ChamberPalooza! 2025

Saturday, October 18, 2025 from 11 a.m.–3 p.m.

Free, drop-in. Registration not required.

Join the Chamber Music Network of Greater Cincinnati for their annual free chamber music extravaganza, featuring area musicians and friends. Hear a world premiere performance of An Iridescent Fantasy, a commissioned piece by composer, educator, performer, and visual artist Lauren Spavelko. Try your hand at various string, percussion, and wind instruments with an "Instrument Petting Zoo" led by Antonio Violins and Cincinnati Symphony Volunteers. Fun for kids! Door prizes will be awarded hourly! 

Schedule of events:

• 11 a.m. Peter Boylan, Opening Fanfare
•  11:05 a.m. Moyen Age, music of the  – thirteenth through fifteenth centuries
•  11:25 a.m. Liberty Arts Duo: Jean Shim violin; Steve Tedesco, piano
•  11:50 a.m. Cincinnati String Trio: Michael Ronstadt, cello; Doug Hamilton, violin; Rose Reidmiller Gowda, viola/violin
•  12:15 p.m. Jorge and Lauren, Brazilian music with guitar and vocals
•  12:40 p.m. World Premiere: “An Iridescent Fantasy” Piano Quartet by Lauren Spavelko, commissioned by Chamber Music Network. Performed by Sonya Szabo Reynolds, piano; Gayna Bassin, violin; Melissa Gray, viola; Damon Gray, cello. 
• 1:05 p.m. James Meade, classical guitar 
• 1:30 p.m. The WhirlWinds 
• 1:55 p.m. Vince Phelan and the Corryville Suzuki Project 
• 2:25 p.m. Becki Chesnes, flute, and Tisha Patton, piano 

This program takes place in the Marek-Weaver Family Commons on the museum’s ground floor. Enter through the Dewitt Entrance near the back parking lot. 

If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact us in advance at [email protected] or fill out the accessibility request form.