Three Weeks of Cape-Wide Concerts
Free Community Concert in Hyannis on August 3
Festival Celebrates 20 Years of Artistic Leadership from Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu
The Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival today announced that tickets are on sale for the 2026 summer concert season, running from July 31 to August 21, 2026, with eleven live performances in five venues across Cape Cod.
Festival Celebrates 20 Years of Artistic Leadership from Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu
Free Community Concert in Hyannis Open to All
The Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival today announced the 2026 summer concert season, running from July 31 to August 21, 2026. The Festival will present eleven live performances in five venues across Cape Cod. Tickets will go on sale in early April.
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20, premiered at the Royal Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna on April 2, 1800. The concert started at 6:30 p.m. and also included Beethoven’s First Symphony, a symphony by Mozart, an aria and a duet from The Creation by Joseph Haydn, a piano concerto by Beethoven, and his own improvisations at the piano. Despite the stunning array of musical invention…
Summer in Chatham means lobster rolls, sand between your toes, and the delight of world-class chamber music filling a church on Main Street.On Aug. 11, a musical trio will perform at the First Congregational Church of Chatham as part of the 2025 Cape Cod Chamber Music...
Paul Laraia’s viola looks like a rare antique: it’s 16⅜ inches long, with a varnished body the color of amber. Its shoulders are narrow at the top and steeply sloped; the bottom curves inward toward the tailpiece — a highly unusual shape for a modern instrument, most...
Jung-Ho Pak, longtime Cape Symphony leader, returns to a Cape Cod concert Aug. 7 ― but not as a conductor.
In his first concert appearance since leaving Cape Symphony two years ago, Pak will host the Grammy-winning Catalyst Quartet at 5:30 p.m. at Falmouth Academy’s Simon Center for the Arts, in a concert presented by the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival.
Hailed by the New York Times as “A Triumph of Quality”, the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival has grown to become an established year-round presenter of chamber music and a major contributor to the cultural life of Cape Cod since its inception in 1979.
We spoke with Andrea Meagher, the Executive Director about their free community concert with Genghis Barbie on July 29 in Hyannis, open to everyone. The Festival then runs from August 5 to August 22 with ten live performances in five venues across Cape Cod.
The first song that the all-female French horn quartet Genghis Barbie played together was Queen’s “Somebody to Love.” It was 2010, and the four professional musicians were jamming in member Alana Vegter’s New York City apartment.
Opportunities to engage with the arts abound in the summer season. On The Point, we talk about three summer traditions-
The Cod Chamber Music festival kicks off each summer with a free concert for the community. Joining us to talk chamber music and this year’s festival we welcome Andrea Meagher, Executive Director of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival.
The 2025 Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival will present two concerts at the Simon Center for the Arts, Falmouth Academy, on Thursdays, August 7 and 21, at 5:30 PM. The August 7 concert, “Unity Through Music: We are the Catalyst,” will feature the festival debut of the Grammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet and include special guest Jung-Ho Pak, former artistic director and conductor of the Cape Symphony, who will speak about the quartet’s vision for classical music and lead a talkback after the concert.
The festival is supported by generous financial contributions, volunteers, housing providers and service donations.
Three Weeks of Cape-Wide Concerts Free Community Concert in Hyannis on August 3 Festival Celebrates 20 Years of Artistic Leadership from Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu Osterville, MA – April 9, 2026 The Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival today announced that...