The acclaimed Calyx Piano Trio returns to open CCMF's seventh season with a musical feast! Audiences are invited to enjoy the event from standard audience seating, or bring a lunch to enjoy at table seating.

The Calyx Piano Trio joins forces with St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Principal Clarinetist Scott Andrews in a varied program ranging from Bartok to Brahms. Join Artistic Director Anna Reinersman for a pre-performance discussion of the evening's musical selections.

The Festival presents a festive and informal afternoon family concert full of discovery and adventure for kids of all ages.  This interactive program features local youth talents performing on string and percussion instruments alongside CCMF artists.  Refreshments will be served.

Join CCMF musicians and radio personality Finley Woolston of Public Radio East for the perfect way to end the day. The Festival presents a program of French music featuring Faure's Piano Quartet in c minor performed by popular returning artists violinist Catherine French, violist Amadi Azikiwe, cellist Jennifer Lucht, and pianist Melvin Chen. Audiences will also be treated to several of Faure’s charming character pieces for voice, oboe, and harp.

Season seven comes to a dynamic close in a program featuring Mozart's Oboe Quartet with Shea Scruggs, Assistant Principal Oboist of the Baltimore Symphony, Smetana's stirring String Quartet No. 1, "From My Life", and the world premiere of Mad Scene (from The Ghost Train) for mezzo-soprano, harp, oboe and strings written especially for the Festival by innovative composer Paul Crabtree.