2025 Chamber Music
Summer Concert Series
The Chamber Music Summer Concert Series brings the joy of live classical music to the Southwest Michigan community through free, family-friendly, and accessible concerts. Featuring talented musicians in an intimate setting, this annual series celebrates the beauty of chamber music, making it an enriching experience for audiences of all ages.
The Euclid Quartet
Sunday, June 22 @ 2 PM
Recognized as one of the most distinguished chamber ensembles of its generation, the Euclid Quartet has captivated audiences from Carnegie Hall to classrooms across the country. They are the first American string quartet to earn a top prize at the prestigious
Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, and they have been honored with the National Endowment for the Arts' “American Masterpieces” grant.
The Euclid Quartet is the Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at Indiana University South Bend, where its members teach private lessons and coach chamber music. Passionately devoted to presenting the highest quality chamber music to young audiences, these seasoned teaching artists have performed for and worked with thousands of students across the country. In addition to their role as faculty members, they are the co-directors of the Louise E. Addicott Summer Chamber Music Festival at IU South Bend, which will have its inaugural season in July 2025.
The Euclid Quartet concert program includes Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 76, No. 2 “Quinten” and Schubert’s Death and the Maiden.
Flute, Viola and Harp Trio
Sunday, July 13 @ 2 PM
The faculty from the Lutheran Summer Music Academy and Festival present a program featuring works by Debussy, Prokofiev, Bach, and more, performed by flute, viola, and harp.
Violist Thomas Bandar maintains parallel careers as an arts executive, performer, and music educator. In recent seasons, he has served on the faculty of the Crested Butte Music Festival and has performed in recitals across the East Coast, including
appearances with Curtis on Tour, the Curtis Institute of Music’s signature touring initiative. Harpist and composer Amy Nam’s compositions have been featured in Harp Column magazine and have received awards from Chamber Music America’s Classical
Commissioning Program, the American Harp Society Grants Program, the BMI Foundation, the Eastman School of Music, and the Lyra Society. Her orchestral works have been performed by the Pacific Chamber Orchestra, the Tennessee Valley Music
Festival Orchestra, and the American Composers Orchestra. In 2024, she won second prize at the Dutch Harp Festival World Harp Competition. Flutist Philip Snyder is an educator, composer, and arts administrator. He currently serves as Instructor of Flute at the University of Mississippi and as an Associate Producer at Spoleto Festival USA. He is a founding member of the North Carolina contemporary performance ensemble earspace, one half of the experimental duo if.else, and a founding member of the flute
quartet Eudaimonia.
Darius Hampton Trio
Sunday, August 24 @ 2 pm
The journey with jazz Darius Hampton has taken gives him deep respect for its traditions as much as it inspires him to seek new expressions in sound. His trio will explore this duality in a fresh imagination of acoustic, improvisational music - drawing
from foundational rhythms and repertoire while referencing familiar forms and melodies.
Darius Hampton is a saxophonist, composer and music educator based in Chicago. Hampton began playing professionally at age 15, In 2019, Hampton joined the faculty of Northwestern University as a Lecturer in the Jazz Studies department lead at the time by Victor Goines. As the assistant director of the Northwestern University Jazz
Orchestra and conductor of one of the jazz small ensembles, Hampton endeavors to impart his breadth of experiences in the jazz realm to developing jazz artists. Hampton played in the band of the Porchlight Music Theater 2020 production of Sophisticated Ladies and 2022 production of Blues in the Night. He also joins the band of the Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre for certain productions. In 2021-2022, he taught at CPS All-City Performing Arts and the Chicago Center for Music Education. After having an ongoing
association with the organization since his time with the CJE, Hampton formally joined the Jazz Institute of Chicago as Managing Director of Education in 2022. At the JIC, Hampton oversees a jazz band festival, artist residencies in city schools, initiatives for
artist development and more!
Thank you to the Monday Musical Clubs, the Berrien Community Foundation, the South Bend Area Music Teachers Association, and all of our individual donors for supporting the 2025 Concert Series!
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