Northeastern Pennsylvania Chamber Music Society
Celebrating over a decade of music-making, mentorship, and meaningful connection in the community.
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Chamber Music Society launches its tenth anniversary season with a powerful program of string quartets. Beethoven’s dramatic Opus 18 Number 4, featured in NEPACMS’s very first concert in 2015, returns alongside Smetana’s autobiographical "From My Life," written as he grappled with deafness, and Shostakovich’s haunting Seventh Quartet, composed in the shadow of […]
A virtual score reading session took place where YAP participants listened to and discussed music while reading along and understanding the score. This program is supported in part by the armature and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
A first reading was held with 2025-2026 Young Apprentice Program participants, starting with introductions and diving into discussions on ensemble playing, music history, and more! This program is supported in part by the armature and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for […]
Artists of the November Echoes and Interludes program visited the Wyoming Valley West Middle School and gave a mini-performance interspersed with many insightful questions from students.
Brahms, still early in his career, steps into artistic maturity with the Piano Quartet in A Major, weaving expansive lyricism with quiet introspection. Bridge’s Phantasy for Piano Quartet captures the final glow of Romanticism, poised just before his shift toward modernist color. Kodály, a student beginning to travel and collect folk melodies, lets the voice […]
Brahms, still early in his career, steps into artistic maturity with the Piano Quartet in A Major, weaving expansive lyricism with quiet introspection. Bridge’s Phantasy for Piano Quartet captures the final glow of Romanticism, poised just before his shift toward modernist color. Kodály, a student beginning to travel and collect folk melodies, lets the voice […]
Brahms’ String Sextet No. 1 was his first chamber work for strings without piano, composed during a period of emotional upheaval involving Clara Schumann and a brief engagement to Agatha von Siebold. At the same time, he was grappling with his First Symphony, a project so daunting it took over 20 years to complete. Nearly […]
Brahms’ String Sextet No. 1 was his first chamber work for strings without piano, composed during a period of emotional upheaval involving Clara Schumann and a brief engagement to Agatha von Siebold. At the same time, he was grappling with his First Symphony, a project so daunting it took over 20 years to complete. Nearly […]
The deep, organic resonance of the bass clarinet weaves through the seamless sections of York Bowen’s Phantasy Quintet, creating a single, continuous shape. In Christopher Cerrone’s Nervous Systems, symmetry is found in the tension between rugged modernist structures and the fluid rhythms of the sea. The program culminates with the Brahms Clarinet Quintet, a masterwork […]
Artists from the "Sound Shapes" program played for and had engaging conversations with students in the music program at the Wilkes-Barre Area High School.
The deep, organic resonance of the bass clarinet weaves through the seamless sections of York Bowen’s Phantasy Quintet, creating a single, continuous shape. In Christopher Cerrone’s Nervous Systems, symmetry is found in the tension between rugged modernist structures and the fluid rhythms of the sea. The program culminates with the Brahms Clarinet Quintet, a masterwork […]
Artists from the May 15 The Soldier's Tale program gave a performance and spoke to students and teachers who were gathered for the PMEA District 9 Band Fest at Riverside Junior/Senior High School.
To celebrate its 10th anniversary season, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Chamber Music Society presents its most ambitious production yet: Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale, a thrilling work that blends live chamber music, dramatic narration, dance, and puppetry into one unforgettable theatrical experience. Based on a Russian folk tale, it follows a soldier lured by the Devil […]
What does America sound like? Two violins, a viola, and a cello set out to answer that question in music spanning over a century of American life. These free library concerts feature string quartet music by Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, Philip Glass, Samuel Barber, and Jessie Montgomery, tied together by the "American" Quartet, written by […]
What does America sound like? Two violins, a viola, and a cello set out to answer that question in music spanning over a century of American life. These free library concerts feature string quartet music by Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, Philip Glass, Samuel Barber, and Jessie Montgomery, tied together by the "American" Quartet, written by […]
Felice Giardini, once the toast of London's concert halls, turns inward with an intimate duet for two cellos, a voice he would carry farther from home than he ever imagined, all the way to Moscow. Bohuslav Martinů, an expatriate in Paris, laces his Serenade with the wit and folk rhythms of a Czech homeland he […]
Felice Giardini, once the toast of London's concert halls, turns inward with an intimate duet for two cellos, a voice he would carry farther from home than he ever imagined, all the way to Moscow. Bohuslav Martinů, an expatriate in Paris, laces his Serenade with the wit and folk rhythms of a Czech homeland he […]
Joaquín Turina paints Seville in the loose, atmospheric strokes of a nocturnal scene rather than a formal argument, while Johannes Brahms set his C minor quartet aside for twenty years before returning to complete what he'd only sketched in the depths of his devotion to Clara Schumann. Most striking of all, Alfred Schnittke built an […]
Joaquín Turina paints Seville in the loose, atmospheric strokes of a nocturnal scene rather than a formal argument, while Johannes Brahms set his C minor quartet aside for twenty years before returning to complete what he'd only sketched in the depths of his devotion to Clara Schumann. Most striking of all, Alfred Schnittke built an […]