Chamber Music Collective Recitals

The artists of the Chamber Music Collective share a vision of sociable, experimental, and intelligent musicianship. Its rotating cast of world-leading experts in the history and performance of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Euro-American music take their inspiration from the intrepid hands-on approach and countercultural ethos that persists within the American Early Music movement. The collaborative ideal of learning and performance cultivated by the Collective follows from a simple but disruptive fact: the valued repertories that musicians and the general public now know as classical – a collection of authoritative, unalterable, and at times untouchable works – were anything but classical in their own time.