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With Jay Reise’s retirement concert at the University of Pennsylvania coming up in a few days, I thought this would be a good time to look back at one of the most extraordinary pieces I have ever commissioned. Jay was Newburyport Chamber Music Festival’s composer-in-residence in 2015. Based on a Japanese folk tale with Rip van Winkle overtones, “The Gift to Urashima Tarō” was the result of a collaboration between NCMF and EXIT Dance.

REFLECTIONS ON NCMF SUMMER 2019: A Visual Portrait

In advance of this summer’s festival, Artistic Director David Yang offers some of his program notes on the repertoire: Robert Bradshaw Commission

After another successful Book Salon on Tuesday, June 18th focusing on Shostakovich and the book "The Noise of Time" (by Julian Barnes), David Yang offered the program note for Shostakovich’s 6th String Quartet featured on the festival this summer.

In advance of this summer’s festival, Artistic Director David Yang is sending out some of the program notes he has written on the repertoire, in this instance Mozart’s String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421.

An Introduction to Summer Season #18 (August 2019) - Part I (Part II will contain links to all the pieces.

David Yang reflects on conversation with and performance by Michael Brown.

David Yang shares some of Michael Brown's favorite performances by other artists of the works on Michael's March 30th NCMF concert.

2019: Our 18th Season begins with Michael Brown, pianist and composer.

NCMF in the Media

October update from one our 2018 artists and preview of Winter Baroque 2018