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Norfolk!! 6 Tickets to the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival Summer 2011

Item Number: 204

Estimated Value: 270 USD
Sold: 150 USD to Live Event Bidder

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Be part of the audience this summer! Enjoy the picturesque environment of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate and the excellence of one of America’s most distinguished musical traditions.

Six (6) Section A tickets to any Friday or Saturday Series concert.

Artists from around the world perform as part of a series of more than 30 concerts over a nine-week period. These professional musicians also serve as teachers and mentors to the Fellows who come to Norfolk each year to study. Young instrumentalists, singers, conductors and composers are selected through a highly competitive international admissions process to spend their summer participating in the intensive program of coaching, classes and performances. They are exposed to every aspect of their future profession: their colleagues, their mentors, and most importantly, their audience.

The story of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival begins, as do so many great stories, with family history. Two remarkable Norfolk families, both linked to Yale and both passionate about music.

Music in Norfolk has a long and vibrant history, dating back to the 1890s when Ellen Battell and her husband Carl Stoeckel came together to make Norfolk the first musical center of its kind in New England. The Music Shed, dedicated in 1906, to this day retains all of its original glory and stunning acoustics. It has remained essentially unchanged since its stage was graced by such renowned musicians as Fritz Kreisler, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Jean Sibelius.

Audiences from around the country come to northwest Connecticut to hear world-class artists, such as the seven-time Grammy^® nominee Tokyo String Quartet, which has been in residence since 1976. Boris Berman, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, David Shifrin, William Purvis, Frank Morelli, Ani Kavafian and artists from around the world perform as part of a series of more than 30 concerts over a nine-week period. These professional musicians also serve as teachers and mentors to the Fellows who come to Norfolk each year to study.