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Summer 2020

In light of the CoVid-19 crisis, we found it necessary to cancel our live concerts in the Music Shed this summer. Instead, we are offering four streamed concerts during July, along with conversations and other digital content. Please scroll down for more detail.

 

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Musical Bridges
Composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) to lead conversations on the role of art and race.
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This Summer

Join us online for new streamed concerts & events.

Summer Concerts

Join us Saturday in July—digitally—for new concerts streamed on our website as well as Facebook and Youtube.

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Players from the Brentano Quartet performing at Norfolk
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Conversations

Tune in for conversations with Festival Director Melvin Chen, Paul Berry, and this season's artists. 

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Paul Berry
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Streaming Anytime

And remember... Our digital concert hall is always open so you may stream past performances anytime from anywhere.

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Dashon Burton and Benjamin Hochman at the Music Shed
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COVID-19 Response

In light of the CoVid-19 crisis, we found it necessary to cancel this summer’s season of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival–Yale Summer School of Music. Our primary concern is the safety and health of our patrons, fellows, faculty, and staff and we are greatly saddened that we will miss seeing, talking, and enjoying concerts with all of you on the Estate grounds, and around the town of Norfolk.  MORE

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Cellist Paul Watkins on joining the acclaimed Emerson String Quartet

Watkins grew up in a house filled with music. His father was an amateur violist while his mother, a school teacher, loved to sing. “Dad wanted me to learn violin so he could have more of a regular string quartet,” Watkins says. It was not to be. “I found the cellist of his friends so cool,” Watkins says, saying he wore a leather jacket and sometimes smoked while he played. “He looked like a British version of someone who might have stepped off the set of Starsky and Hutch.”
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Thalea String Quartet receives fellowship

The University of Maryland has awarded its 2020 Graduate String Quartet Fellowship to the Thalea String Quartet (NCMF '19)
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composer DanielBernard Roumain, DBR
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Norfolk expands partnership with Daniel Bernard Roumain

Violinist and composer to lead conversations on the role of art and race
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