The 2026 Season

Join us at the Music Shed for a season full of spectacular performances.

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We look forward to an exciting season of programs organized around the theme of Anniversaries — marking significant milestones for musical works, composers, artists, or countries. As you look through the season calendar, you’ll find a terrific roster of Festival favorites, those making their Music Shed debut, as well as our outstanding group of Norfolk Fellows.

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A Summer Music Tradition

The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Yale School of Music’ s summer program, continues a tradition that began over 100 years ago — worldclass concerts in the beauty of Connecticut’s Litchfield Hills.

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Augustin Hadelich

A special solo performance on July 25.

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Ellen Battell Stoeckel Has an Enduring Norfolk Legacy in the Arts and Beyond
Sarah Salzer | The Goshen Times

Though it has been nearly nine decades since philanthropist Ellen Battell Stoeckel — known widely as a “patron of music” — died in her Norfolk home, her life and legacy have endured through several avenues, including the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

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Amo Brass awarded Fischoff’s 2026 Ann Divine Educator Award

Norfolk alumni Amo Brass are recipients of The Fischoff National Chamber Music Association’s 2026 Ann Divine Educator Award. The national award recognizes Fischoff alumni for innovative educational programs for children and youth across the US, and building successful careers focusing on both chamber music performance and educational outreach.

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The Poetic Earth: Haydn and Emerson at the Norfolk Library

Norfolk alumni Vibha Janakiraman, Nate Strothkamp, Lourdes Pinney, and Emil Olejnik will present a program at the Norfolk Library at on Saturday, April 25 at 2PM that explores one of Haydn’s most inventive string quartets in conversation alongside the Transcendentalist essays and poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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