Cooperstown Summer Music Festival

Cooperstown Summer Music Festival Vibrant Music Fest in the Home of Baseball. Classical to contemporary, jazz to bluegrass, and more.

The 19th season of the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival runs May 7 - October 8, 2017 and features classical masterworks as well as musical innovators. In 1999, flutist Linda Chesis began the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival with a three concert series. Since then, the festival has grown to offer the region more than 100 concerts, spanning a wide range of musical genres including classical, con

temporary, jazz , bluegrass, children’s, and cabaret performances. The Festival has featured internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles such as Hank Jones, the Tokyo String Quartet, the American String Quartet, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Horszowski Trio, Kurt Elling, Tim Fain, Bill Charlap, Keisuke Wakao, the Tierney Sutton Band, the Juilliard String Quartet, Simone Dinnerstein, and Mark O’Connor. A complete list of Festival artists is available on the website, www.CooperstownMusicFest.org. The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Listen to a chat between Artistic Director Linda Chesis and WSKG's Bill Snyder about this Sunday's program! Don't miss A...
05/16/2025

Listen to a chat between Artistic Director Linda Chesis and WSKG's Bill Snyder about this Sunday's program! Don't miss Attacca Quartet this Sunday.

Arts The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival offers a pre-season concert WSKG | By Bill Snyder Published May 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 10:02 Photo credity: Cooperstown Summer Music Festival Summer is not yet here, but the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival is p...

05/09/2025

Tickets are still available to see Attacca Quartet in Cooperstown next Sunday, May 18th! You won’t want to miss this!
cooperstownmusicfest.org/new-events

🎥 Strum by Jessie Montgomery performed at the Ojai Music Festival

CSMF is featured in the first hour of Performance Today!Tune in to hear the Borromeo String Quartet with CSMF Artistic D...
04/15/2025

CSMF is featured in the first hour of Performance Today!

Tune in to hear the Borromeo String Quartet with CSMF Artistic Director Linda Chesis perform "Theme & Variations for Flute and String Quartet" by Amy Beach. This performance closed out our 2023 season at Fenimore Farm and Country Village.

yourclassical.org/performance-today

Check out this write-up of many of the wonderful opportunities to see live music in Cooperstown this summer!🎟 Tickets av...
04/05/2025

Check out this write-up of many of the wonderful opportunities to see live music in Cooperstown this summer!

🎟 Tickets available now at cooperstownmusicfest.org/new-events !

Before too long, when summer will be upon us, there will be soaring solos, passionate duets, gentle trios, and lofty choruses wafting down Otsego Lake from The Glimmerglass Festival, the eminent opera company celebrating its 50th year.

CSMF is featured in the second hour of Performance Today! Tune in to hear Danbi Um, Violinist and guitarist JIJI's perfo...
03/26/2025

CSMF is featured in the second hour of Performance Today! Tune in to hear Danbi Um, Violinist and guitarist JIJI's performance of "3 Compositions" by Amy Beach. This magnificent duo performed at The Otesaga Resort Hotel during our 2022 season.

https://www.yourclassical.org/performance-today

CSMF is featured in the second hour of Performance Today! Tune in to hear Miró Quartet’s performance of Microfictions [v...
03/17/2025

CSMF is featured in the second hour of Performance Today! Tune in to hear Miró Quartet’s performance of Microfictions [volume 1] by Caroline Shaw. Miró opened our 2024 summer season at Fenimore Farm and Country Village.

https://www.yourclassical.org/performance-today

CSMF is featured in the second hour of Performance Today! The show features Artistic Director and flutist Linda Chesis a...
01/10/2025

CSMF is featured in the second hour of Performance Today! The show features Artistic Director and flutist Linda Chesis alongside the Borromeo String Quartet performing "Theme & Variations, op. 80" by Amy Beach.

Listen today on your local classical radio station or online at the link below! This performance is also available on our YouTube channel!
https://youtu.be/6h9hs-WDyNM

Happy New Year!January 1, 2025Happy New Year! On today's show, we'll usher in 2025 with Johann Hummel's playful trumpet concerto and a special Piano Puzzler from composer Bruce Adolphe.

Happy New Year! 🎊We hope you have enjoyed some of our favorite moments from this season. Our final countdown selection i...
01/01/2025

Happy New Year! 🎊
We hope you have enjoyed some of our favorite moments from this season. Our final countdown selection is "Sticks and Stones" performed by Catherine Russell & Trio. Which artists would you like to see more videos from? Let us know in the comments!

Sticks and Stones by Andy Razaf, Jack Palmer, James CavanaughCatherine Russell, vocalsMatt Munisteri, guitarTal Ronen, bassEli Yamin, pianoAugust 6, 2024Otes...

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The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, which will mark its 21st season in 2019, features classical masterworks, jazz, as well as musical innovators. In 1999, flutist Linda Chesis began the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival with a three concert series. Since then, the festival has grown to offer the region more than 100 concerts, spanning a wide range of musical genres including classical, contemporary, jazz, bluegrass, flamenco, children’s, and cabaret performances. The Festival has featured internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles such as Hank Jones, the Tokyo String Quartet, the American String Quartet, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Horszowski Trio, Kurt Elling, Tim Fain, Bill Charlap, Keisuke Wakao, the Tierney Sutton Band, the Juilliard String Quartet, Simone Dinnerstein, and Mark O’Connor. A complete list of Festival artists is available on the website, www.CooperstownMusicFest.org. The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.