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NOVA Chamber Music Series

expanding utah’s musical horizons since 1977

Kimi Kawashima, artistic director
Fry Street Quartet, artistic partners and quartet-in-residence

coming up next:

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Fry Street Plays The Great Fugue
Feb 23
Fry Street Plays The Great Fugue

music by Haydn, Beethoven, Hitomi Oba

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Jessie Montgomery Plays Jessie Montgomery
Mar 9
Jessie Montgomery Plays Jessie Montgomery

The Grammy-winning composer and violinist joins NOVA artists to perform her own music, as well as works by Bartók, Okpebholo, and Bansal.

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American Gamelan
May 4
American Gamelan

Madeline Adkins plays Lou Harrison’s Violin Concerto. Kimi Kawashima performs Christopher Cerrone’s Don’t Look Down for prepared piano.

Also featuring music by Fauré and Debussy.

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Stops & Starts: Bach Cantatas & Organ Music
Jan 12
Stops & Starts: Bach Cantatas & Organ Music

including the Wedding Cantata, Ich habe genug, and music by Viet Cuong and Haruhito Miyagi.

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Musical Marriages
Nov 10
Musical Marriages

music by Clara &Robert Schumann and Wang Lu&Anthony Cheung

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From Warsaw With Love
Oct 13
From Warsaw With Love

music by Bacewicz, Ptaszyńska, Chopin

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The Gallery Series

curated by The Fry Street Quartet
features two additional concerts at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City. Tickets are very limited due to the intimate setting.

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Fry Street Plays The Great Fugue
Feb 23
Fry Street Plays The Great Fugue

music by Haydn, Beethoven, Hitomi Oba

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Alex & Aubrey Woods Play Baroque
Sep 15
Alex & Aubrey Woods Play Baroque

music by J.S.Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Stravinsky, Kenji Bunch

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45 years of NOVA: 1977-2022

To celebrate 45 years bringing great chamber music to Utah, our former music directors tell NOVA’s story in their own words.

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NOVA Chamber Music Series’ 2023-24 season will be personality-driven thrill ride with lots of surprising twists and turns

A prime reason why the NOVA Chamber Music Series consistently excels in its unique programming brand is demonstrating how the deep bench of world-class musical talent in Salt Lake City and throughout Utah can tackle just about any curveball a composer could conceive of throwing their way.

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Moments to shine: NOVA Chamber Music Series closes 45th season with spectacular Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde

Thierry Fischer returned to NOVA Chamber Music Series to conduct a spectacular performance of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.

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Backstage at NOVA Chamber Music Series

Miguel Chuaqui, Nicolás Lell Benavides, Gabriela Lena Frank on crossing, integrating, intersecting multilayers of identity in their music

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Printed programs are great, but they have limited space. This often means we have to shorten the program notes or don’t have room for artist bios. Don’t worry — you’ll still receive a program at each concert. But this year, w
NOVA’s 45th Anniversary Season starts in just one month! Do you have your tickets yet?
And just like that, the secrets of NOVA’s 45th Anniversary Season are out! Les Roka got the scoop from the Fry Street Quartet and wrote about it for The Utah Review: https://www.theutahreview.com/its-all-about-connections-nova-chamber-music-se
We are eagerly anticipating the North American premiere of Kareem Roustom's “Tesserae” this Sunday! This fantastic brass quintet will be performed by Travis Peterson, Mark Davidson, Chance Huiet, Paul Torrisi, and Edmund Rollett. Get yo
Join us this coming Sunday, May 1st, for our final concert of the season! One piece on the program will be Antonín Dvořák's String Quintet, op. 97, nicknamed the American Quintet, which fits perfectly into this concert's theme of "
Join us this Sunday for our Songs of the Americas concert at 3 pm at Libby Gardner Hall for the second concert in our spring series. A highlight of the concert will be Clarice Assad's six-movement Cancoes da America, which was commissioned and will