Tulsa Young Chamber Musician ensembles feature thirty-nine scholarship students of the Barthelmes Conservatory Music School. These exceptional young musicians range in age from 8 to 17 and come from many communities in and around Tulsa. Chamber Music Tulsa & Barthelmes Conservatory have common goals and mutual commitment to fostering the appreciation of music education and encouraging young, promising musicians to pursue their love of music.
Designed to appeal to young people and novices to chamber music, these skilled and passionate up-and-coming artists, with their well-rehearsed programs, will inspire young arts attendees to come back for more.
“We must keep the art of classical music alive, preserve it and all of its creators’ genius and inspiration, show people what it’s like to hear a violinist sing, and seek out and train people to become the messengers, the tellers of what it means to hear true music – we need musicians,” says Matthew Maroney, one of Tulsa Young Chamber Musicians.
Tulsa Young Chamber Musicians will perform in a variety of local events and venues, including Tulsa PAC Trust Brown Bag It series, Central Library’s Music Sandwiched In series, OK Mozart Festival, MidFirst Bank Utica Place Building veranda, St. Simeon Retirement Center, pre-concert performance at Tulsa Symphony Orchestra’s production of England, the German American Society of Tulsa, EduCare, Arbors Retirement Center, and MayFest with the TU Orchestra and more.
Tulsa Young Chamber Musicians include five piano quartets, one piano quintet, one piano trio, one string quartet and even a four-hand and six-hand piano. Upcoming performances will feature music by Mozart, Bach, Handel, Sibelius, Gluck, Juon and Willis, among others. The performing ensembles are coached by Barthelmes Conservatory faculty members Kent Dennis, Allyson Eskitch, Bo Willis and Ashley Hinden.
“Nothing can reinvent the enduring pleasure of real live performance,” according to Aida Aydinyan, Executive Director of Barthelmes Conservatory,” and we want classical music lovers and those new to classical music to hear these outstanding young musicians celebrate their craft.”
