The Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival is a classical chamber music festival based along the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay, AL. Violinist, Sahada Buckley, and cellist, Trace Johnson are the artistic directors of ESCMF and curators for the festival. The inaugural 2023 Season was hosted at the Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship in Fairhope, AL, where ESCMF performed six different chamber programs from nineteen composers from May 28, 2023 - June 11. The 2024 festival will take place over 3 weeks from May 31- June 16, 2024!
ESCMF summer season concerts are free of charge. Concert programs highlight works by women and BIPOC composers bringing these less-represented voices to the forefront for concertgoers. A week long Winter Series will take place from January 11-14, 2024.
Artistic Directors, Sahada Buckley and Trace Johnson, bring professional knowledge and experience to Fairhope by programming, performing, and teaching chamber music that inspires further involvement in classical music performance. In addition to being world-class performers, Sahada and Trace are dedicated teachers who believe that long-term musical growth begins at the earliest stages. Each year ESCMF will offer educational music intensives for local music students led by festival artists; in 2023, ESCMF artists and local youth musicians were featured in a special side-by-side concert in Fairhope on June 10 where they played Florence Price’s Morning Sunbeam with ESCMF Artists.
ESCMF is a fiscally sponsored organization by Fractured Atlas. Thank you to our Jubilee Sponsors Fairhope Chocolate, Freda Burner, Louis Mapp, Bob and Sharon Buckley, Charles Runels, Maggie Hakmiller, Julie Marks, and The University of Wisconsin-Madison for your support!
Learn More: http://escmf.org