Come celebrate our 30th Anniversary Concert Season featuring Manhattan Chamber Players, piano quartet, 4 pm, Opperman Hall on Sunday, September 15. The Manhattan Chamber Players are a chamber music collective of New York-based musicians who share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level. Formed in 2015 by Artistic Director and violist Luke Fleming, MCP is comprised of an impressive roster of musicians who come from the tradition of great music making at the Marlboro Music Festival, Steans Institute at Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival, and Perlman Music Program, and are former students of the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Colburn School, and the New England Conservatory.

At the core of MCP’s inspiration is its members’ joy in playing this richly varied repertoire with longtime friends and colleagues, with whom they have beennperforming since they were students. Its roster allows for the programming of the entire core string, wind, and piano chamber music repertoire—from piano duos to
clarinet quintets to string octets. While all its members have independent careers as soloists and chamber musicians, they search for opportunities to come together and collaborate, which create "a mellifluous blend of vigorous intensity and dramatic import, performed with enthusiasm, technical facility and impressive
balance, relishing distinctions…a winning performance.” (Classical Source)