by Deborah Sobol, Artistic Director

I’m often asked by people what I do for a living. I reply that I am a concert pianist and that I play a lot of chamber music. I’m then asked what chamber music is. Frequently, I begin by saying what it is NOT: it is not elite, stuffy or high-brow. Nor is it big, symphonic, or distant. Rather, it is close up, personal music– a conversation among friends in the emotional language of sound.

Audience members play a direct, active role in the chamber music experience– they are the equal third of that magical, creativetriangle of composer, performer and listener. Their involvement in the immediacy of the live performance contributes to the overall energy of the performers and the music. They can dive in anywhere to access the uniqueness of the live chamber music experience: following the performers’ continually alternating roles of leading and supporting as the piece is presented, catching the individual natures of the instruments and how they blend with each other, or simply being transported to another place by the sound story created by a human we name composer in a form we call “classic” because it still works hundreds of years after it was created.

It’s wonderful music. Sit back and enjoy it!

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