2024–2025 SEASON

Welcome to Our 25th Anniversary Season!

I’m absolutely delighted to announce the Concord Chamber Music Society’s 25th anniversary season! With the generous support of a few core donors and a handful of local businesses in 2000, we presented our inaugural concerts at the First Parish of Concord to small but enthusiastic audiences. Since that time, CCMS has grown into a thriving organization that presents performances by some of the finest musicians in the world and offers valuable outreach initiatives to our schools and community. I am so proud of what we’ve achieved together.

In 2024–25 we will celebrate our accomplishments by welcoming back several familiar artists, including the Juilliard and Jupiter String Quartets, pianist/composer Marc-André Hamelin, and many others. We will also revisit some of the musical works we heard at memorable performances over these past many years. Additionally, CCMS will pay homage to the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War with a special concert in March featuring works by American composers.

I hope you will partake in this musical extravaganza and I look forward to seeing you at our 2024–2025 concerts at Concord Academy, the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library in Lexington, and the Groton Hill Music Center.
— Wendy Putnam, CCMS Founder & Director

Sunday, September 22, 2024 | 3:00pm

Jupiter String Quartet
Concord Academy Performing Arts Center

Concert Review:
“Eloquent Intensity from Top Quartet”, Boston Musical Intelligencer, September 24, 2024

Sunday, November 11, 2024 | 3:00pm*

Lucia Lin, Wendy Putnam, violins
Kim Kashkashian, viola
Christine Lee, cello
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Maxwell Auditorium, Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, in Lexington

*Preconcert roundtable with composers Marc-André Hamelin and Yehudi Wyner moderated by WGBH’s Cathy Fuller at 2:00pm.

Concert Review:
”CCMS Cured Depression,” Boston Musical Intelligencer, November 18, 2024

Sunday, January 5, 2025 | 3:00pm

Glenn Dicterow, Wendy Putnam, violins Karen Dreyfus, Steven Ansell, violas
Inbal Segev, cello
Groton Hill Music Center

Sunday, March 9, 2025 | 3:00pm

Wendy Putnam, violin
Vytas Baksys, piano
Maxwell Auditorium, Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, in Lexington

Sunday, April 13, 2025 | 3:00pm

Juilliard String Quartet
Concord Academy Performing Arts Center