A founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Harlem Quartet, violinist Melissa White is recognized for her “warmly expressive and lyrical” playing (Chicago Classical Review). Her PCMS recital debut with pianist Pallavi Mahidhara highlights works by American women composers Amy Beach and Nokuthula Ngwenyama. Mahidhara explains, “We are performing works by composers who represent a diversity […]

PCMS celebrates Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday with two programs (the second on May 6) dedicated to this extraordinary French composer, pianist, and conductor. The first event features “supremely musical” (The Strad) violinist Hye-Jin Kim and fellow Society favorites cellist Peter Stumpf and pianist Cynthia Raim in a program culminating with the composer’s Piano Trio in […]

This powerhouse ensemble combines three of today’s most luminary chamber musicians: former Johannes Quartet violinist Soovin Kim, former Emerson Quartet cellist Paul Watkins, and pianist Gloria Chien. Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Clarinet Ricardo Morales adds his “utterly natural musical grace” (New York Times) for a performance of Olivier Messiaen’s hauntingly beautiful Quartet for the End of Time. […]

Praised for their “expert musicianship, razor-sharp ensemble, and deep musical feeling” (Chicago Tribune), the Dover Quartet returns to the PCMS stage with Michelle Cann, “a pianist of sterling artistry” (Gramophone). The afternoon brings together five of Philadelphia’s finest chamber artists for a magnificent example of late Romantic chamber music: Dvořák’s richly melodic Quintet in A […]

PCMS’s second event honoring Ravel’s 150th birthday features pianists Lydia Artymiw and Cynthia Raim, both of whom have been Philadelphia favorites for decades, with more than 70 PCMS performances between them. For this special duo recital, Artymiw and Raim present solo and four-hands works by Ravel, whose revelatory style of French music draws from such […]

With roots in Estonia, Lithuania, Greece, the U.S., and Finland, the Erinys Quartet is an international ensemble that currently serves as Quartet-in- Residence at the Curtis Institute. Violist and Curtis President Roberto Díaz and Grammy-nominated cellist Peter Wiley join this emerging quartet for a program featuring Brahms’s richly inventive G Major Sextet and a world […]

Please join us for our annual member meeting on May 13, 2024: 5:30pm via Zoom. Check back soon for session sign up details.

Join us for a very special Spring Celebration on May 20, when we present the Musical Fund Society Lifetime Achievement Award as well as announce the exciting winner of this year’s Career Advancement Award. We will also share details about the recipients of the Society’s 2025 Institutional Grants. It will be a festive evening of […]

Join us for a very special Spring Celebration on May 20, when we present the Musical Fund Society Lifetime Achievement Award as well as announce the exciting winner of this year’s Career Advancement Award. We will also announce the recipients of the Society’s 2025 Institutional Grants. It will be a festive evening of food, wine […]