Currently celebrating its twelfth season, Red Cedar Chamber Music continually strives to reach, challenge, and expand audiences that rarely have the opportunity to attend chamber music performances. Red Cedar musicians inform and entertain audiences, engaging them with lively commentary about the music, composers and instruments. Features intimate performances of chamber music performed by co-founders, flutist, Jan Boland and guitarist, John Dowdall joined by nationally recognized guest artists.
Collaborations are at the very heart of Red Cedar‘s existence. Since it was founded in 1997, Red Cedar has partnered with numerous major arts and human service organizations in Eastern Iowa, and across the nation.
Audiences are treated to equal doses of the antique and the avant-garde, with concerts featuring 19th-century music on period instruments and newly-commissioned works for modern instruments. Red Cedar’s Community Connections program brings chamber music into the nooks and crannies of Eastern Iowa, when and where people normally congregate. Red Cedar’s Concert Series brings exciting guest artists from across the country to perform high-quality, but little-heard chamber music and newly-commissioned music. Red Cedar’s Rural Outreach program, which brings live performances to small communities throughout Eastern Iowa, receives national accolades and grant support.
Red Cedar Chamber Music has released seven award-winning compact discs on the Fleur De Son Classics label. Red Cedar’s first recording, Czech Chamber Music, received a Critics' Choice award from the American Record Guide, which stated, "Chamber music should be just like this-intimate, bonding and conversational."
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