Our Mission Statement
The Friends of Chamber Music is dedicated to fulfilling the human need for beauty, inspiration, and spiritual sustenance. For 36 years, our concert series has provided the Kansas City community with the transformitive gift of the world's greatest chamber music played by the world's finest artists.
Artistic Beliefs & Values
1. Chamber music nurtures the soul and mind.
2. Chamber music binds a community together with shared values, where the listener is always honored.
3. Live chamber music performances exemplify the importance of the human element in our lives.
4. Live chamber music performances stimulate the public imagination and provide a place where imaginations meet.
5. Chamber music performances should uphold the highest artistic standards of excellence and elegance, truthfulness and authenticity.
6. Chamber music performances engage an audience in a conversation that transcends geographic, cultural and time barriers.
7. Chamber music performances provide touchstones to illuminate everything from our own personal history to our national character. One's mental landscape includes all of those moments and which become part of who we are.
8. Chamber music performances invite us to listen actively, to be moved, inspired, and transformed, to debate and ruminate between and within ourselves to make us more deliberative citizens and more responsible custodians of human thought.
9. Chamber music reflects the human condition, opening avenues for self-discovery and self-actualization.
10. A great work of art becomes society's conscience.
2. Chamber music binds a community together with shared values, where the listener is always honored.
3. Live chamber music performances exemplify the importance of the human element in our lives.
4. Live chamber music performances stimulate the public imagination and provide a place where imaginations meet.
5. Chamber music performances should uphold the highest artistic standards of excellence and elegance, truthfulness and authenticity.
6. Chamber music performances engage an audience in a conversation that transcends geographic, cultural and time barriers.
7. Chamber music performances provide touchstones to illuminate everything from our own personal history to our national character. One's mental landscape includes all of those moments and which become part of who we are.
8. Chamber music performances invite us to listen actively, to be moved, inspired, and transformed, to debate and ruminate between and within ourselves to make us more deliberative citizens and more responsible custodians of human thought.
9. Chamber music reflects the human condition, opening avenues for self-discovery and self-actualization.
10. A great work of art becomes society's conscience.
