12.24%20folk%20inspiration_v2.jpg?itok=GR7-BW6e)
FRI, JULY 12 | 8 PM
Charles Ives & the American Tradition | Folk Inspirations
A program showcasing folk music as inspiration for LUIGI BOCCHERINI, BÉLA BARTÓK, CHARLES IVES, and JOHANNES BRAHMS
![Brentano Quartet](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-03/7.13.24%20brentano%202.png?itok=-F89hg16)
SAT, JULY 13 | 8 PM
Brentano Quartet
The Brentano Quartet in a program of quartets by FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN, DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH and LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
![Paul Watkins, Amy Beach](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-03/7.19.24%20european%20influences_v2.jpg?itok=LHsXArlW)
FRI, JULY 19 | 8 PM
Charles Ives & the American Tradition | European Influences on America
American classical music has long been indebted to the European tradition. This concert features European composers that had major influence on the American music scene.
![Imani Winds](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-03/7.20.24%20gala.png?itok=C2880RfJ)
SPECIAL EVENT | SAT, JULY 20 | 8 PM
Imani Winds
A program featuring the GRAMMY® Award-winning Imani Winds. Come and hear why NPR said: "If it’s possible for a classically trained wind quintet to rock the house,
Imani Winds blows the roof off”
Imani Winds blows the roof off”
![Dover Quartet](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-03/7.26.24%20dover.png?itok=EMNtEz9e)
FRI, JULY 26 | 8 PM
Dover Quartet
The Dover Quartet in a program of works by WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART, LEOŠ JANÁČEK and FRANZ SCHUBERT's “Death and the Maiden”
![Today's American Composers](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-03/7.27.24%20current%20generation.png?itok=L5mKVUqS)
SAT, JULY 27 | 8 PM
Charles Ives & the American Tradition | American Music’s Current Generation
An evening showcasing the works of some of today’s most noted American composers — VALERIE COLEMAN, JESSIE MONTGOMERY, VIJAY IYER and CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS.
AUGUST
Performances begin at 8 p.m. unless noted. Visit Emerging Artist Series (Fellows' series) for additional concert information.
![Fanny Mendelssohn and Felix Mendelssohn](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-07/8.2.24%20mendelssohns%20COLOR.png?itok=ymw5tyFf)
FRI, AUGUST 2 | 8 PM
Meet the Mendelssohns
A program featuring works by siblings FANNY MENDELSSOHN
and FELIX MENDELSSOHN performed by the GRAMMY® Award-winning Parker Quartet and the stellar Norfolk Fellows.
and FELIX MENDELSSOHN performed by the GRAMMY® Award-winning Parker Quartet and the stellar Norfolk Fellows.
![Parker Quartet and Max Levinson](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-06/8.3.24%20parker-levinson.png?itok=g9eKMntk)
SAT, AUGUST 3 | 8 PM
Parker Quartet
A program of works by W.A. MOZART, VIJAY IYER, LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN and ANTONÍN DVORÁK's Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81 with pianist Max Levinson
![Serena Canin, P Glass](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-03/8.9.24%20Side%20hustle_v2.jpg?itok=cOOuY62u)
FRI, AUGUST 9 | 8 PM
Charles Ives & the American Tradition | Composers with a Side Hustle
From insurance actuary to cabby to chemist, this program is dedicated to composers who also had other jobs.
![Back, Tai Miurray](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-04/8.10.24%20concerto%20night_v2.jpg?itok=zSpPz4Z8)
SAT, AUGUST 10 | 8 PM
Concerto Night!
Enjoy an evening of virtuosity, as Norfolk Festival Artists and Fellows perform a variety of concertos from the Baroque era by GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN, ANTONIO VIVALDI, JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH, and more!
![Norfolk Choral](/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2024-04/choral%202024_DSC3384.jpg?itok=FjonQOdn)
SAT, AUGUST 17 | 4 PM
Norfolk Choral Festival
The 2024 finale features a riveting program of choral works from the Renaissance to the 21st Century