Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival

 

 

About Us

One of my goals with CVCMF is to get rid of the idea of the "audience" member. As many words, audience comes from the Latin audientia which is a form of the verb "to hear." In this century of streaming media you can just about "hear" any piece of music at anytime right through the speakers of your home entertainment system. When you come to any of our concerts you become an "experience" member. The Cedar Valley Chamber Music Festival is more than an organization, it is an ideology. It is based on the belief that "art" exists in the dynamic between audience and performers; an exchange of energy that is palpable when the barriers between those two groups have disintegrated. CVCMF wants you not only to hear great music, but to experience it through an intimate performance environment.

 

This season I invite you to experience chamber music from a people whose vitality, passion and nomadic lifestyle have made them the source of artistic inspiration for numerous composers. The sounds of the Roma, or Gypsy people cover thousands of miles in a journey that has lasted centuries; influencing, blending with and taking on the colors of the many places they have landed along the way. Their affect was greatest across the Balkans and Central Europe, and it is from this particular region that much of this season’s chamber music finds its origin. You might have heard the names Kodaly, Dohnanyi, Bartok, or Enescu before, but after this season I think you will truly love them.

 

As an organization CVCMF has a few gypsy like characteristics. Our musicians travel hundreds, some even thousands, of miles each summer to perform. We also have a roving concert series that takes us to intimate venues throughout the Cedar Valley. I hope that you join our band of temporary gypsy musicians this summer as we take you on musical journeys to Hungary and Bohemia and Russia to Romania. As they say in Hungarian Nemsokára találkozunk! (See you soon!)

Hunter Capoccioni

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