The Emerald Coast Chamber Music Festival has announced its lineup of concerts for the 2025 season. Festival co-Artistic Director and Artist Faculty member Jacob Clewell (viola) offered a summary of the season, saying, “This year’s festival is centered around music the faculty love and have chosen themselves, and it ranges from music we grew up listening to from Beethoven and Mendelssohn to a couple more recently written pieces we simply adore. I really can’t wait for the community to see what we have in store for this year’s celebration.” The festival will also be expanding its outreach activities, offering more casual performances outside of the formality of a concert hall.
Most concerts are presented by the festival’s internationally acclaimed Artist Faculty, who travel to the area from across the United States and Canada for this event each year. These performers have appeared extensively throughout North America and Europe, in such venues as Chicago’s Symphony Hall, Toronto’s Koerner Hall, and the holy grail of concert venues, Carnegie Hall in New York City. The festival also boasts a comprehensive Chamber Music Institute, at which approximately 40 students from the country’s top music schools participate in two weeks of intensive study with ECCMF artist faculty and guest artist teachers.
As a special feature for the festival’s fifth year of concerts, all ticket fees have been eliminated for the 2025 season. The team that organizes the annual festival is inviting the community to come and celebrate classical chamber music alongside the faculty and students of the ECCMF Chamber Music Institute without need to pay for a ticket. Admittance to guest artist masterclasses (where participants in the Chamber Music Institute perform for sought-after guest artist teachers) will remain paid, with a festival pass giving access to every single masterclass.
Concerts at ECCMF 2025 run from May 17th to June 1st. Each concert takes place in the acoustically superb Tyler Recital Hall in the Music Wing of the Mattie Kelly Arts Center on the Northwest Florida State College’s beautiful campus. Free tickets to reserve a spot in the very limited seats at the concerts are available through the festival’s website, with any remaining seats available on a first-come-first-served basis.
The Emerald Coast Chamber Music Festival was established as an annual celebration of classical chamber music, held in one of the United State’s most visually stunning locales. The annual Chamber Music Institute provides student participants with the highest quality musical education experience in an inspiring environment, while the Showcase Series features the festival’s internationally renowned faculty in an artistically superb set of concerts serving the Northwest Florida area.
More information about ECCMF performers, concerts and festival activities is available at www.emeraldcoastchambermusicfestival.org.
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