March 15, 2024 | News
In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating the many women who have brought their talent, artistry, and passion to the Kingston Chamber Music Festival! In particular, work by women composers has historically been neglected, unpublished, or undervalued. Through programming music written by women in the 1800s to the… Read More
August 29, 2023 | News
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
May 26, 2023 | News
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
May 1, 2023 | News
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
April 19, 2023 | News
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
