Portland Chamber Music Festival
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The Portland Chamber Music Festival is an annual chamber music
festival located in Portland, Maine
. Founded in 1994 by Artistic Directors Jennifer Elowitch (violinist) and Dena Levine (pianist), the festival presents a summer concert series in August at the Abromson Community Education Center.
In addition, the festival presents mid-season concerts in Portland and elsewhere in the region.
The Festival has played to a nationwide audience on National Public Radio; twice has been awarded an Aaron Copland grant for performance of American contemporary music; has been recorded and broadcast by WGBH radio in Boston; and has been featured in both local and national press.
Performers in recent years have included members of the Vermeer, Mendelssohn, Borromeo, and Brentano String Quartets. Resident Composers have included Grammy winner Osvaldo Golijov and internationally celebrated composer Earl Kim.
PCMF also hosts an annual free children’s concert, a Young Artist Apprentice Program, and adult chamber music workshops. The Festival also conducts an annual Composer’s Competition, culminating in the winning work’s premiere at a PCMF summer concert.
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
festival located in Portland, Maine
Portland, Maine
Portland is the largest city in Maine and is the county seat of Cumberland County. The 2010 city population was 66,194, growing 3 percent since the census of 2000...
. Founded in 1994 by Artistic Directors Jennifer Elowitch (violinist) and Dena Levine (pianist), the festival presents a summer concert series in August at the Abromson Community Education Center.
In addition, the festival presents mid-season concerts in Portland and elsewhere in the region.
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The Festival has played to a nationwide audience on National Public Radio; twice has been awarded an Aaron Copland grant for performance of American contemporary music; has been recorded and broadcast by WGBH radio in Boston; and has been featured in both local and national press.
Performers in recent years have included members of the Vermeer, Mendelssohn, Borromeo, and Brentano String Quartets. Resident Composers have included Grammy winner Osvaldo Golijov and internationally celebrated composer Earl Kim.
PCMF also hosts an annual free children’s concert, a Young Artist Apprentice Program, and adult chamber music workshops. The Festival also conducts an annual Composer’s Competition, culminating in the winning work’s premiere at a PCMF summer concert.