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Norfolk's digital summer season may be over but you can still enjoy the Festival with concert selections viewed anytime on our website, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.

 

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Norfolk Commission
Musical Bridges
Composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) to lead conversations on the role of art and race.
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THANK YOU!

Thank you for joining us this summer for our
2020 Summer Virtual Concert Series.

Concerts Anytime

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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Dashon Burton and Benjamin Hochman at the Music Shed
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Conversations

Take a listen to conversations between Festival Director Melvin Chen and music historian Paul Berry.

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Paul Berry
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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

Norfolk in the News
Paul Watkins
Norfolk

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
Norfolk

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
Norfolk

Norfolk expands partnership with Daniel Bernard Roumain

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