2025 Festival

Closing Night: Reception

Join us for a festive conclusion to the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival at the Closing Night: Reception. The reception will take place at Park West Gallery following the final performance of Closing Night: Wireworks. Mingle with the extraordinary musicians who...

Musical Chairs Plus: Performance & Pop-up

A favorite of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Musical Chairs comes from the imagination of Shouse Institute Director Philip Setzer. Shouse groups, made up of emerging professional ensembles, are deconstructed and reassembled as fellows are challenged to...

Strata Echo

Includes works by:
KENDALL | BRIDGE | DVOŘÁK

Cornerstone

Includes works by:
Handel | Poulenc | Saint-Saëns | Kendall | H. Watkins
Pre-concert talk at 6:40 with organist James O’Donnell, former Master of Music at Westminster Abbey.

Textures

Includes works by:
Schubert | Tower | Shostakovich
Pre-concert talk at 6:40 with composer Joan Tower interviewed by Third Coast Percussion members.

Shouse Soundscapes

Includes works by:
Mozart | Scott | The Dolphins | Brahms

Negative Space

The program of Negative Space highlights music that explores space, absence, and the power of what’s left unsaid. Hannah Kendall’s Vera builds and unbuilds a musical structure using a twelve-tone row, creating a sense of shifting texture and hidden emotion. Ravel’s...

Sound Beams

Includes works by:
Debussy | Reich | Bach/Sitkovetsky