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WORK WITH US this summer! Norfolk is looking for interns to round out our summer team!⁠ Receive on the job experience running a world class festival and school. Receive stipend, housing + meals.

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Music Among Friends

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The Festival is looking for the next generation of arts leaders! Receive on the job experience running a world class festival and school.

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Performances Anytime

Our 2022 Summer Season may have ended but remember, our digital concert hall is always open. Visit the Festival's YouTube channel anytime to view a selection of past performances.

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Musical Bridges

A multiyear project in which the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival commissions new works that place classical chamber music within a broader musical and cultural context.

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Musical Bridges Project
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Study at the Festival

Advanced instrumentalists and composers study and play alongside acclaimed Festival Artists.

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Emerson String Quartet violist Lawrence Dutton coaching at Norfolk
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GRAMMY Nominations

Norfolk alumni and faculty GRAMMY Award nominees.

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Construction Has Begun

Construction has begun at the Music Shed on the Annex (a new 10-studio music complex), improved audience facilities, as well as the restoration of Eldrige Barn for student housing — all to be completed by the 2023 season!

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Music Studio Complex rendering
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Norfolk Waterfall
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Artist interviews
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Norfolk

Christopher Costanza: Cello and Chamber Music

Christopher Costanza’s first encounter with a cello was not at a concert or in a music classroom. It was by a boiler room.
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Norfolk

Krists Auznieks: Composing and the Creative Process

“Altering the world — that’s what you do,” Auznieks adds of working as a composer. “It’s my way to be myself and find myself and discover my relationship with the world. Composing came to me more than I came to it.”
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Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt
Norfolk

Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt on All Things Viola

What well-established, highly sought-after musician started playing first piano, then violin, cello and even trombone before finally taking up the viola?
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