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The Champlain Trio Credit:<\/span> Courtesy of Emir Horozovic<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Summer is Vermont\u2019s finest season \u2014 at least if your measure is chamber music. Its practitioners fairly swarm the state from June through August, playing at festivals and concert series that span the length and breadth of the Green Mountains and environs. Here are seven not to miss.\n<\/p>\n

Adamantly Local<\/h3>\n

The Anne Wasily and Vira Kolisch Music Experience concert series<\/a><\/strong> takes place in idyllic Adamant, an unincorporated village of Calais and a beautiful drive from anywhere on a summer day. This year\u2019s five concerts, coordinated by New York City-based pianist Adam Tendler, feature him and four other staples of the Vermont classical scene: the Champlain Trio (Letitia Quante, violin; Emily Taubl, cello; Hiromi Fukuda, piano), pianists Paul Orgel and Michael Arnowitt, and TURNmusic. Tendler, from Barre, earned a 2019 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. For the acclaimed Inheritances<\/i>, he commissioned 16 of new music\u2019s starriest composers; a recording on New Amsterdam Records came out in 2024.\n<\/p>\n

The Anne Wasily and Vira Kolisch Music Experience, June 14, June 28, July 19, August 9 and August 30, 6 p.m., at Frank Suchomel Memorial Arts Center & QuarryWorks in Adamant. Free. fsmac-quarryworks.org<\/a> <\/h6>\n

Hop to It<\/h3>\n
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Balourdet Quartet Credit:<\/span> Courtesy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The main focus of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival<\/a><\/strong> is its 200-plus dedicated young string students, who practice for hours a day at Saint Michael\u2019s College in Colchester. But many of the festival\u2019s offerings are open to the public.\n<\/p>\n

At Elley-Long Music Center, faculty and invited artists perform in an eight-concert series on Tuesdays and Fridays. This year\u2019s visiting quartets are the energizing Balourdet Quartet and the multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet. Locals can also hear the students give recitals, or surprise shoppers with live music at \u201cquartet hops\u201d on July 12 and 19 on Burlington\u2019s Church Street Marketplace. Elsewhere, catch a master class with eminent cellist Norman Fischer and informative \u201cconversations\u201d about aspects of the music with Vermont choral director Nathaniel Lew.\n<\/p>\n

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, June 29 through August 3 at Elley-Long Music Center in Colchester and other venues. Free to $50. gmcmf.org<\/a><\/h6>\n

Play On, Players<\/h3>\n
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Mary Rowell Credit:<\/span> Courtesy of Jessie Glass<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Craftsbury Chamber Players<\/a><\/strong> have hosted visiting and Vermont chamber musicians annually since 1966. In place of lectures and master classes, music director and cellist Fran Rowell provides extensive program notes and leads casual preconcert talks by the musicians. The group, which includes Fran\u2019s violinist sister, Mary Rowell, will perform six concerts on Wednesdays at Colchester\u2019s Elley-Long Music Center and repeat those programs on Thursdays at the Hardwick Town House. The Players tend to lean on enduring masterworks while adding one new piece per program. This year, they\u2019ll feature violist Kenji Bunch\u2019s \u201cThe Viola Burns Longer\u201d (2024) for solo viola, piano and string quartet; and pianist Inessa Zaretsky\u2019s \u201cSongs\u201d (2025) for alto voice, viola and piano.\n<\/p>\n