Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival

April 17th, 2013
In school concerts for students of the
Randolph Union High School and
Wellspring Waldorf School
Tunbridge, VT

August 11th, 2013 at 5:00 pm
The Central Vermont
Chamber Music Festival's
16th Annual Gala Fundraising Evening
benefitting the Festival's 21st season
Please contact Janet Watton
for more information
email link or 802-728-9402.

August 15th, 2013, 7:00 pm
New in 2013!
French Horn Master Class
with Ellen Dinwiddie Smith
featuring young, local horn players,
including members of
the Vermont Youth Orchestra
Chandler Music Hall
Free admission

August 17th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Saturday Concert Series
Beethoven, Shostakovich,
Sarasate, Brahms
at Chandler Music Hall

August 18th, 2013 at 11:00 am
3nd Annual Breakfast with Bach
Breakfast at 11:00 am
in the Esther Mesh Room
in Chandler's Upper Gallery
Concert at 12:30 pm
in Bethany Church

Food provided by
Three Bean Cafe of Randolph

August 18th, 2013 at 4:00 pm
An Encore Performance
Beethoven, Shostakovich,
Sarasate, Brahms
Presented by
Pentangle Council on the Arts
Woodstock Unitarian Universalist Church

August 22nd, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Open Rehearsal
at Chandler Music Hall
Free admission

August 23rd, 2013 at 11:00 am
A special Concert for Kids
Island Time Steel Band
Off to the Islands!
Chandler Music Hall

August 23rd, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Bartok, Berio, Piston, Bruch
Unitarian Universalist Church in Montpelier
130 Main Street, Montpelier, VT

August 24th, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Saturday Concert Series
Bartok, Berio, Piston, Bruch
at Chandler Music Hall

August 25th, 2013 at 12:30 pm - Free
Festival Finale
Randolph Gazebo
N. Main & Pleasant Streets
Island Time Steel Band

The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival announces the release of its first highlight CD: Festival Harvest

"The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival has come a long way since it was founded in 1993 by Peter Sanders, a New York cellist who grew up spending his summers in the Randolph area. An indication of just how far is its excellent New CD, "Festival Harvest," a compilation of live performances of works by Mendelssohn, Schönberg and Frank Bridge at the Chandler Music Hall in 2000 and 2004.

When I first heard the album, I had recently heard an excellent performance of Mendelssohn's A Major String Quintet at Vermont's justly revered Marlboro Music Festival. The same work opens this CD, and I actually preferred the Randolph performance. That's big praise."

Read the review from the December 2, 2005 issue of Vermont's Times Argus


	We are pleased to announce our 21st season August 12th - 25th, 2013 Welcome to the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival website! This year brings the festival to central Vermont for its first concert on April 17th, 2013 presenting the fabulous duoJalal. These wonderful artists will play concerts for the students of the Randolph Union High School and the Wellspring Waldorf School in Tunbridge. We are thrilled to keep up the tradition of bringing World-class music in the heart of Vermont to the students of the area. Our season is now set and this site has been updated for 2013. We are continuing with the theme of "All about Community" that was developed last year and the spectacular artwork that Edward Koren created for us will once again be featured. Our relationship with the Vermont Youth Orchestra will continue to grow and we will present another Breakfast with Bach concert featuring the Bach Double Violin Concerto. One solo will be performed by a festival Artist and the other will be performed by a VYO Young Artist. We will also be presenting a French Horn Master-Class in collaboration with the VYO. Many wonderful Artists and Programs will be featured and you can learn more by visiting all the areas of this site. If you would like to be part of our annual GALA event on August 11th, 2013 please click here for more details. Thank you for stopping by and see you at the Chandler... Peter Sanders Artistic Director Like us on Facebook The festival is a non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status from the IRS. Please help support the CVCMF. CVCMF Special New York City Event Camille Saint-Saëns - PIANO QUARTET in B-FLAT major, Op. 41 Monday, May 13th, 2013 at 1:00 pm Saint Peter's Church 54th and Lexington Avenue, NYC Cyrus Beroukhim: Violin, Katherine Anderson: Viola Peter Sanders: Cello, Thomas Schmidt: Piano Allegretto Andante maestoso ma con moto Poco allegro piu tosto moderato - Allegro non troppo - Allegro - Molto allegro - Presto - Prestissimo Allegro - Mouvement du 1er morceau - Allegro non troppo - Tempo primo Click here for more on this event Music Review From the Sublime to the Spectacular: by Jim Lowe - August 20, 2012 The three major works were likely unknown to virtually anyone in the audience at the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival's opening concert Saturday at Chandler Music Hall, but there certainly were no complaints - for they ranged from the sublime to the spectacular. Spectacular, if not quite a masterpiece, was Camille Saint-Saëns overtly virtuosic Piano Quartet in B-flat Major, Opus 41. Full of late French Romantic excess, the work is passionately lyrical, extremely demanding of its players, and exciting as well as joyful. Read the full review here Read an article by Peter Goodman about the festival appearing in the March/April 2012 edition of Chamber Music Magazine (a publication of Chamber Music America). On March 26th, 2012 we performed two student concerts, one at the Randolph Union High School and one at the Wellspring Waldorf School (Photo above). Thank you to everyone at the Wellspring Steiner School for welcoming us into your community - especially Amy Rosalbo! - with Michael Roth, Dr. Jon-Richard Knoff, Louise Owen, Peter Sanders and Cyrus Beroukhim. We were also thrilled to have had WCAX TV join us at the Wellspring Waldorf School concert! Also, don't forget to join our mailing list* and stay up to date on what is happening.* "...Saturday's Central Vermont Chamber Festival concert at Chandler Music Hall had me babbling by intermission. When Peter Sanders told his listeners from the stage that they don't know how lucky they are, he was dead right. Except that I think they do know how lucky they are. He's lucky, too." - Peter Goodman, as appeared in the HERALD, Randolph, Vermont, August 27, 2009. (read the full review here) Rehearsal, season #1 on Chandler stage - 1993 Adela Peña - violin, Aloysia Friedmann - viola, Peter Sanders - cello, Steven Masi - piano "Stanziano delivered the dramatic washes of notes with clarity and virtuosity, while Delmoni and Sanders plied the dramatic lines with passion. They also responded to the subtle moments with sensitivity, making this a grand - and fun - performance." "The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival has become a welcome tradition in Randolph and the central Vermont area, and Saturday's impassioned high level illustrates just why." "Chamber music festival opens with finesse, spirit. Just when you think you've heard enough chamber music for the summer, someone comes along and performs the Mozart Clarinet Quintet - beautifully, in this case - and the passion returns immediately." - Jim Lowe: The Times Argus, VT