Chamber Music Marin Open 2025-26 Concert Series with Award Winning Esmé Quartet

Chamber Music Marin presents their 2025-2026 Chamber Music Concert Series, October 19, 2025 through May 17, 2026 at Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church in Mill Valley, CA. Celebrating its 53rd year, Chamber Music Marin will present a diverse repertoire for their new season featuring several award-winning ensembles that are first time Chamber Music Marin performers. The season consists of five intimate concerts, all reflecting the nonprofit’s mission of presenting world-class musicians at affordable prices.

Kicking off the 2025-2026 season is the award winning Esmé Quartet on Sunday, October 19th at 5pm. Formed in 2016 in Cologne, Germany, the Esmé Quartet has performed worldwide and won the prestigious Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in London. Now resident at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Esmé will perform Ravel’s sole String Quartet, the Dutilleux “Ainsi la Nuit”, and the late Beethoven String Quartet #14, Opus 131 in C# Minor.

“Four of the five ensembles in our 2025-26 season are new to the Chamber Music Marin concert stage, and will bring strong international concertizing experience and program flavor,” says Board President Anna Vagin. “The musicians include Korean, German, Armenian American and Guyanese American performers. The repertoire ranges from Classical masterpieces such as Beethoven’s 14th String Quartet, to new works commissioned for the performers, and even Duke Ellington classics.”

When: Sunday, October 19, 5pm

Where: Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church in Mill Valley, CA.

Public Information: Ticket prices are $48 GA, $130 for a 3-concert subscription (any 3 concerts), or $190 for the entire season subscription (5 concerts, an additional any concert ticket, and a free ticket to the Marin Music Chest Youth Finalist concert). Youths 18 and under are always free. To purchase tickets, visit www.chambermusicmarin.org

2025 - 2026 Chamber Music Marin Concert Series Line-Up Also Includes:
November 16, 2025 - Telegraph Quartet
March 1, 2026 - Morgenstern Trio
March 22, 2026 - Aznavoorian Sisters
April 12, 2026 - Poulenc Trio with Shawnette Sulker
May 18, 2026 - Marin Music Chest's Young Artists Concert

Chamber Music Marin’s dedicated Board of Directors plans and produces the annual Chamber Music Marin series of five concerts. Additionally, Chamber Music Marin is dedicated to promoting classical music by educational outreach programs to Marin County school children, thus exposing the next generation to the exquisite pleasures of chamber music. Learn more at www.chambermusicmarin.org.