When ChamberQUEER, an LGBTQ+ chamber music series based in Brooklyn, NY, was forced to cancel its second annual in-person concert series during Pride Month, they didn't wait long to devise a solution.

Entitled ChamberQUEERantine: A Digital Pride Month Festival!, ChamberQUEER's online concert series will feature virtual presentations by performers within the LGBTQ+ classical music community, and highlight the music of queer composers, past and present, as well as provide an intersectional and inclusive queer space in the digital sphere.

The festival will run from June 5-20, 2020. Every night at 7PM EDT, ChamberQUEER will go live on their Facebook page with a new program of amazing, award-winning queer artists, presenting a wide variety of musical offerings. 

“While we’ve had to cancel our second annual in-person festival this June, we’ve decided to create a virtual one instead, celebrating the amazing legacy and resilience of queer artists persisting in the face of adversity,” says co-founder Brian Mummert. 

The entire proceeds of the festival will be returned to the artists presenting the content, in order to support their livelihood, which has been severely affected by the ramifications of COVID-19. Musicians have lost all their work, and are facing an uncertain future while restrictions on gathering remain in force.

Queer musicians are disproportionately affected by our current circumstances, due to their marginalized status in the industry and the nation as a whole, which directly correlates to their increased risk and incidence of poverty, housing and food instability, and long-term unemployment.

Not only does ChamberQUEERantine create an intentionally queer digital space and a platform for queer artists to share their work with authenticity and pride, it provides direct support to artists who need it. 100% of our proceeds go back to our artists, whose work is endlessly valuable in its unique perspective and its diversity, and who deserve the support they need to keep working and creating while concert halls are closed.

Thank you for your generous support, and we hope you enjoy the festival!


About Us

ChamberQUEER was founded in 2018 by Jules Biber, Danielle Buonaiuto, Brian Mummert, and Andrew Yee, with a mission to program queer artists and composers; highlight historically under-represented queer figures in classical music; and provide an inclusive and intersectional space in classical music for artists and audience alike. 

ChamberQUEER launched with a workshop performance at Branded Saloon, in Brooklyn, NY, in February 2018. Its first major event was ChamberQUEER 2019, a three-day festival at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Branded Saloon in June 2019.  

In addition to the flagship concert series, now held annually in Brooklyn in June during Pride, ChamberQUEER hosts community events such as reading parties and house concerts, and will soon expand to provide education and mentorship to emerging queer performers and composers. 

“I have been waiting for something like this for twenty years,” commented one audience member. “It feels like the right time for an organization to create an inclusive space for queer musicians to form community.”

ChamberQUEER is a recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Fund (BAF) cultural grant. Brooklyn Arts Fund (DCLA) is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).