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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

All-Bach Hilda Huang recital airs on WCRI

Renowned as a modern performer of historical music, Hilda Huang has dedicated her burgeoning career to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. This Saturday, March 11, listeners can tune into the 95.9 WCRI radio station at 7:00p.m. to hear her first all-Bach recital. Originally performed live last year during the Kingston Chamber… Read More

A New Chapter For KCMF

From performing to teaching to founding and directing festivals and outreach programs, Elizabeth “Beth” Etter’s life has been centered around music. But for Etter, it’s never been about the music. Or rather, it’s never been just about the music. “Chamber music is an extraordinary language,” she says. “We are… Read More

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