Chamber Music Charleston is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to music education and the performance of chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

 in and around Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the second largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was made the county seat of Charleston County in 1901 when Charleston County was founded. The city's original name was Charles Towne in 1670, and it moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of the...

 and throughout the South Carolina Lowcountry (including Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina

Hilton Head Island or Hilton Head is a resort town in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. It is north of Savannah, Georgia, and south of Charleston. The island gets its name from Captain William Hilton...

 and Edisto Island, South Carolina

Edisto Island, South Carolina

Edisto Island is one of South Carolina's Sea Islands, the larger part of which lies in Charleston County, with its southern tip in Colleton County. The Charleston County part is a census-designated place. The population was 2,301 at the 2000 census...

).

Chamber Music Charleston was founded by bassoonist Sandra Nikolajevs in 2006, who remains its Director. It performs numerous concerts and events in homes, historic venues, churches and galleries throughout the South Carolina Lowcountry region, including series in historic downtown Charleston, Kiawah Island and Daniel Island. It has collaborated with leading Charleston cultural organizations including the Footlight Players Theater http://www.footlightplayers.net, Actors Theatre of South Carolina, ArtsMusic Productions, the Preservation Society of Charleston and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Notable among these have been productions of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 January 2008. who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...

’ Child’s Christmas in Wales with veteran screen actor Clarence Felder

Clarence Felder

Clarence Felder is an American character actor who starred in films and on television and co-starred in ten Broadway productions....

; Beethoven: His Women and His Music, also with Mr. Felder; The Gift of the Magi directed and produced by veteran television and film actor Chris Weatherhead; Margot Theis Raven’s critically acclaimed children’s story Circle Unbroken set to the music of William Grant Still

William Grant Still

William Grant Still was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra, the first to have a symphony performed by a leading orchestra, the first to have an opera performed by a major...

 and Margot Theis Raven’s children’s story America’s White Table set to the music of Charles Ives

Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though Ives' music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives came to be regarded as an "American Original"...

. The DVD "Circle Unbroken" received numerous awards including “Best Children’s Film Award” at the XXIV Black International Cinema Berlin Film Festival 2009 and “Award of Excellence” at the 2009 Accolade Competition in La Jolla, California.

CMC’s roster includes thirteen professional musicians, many of whom are current and former principal members of Savannah Philharmonic, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra.

Past and continuing activities include the Mozart In The South Festival, Memminger Auditorium Concerts, Gallery Concerts,,Classical Kids Concerts and instrumental petting zoos in addition to their House Concerts.

Chamber Music Charleston is listed on the Southern Artistry Website, highlighting accomplished artists and arts organizations in the South East. Articles about the organization and reviews of past performances appear in The Post and Courier

The Post and Courier

Charleston's The Post and Courier is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the South and the eighth oldest newspaper still in publication in the United States. It is published in Charleston, South Carolina. It traces its ancestry to three newspapers, the Charleston Courier, founded in 1803, the...

,,, Charleston City Paper,CharlestonToday.net, ETV Radio South Carolina Educational Television

South Carolina Educational Television

South Carolina Educational Television is the statewide public television and public radio network in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It consists of all the Public Broadcasting Service member [television stations and National Public Radio member radio stations in the state...

, Florence News Journal, The Island Packet/Beaufort Gazette and Moon South Carolina

The 2011-2012 Season will bring performances to Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint Thomas is an island in the Caribbean Sea and with the islands of Saint John, Saint Croix, and Water Island a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands , an unincorporated territory of the United States. Located on the island is the territorial capital and port of...

 and Florence, South Carolina

Florence, South Carolina

-Municipal government and politics:The City of Florence has a council-manager form of government. The mayor and city council are elected every four years, with no term limits...

in addition to performances in the South Carolina Lowcountry.