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Meet Lisa Nguyễn Bùi Gia An

The Kingston Chamber Music Festival (KCMF) established a scholarship in 2004 to support a student studying music at the University of Rhode Island (URI). It is the only scholarship award of its kind given to a student at the sophomore level, and the recipient is chosen by faculty in… Read More

An orchestra pit musician’s view of Broadway

While actors, dancers, and singers might be the most recognizable talents making Broadway shows come to life, it’s the people you don’t actually see who make an equally big impact on a show’s resonance: the musicians. Imagine The Phantom of the Opera without music, for example. Silence wouldn’t deliver… Read More

From Kingston to Broadway

Broadway’s hit musical comedy “Mr. Saturday Night” wrapped up last fall after a 5-month run. Among the musicians performing the show’s Tony-nominated score – written by three-time Tony award winner Jason Robert Brown – was Jesse-Ray Leich, a drummer, percussionist, and former recipient of a Kingston Chamber Music Festival… Read More

Clancy Newman and Natalie Zhu sign with Albany Records

Clancy Newman and Natalie Zhu have shared countless stages. They met in Philadelphia in 1998, and have collaborated often since then – Newman as a cellist and composer, and Zhu as a pianist and artistic director of the Kingston Chamber Music Festival (KCMF). They are now embarking on a… Read More

Why Chamber Music?

We posed this question at a recent Kingston Chamber Music Festival board meeting. Our board is a diverse group – young professionals and retired professionals, musicians and non-musicians, participants with backgrounds ranging from chemistry to composing – who come together out of a shared love of chamber music and a… Read More

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