November 2, 2021 The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center announced yesterday that violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Gloria Chien have been named the recipients of the 2021 CMS Award for Extraordinary Service to Chamber Music. The award is to be presented on November 9 at Alice Tully Hall, as part of that evening’s concert program, “Chopin: Voice of the Poet,” an all-Chopin program performed by pianists Michael Brown and Anne-Marie McDermott, violinist Ani Kavafian, [...]

Robert Whipple Robert Whipple has been named Executive Director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival effective July 1, Arnie Malina, President of the Festival board, announced today. Whipple’s broad background includes artistic leadership experience with both Chamber Music Northwest and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and a role in program development with OPERA America. "I am honored to have been selected for this enviable position with such an incredible and unique organization!” says Whipple. “It will be my privilege to [...]

We are launching our search today for a new Executive Director. Our current Executive Director, Jody Woos, is leaving the Festival in order to pursue new opportunities. Jody took on the leadership of the organization in June 2013. She has contributed enormously to the success of the Festival and to its dramatic expansion of programming since 2013. We would like to thank Jody for all that she has done to build the organization, and wish her the very best in all of her future endeavors. Jody [...]

2020 Festival: EPIPHANIES GLORIA CHIEN AND SOOVIN KIM, ARTISTIC DIRECTORS DAVID SERKIN LUDWIG, RESIDENT COMPOSER We deeply regret that we must postpone the Epiphanies 2020 Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival that we had planned for August. Practical and ethical considerations make it clear that we will not be able to be together in Vermont this summer. Your health and safety, and that of our musicians, volunteers, staff, and community, are just too important to risk. The dates for our 2021 festival are Saturday, August 21- Sunday, August 29. The [...]

The Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival stands in support of our friends and colleagues in communities of color. Like so many of you, we are heartbroken and outraged at the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers sworn to protect him. Repeated acts of police brutality, and the attempts to suppress peaceful protests across our country, are part of a deeply-embedded, centuries-long tradition of racial injustice, violence and oppression of people of color. Arts organizations have a deep responsibility in the present [...]