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Welcome to the 2021 Summer Season!

Join us in July and August for a full season of live streamed performances.

 

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Summer 2021: Looking forward.

Concerts & Events

Live Streamed concerts and events during July and August.

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Miro and Melvin Chen
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Special Event

Festivities include a variety of musical performances by Norfolk Festival Artists, Alumni, and the summer 2021 Fellows.

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Norfolk Gala
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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. Learn more about our summer programs. 

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Emerson String Quartet violist Lawrence Dutton coaching at Norfolk
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Your support is critical now more than ever. Please consider making a contribution to Norfolk this year.

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Norfolk Waterfall
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Concerts Anytime

Not able to catch the live streams? Remember... Our digital concert hall is always open so you may stream past performances anytime. Watch here or visit the Festival's YouTube channel.

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Thalea, Austin Smith
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Norfolk Commission
Musical Bridges
Composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) to lead conversations on the role of art in society.
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Norfolk in the News
Soprano Brandie Sutton
Norfolk

Brandie Sutton on music as her retreat, her refuge, her release

Soprano Brandie Sutton may have come to professional voice training late in life — she started serious voice lessons in college — but the Huntsville, Alabama, native is making up for lost time.
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Daniel Bernard Roumain
Norfolk

Daniel Bernard Roumain on using music to effect change

For some, music is first and foremost entertainment. For composer/violinist/educator Daniel Bernard Roumain, aka DBR, music is certainly that but it’s also a vehicle for change—necessary change.
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Callisto Quartet
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Callisto Quartet named YSM’s fellowship quartet-in-residence

The Callisto Quartet has been named the Yale School of Music’s incoming fellowship quartet-in-residence, succeeding the Omer Quartet. The Callisto Quartet will begin its yearlong residency in fall 2021.
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