Note: Remainder of 2019-2020 Season Postponed
*Update: 05/22/2020*
Please see note below 

CMC is dedicated to the safety and well-being of patrons as well as the performing artists. Many items of concern regarding future concerts are up in the air right now. CMC lacks the answers to vital questions and thus are unable to confirm dates for concerts in our upcoming season. While we are longing to experience the quality of chamber music that CMC orchestrates every year, we have come to the decision to continue the current postponement of concerts until 2021.


This decision is based on the current status of gatherings limited to small groups as well as restrictions on international travel. We must ensure the safety of all attendees and musicians before confirming the dates of the postponed concerts and the proposed 2020-2021 season. As statuses change quickly these days, the CMC board will continue to evaluate next steps on a monthly basis.


Regarding Tickets

We understand that this pandemic has been a financial strain on many people and organizations. CMC relies on ticket sales to contribute toward the expense of putting on the concerts but ticket sales alone do not completely cover these costs. We ask that if you are able to do so, please consider donating your unused ticket purchases to CMC. This would require no further action from you. If we do not receive a communication about whether you would like a refund for your tickets, we will consider the purchase(s) as donations going forward. We cannot honor the retention tickets at this time due to the uncertain nature of future CMC concerts.

If you have purchased tickets via Brown Paper Tickets, we will send out an additional email with details on refunding or donating your ticket purchase(s).

If you have any further questions regarding tickets, please contact Amy at (240) 601-8992.

We continue to thank you for your patience and support!

Our 61st Season
​International, World-class Chamber music 

Coming This Season​

ARCIS SAXOPHONE QUARTET
*POSTPONED*
Featured Repertoire: American Dreams - Quartet Version: Reich, Dvorák, Bernstein, Barber, Gershwin

“The Arcis Saxophon Quartet . . . made clear very quickly, that saxophones can take over the part which one is used to hearing by a string quartet . . . The quartet was bubbling over with joy in their playing and created an immense intensity, adapted their playing perfectly to the style of the piece, while staying very homogeneous in their sound.” - Goslarsche Zeitung … “No audience should ever miss out on this young ensemble with such joy in their playing—with perfect instrumental skills: If you heard them once, you will come back . . . A wild explosion of rhythm and colors . . . Their gripping musicality is what makes them outstanding and unique.” - tz München


About the Arcis Saxophone Quartet
Program Notes
​Program Repertoire 

CUARTETO LATINOAMERICANO
*POSTPONED*

European romanticism gets a Latin twist with Cuarteto Latinoamericano in a program called Mexican Romantic Quartets. These elegant pieces, many of which have never been heard outside of Mexico, showcase all the lush sounds of the late romantics with a special passion that only comes from South of the border. - General Arts Touring. “Cuarteto Latinoamericano's members are three Bitran brothers: violinists Saul and Aron and cellist Alvaro, with violist Javier Montiel. They have recorded more than 80 CDs, including nearly the entire Latin American repertoire for string quartet… They have premiered over a hundred works written for them, and they continue to introduce new and neglected composers to the genre.” - Cuarteto Latinoamericano

About the Cuarteto Latinoamericano
Program Notes
​Program Repertoire

DELPHI PIANO TRIO
*POSTPONED*
Featured Repertoire: Before the Storm: Cowell, Ravel, Beethoven "Archduke"

“The energy was contagious and the way in which each performer communicated with the others was a veritable lesson in ensemble playing . . . Throughout the evening these three expressive musicians, who first got together as students at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, performed with confidence, precision and a masterful ability to capture the subtle expressions in a wide variety of music.” - Peninsula Reviews … “. . . Delphi captured those evocative qualities that one would associate with the best of lyric poetry.” - San Francisco Examiner

About the Delphi Piano Trio
Program Notes

2019 - 2020 Concert Series

Our 61st Season features an international series, with two ensembles from Germany, one from Milan/ Geneva, one from Mexico City, and two from San Francisco. The two German ensembles are the Berlin Counterpoint sextet (wind quintet plus piano) in October and the Arcis Saxophone Quartet in March. The Italian Ensemble Lucidarium, which specializes in bringing little-known repertoires from the Renaissance and Middle Ages, will be bringing seven musicians performing on very early period instruments to Corvallis in early November.

We are fortunately able to offer a free bonus concert, the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, in April 2020. The 2020 year begins in February with the Mobious Guitar Trio from San Francisco; "...we have only just begun to explore the full capabilities of the instrument, and this program seeks to display the breadth of what the classical guitar can do, so far." The final concert in early May, will feature the Delphi Piano Trio, also from San Francisco. We have chosen to introduce our audience to ensembles that have not previously performed here and to present an assortment of different instrument configurations. 

We sincerely hope that you will enjoy our 61st Season!

-Robert Verhoogen, Chair, CMC Board
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Hamburg Steinway Grand Piano

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