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About Chamber Music Sedona

Our Mission

The mission of Chamber Music Sedona is to enrich the lives of Northern Arizona residents and visitors by presenting the finest international, national, and regional performing artists and to promote a love of the performing arts through arts education programs.

History

From its humble beginnings in private Sedona homes in 1982, Chamber Music Sedona has been Northern Arizona's premiere chamber music presenter. Governed by an 11 member board of directors, Chamber Music Sedona offers a wide variety of engaging programs from "Concerts for Youth" for Sedona and Verde Valley youth, to a free series of concerts at the Sedona Public Library, CMS Youth Piano Competition held in the Spring, and its hallmark subscription concert series of Magical Music in the Red Rocks - describing the world-class music complemented by comfortable seating at St. John Vianney Church offering spectacular views of Sedona's magnificent Red Rocks. In the spring of 2011, Chamber Music Sedona brought The MET: Live in HD to Sedona and the Verde Valley. These live broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City are shown in the state of the art Sedona Performing Arts Center. The Center was under construction when the talks with the Metropolitan Opera were being held and as a result the acoustics, the sound system, the satellite systems and the screen were built to Metropolitan Opera standards. It, quite simply, is THE place in Arizona to see the Met: Live in HD.

House Staff

Bert Harclerode
Executive Director

Anna Cates
General Manager

Kristine Follett
Marketing Coordinator

Marisol Molina
Event & Volunteer Coordinator

Board of Trustees	Advisory Council
John Steinbrunner, President Evelyn Winkel, Vice President Dwight Kadar, Treasurer Mary Lee Warner, Secretary Daren Burns Thomas Cleman Pamela Fazzini Stan Gorski Richard Griesenbeck Ilaine Packman Charles Spining	James V. Pease, Chair Edward Ingraham, Vice Chair Al Wolfe, Past Chair Hugh Coble John Dansby Anthony Flesch Russell Fox Linda Goldenstein Millie Leenhouts Marion Maby Eric L. Mendelsohn Lelia Schoenberg Sue Schomaker Tom Sweitzer, Emeritus Brin Burkee Unger Nick Warner
Past Presidents	Artistic Advisers
Edward Ingraham, 2008-2012 Marion Maby, 2007-2008 Robert Carabell, 2003-2006 Brynn Burkee Unger, 2002-2003 James V. Pease, 1999-2002 Lelia W. Schoenberg, 1997-1999 Hans Lempl, DMA, 1995-1997 Thomas Leenhouts, MD, 1992-1995 Caye Hill, 1989-1992 Hazel Wait, 1987-1989 Judith Ginsberg, 1983-1987 Directors Emeritus James F. Gould, DMA* Hans Lampl, DMA Thomas Leenhouts, MD* * Deceased	Nicholas Canellakis Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Alexander Fiterstein University of Minnesota Marian Hahn Peabody University Benjamin Jacobson Calder String Quartet Mike Marshall Institute of Acoustic Music Allan Vogel Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Ransom Wilson Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Chamber Music Sedona's 30th Anniversary Season is made possible with underwriting support from Aspey, Watkins & Diesel, P.L.L.C., Attorneys at Law.
Additional support comes from The City of Sedona, The Arizona Commission on the Arts with funding from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Verde Valley Medical Center, The Margaret T. Morris Foundation and WESTAF.