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Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (PCMS) was founded in 1986 by Anthony Checchia so that people from all walks of life could enjoy world-renowned chamber music and recital artists at affordable ticket pricing (prices range between $16-25). Today PCMS is the largest presenter of chamber music and recitals in the United States. Each season consists of more than 60 chamber music concerts, instrumental and vocal recitals, jazz and special programs. PCMS performs in the Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center as well as eight other center city locations. PCMS has played a vital role in enhancing Philadelphia’s cultural life, presenting internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introducing innovative programs, and building new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities that also strengthen the local performing arts community.

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  Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

  1616 Walnut Street Suite 1600
  Philadelphia, PA 19103

  Phone: 215-569-8080

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• Locations

  Center City

• Upcoming Events

  03/19/10	Tokyo Quartet w/ Benjamin Hochman, piano Independence Seaport Museum
  03/25/10	Andrius Zlabys, piano American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  03/26/10	Brian Blade & the Fellowship Band Gershman Y
  03/28/10	Miro Quartet American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  04/09/10	Yefim Bronfman, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  04/11/10	Jupiter Quartet w/ Michael Tree, viola & Peter Wiley, cello Independence Seaport Museum
  04/21/10	Curtis Chamber Orchestra II w/ Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Soovin Kim, violin Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  04/22/10	Richard Goode, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  04/28/10	Hagen Quartet Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  04/29/10	Belcea Quartet Independence Seaport Museum
  04/30/10	Roberto Diáz, viola & Meng-Chieh Liu, piano American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  05/04/10	Soovin Kim, violin & Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  05/05/10	Musicians from Marlboro III Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  05/09/10	Ensemble ACJW; John Adams, conductor; Jeremy Denk, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  05/16/10	Counter)induction American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall

• Reviews

  • Event Name: Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano & Anthony Spiri, piano
    "Bernarda Fink - warmth and beauty"
    Review posted by: Tandy Warnow from Austin, TX, Jan 23, 2010
    

    Singer Bernarda Fink gave a wonderful recital yesterday at Kimmel. The concert included well known works by well known composers (Schumann, Granados and Rodrigo), and some other pieces that are rarely... Expand

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    Singer Bernarda Fink gave a wonderful recital yesterday at Kimmel. The concert included well known works by well known composers (Schumann, Granados and Rodrigo), and some other pieces that are rarely performed (Gianneo's Seis Coplas and Dallapiccola's Quatro Liriche di Antonio Machado). Bernarda Fink is an exceptional artist. Everything was beautifully sung, but I found her particularly idiomatic in the second half, and especially in the Argentine folk poems set by Gianneo where she was quite playful. Her voice is not very large, but it is extremely expressive and filled with warmth. She reminded me of the young Teresa Berganza at times with the wonderful color in her chest register she brought to some of the Granados, while her very beautiful high notes lit up other songs, reminding us that she started off as a soprano and can still sound like a soprano when she wishes. I travelled from Texas to come to this concert - it was worth the trip. Collapse

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• Past Events

  03/18/10	John O'Conor, piano American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  03/14/10	Artemis Quartet Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  03/12/10	Jennifer Montone, horn; Ida Levin, violin; Ignat Solzenitsyn, piano Independence Seaport Museum
  03/10/10	Gerald Finley, bass/baritone and Julius Drake, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  03/07/10	Chiara Quartet w/ Simone Dinnerstein, piano Philadelphia Museum of Art
  03/05/10	Michi Wiancko, violin & Dina Vainshtein, piano Fleisher Art Memorial
  03/03/10	Marcantonio Barone, piano American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  02/25/10	Christian Tetzlaff Trio Independence Seaport Museum
  02/24/10	Juilliard Quartet II Independence Seaport Museum
  02/23/10	Jennifer Koh, violin & Shai Wosner, piano American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  02/21/10	Members of Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Singers (Layla Claire soprano; Paul Appleby, tenor; In Sun Suh, piano) Independence Seaport Museum
  02/18/10	Takacs Quartet Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  02/12/10	Orion Quartet w/ Ida Kavafian, viola & Peter Wiley, cello Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  02/08/10	Emanuel Ax, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  02/04/10	Richard Goode and Jonathan Biss, pianos Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  02/02/10	Musicians from Marlboro II Independence Seaport Museum
  01/31/10	Dolce Suono Trio American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  01/27/10	St. Lawrence Quartet Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  01/22/10	Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano & Anthony Spiri, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  01/21/10	Johannes Quartet with Arnold Steinhardt, viola Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  01/19/10	Garrick Ohlsson, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  01/15/10	Brentano Quartet Independence Seaport Museum
  01/13/10	Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  01/11/10	Arnold Steinhardt, violin; Burchard Tang, viola; Efe Baltacigil, cello; Harold Robinson, double bass; Cynthia Raim, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  12/19/09	Bolcom and Morris Curtis Institute of Music - Field Concert Hall
  12/18/09	Anonymous 4 St. Mark's Church
  12/13/09	Anthony McGill, clarinet; Michael Tree, viola; Anna Polonsky, piano American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  12/11/09	Trio Cavatina Fleisher Art Memorial
  12/09/09	Peter Serkin, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  12/07/09	Leon Fleisher, piano and Network for New Music Ensemble Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  12/06/09	Kim Kashkashian, viola; Robyn Schulkowsky, percussion; Tigran Mansurian, piano Settlement Music School - Mary Louise Curtis Branch
  12/04/09	Curtis Chamber Orchestra I Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  12/02/09	Mendelssohn String Quartet Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  12/01/09	Colin Balzer, tenor and Erika Switzer, piano American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  11/22/09	Anna Polonsky, piano Fleisher Art Memorial
  11/20/09	Jason Vieaux, guitar Philadelphia Museum of Art
  11/18/09	Tokyo String Quartet w/ Michael Tree, viola Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  11/15/09	Pavel Haas String Quartet Independence Seaport Museum
  11/13/09	Bobby Watson Jazz Quintet Gershman Y - Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Adolph and Rose Levis Sports Museum
  11/12/09	Thomas Hampson, baritone & Wolfgang Rieger, piano Independence Seaport Museum
  11/10/09	Musicians from Marlboro I American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  11/08/09	Moscow String Quartet w/ Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  11/06/09	Imani Winds Philadelphia Museum of Art
  10/28/09	Jeremy Denk, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  10/27/09	Juilliard String Quartet 1 Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  10/25/09	Richard Woodhams, oboe Settlement Music School - Mary Louise Curtis Branch
  10/23/09	Leonidas Kavakos, violin and Peter Nagy, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  10/21/09	Thomas Meglioranza, baritone and Reiko Uchida, piano American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  10/19/09	Emerson Quartet Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  10/18/09	Claude Frank, piano American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  06/26/09	Musicians from Marlboro II Independence Seaport Museum
  05/15/09	Guarneri String Quartet with David Soyer, cello Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  05/12/09	KLR Trio with Ricardo Morales, clarinet and Radovan Vlatkovic, horn Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  05/07/09	Musicians from Marlboro III Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  05/06/09	Christoph Pregardien, tenor and Michael Gees, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  04/27/09	Mitsuko Uchida, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  04/26/09	Juilliard String Quartet with Elizabeth Hainen, harp Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  04/15/09	Quatuor Mosaiques Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  04/07/09	Jonathan Biss, piano Independence Seaport Museum
  04/05/09	Philadelphia Singers Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Church
  04/03/09	Ysaye String Quartet Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  04/01/09	Emerson String Quartet Independence Seaport Museum
  03/29/09	Johannes String Quartet American Philosophical Society - Benjamin Franklin Hall
  03/26/09	Richard Goode, piano Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  03/25/09	Christopher Maltman, baritone with pianist Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  03/24/09	John Williams, guitar Kimmel Center - Perelman Theater
  03/19/09	Takacs String Quartet Independence Seaport Museum