The NDSU Challey School of Music is excited to present the 11th annual NDSU Chamber Music Festival!
Our guests this year will include musicians from NDSU, Concordia College, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as special guest cellist Colin Carr, renowned cellist and faculty member at Stony Brook University and the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Along with performances of spectacular instrumental chamber music works, we are pleased to present an evening of vocal chamber music featuring NDSU faculty tenor Kelly Burns with pianist Tyler Wottrich in a performance of Schubert’s deeply moving cycle Die Schöne Müllerin.
All performances are free and open to the public. View the festival schedule below and stay tuned for more details and updates in the coming weeks!
Monday, August 25
Instrumental Chamber Music 7:30 PM in Beckwith Recital Hall Performances from special guest cellist Colin Carr
Tuesday, August 26
Vocal Chamber Music 7:30 PM in Beckwith Recital Hall Schubert’s “Die Schöne Müllerin” with tenor Kelly Burns and pianist Tyler Wottrich
Thursday, August 28
Instrumental Chamber Music 12 PM at the Plains Art Museum Performances from NDSU music students and guest artists
Instrumental Chamber Music 7:30 PM in Beckwith Recital Hall Performances from NDSU music students and guest artists
To whet your chamber music appetite, please enjoy this YouTube playlist of highlights from previous seasons of the NDSU Chamber Music Festival.
Colin Carr and Tyler Wottrich performing Beethoven’s Magic Flute Variations from the 2016 Festival
Benton Schmidt, Elizabeth York, and William Comita performing the 2nd movement of Beethoven’s Piano Trio in Eb, Op. 1 No. 1
Carson Covey, Sonja Bosca-Harasim, and Marie-Elaine Gagnon performing the 3rd movement of Turina’s Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 35.
Cydney Berlinger, Grace Park, and Alice Yoo performing the 4th movement of Shostakovich’s Piano Trio in E Minor, Op. 67
About the Festival
Since 2015, the NDSU Chamber Music Festival has paired NDSU student musicians with professional musicians including NDSU faculty as well as local, national, and international luminaries in performances of chamber music presented free of charge to the NDSU and Fargo-Moorhead community.
Guest musicians at the Festival have included Grammy Award-winning artists, faculty from such institutions as the Royal Academy of Music in London and Carnegie Mellon, and players from many of the major U.S. orchestras. A wide diversity of great composers has been represented in the Festival’s programming, from the likes of Mozart and Beethoven to more recent greats such as Margaret Bonds, Frank Zappa, and Libby Larsen, some of whose work has had its World Premiere in Fargo at the Festival.
Chamber music, being music for small groups of musicians performing without a conductor, is unique in its combination of potent immediacy and enormous dramatic range. We are proud to be able to share performances by NDSU students and professional musicians of this wonderful music.
