10TH ANNIVERSARY
NORTH SHORE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
DATES ANNOUNCED: JUNE 10-13, 2020
Hailed as one of the best-kept secrets in Chicago’s classical music scene, the
2020 North Shore Chamber Music Festival features an extra evening of concerts,
a special 10th anniversary tribute performance, and more TBA!
CHICAGO, IL (December 2019) – The North Shore Chamber Music Festival, a summer staple founded by violinist Vadim Gluzman and pianist Angela Yoffe, 
celebrates its 10th Anniversary with an expanded festival, running June 10-13, 2020 at the Village Presbyterian Church.
Splitting their time between Chicago and Tel Aviv, Gluzman and Yoffe founded the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in 2011 as a way to enhance and give back to their “home base” – the North Shore community. Today, the Festival provides a substantial and deeply meaningful community-based arts experience that is at once entertaining, life affirming, inspirational, and approachable. Over the last decade, the North Shore Chamber Music Festival has presented world-class musicians and emerging artists of the highest caliber, including violinists Anne Akiko Meyers, conductors Andrew Litton and David Danzmayr, cellists and North Shore natives Wendy Warner and Ani Aznavoorian, pianists Alessio Bax and William Wolfram, violist Paul Neubauer, clarinetist Ilya Shterenberg, the Pacifica, Ariel and Escher string quartets. The North Shore Chamber Music Festival has commissioned and premiered a variety of new chamber works over the last ten years, such as Atar Arad’s String Trio “From Here To There” (2019) and Adam Neiman’s Trio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (2018).
Universally recognized among today’s top performing artists,
Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman’s wide repertoire embraces new music and his performances are heard around the world through live broadcasts and a striking catalogue of award-winning recordings exclusively for the BIS label. Gluzman has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Israel Philharmonic, London Symphony Royal Concertgebouw, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Sydney and Melbourne Symphonies, Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Ohio, where he leads performances as its Creative Partner and Principal Guest Artist. Festival appearances include performances at Ravinia, Tanglewood, and Verbier. Gluzman serves as Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Peabody Conservatory and performs on the legendary 1690 ‘ex-Leopold Auer’ Stradivari, on extended loan to him through the generosity of the Stradivari Society of Chicago. To learn more about Vadim Gluzman, visit www.vadimgluzman.com.
Pianist, producer, and educator Angela Yoffe is widely admired for her dazzling musicianship and passion for music education. She was born in Riga, Latvia into a family of respected musicians. After studying piano performance in the Soviet Union and Israel, she continued her studies with Joaquín Achúcarro and Jonathan Feldman in the United States and became an assistant to Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School of Music. More recently, Yoffe founded the Collaborative Piano Class at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Her Creative Learning Program has led collaborative projects with the International Center on Deafness and the Arts and the Lurie Children’s hospital. She has performed as a chamber musician and recitalist in New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, London, Berlin, Paris, Tel Aviv, Geneva, Rome and Tokyo among others international cities. She has appeared as a soloist with Seattle Symphony, Omaha Symphony, SWR Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony and with New York’s Jupiter Symphony under the batons of Andrey Boreyko, Gerard Schwarz, Jens Nygaard, and other leading conductors. Yoffe has been invited to perform at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Lockenhaus Festival in Austria, Festival de Radio France, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Colmar Festival in France, MIDEM Festival, Ravinia Festival, Pablo Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, the Schwetzingen Festspiele, and the Bantry Festival in West Cork.
Since its first concerts in 2011, the North Shore Chamber Music Festival has quickly grown to become one of the highlights of the Chicago summer classical music scene, providing the North Shore with inspiring musical experiences at the same level of excellence as those found in the great halls of the world, but within an intimate environment that welcomes both connoisseurs of chamber music and concert goers who are new to classical music — and at an affordable price. Called an “inspired summer event not to be missed” (Chicago Classical Review) and a “Chicago classical operation that thinks big. Very big. Internationally big” (Chicago Tribune), the festival has become a magnet for today’s leading classical artists to have the opportunity to perform with each other and to work closely with emerging young musicians from Chicago and beyond. During the past nine seasons, over 10,000 concertgoers from metropolitan Chicago and 140 towns throughout its North Shore attended festival concerts, which have also broadcast to 350,000 households locally on WFMT-FM, Chicago’s premiere classical radio station. For more information, visit www.nscmf.org.
Tickets On Sale in February 2020. Single tickets will go on sale in February 2020. Subscription packages can be purchased at www.nscmf.org or by calling (847) 370-3984. Concerts often sell out and advance purchase is highly recommended.
