Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival

The Sixteenth Annual Summer Series of Chamber Music Concerts

August 10th to 24th of 2008 are the dates for the sixteenth annual CVCMF, which had its first season in 1993. The festival will present seven concerts of standard and interesting repertoire for mixed ensembles, all to be performed by world-class artists. Our two-week festival in Chandler Music Hall and other venues will include chamber music by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Foote, Webern, Arensky, Brahms and more.

This site has been updated for the 2008 season
with NEW information on programs, events and artists.

Enjoy the website and plan to visit us in August!

Photo by Robert Eddy

The CVCMF is presented in partnership with Chandler Center for the Arts
Randolph, Vermont

2008
Week one will include:
Violin - Arturo Delmoni
Viola - Chauncey Patterson
Cello - Peter Sanders
Piano - Christopher Oldfather

Crypto-Judaica: Mysteries of the Sephardim

performed by:

Paul Woodiel, violin and hurdy gurdy

Steve Gibb, guitar and oud

Jeremiah McLane, accordion and keyboard

Week two will include:
Violin - Basia Danilow, Arturo Delmoni,
Adela Peña
Viola – David Cerutti, Arturo Delmoni
Cello - Peter Sanders, Adam Grabois

Artists and Programs subject to change.

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

Festival Harvest

read about the recording

The press responds:

"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

The CVCMF is proud to be co-sponsored by

Picture by Robert Eddy

From a live concert recording on August 26th, 2000 in Chandler Center for the Arts.
Violin: Erica Kiesewetter, Basia Danilow, Viola: David Cerutti, Katherine Anderson, Cello: Peter Sanders, Roger Shell
Arnold Schoenberg - VERKLÄRTE NACHT (Transfigured Night) Op. 4

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“Pianist Albert Stanziano, violinist Arturo Delmoni and cellist Peter Sanders simplyreveled in this
over-the-top music (Joachim Raff – Piano Trio in a minor, Op. 155).

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.”

-- Jim Lowe – The Times Argus, VT (8/12/2007)

“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 (8/20/06)

"The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival has achieved
a new level of excellence . . . not only were the performances exciting, they were cohesive and satisfying."

-- Jim Lowe - The Times Argus, VT (8/30/2004)

Cameron Grant, Arturo Delmoni, Peter Sanders and David Cerutti
perform the Brahms A major Piano Quartet on 8/18/07

"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."
-- Jim Lowe -- The Times Argus, VT (8/28/2003)

"The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival has proven itself over
its 10 years, becoming an important part of Vermontís musical fabric . . . Saturdayís concert, which closed the season, was notable not only for its refinement of playing and ensemble, but its musical excitement."

-- Jim Lowe, The Times Argus, VT (8/26/02)

"Chandler Music Hall's Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival has come into its own with some powerful performances, these . . . players can hold their own with the best in Vermont."

-- Jim Lowe, The Times Argus, VT (8/20/01)

I hope that this website will encourage you to come visit us this August. If you have already enjoyed a concert in past summers please, tell a friend. Randolph is a lovely town nestled in the beautiful and scenic rolling hills of Central Vermont. Chandler Music Hall is the acoustically premiere concert hall in the area. With many fine B&Bs and Inn's in the area the festival can be the center of a wonderful weekend getaway. Come enjoy world-class chamber music in one of the most stunning locations in the Northeast. I look forward to meeting you at a concert reception!

Artistic Director
cvcmf

Complimentary student tickets are available
thanks to a special grant, on a first come first serve basis.
Please call the Box Office for more information.
(802) 728-6464

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