“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.”

“This season marks the 25th anniversary of the Artistic Director Wendy Putnam’s founding of the Concord Chamber Music Society, and as usual, the society is presenting great and important visiting artists beginning with the Jupiter String Quartet on September 22nd, and ending with the legendary Juilliard String Quartet on April 13th. In between, various chamber configurations will involve local favorites including Marc-André Hamelin, and Putnam herself. ”

“This is the 25th anniversary season of CCMS and because this will be the final season for its founding director, violinist Wendy Putnam, you know it will be special. The opening concert will be a program of Beethoven, Schubert and Kati Agócs with the outstanding Jupiter String Quartet (Sept. 22). And the second program should be, if anything, even more special: Putnam herself and another outstanding violinist, Lucia Lin, celebrated violist Kim Kashkashian, cellist Christine Lee and breathtaking virtuoso pianist Marc-André Hamelin in Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello; “Nowhere Fast,” a Piano Quintet by Hamelin completed in 2019; and the marvelous piano quartet “Concordance” by Boston’s beloved Yehudi Wyner, commissioned by CCMS in 2012 (Nov. 17). ”