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UPCOMING EVENTS

Classical Meets Tango

Sunday, September 28th at 3pm

Chamber Music Charleston celebrates the launch of the extraordinary 20th Anniversary Season with a dynamic concert that brings together guest artists, current and former CMC musicians, and distinguished alumni from the CMC TWO program to perform music of Bach, Mendelssohn, and Piazzolla.

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The Winds of Revolution

Sunday, September 21th at 2 and 4pm

The 2025-2026 House Concert Season opens in the Drawing Room of the Confederate Home and College with a nod to the upcoming 250th Anniversary of the United States. The program includes a suite of Revolutionary War marches alongside music of Beethoven and Devienne.

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Chamber Music on Edisto Island

Sunday, September 14th at 3pm

Chamber music returns to Edisto! The winds of CMC perform music of Devienne and Beethoven in the beautiful Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island.

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20th Anniversary Benefit Concert

Sunday, May 3 at 3pm

Tickets go on sale Sept. 28 for this special event featuring the award-winning Isidore Quartet

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Presenting exceptional chamber music in Charleston, SC since 2006.

We are just over a week away from returning to the

We are just over a week away from returning to the beautiful Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island for an afternoon of music for wind quartet.

Performing in this historic space is always a joy—the music seems to come alive as it resonates throughout the church! 🎶

PROGRAM
Suite of US Revolutionary War Era Marches
Beethoven - Wind Quartet in C Major, Op. 87
Devienne - Trio in Bb, Op. 61 no. 5

Regina Helcher Yost, flute
Gretchen Roper, clarinet
Sandra Nikolajevs, bassoon
Debra Sherrill Ward, horn

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✨ Chamber Music Charleston’s 20th Anniversary

✨ Chamber Music Charleston’s 20th Anniversary Season begins this month! ✨

We’re celebrating in style with a season filled with extraordinary concerts, world-class guest artists, and unforgettable moments.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing behind-the-scenes glimpses, introducing you to our musicians—both new and returning—and giving you an inside look at what makes this milestone season so special.

To kick things off, let’s revisit our 2025–2026 Season Trailer 🎶

🌟 With sold-out concerts already on the calendar, the 20th Anniversary Season is off to a remarkable start.

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🎻Young Artists in Concert: A String Quartet Exp

🎻Young Artists in Concert: A String Quartet Exploration

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 from 7-7:45pm
Park Circle Community Building, 4800 Park Circle, North Charleston, SC

PROGRAM:
BACH Select Works
MOZART String Quartet in B-flat Major, K.159
SCHUBERT “Quartettsatz.”

Sponsored in part by the South Carolina Arts Commission

Join us for a casual exploration of the origins of classical music through the eyes of the string quartet, featuring musicians of the CMC TWO educational program.

Starting with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and then traveling through Europe for the music of Mozart and Schubert, this program demystifies classical music with entertaining anecdotes and insights that one may not expect at a traditional classical concert.

The performance features violinists Ava Whitener and Elijah Liu, violist Callie Williams, and cellist Myles Owens-Walker—accomplished students of the Charleston County School of the Arts and dedicated participants in the CMC TWO educational program. Now in their third year with CMC TWO, these young musicians receive professional coaching, masterclasses, and unique performance opportunities that strengthen their artistry and cultivate their commitment to chamber music.

GETTING TO KNOW THE MUSICIANS: VIOLIST CALLIE WILLIAMS

Callie Williams is a junior strings major at Charleston County School of the Arts. She studies privately with Professor Lee-Chin Siow on her primary instrument, violin, which she has been playing for 11 years. She was excited to learn viola for CMC TWO when she was given the opportunity last year.

Callie is a multi-year Charleston Symphony Orchestra League scholarship winner, the recipient of the 2025 Charleston Music Clubs’ Catherina Koel Swart Strings Award, and she has made All-State Orchestra each year.

When she’s not playing violin, she enjoys singing, reading, and making elaborate coffee drinks. She is hoping to have a career in violin performance, with a focus in chamber and solo music.

As we continue to share our musicians’ adventure

As we continue to share our musicians’ adventures of the summer, we find ourselves getting a little peek into all the exciting travels of our flutist, Regina Helcher Yost.

In May, Regina traveled to Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO), where she recorded videos in their beautiful hall. This was followed by a grand hiking and biking adventures with her husband, Jeff, in the surrounding mountains.

June was filled with teaching before embarking on two exciting trips in July. Regina first went to Costa Rica to perform at the XIII Festival Internacional de Flautas de Costa Rica and then was off for an 11-day cruise and tour to Alaska and Canada. She did everything frrom biking the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail and Stanley Trail to encountering (from a safe distance) a golden grizzly bear with cubs, a pair of moose, and more!

The summer will continue with trips to Brevard, NC, performing at the National Flute Association Convention in Atlanta, GA and performing at the Japan Flute Convention in Kobe, Japan.

We are so excited that Regina - who has been with Chamber Music Charleston for our full 20 years - will be performing in the very first House Concerts of the season.

We asked Regina “what memory or memories stand out to you”?
Her response: “Both Carnegie Hall concerts and performing with Demarre McGill and Rachel Barton. Every CMC concert is special to me, but these really stand out in my mind.”

The start of our 2025-2026 season will be here before we know it…and we look forward to seeing you in the audience!

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CMC Artistic Director Sandra NIkolajevs had the ch

CMC Artistic Director Sandra NIkolajevs had the chance to hear Philip Setzer and Michael Stephen Brown perform at the Manchester Music Festival this past week.

The innovative program opened with Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata and Janáček‘s String Quartet no. 1 (nicknamed the Kreutzer Sonata) combined with a dramatic reading of excerpts from Tolstoy’s novella “The Kreutzer Sonata.” It was absolutely incredible, and to top it all off, the evening concluded with Shuhan’s glorious PIano Quintet.

We can’t wait to have Mchael join us in Charleston in November, where he will perform an arrangement of a Mozart piano Concerto for Piano and String Quartet.

And then, in February, Phil joins us for a Beethoven string trio and Mozart string quintet (one of the two performances is already sold out!)

There is something so glorious about hearing exceptional chamber music performed in beautiful spaces over the summer, and the Manchester music festival has certainly created something unique for their audiences in Vermont.

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The summer months are quiet for Chamber Music Char

The summer months are quiet for Chamber Music Charleston, but our musicians have found some great ways to stay busy!

For the next few weeks we will be shining the spotlight on individual musicians to show you what they have done during the summer months.

Our President and Artistic Director, Sandra Nikolajevs, spends her summer in the New York Adirondacks at the Luzerne Music Center (LMC). While at LMC, Sandra is on the bassoon faculty, where she teaches young bassoonists, coaches student chamber music ensembles, and performs in faculty concerts. Sandra is also the faculty coordinator, creating the schedule that coordinates all faculty activities.

Highlights of her past month have included performing in LMC faculty chamber music concerts, getting to know the local wildlife (including taking a little walk with a family of skunks!), and spending her days off in Poultney, VT to enjoy a lovely farmhouse built by her grandfather in the 1920s.

When Sandra returns to Charleston, she will dive into preparations for the start of the 2025-2026 season. In addition to planning for the logistics of all the concerts, she will continue practicing bassoon so she is in top shape for the first set of House Concerts - which features music for wind quartet.
“I am most excited about performing a suite of American Revolutionary War Marches that I arranged specifically for this first set of concerts of the season. This is our little nod to the upcoming 250th Celebration of the United States” Sandra explains.

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We are thrilled that Spoleto Time has arrived!

We are thrilled that Spoleto Time has arrived! This is a special time of year, when we pause our Chamber Music Charleston concerts to take a moment and enjoy all the great performances happening in Charleston.

The highlight so far was Fragments at Sottile Theatre. We caught Fragments 2 last night and are eagerly looking forward to Alisa Weilerstein’s discussion with Martha Teichner today. The program last night was absolutely mesmerizing and we can’t wait to learn more about this entire project.

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It is that time of year! We are pleased to bring

It is that time of year! We are pleased to bring back our “Spoleto-Time” discount.

Between now and June 9 Ovation and Salon Series tickets are 20% off when purchased online.

So many great performances to choose from…and now you can get your tickets with the best discount of the season!

Concerts to choose from include:

9/28: Guest violinist Francisco Fullana and guest cellist Gabriel Martins join current and former members of CMC and alumni of the CMC TWO program for Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, and Mendelssohn’s Octet

11/9: Guest pianist Michael Stephen Brown and violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti join the strings of CMC for Chausson’s glorious Concert for Violin, String Quartet, and Piano and Lachner’s arrangement of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major.

1/11: Guest pianist Phillip Bush and violinist Geneva Lewis join the strings of CMC for Brahms’ masterful Piano Quintet paired with Bartok’s Rhapsody No. 2 for Violin and Piano

3/8: Guest violinist Daniel Ching and cellist Alan Rafferty return to join CMC violinist Frances Hsieh, violists Ben and Jenny Weiss, and cellist Timothy O’Malley for Dvorak’s String Sextet and Mozart’s Grand Sextet.

✨A glimpse into our final concert of the season.

✨A glimpse into our final concert of the season.✨

There is something incredible about playing chamber music among a gathering of friends in a beautiful drawing room overlooking the Charleston Harbor.

We can’t think of a more appropriate way to end our season!

🎶…and with an afternoon of music for harpsich

🎶…and with an afternoon of music for harpsichord and winds in a beautiful, historic home on the Charleston Battery, we finish our 2024-2025 concert season!

Bravo to our musicians, oboist Kelly Moziek, clarinetist Charles Messersmith, bassoonist Sandra Nikolajevs, and harpsichordist Julia Harlow for so beautifully bringing to life the music of Jan Dismas Zelenka, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Charles Huguenin, and Ottorino Respighi.

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Such a delicate, ethereal opening to the first str

Such a delicate, ethereal opening to the first string Quartet, written by Beethoven (although it is catalog as Op. 18, No. 3).

Such fond memories from our March Ovation concert earlier this season.

With violinist @lunli_ and Frances Hsieh, violist @bwvla and cellist Tom O’Malley.

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What an incredible end to our 2024-2025 Ovation Co

What an incredible end to our 2024-2025 Ovation Concert Series!

👏Bravo to our musicians, Eriko Daimo (marimba), Alison Shearer (saxophone), Indra Thomas (voice), and Andrew Armstrong (piano), who wowed the audience with an eclectic program of music, from Bach to Sejourne.

The 2025-2026 season is almost at an end, but we s

The 2025-2026 season is almost at an end, but we still have a handful of incredible performances in May. First up - our Ovation Series Finale on May 11 with our good friend, pianist Andy Armstrong, curating an unexpected program of music for piano, voice, saxophone, and marimba 🤯 🎇

We can’t wait to introduce Eriko Diamo (marimba), Indra Thomas (soprano) and Alison Shearer (saxophone) to our Charleston audiences!🎶

“Superb playing!”

“The best concert I’ve

We were honored to be a part of Bishop Gadsden’s

We were honored to be a part of Bishop Gadsden’s 175th Anniversary Celebration Service at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on April 15th, and it was wonderful to see so many of our dear Bishop Gadsden friends at this special event!

We are so grateful to be able to share our music, in so many different ways, with this incredible community.

👏🎻Bravo to our musicians, pianist Phillip Bu

👏🎻Bravo to our musicians, pianist Phillip Bush, violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, violist Ben Weiss, and cellist Timothy O’Malley, for a spectacular series of concerts this weekend.

Hearing the music of Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms come to life at South Carolina Society was absolutely magical. The immediate standing ovation and prolonged applause was the icing on the cake!🎵✨

🎶🎻On Sunday, April 13, guest pianist Phillip

🎶🎻On Sunday, April 13, guest pianist Phillip Bush and violinist Amy Schwarz Moretti join CMC’s Ben Weiss (viola) and Timothy O’Malley (cello) to explore the rich musical connections between Clara and Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms.

The program includes Clara Schumann’s Romances, the luminous slow movement of Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, and Brahms’ dramatically powerful Piano Quartet in G Minor.

Seating is limited for this final Salon Series concert of the season, taking place in the historic ballroom of South Carolina Society Hall.

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🌿🎶Beautiful playing last night for “A Cele

🌿🎶Beautiful playing last night for “A Celebration of Spring” at the West Ashley Theatre Center.

Bravo to our musicians who so beautifully played music of Mel Bonis, César Cui, and Johannes Brahms!

Two more performances to go…

🌿✨ Tomorrow, we bring Mélanie Hélène Bonis

🌿✨ Tomorrow, we bring Mélanie Hélène Bonis’ enchanting Scènes de la Forêt (1928) to life at The Pear Theatre! This stunning work by a long-overlooked composer is the perfect way to open our Celebration of Spring program.

Born in 1858 to a wealthy Parisian family, Mélanie Bonis (who wrote under the name “Mel” to help obscure the fact that she was a woman) faced relentless obstacles in pursuing her passion for music. Yet, despite societal constraints, she composed breathtaking works that are finally gaining the recognition they deserve.

Join us as we celebrate her legacy and welcome the beauty of spring through music! 🎶🌸.

We can’t wait to hear John Samuel Roper (flute), Debra Sherrill Ward (horn), and Irina Pevzner (piano) bring this work to life.

#ChamberMusic #WomenComposers #CelebrationOfSpring #MelanieBonis

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