ANNOUNCEMENTS

Rockport Chamber Music Festival 2024 Media Page

Rockport Chamber Music Festival 2024 Announcement

Barry Shiffman’s reappointment as artistic director

 

ANNUAL REPORT

2022-2023

2021-2022

2020-2021

2019-20

40th ANNIVERSARY BOOKLET

NEWSLETTERS

E-newsletter Winter 2024

E-newsletter Spring 2023

Newsletter-Fall 2022

Newsletter-Spring 2022

Newsletter-Fall 2021

E-newsletter August 2021-Special 40th Anniversary Edition

E-newsletter November 2020

E-newsletter August 2020

E-newsletter June 2020 (10th Anniversary edition)

E-newsletter April 2020

Newsletter-Fall 2019

Newsletter-Spring 2019

Newsletter-Fall 2018

For additional materials or questions, please contact Marketing Director Karen Herlitz at 978.546.7391 ext. 110 or Karen@rockportmusic.org.

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

“Best Chamber Music Performance”–The Boston Globe Best of 2019

“Best Concert Hall, Massachusetts”–Yankee Magazine’s 2013 “Editors’ Choice”

“Best Live Music Venue”–Northshore Magazine’s BONS Award (2011-21)

“Best New Music Performance” & “Most Creative Programming”–The Boston Globe’s “Best of 2011”

“2011 Honor Award” for both the Shalin Liu Performance Center and Epstein Joslin Architects–The Boston Society of Architects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press

Rockport Music is proud to have its concerts and events regularly featured by a wide range of media outlets. Below you will find a sampling of press clippings from a variety of newspapers, magazines and blogs.

The Opening Of the Shalin Liu Performance Center

Taking a New Concert Hall Out for a Spin or Two
The New York Times, June 13, 2010

Rockport Music welcomes season in striking new home by the sea
The Boston Globe, June 12, 2010

Summery Sounds of a New Hall Opening
The New York Times, June 11, 2010

Building a space for sound: Acoustician lends his ears to Rockport’s new music hall
The Boston Globe, June 6, 2010

2023

Marc-Andre Hamelin & Balourdet Quartet
The Boston Musical Intelligencer, June 25, 2023

Escher Quartet
Artsfuse, June 2023

Festival Opening Night 
The Boston Globe, June 12, 2023

2022

With Christian Tetzlaff, a journey through inner worlds of Bach
The Boston Globe, December 5, 2022

Deep Bach with Angela Hewitt
Boston Musical Intelligencer, November 20, 2022

Boston’s New England Fall Classical Music Guide
WBUR ARTery, September 15, 2022

Kirill Gerstein Rocks
Boston Musical Intelligencer, July 9, 2022

A Young Quartet, A Witty Pianist, & Music that made Tolstoy weep
The Boston Globe, June 27, 2022

Fiddle Virtuoso Darol Anger & Mr. Sun has long been bright spot
The Boston Globe, May 13, 2022

Rockport Music and Shalin Liu Performance Center
CBS New England Living, May 1, 2022

2021

5 Takeaways for readers favorite local music venues
Globe Magazine, October 1, 2021

The Elegence of Lu in Liu
Boston Musical Intelligencer, August 8, 2021

Get back to where we once belonged: Live performances return…
MetroWest Daily News, July 2, 2021

Gabrielian and Shiffman shine at the Shalin Liu
Boston Musical Intelligencer, July 12, 2021

Dover and Li open prospering Rockport Festival
Boston Musical Intelligencer, July 10, 2021

Rockport Chamber Music Festival celebrates 40
Gloucester Times, July 9, 2021

Ten ways to fill your summer with classical music
The Boston Globe, May 21, 2021

New England Classical Music starts return to normal performances
Cape Ann Beacon, March 28, 2021

2020

A virtual Christmas Celtic Sojourn
Boston Globe, November 28, 2020

Classical Music gives online a try this fall
Gatehouse Media, October 5, 2020

2019

Rockport rocked by Israeli and Venetians 
Boston Musical Intelligencer, July 18, 2019

Just Go For it, An Adventurous Quartet Always in the Moment
The Boston Globe, June 19, 2019

Seasoned and Shining Classics at RCMF
Boston Musical Intelligencer, June 17, 2019

Christian McBride & Tip City—Mastery and Joy
The Artsfuse, June 9, 2019

RCMF Variety, Tradition and Pizzazz
Boston Musical Intelligencer, June 7, 2019

Cape Ann-A Charming Alternative
USA Today, June 2019

11 Classical Music Events to get to this Summer
WBUR The ARTery, May 24, 2019

Peeking at the Creative Process-RCMF
Gloucester Times, March 7, 2019

2018

Danish Quartet brings American tour to a close at Shalin Liu
Wicked Local, November 15, 2018

From Beethoven to beer and beyond with the Danish Quartet
The Boston Globe, November 7, 2018

Rockport Chamber Music Festival Has It All
American Record Guide, November 2018

Kurt Elling at the Shalin Liu Performance Center
Artsfuse, August 15, 2018

Festival hosts concert for autistic children, families
Gloucester Times, July 15, 2018

Dover Quartet joins mentor Barry Shiffman for final weekend of Rockport Chamber Music Festival
Wicked Local, July 10, 2018

Music from the shadows, being heard anew
The Boston Globe, July 1, 2018

Kafka Encaged, Writing to his Father
The Boston Globe, June 18, 2018

At Rockport, ushering in a new chapter with Tchaikovsky, Golijov, and high spirits
The Boston Globe, June 17, 2018

“A Spirited Arrival at Rockport Music”
The Boston Globe, May 24, 2018

“Chamber Fest Rocks on Anew”
The Boston Musical Intelligencer, May 11, 2018

Rockport’s Philanthropic Force
Northshore Magazine, April 2018

 

Older

Music Man, Rockport Music’s new artistic director Barry Shiffman
Northshore Magazine, October 2017

Taking a bow at Rockport, after 22 transformative years
Boston Globe, May 2017

Kids Rock–Experience Music to your ears at the Shalin Liu Performance Center
Northshore Magazine, April 2017

Brooklyn Rider Rivets attention at Rockport
Boston Globe, January 2017

Another Marsalis brings jazz to Rockport
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Gloucester Daily Times, August 15, 2016

Top 5 Summer Jazz Festivals Across the Northeast
The Huffington Post, July 12, 2016

George Li Brings Sumptuous Bravura
The Boston Musical Intelligencer, June 27, 2016

Yo-Yo Ma Opens Rockport Festival
The Boston Globe

HISTORIC PRESS/QUOTES
ROCKPORT CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL (1982-1996)

Highlights of press quotes collected and provided by Karl Lauby, widower of Founder Lila Deis
The full press record from the early years of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival with Karl Lauby’s commentary, click here.

5.27.82: The Boston Globe Critic’s Tip by Richard Dyer
“…newest of New England’s summer music festivals, RCMF… The concept is intriguing, the performers expert, the city beautiful…worth investigating.”

6.7.83: The Boston Globe Review by Michael Kimmelman
“…spirited and practiced ensemble playing produced fine and sometimes outstanding performances…”

6.9.83: Christian Science Monitor
“…one of those modest events that reward summer travelers…a harbinger of profuse music festival to come…RCMF holds alluring promise.”

6.10.85: The Boston Globe Review by Arthur Hepner
Headline: Rockport Chamber Festival Provide a Feast
“…high performance standards amid pleasing surroundings …Deis and Beavon, endowed with rich, colorful voices, performed with wonderful agility and excellent insights…capacity audience loved every bit of it.”

6.24.86: The Boston Globe Review by Nancy Miller
Headline: Rockport Chamber Fest at Its Best
“Behind its bubbly title, this turned out to be one of the most satisfying concerts of chamber music in some time. It had all the right ingredients…superb, committed and highly musical performances and a setting that…seemed hard to beat…”

6.14.87: The Boston Globe Review by Arthur Hepner
Headline: Eclectic evening at Rockport Festival
“…the eclecticism that has characterized these concerts from the beginning has attracted a steadily growing audience, and the gamble my turn out to be a sound one.”

6.19.89: The Boston Herald Review by Josiah Fisk
Headline: Manhattan String sizzles at Rockport
“…While success has expanded the season from two weeks to four, the character is largely unchanged… the converted barn at RAA continues to prove hospitable both visually and acoustically; the admirable policy of mixing old and new music, and established and obscure remains in effect…”

 

PHOTO CREDIT: Jon Tadiello

WCVB-TV Features the Shalin Liu Performance Center