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05/29/2026

Congratulations to Chris Thile on being named Ojai Music Festival’s Music Director for 2027!

The Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and MacArthur Fellow will be making his first Ojai Festival appearance, which will also signal the beginning of Artistic and Executive Director Designate Teddy Abrams’s tenure.

We’re so looking forward to welcoming Chris back to CMNW for his solo concert, An Evening with Chris Thile: Master of the Mandolin, on July 10. (And it’s sure to sell out, so get your tickets while you can at cmnw.org!)

Congrats, Chris, and see you soon!

📷: Josh Goleman

05/26/2026

“Music has the ability to connect us beyond words, labels, and borders…”

05/26/2026

“…inviting us to celebrate both our differences and our common ground.”

05/26/2026

“Confluence: Our Shared Voices is a tribute to music’s power to unite and to the vibrant cultural heritages that continue to inspire the music we love.”

— Artistic Directors Gloria Chien & Soovin Kim

05/23/2026

Tomorrow we’ll be featured on All Classical Radio's Played in Oregon with host Brandi Parisi! Tune in to hear clarinetist Jörg Widmann, bassoonist Carin Miller, hornist Radovan Vlatković, Soovin Kim, violinist, violist Jordan Bak, cellist Paul Watkins, and bassist Braizahn Jones play Beethoven's Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20. This performance was recorded at Kaul Auditorium as part of our 2024 Summer Festival.

Listen tomorrow (Sunday) at 1 PM PT at 89.9 FM or at allclassical.org.

📷: Tom Emerson

05/21/2026

Our friends at Resonance Ensemble have their season finale coming up!

Historic protest songs meet contemporary choral works in this collaboration between Resonance Ensemble and A Thousand Tongues. Featuring music from the landmark 1973 album A Grain of Sand alongside new works by Asian diasporic composers, the program reflects on Asian American identity, memory, and community across generations.

🎶 A Grain of Sand, Revisited
Sunday, June 7 @ 2 PM
Alberta Rose Theatre

More info and tickets at resonancechoral.org.

05/20/2026

We’re featured on Performance Today! Listen to today’s (Wednesday, May 20) show to hear pianist/composer Stewart Goodyear play his own piece, Panorama. This performance was recorded at Kaul Auditorium as part of our 2023 Summer Festival.
Tune in at yourclassical.org/performance-today.

📷: Tom Emerson

05/17/2026

🚨 Attention string quartet enthusiasts! 🚨

We have an upcoming, special learning opportunity with Yale School of Music historian Dr. Paul Berry! Inward Movements: Searching for Selfhood in the Classical String Quartet, is a three-part, online course exploring the emotional core of the Classical string quartet through the slow movements of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

WED, May 20 @ 4 PM PT | Haydn
WED, May 27 @ 4 PM PT | Mozart
WED, June 3 @ 4 PM PT | Beethoven

This course is complimentary for CMNW subscribers and major donors, or can be purchased for $30. Enrolled students will have access to all the recordings for two weeks after the final session. Learn more and sign up now at cmnw.org!

📷: Courtesy of Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival

05/14/2026

Alessio Bax is in Portland playing Rachmaninoff and Copland with the Oregon Symphony! There are multiple opportunities to see him at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall: tonight and Saturday at 7:30 PM and Sunday at 2 PM. Alessio is familiar to CMNW audiences—he was most recently here for the 2024 Summer Festival. Don’t miss him while he’s in town! More info and tickets at orsymphony.org.

📷: Marco Borggreve

05/14/2026

We’ll be featured on Performance Today! Listen to tomorrow’s (Friday, May 15) show to hear Julianne Lee, violin; Sonoko Miriam Welde, violin; Daniel Thorell, cello; and Nina Bernat, bass play Rossini’s String Sonata No. 3 in C Major. This performance was recorded at PSU’s Lincoln Recital Hall as part of our 2024 Summer Festival.

Tune in at yourclassical.org/performance-today.

📷: Chris Brecht

05/13/2026

Have you seen the new National Endowment for the Arts research report? Key findings showed that participating in the arts remains a strong indicator of civic/community engagement and social support!

🎭 Arts participants experience a nearly fourfold increase in their likelihood of civic and community engagement, relative to non-arts participants. This difference holds even after controlling for demographic and socioeconomic factors.

🎨 Adults who participate in multiple modes of arts activity (e.g., consuming art via attendance, reading, or digital media; creating and performing art; and supporting artists and arts organizations) show the highest levels of civic and community engagement, when compared to adults who do only some of these arts activities, or who do none of them at all.

💃 Educational attainment is a key factor that drives the relationship between arts participation and positive social behaviors. The strength of the relationship is greatest among adults with at least a bachelor’s degree.

🎶 The robust, positive association between arts participation and civic/community engagement is broadly shared across key sociodemographic groups.

Instead of disengaging from civic and community life, the arts may offer a lifeline to enhance our social connections and improve our well-being! Just another reason to love chamber music. ❤

Read the report here: https://www.arts.gov/impact/research/publications/great-connector-how-arts-participation-renews-civic-and-community-engagement

📷: Gary Norman

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