Denver Chamber Music Festival

05/29/2026

Meet the founders!

Cellists Matthew Zalkind and Alice Yoo started the Denver Chamber Music Festival with a mission to share world class chamber music and create more opportunities for music education in the Denver community.

“We can hardly believe we’re celebrating Season 6 of the Denver Chamber Music Festival! We’re thrilled to present three extraordinary concerts on June 9th, 12th, and 13th featuring incredible musicians and some of our favorite music. Each season has been made possible by the amazing support of our community- we can’t wait to see you there!”

Read about Matt and Alice on our website, DenverChamberMusicFestival.org!

05/28/2026

05/28/2026

Meet the artists of the Denver Chamber Music Festival

We’re thrilled to welcome an extraordinary group of musicians and artists for three unforgettable concerts June 9th, 12th, and 13th. Get your tickets today!

Stephanie Shih-yu ChengMargaret DyerYura Lee Tessa LarkNicholasPhanDavidRequiro IevaJokubaviciute Matthew ZalkindAlice Yoo Meta Weiss

05/27/2026

Meet DCMF Executive Director Alix Corboy!

Alix Corboy has been involved with the Denver Chamber Music Festival since its inception, helping shape its artistic vision and community impact from the very beginning.

She has been a driving force in Denver’s arts community for more than a decade, most notably through her visionary leadership with Friends of Chamber Music (FCM). Over the past 12 years, she has served in numerous key roles—including President of the Board and Chair of the Music Committee—guiding FCM’s mission to bring world-class chamber music to Denver. As Chair of the Music Committee, Alix expanded the organization’s programming to feature more diverse artists and underrepresented composers while fostering partnerships with schools, libraries, correctional facilities, and shelters to bring live music to audiences across the city. Her commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion has left a lasting mark on both FCM and Denver’s cultural landscape.

A classically trained pianist with degrees from Temple University and the University of Denver, Alix has performed widely as a chamber musician and educator, including with The Playground, Augustana Arts, and the Denver Philharmonic. Before moving to Denver, she taught at the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia and held leadership roles in development at the University of Pennsylvania and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Beyond her work in music, Alix serves as Vice-Chair of Development for Mile High Early Learning and is a passionate advocate for Denver’s homeless and immigrant communities.

05/26/2026

Thank you to The Denver Post and Ray Rinaldi for the wonderful feature on the Denver Chamber Music Festival! We’re so grateful for the support and excited to share this year’s festival with all of you.

Tickets: DenverChamberMusicFestival.org



https://www.denverpost.com/2026/05/26/denver-chamber-music-festival/

The Denver Chamber Music Festival is celebrating it sixth season, and still building audiences.

05/26/2026

We are thrilled to welcome back violinist, and now as our first ever composer-in-residence, Tessa Lark for the 2026 season!

Hear Tessa’s music featured on all three festival concerts — June 9, June 12, and June 13 — including the world premiere of her brand-new cello quartet written especially for the Colorado Cello Quartet!

Violinist Tessa Lark is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds, technical agility, and musical elegance. Increasingly in demand in the classical realm, in 2020 she was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category. She is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky, delighting audiences with programming that includes Appalachian and bluegrass music, and inspiring composers to write for her. In addition to her performance schedule, Tessa is the newly minted Artistic Director of the Moab Music Festival. She also continues her work as Artistic Director of Musical Masterworks, a chamber music series in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

Tessa has performed with orchestras, recital venues and festivals around the world. She has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; BBC Symphony Orchestra; the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Indianapolis, Knoxville and Seattle Symphonies; as well as being presented by Carnegie Hall, New York’s Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Cal Performances, San Francisco Performances, the Seattle Chamber Music Society, Australia’s Musica Viva Festival, and the Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, and Bridgehampton summer festivals. Lark is a recipient of the Hunt Family Award, one of the Lincoln Center’s prestigious Emerging Artist Awards, as well as a 2018 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was Silver Medalist in the 9th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and winner of the 2012 Naumburg International Violin Competition.

05/22/2026

We are thrilled to announce the inaugural DCMF Fellows: the Koa Quartet!

The new DCMF Fellowship Program is designed to support a select group of exceptional emerging artists on the cusp of professional careers, offering meaningful performance opportunities, mentorship, and immersive artistic collaboration with world-class musicians throughout the festival.

Formed in 2023, the Koa String Quartet is made up of violinists Kisa Uradomo and Leah Pernick, violist Devin Cowan and cellist Heewon Lee. Koa is the Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado Boulder where they study with the Takács String Quartet.

Hear them perform Mendelssohn Octet with DCMF musicians on Saturday, June 13th at 7:30 PM at the Newman Center!

05/20/2026

DCMF is just around the corner — and tickets are going fast!

Join us on June 9, 12, and 13 for an unforgettable week of chamber music featuring this incredible all-star lineup of artists from around the world.

Secure your seats today at DenverChamberMusicFestival.org! Link in bio

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04/17/2026

Meet the Artist!

We are thrilled to welcome back DCMF favorite this June!

Hear her on June 9th, 12th, and 13th at the details on our website, link in bio! Enjoy this clip from DCMF 2025 with Beethoven op 5 no. 1.

Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute’s powerfully and intricately crafted performances have earned her critical acclaim throughout North America and Europe. Her ability to communicate the essential substance of a work has led critics to describe her as possessing ‘razor-sharp intelligence and wit’ and ‘subtle, complex, almost impossibly detailed and riveting in every way’ (The Washington Post) and as ‘an artist of commanding technique, refined temperament and persuasive insight.’(The New York Times). In 2006, she was honored as a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship.

A much sought after chamber musician and collaborator, Ieva regularly tours and appears at international music festivals including: Marlboro; Ravinia; Bard; Caramoor; Chesapeake Chamber Music; Prussia Cove in Cornwall, England; and Festival de la musique de chambre at La Lointaine in France. She has participated in the Schleswig-Holstein Festival in Lubeck, Germany; the Katrina Chamber Music Festival, Aland Islands, Finland; the Oulunsalo Chamber Music Festival in Oulunsalo, Finland; the Joaquin Turina Chamber Music Festival in Seville, Spain; and Music in the Vineyards in Napa Valley, CA; the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, VT; Salt Bay Chamber Music Festival in Maine, and the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival at East Carolina University.

Earning degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and from Mannes College of Music in New York City, her principal teachers have been Seymour Lipkin and Richard Goode. Currently, Ieva is Associate Professor of the Practice of Piano at Duke University in Durham, NC having previously been on the faculty at Shenandoah Conservatory in Wi******er, VA. Ieva is also on the faculty at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School and Festival in Blue Hill, ME and has established herself as a mentoring artist at the Marlboro Music Festival in Marlboro,