Past Events

No stranger to Chamberfest and Ottawa’s music community, Trio INK is the NAC Orchestra’s concertmaster Yosuke Kawasaki (violin) and friends Wolfram Knesset (cello) and Vadim Serbryany (piano). Join us for a gorgeous lunch-time concert including recently-departed Jocelyn Morlock’s Asylum, Rebecca Clarke’s lush Piano Trio, and Dvorak’s Piano Trio in F Minor.

Back from Vienna, Chamberfest is delighted to welcome home one of Ottawa’s own international superstars, Wallis Giunta.

Love, rage, heartbreak, and joy come alive in this song cycle that pulls inspiration from ancient folk melodies of Sweden, Turkey, Ireland, Asia and more.

Come enjoy the electric energy of a Celtic kitchen party with your kids. We’ll keep you on your feet — you may even learn a step or two! This toe-tapping, hand-clapping, singalong experience is fun for the whole family!

Chamberfest is excited to present this unique, multi-disciplined, all-Canadian event. Combining martial arts with music, prize-winning Tai Chi Chuan players Jonathan Krehm, David Robert, and Evonne Tan join Ottawa’s Ironwood Quartet in an ode to both the Chinese martial art, and to Canadian artistry.

New Music Now: Mashup features 21st-century works for strings, sonic experiments for harp and electronics, and brand-new works commissioned by Chamberfest, including Marie Claire Saindon’s Ferme les Yeux, all brought to life by Ottawa’s favourite new music performers and Chamberfest Artist in Residence Nadia Sirota. It’s new, it’s fresh – be the first to hear it!

Join Canada’s next generation of Baroque all-stars for an evening of fresh and lively takes on old favourites and lesser-known treasures of the Baroque world.

Ottawa fiddler Anna Ludlow hails from Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and has been rocking the Canadian Celtic and folk scene for the past 2 decades.

Legendary Grammy-winner Jason Vieaux is “among the elite of today’s classical guitarists” (Gramophone) and is perhaps “the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation” (NPR). From New York’s Lincoln Center to Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Seoul Arts Center, Jason Vieaux has cemented his reputation as an artist of brilliance and uncompromised mastery.

With more than a dozen albums and a thousand appearances worldwide behind them, this milestone concert marks the final touring season for the Lafayette String Quartet.

This…collaboration between an Early Music folk fusion trio from Canada and a Swedish singer…immediately has the appeal of the unusual. (Issue 131, The Living Tradition)

Chamberfest presents Starry Night with the Ottawa-based SHHH!! Ensemble. Describing their show as an “experience” (more so than a “contemporary music recital”), pianist Edana Higham and percussionist Zac Pulak explore a dreamscape full of natural and supernatural mysteries with a programme featuring new music commissioned for their project.

For one night only, Ottawa’s darling piano virtuoso Angela Hewitt returns to Chamberfest ready to wow. As “one of those rare musicians who … get something into their heads and hearts and find it at their fingertips instantaneously,” (The New York Times) Angela Hewitt is pure expressive joy.

This performance features the lively voices of Emili Losier and Phillip Klaassen, accompanied by pianist Jenna Richards. From musical theatre to operetta, this interactive concert experience will feature love songs, duets, and comedic acts, and is open to all.

Welcome to our musical salon! The salon was the original house concert – the cultural happening of Schubert’s time – where like-minded people gathered to perform and savour new music and to discuss art, ideas, and politics.

Another Chamberfest debut! America’s premier low-voice a cappella ensemble, now in its 27th season, journeys north for an evening of song.

Award-winning Canadian pianist Katherine Dowling brings The Elegy Project to Chamberfest, delivering a solo piano performance of musical meditations on mourning, loss, grief – and life and love.

Praised for their “huge range of dynamics, massive sound and spontaneity,” (American Record Guide) the young Vianos won First Prize at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition and are the current Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Known for their onstage charisma and camaraderie, Ottawa’s Lara Deutsch (flute) and Adam Cicchillitti (guitar) began performing together in 2019 after discovering their mutual love for the music of Piazzolla.

Chamberfest 2023 is closing with a bang, Chamberfest style! We’re rounding up some of the world’s finest chamber musicians for a mashup concert, featuring performances by star-studded Chamberfest Artists-in-Residence Lauren Anker, Bryan Cheng, Philip Chiu, Chamberfest Artistic Director Carissa Klopoushak, Emily Kruspe, Sean Rice, and special guest violist Nadia Sirota.

Payadora is a contemporary chamber music ensemble that performs Argentinian/Uruguayan tango and folk music and original compositions inspired by that tradition.

Four Juno Winners, Mark Fewer, violin, Angela Park, piano, James Campbell, clarinet and Thomas Wiebe, cello collaborate for the first time to present Messaien's Quartet For the End of Time. Written while inside a German prisoner of war camp, it is considered one of the most spiritually moving works ever written.

We kick off the festival with the Dior Quartet, one of Canada’s finest young string quartets and recent semi-finalists of the prestigious Banff International String Quartet Competition.

Chamber music is a beautiful parallel to what makes our community so great. Everyone is a leader and a follower that contributes and listens.