Chamber Music Lehigh Valley

10/20/2024

Bohemian Trio is next up on the CMLV stage! Don't miss out on this dynamic group that pushes the boundaries of chamber music.

Sunday, November 3, 2024
3:00 PM
Faith United Church of Christ, Center Valley

Run, do not walk, to the Bohemian Trio’s return engagement on the CMLV stage. Our audience left the group’s 2023 concert with a salsa in its step, exclaiming “awesome” and “fabulous,” thoroughly charmed and highly entertained. “Latin jazz” only begins to describe their scope in terms...

06/26/2024

The 2024-25 season is posted online at http://cmlv.org!

Join us on Sunday, September 22 for YCA on Tour featuring

Risa Hokamura, Violin
Hsin-Yun Huang, Viola
Alex Cox, Cello
Chaeyong Park, Piano
Anthony Trionfo, Flute

Founded in 1961, Young Concert Artists has helped launch the careers of several generations of the world’s elite classical musicians and ensembles. Unlike other prestigious competitions, the New York non-profit’s Susan Wadsworth International Auditions are not content with awarding mere cash prizes or bankable notoriety. Through the YCA Artist Fellowship Program, YCA nurtures highly talented young musicians and composers for three years, providing mentors, managers, publicity, and engagements at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and other prime international venues, while instilling an ethos of cultural outreach and artistic innovation.

YCA On Tour, the organization’s chamber music touring ensemble, features both current fellows and experienced alums. This season CMLV welcomes a flourishing flutist, Anthony Trionfo, committed to helping other flutists of African descent towards their own success as classical musicians; a violinist, Risa Hokamura, who has been winning top international prizes since the age of 10; a renowned violist, Hsin-Yun Huang, who premiered an environmentally-themed musical with shadow puppets and whale songs; an accomplished cellist, Alex Cox, who moonlights as a software engineer (or vice versa); and a pianist, Ying Li, who celebrated Mozart’s 266th birthday by live-streaming a free, all-Amadeus concert on WQXR.

05/12/2024

Can you believe the 2023-24 season is almost over?

Be sure not to miss Tapestry on Sunday, May 19 @ 3:00 PM, Foy Concert Hall, Moravian University.

Tapestry Vocal Ensemble is performing at Foy Concert Hall in Bethlehem, PA on May 19, 2024 at 3 pm. Click to get your tickets.

03/31/2024

Be sure to get your tickets for the Apollo Trio on Sunday, April 21 @ Faith UCC in Center Valley! (Program notes linked in the comments!)

https://cmlv.org/apollo-piano-trio-with-misha-amory-violist/

Formed in 1997, the Apollos are proven veterans of the concert stage (including Foy in 2019), guaranteed to reward audiences with performances consistently praised as “exceptionally fine,” “masterful,” and “heartfelt.” Their guest here this season, violist Misha Amory, is equally expert, with a résumé reaching back to the Naumburg Viola Award in 1991. Yet these four masters of classical music pop up in some innovative places and surprising collaborations: a barge under the Brooklyn Bridge, premiering works with dancer/rapper Lil Buck, recording a CD of “Piano Puzzlers” with six other pianists. Among the four, they have performed on every continent except Antarctica, although the scientists at the South Pole may be listening to their recent recording of The Complete Dvořák Piano Trios on Spotify. The Apollo Piano Trio has premiered two pieces written for them by Bruce Adolph—one based on Native American poetry and another on artwork of six twentieth-century American painters—and two by David Schiff—“New York Nocturnes” and “Borscht Belt Follies,” the latter mixing jazz, klezmer, and classical styles. With veterans like these, one can reliably expect the unexpected.

Apollo Piano Trio with Misha Amory, is playing at Faith United Church of Christ in Center Valley, PA on April 21, 2024 at 3 pm.