Press

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

2024

Dover Quartet: As Good as it Gets
Boston Musical Intelligencer, June 11, 2024

Dazzling Fingerwork plus Musical Riches (Garrick Ohlsson)
Boston Musical Intelligencer, June 10, 2024

Cool off with these concerts at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival
The Boston Globe, June 5, 2024

The Chooi Brothers
Gloucester Times, June 6, 2024

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

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

Older

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

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

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

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

NEW ENGLAND LIVING feature of the Shalin Liu Performance Center