Our Mission Statement

People need beauty, inspiration and spiritual sustenance to lead fulfilled lives.   Chamber music speaks to us with an intimate and poetic voice, which can be transformative and life affirming.   We provide our community with the joys and rewards of the world's greatest chamber music.

Artistic Beliefs and Values

1. We value great chamber music performances that uphold the highest artistic standards of excellence and elegance, truthfulness and authenticity.

2. Great chamber music binds a community together with shared values.

3. Chamber music nurtures the soul and mind.

4. Live chamber music performances keep alive the importance of the human element in our lives.

5. We honor and value the listener.

6. Great chamber music performances engage an audience in the larger conversation that transcends geographic, cultural and time barriers.

7. Because chamber music reflects the human condition in all its variousness, it is an avenue for self-discovery and self-actualization.

8. Great chamber music performances present moments which, when revisited, will serve as touchstones to illuminate everything from our own personal history to our national character.   One's mental landscape includes all of those moments and becomes part of who we are.

9. Live chamber music performances serve as a kind of public imagination, a place where imaginations meet.

10. A great work of art becomes society's conscious.

11. Great chamber music performances invite us to listen actively, to be moved, inspired, to be thoughtful and ruminative, to debate and challenge between and within ourselves to make us more deliberative citizens and more responsible custodians of human thought.