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ChamberFest Brown County, Post Office Box 1515, Nashville, IN (2026)

05/27/2026

✨️Meet the Artists✨️

French-born violinist and violist Aurelien Fort Pederzoli has quickly risen to be known as one of Chicago's most creative and sought-after collaborators. Aurelien is a graduate of the Paris Conservatory, where he studied with world-renowned teacher Jean Lenert. He then attended the Bern Hochschule, Switzerland, where he was in the master class of Prof. Monika Urbaniak and received guidance from Prof. Igor Ozim. In 2002, he was invited to study in Chicago with Shmuel Ashkenasi. He received a Master's Degree in Violin Performance studying under Ilya Kaler as well as Marc Zinger. In 2008, Aurelien founded the Anaphora Ensemble, a chamber music ensemble, which appeared frequently on national radio and performed in eclectic places, from the Green Mill to Symphony Hall in Chicago. From 2008 to 2012, Mr. Pederzoli was first violinist of the Corky Siegel Chamber Blues Band and toured nationally and internationally with them. From 2009 until 2014, Aurelien was one of the violinists, and founding members, of the Spektral Quartet, in residence at the University of Chicago.

🎵 Tuesday, August 18
📍 St. Agnes Catholic Church

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05/26/2026

✨️Meet the Artists✨️

Violist Lawrence Neuman has been a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1991. Before coming to Chicago he was violist with the Miami String Quartet. As a chamber musician he frequently is heard throughout the Chicago area and has performed across the United States, in Europe, and in Asia. He has appeared at festivals and chamber music series in Boston, Marlboro, La Jolla, Madison, Napa, Portland and Davenport. Chamber music collaborators have included such artists as Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman, Yefim Bronfman, Lydia Artymiw, Gil Shaham, Simone Lamsma, and Aaron Rosand. During the 1998/99 season Neuman took a leave of absence from the CSO to serve as principal viola of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. For over 20 years he has taught viola and chamber music at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. A native of Saint Louis, Missouri, Neuman attended the Eastman School of Music, the University of Southern California and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and he was a student of Heidi Castleman, Donald McInnes and Robert Vernon.

🎵 Tuesday, August 18
📍 St. Agnes Catholic Church

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05/25/2026

✨️Meet the Artists✨️

Violinist Qing Hou has been a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 1997. A native of China, Hou studied at the Central Conservatory in Beijing before coming to the United States in 1988 to continue her studies. She holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory and the New England Conservatory. Before joining the CSO, she was a member of the San Francisco Symphony. An avid chamber musician, Hou has performed on series and at festivals in Boston, Madison, Napa, El Paso and Sun Valley as well as in Europe. She has been heard on NPR’s Performance Today and regularly performs in the Chicago area in various ensembles. In 1997, Qing, along with her sister, CSO violinist Lei Hou and CSO violist Lawrence Neuman (now Qing’s husband), founded the Lincoln String Quartet. As a soloist, Hou has appeared with orchestras in Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, and China. In 2003, she made her first appearance as soloist with the Chicago Symphony performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto in G Major conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

🎵 Tuesday, August 18
📍 St. Agnes Catholic Church

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05/24/2026

✨️Meet the Artists✨️

Introducing violinst Lei Hou:
Violinist Lei Hou joined the Chicago Symphony in 1997. Prior to her engagement with the CSO, she won a position in the first violin section of the Cleveland Orchestra. She also has served as assistant principal second violin of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., for six years, appointed by Mstislav Rostropovich. As an active chamber musician and soloist, Hou has performed with Pinchas Zukerman at the Ravinia Festival and Northwestern University’s Winter Chamber Music Festival, with Yefim Bronfman at Symphony Center and with members of the Guarneri and Alban Berg quartets at the Marlboro Festival. She also has extensively performed as leading violinist of chamber groups formed with musicians from the Chicago Symphony and the German Radio Orchestra in concert tours in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and Luxembourg. Hou has been a featured soloist in concerts for National Public Radio, WFMT of Chicago and WBJC FM of Baltimore. She has served on the faculties of the music schools of the University of Maryland and the American University. A native of Dalian, China, she studied at the Middle School of Music in Shanghai, China. She also attended the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Hou earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in violin performance at the Peabody Conservatory where she was invited to study with Berl Senofsky under full scholarship.

🎵 Tuesday, August 18
📍 St. Agnes Catholic Church

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05/21/2026

✨️Meet the artists✨️
Introducing the Música Ficta ensemble!

Música Ficta is a vocal and instrumental ensemble specialized in the rich and fascinating Latin-American and Spanish baroque repertoire. The ensemble, considered one of the most important early music groups in Latin-America, has performed in more than 30 countries in 4 continents. Música Ficta has appeared at major early music festivals and venues around the world, including the Kennedy Center for the Arts and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, Sainte Chapelle and the Conciergerie in Paris, the Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore, the Stour Festival in England, Caja Madrid in Barcelona, Semana de Música Antigua de Estella in Spain, Festival Cervantino in Mexico, Festival de Chiquitos in Bolivia, the Rundale Palace in Latvia, the Cemal Resit Rey hall in Turkey, and the Teatro Colón in Colombia. The ensemble has also performed at major Latin American churches where much of its core repertoire was composed. Some of these include the cathedrals of Mexico City, Cartagena, Bogota, Quito, La Paz, as well as some of the most important baroque churches in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia.

Música Ficta:
Jairo Serrano, tenor
Andrés Silva, tenor
Carlos Serrano, recorders, pipe and tabor
Julián Navarro, baroque guitar
Edwin García, baroque guitar, theorbo
Elisabeth Wright, harpsichord

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Do not miss their beautiful programme featuring recently published secular and sacred songs found in Latin American archives- which have never been recorded- as well as instrumental pieces by Sebastián Durón and his contemporaries.

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05/17/2026

✨Meet the Artists✨
Introducing the Erinys Quartet!

Named for the Erinyes (a.k.a. the Furies) from the Greek tragedy Oresteia by Aeschylus, and with roots in Estonia, Lithuania, Greece, the United States and Finland, the Erinys Quartet was founded in 2018 at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where they worked closely with cellist Marko Ylönen. Since Autumn 2025 Erinys has been the graduate string quartet-in-residence at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, IN (USA).

Erinys Quartet was awarded the First Prize at the 2025 Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in Norway. At the Bad Tölz International String Quartet Competition in 2023 they received the Audience Prize, as well as the Esterházy Foundation Special Prize. They also won the Bronze Medal at the 2024 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.

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Be sure to catch them performing their dark and evocative programme featuring Beecher's Juniper and Birch, Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421/417b, and Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810 (“Death and the Maiden”) August 16th 2026.

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05/10/2026

🎶(American) Pomp!🎶
A flamboyant end to festival week: a program of genre-bending and jazz-inspired classics, culminating in Gershwin's iconic Rhapsody in Blue!

Saint-Saëns: Septet for Trumpet, Piano and Strings, op. 65
Martinů: La R***e de Cuisine
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Spencer Myer, piano soloist
Andreas Ioannides, piano
Qing Hou, violin
Lei Hou, violin
Larry Neuman, viola
David Cunliffe, cello
Jim Campbell, clarinet
Mark Ridenour, trumpet
Vince Karamanov, bassoon
Alex Horton, bass

🎵Saturday, August 22th
📍Nashville United Methodist Church

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05/04/2026

🎶Phoenix🎶
The multi-award-winning Project Fusion Sax Quartet presents Phoenix: a program of saxophone chamber music depicting renewal, transformation, and flight. This theme, chosen in the auspicious year of the United States’ 250th anniversary, celebrates a nation founded on the “great experiment” of democratic reinvention and rebirth, whose mascot is fittingly the noble bald eagle: as such, it presents music exclusively of American composers.

Works by Gershwin, Maslanka, Kline, Frazier, Mettens, Washington, Ge, Love.

Project Fusion:
Dannel Espinoza, soprano saxophone
Doug O'Connor, alto saxophone
Aiwen Zhang, tenor saxophone
Matt Evans, baritone saxophone

This concert is sponsored by the Eads family in memory of Ralph S. (Tony) Eads.

🎵Friday, August 21th
📍Nashville United Methodist Church

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05/01/2026

🎶Teutonic: The Brahms Piano Trios🎶

A rare opportunity to hear Brahms' three magnificent piano trios in one concert: music of unmatched emotional range and complexity. Not for the faint-hearted!

Brahms: Piano Trio no. 1, op. 8
Brahms: Piano Trio no. 2, op. 87
Brahms: Piano Trio no. 3, op. 101

Andreas Ioannides, piano
Madalyn Parnas Möller, violin
Maurice Neuman, cello

🎵Thursday, August 20th
📍Nashville United Methodist Church

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04/29/2026

🎶The Verona Quartet 🎶
Performing Philip Glass' Quartet no. 2

04/27/2026

The illustrious performing at Brown County High School! This concert is just one component of our 2026 programming for Brown County schools. More to come!

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