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Cardume - new album out!
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To all our Chelsea Music Festival friends, we're so grateful to have celebrated our 16th Season with you! It was unforgettable: from medieval sounds to world premieres, Swiss composers, art, food & community. We loved trekking these Swiss Trails with you, here’s to more adventures!🇨🇭⛰️🥾

📸: Fadi Kheir
🎶 Happy Birthday to Felix Mendelssohn 🎉
whose music & watercolor art came to life
in Verona Quartet’s 2025 performance!

📸 : Ryan Muir
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
✨ Chelsea Music Festival celebrates the appointment of our co-Founder & co-Artistic Director, Ken-David Masur, as the newest artistic partner of the Grammy-winning Oregon Bach Festival!
 🎶

📸: Fadi Kheir
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🎶 For our 2025 Festival Jazz Finale...

...the incomparable John Patitucci
unveiled two stunning works,

"Planet of Peril"
& "Communion"

at the DiMenna Center!

📷: Fadi Kheir
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
✨🎻 This season’s Verona Quartet performance
paired Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 9
with Aubrey Williams's painting inspired by the music.

📷: Ryan Muir
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Chef Regine Bigler’s curated plant-based dinner, up close — from NeueHouse Madison Square and the Jazz Finale experience! 🪴

📷: Fadi Kheir
October 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
leiken’s vocals brought new life to Hermann of Reichenau’s reimagined medieval work featuring Doug Balliett on keyboards!

📸: Fadi Kheir
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thrilled to have Miho Saegusa perform Winkelman's "Ciaccona" to open our 2025 season 🎻✨

📸: Fadi Kheir
🎨: Chrissy Angliker, (detail of) Late Blooms (2024), courtesy of Massey Klein Gallery
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
✨💡Special thanks to Aion Entertainment
for lighting the way at our concerts this past season
to showcase the historic German Church St. Paul's New York!

📸 Fadi Kheir
October 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
All purchases on Bandcamp today go toward the artists!

Celebrate Bandcamp Friday and
check out our five albums! 💿

🔗 https://chelseamusicfestivalrecords.bandcamp.com/

📸 : Fadi Kheir (@londonisburning)
October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Congratulations to Suzanne Jackson
whose major museum retrospective opens
today @sfmoma123.bsky.social -

we were excited to feature her artwork
(with thanks to Ortuzar Projects)
in a concert with Ivalas Quartet this past June!
September 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by Chelsea Music Festival
With his trio Cardume, Grammy-winning Brazilian percussionist Rogerio Boccato strips away the familiar structures of jazz to create something more elemental—three musicians moving like a school of fish through uncharted sonic waters.

Rogerio Boccato's Cardume Swims Against the Jazz Current:
Rogerio Boccato's Cardume Swims Against the Jazz Current
With his trio Cardume, the Grammy-winning Brazilian percussionist strips away the familiar structures of jazz to create something more elemental—three musicians moving like a school of fish through uncharted sonic waters.
www.thetonearm.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
✨Experiencing Sonya Headlam captivate a room is pure magic! #livemusic #vocalist #soprano
September 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
To all our Chelsea Music Festival friends, we're so grateful to have celebrated our 16th Season with you! It was unforgettable: from medieval sounds to world premieres, Swiss composers, art, food & community. We loved trekking these Swiss Trails with you, here’s to more adventures!🇨🇭⛰️🥾

📸: Fadi Kheir
July 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This beautiful 1897 organ at St. Paul’s German Lutheran Church comes alive tonight in a one-of-a-kind performance! ✨

Join the Theotokos Ensemble, Doug A. A. Balliett, and leiken as they breathe new life into a medieval work by Hermann of Reichenau!

🎟️ www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2025-events/...
June 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Miho Saegusa takes the stage again TONIGHT alongside Caleb van der Swaagh and The Verona Quartet! ✨

🎟️ chelseamusicfestival.org/2025-events/jun24

Stick around after the concert and join us for our CARDUME Release Party, you won’t want to miss it! 🎉🐠
June 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Beat the heat and cool off with a treat from Taiyaki NYC at our CARDUME Album Release Celebration on Tue June 24th! ✨🐠🍦

Enjoy CARDUME live, featuring mesmerizing live-coded visuals and signature animations by Nitcha Fame Tothong!

🎟️ Grab your tickets: www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2025-events/...
June 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Our 16th season is underway! Join us TONIGHT at the David Rubenstein Atrium @lincolncenter.bsky.social for a performance by The Ivalas Quartet and Léo Tardin as part of their "Summer in the City" series! ✨

🎟️ www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2025-events/...

#nycmusic #livemusic
June 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
On Tue June 24 celebrate CARDUME, a new album with improvised & collectively composed percussion music. Come to the Release Party & Concert by the trio, with live-coded visuals & signature animations by Nitcha Fame Tothong!

🎟️ www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2025-events/...

#livemusic #music
June 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
On Sat June 28 we welcome back incomparable Jazz bassist & composer John Patitucci!

Hear World Premiere performances of his “Planet in Peril” & “Communion”!

🎟️ www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2025-events/...

#music #jazzmusic
June 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Special thanks to Festival partner, the Swiss Society of New York - join us Mon Jun 23 for some Fondue 🫕, Wine 🍷, & Swiss folk music 🇨🇭 The Lavaux Wine Bar!

🎟️ www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2025-events/...
#classicalmusic #swissfood
June 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Join us for Opening Night on June 20th to be immersed in projections of Jonathan Feldschuh's Large Hadron Collider series!

🎟️ www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2025-events/...

Jonathan Feldschuh, Large Hadron Collider # 37A, acrylic and pencil on mylar, 108 x 72 inches

#visualart #swissartist
June 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Don't miss The Ivalas Quartet at our 16th Season's Opening Night Fri Jun 20th!

🎟 www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2025-events/...

#classicalmusic #stringquartet
June 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
View "Late Blooms" by Swiss-American artist Chrissy Angliker on Fri June 27!

🎟️ www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2025-events/...

Chrissy Angliker, Late Blooms (2024), acrylic & house primer on canvas, 60x48 inches,
Courtesy of Massey Klein Gallery

#visualart #impressionism
June 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Use code CMF2025STICKITTOME for 25% off all Festival events (excluding 06/25), and to be entered in a Giveaway to win one of four prize packs from Vic Firth and Dave Deming - DEM'Sticks! ✨

#livemusic #drums
June 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Excited to feature Suzanne Jackson as the projected visual accompaniment to a set played by the Ivalas Quartet featuring works by Jessie Montgomery, Carlos Simon, & Eleanor Alberga!

Suzanne Jackson, deepest ocean, what we do not know, we might see? (2021), Courtesy of Ortuzar

#visualartist #art
June 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM