Rockport Music

Rockport Music
Also known as	Rockport Chamber Music Festival
Origin	Rockport, Massachusetts, USA
Genres	Classical, Jazz, World, Folk, Popular
Years active	1981–present
Website	http://www.rockportmusic.org

Rockport Music is a presenting organization in Rockport, Massachusetts, bringing music and other artistic programming in variety of genres to audiences in the greater Boston area and the Massachusetts North Shore. Founded in 1981 as the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport Music has been under the artistic direction of pianist David Deveau since 1995. In Summer 2010 the organization completed construction on a year-round permanent home, the Shalin Liu Performance Center. Situated on the Atlantic coast, one hour north of Boston, Rockport has long been a destination for seaside tourism and historically a fishing village and artist colony.

Rockport Music was founded in 1981 as the Rockport Chamber Music Festival -- a twelve concert series of chamber, early, and vocal music -- by singer Leila Deis and composer-pianist David Alpher, who acted as co-artistic directors until 1994, in collaboration with Rockport businessman Paul Sylva.

Rockport Music has since presented numerous artists, many of whom have returned repeatedly to perform in the festival, including Andrés Diaz (cello), Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Richard Stoltzman (clarinet), Andrés Cárdenes (violin), David Leisner (guitar), Edwin Barker (bass) and Jordi Savall (viola da gamba), as well as acclaimed groups such as the Eroica Trio (piano, cello & violin), the Jupiter, Borromeo, the Calder String Quartet, and Calder String Quartet, A Far Cry and the Canadian Brass.

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