The Crescent City Chamber Music Festival’s Ninth Season,
“Brandenburg and Beyond,” will feature seven Free Public concerts.

All seven CCCMF 2024 concerts are FREE and open to the public!

Free Public Concert No. 1
Opening Night Concert
J.S. Bach’s Complete Brandenburg Concertos – Part I
Trinity Episcopal Church
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Doors: 6:30 PM
Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A: 7 PM
Music: 7:30 PM

CCCMF 2024’s Opening Night Concert, set in the gorgeous sanctuary of Trinity Episcopal Church, begins a two-part presentation of J.S. Bach’s brilliant Brandenburg Concertos.  Ensemble-in-Residence the Manhattan Chamber Players joins forces with members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and other local musicians to bring you the first complete performance of this monumental work right here in New Orleans in recent memory!

CCCMF Artistic Director Luke Fleming gives an informal Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A at 7 PM.

For more details, click here.

 

Free Public Concert No. 2
J.S. Bach’s Complete Brandenburg Concertos – Part II
Trinity Episcopal Church
Friday, October 11, 2024
Doors: 6:30 PM
Pre-Concert Talk: 7 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM

CCCMF concludes its historic presentation of J.S. Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos in the glorious acoustic of Trinity Episcopal Church.  Ensemble-in-Residence the Manhattan Chamber Players joins forces with members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and other local musicians to bring you the first complete performance of this monumental work right here in New Orleans in recent memory!

CCCMF Artistic Director Luke Fleming gives an informal Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A at 7 PM.

For more details, click here.

 

Free Public Concert No. 3
Felicity Church
Manhattan Chamber Players
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Doors: 4:30 PM (BYOB)
Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A: 5 PM
Concert: 5:30 PM

“Mixed Mozarting”

The strings of Ensemble-in-Residence the Manhattan Chamber Players are joined by some of the top wind and brass players in the country to present an all-Mozart chamber music program,
set against the backdrop of a gorgeous sunset in the historic Felicity Church!

CCCMF Artistic Director Luke Fleming gives an informal Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A at 5 PM.

Feel free to BYOB and enjoy this inspiring evening of music making!

For more details, click here.

 

Free Public Concert No. 4
Dixon Concert Hall
Manhattan Chamber Players and Friends
Monday, October 14, 2024
Doors: 6:30PM
Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A: 7 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM

“Full Circle”

CCCMF Ensemble-in-Residence the Manhattan Chamber Players joins forces with members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra as well as other local musicians, led by acclaimed conductor Joshua Gersen
to present late-Romantic and modern works for chamber ensembles by
Camille Saint-Saëns, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Seth Grosshandler.

CCCMF Artistic Director Luke Fleming gives a Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A at 7 PM.

For more details, click here.

 

The Dover Quartet and Manhattan Chamber Players perform at Urban South Brewery for CCCMF 2018

Free Public Concert No. 5
Urban South Brewery
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
7 PM

This informal, fan-favorite concert has been on CCCMF’s lineup since our very first season.  Special, one-evening only beer flights (available for purchase) from one of New Orleans’ finest (and first!) breweries are paired with great Classical music performed by CCCMF Festival Artists in the casual,
welcoming atmosphere of Urban South Brewery‘s tasting room,
with music you won’t hear on any of our other programs!

A portion of proceeds from drink sales will be donated to the Crescent City Chamber Music Festival.

Stick around for some tasty brews with CCCMF Festival Artists
immediately after the concert!

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Free Public Concert No. 6
Sanctuary, Saint Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church
The Gryphon Trio in their New Orleans Debut
Friday, October 18, 2024
Doors: 6:30 PM
Pre-Concert Talk: 7 PM
Concert: 7:30 PM

“Revolution and Reverence”

The Juno Award-winning Gryphon Trio makes their New Orleans debut in the stunning acoustic of Saint Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church, performing Beethoven’s brilliantly innovative and fiendishly virtuosic “Archduke” Trio alongside Mendelssohn’s Second Piano Trio, an often-overlooked masterpiece that
ingeniously blends brazen Romanticism and liturgical reverence.

CCCMF Artistic Director Luke Fleming gives an informal Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A at 7 PM.

For more details, click here.

 

Free Public Concert No. 7
CCCMF 2024 Season Finale Concert
Sanctuary, Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church
The Gryphon Trio and Luke Fleming
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Doors: 3 PM
Pre-Concert Talk: 3:30 PM
Concert: 4 PM

“Worlds Apart”

In CCCMF 2024’s Season Finale Concert, the Gryphon Trio is joined by CCCMF Founding Artistic Director Luke Fleming for a fascinating juxtaposition of Franz Schubert’s subtle, sweet, and beguiling “Arpeggione” Sonata and Johannes Brahms’ emotional, brilliant, and bombastic Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor (concluding with its famous Hungarian Rondo).  Join us in the historic sanctuary of Rayne Memorial United Methodist Church,
and meet the Artists at the reception that follows!

CCCMF Artistic Director Luke Fleming gives an informal Pre-Concert Talk and Q&A at 3:30 PM.

For more details, click here.