The Gilbert School is pleased to announce that the Chamber Music Accord, part of The Hartt Community Division of the University of Hartford, will be holding its summer program on the Williams Avenue Campus from July 22nd through August 2nd.
During these dates, the students and faculty of the program will be residing on the Gilbert campus rehearsing, performing, and creating chamber music.
As part of the program, students will engage in musical lessons and have the opportunity to participate in master classes. The students will explore what it means to contribute to and enrich a larger community through guided discussions and presentations by faculty members. Student composers will take part in the festival with unfinished pieces that will be completed over the course of the program. String students will take part in string quartets that will work on traditional repertoire and music written by student composers in the program.
As part of the program, free concerts will be performed in Winsted over the course of two weeks. 
The opening concert will be held on Friday, July 26th at 7:30PM at the Second Congregational Church at 800 Main Street. The concert will include faculty from the program performing movements from Haydn’s String Quartet, Op. 33 No. 2 “Joke” Movements from Gabriela Lena Frank’s Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout for String Quartet Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor.
The second concert will be held on Saturday, July 27th at 7:30PM at the Winsted Community Bookstore, located at 414 Main Street. It will include students performing a program that includes: Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13, I. Adagio-Allegro Vivace Arensky’s String Quartet No. 2, Op. 35, III. Andante sostenuto-Allegro moderato Dvořák’s String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, I. Allegro ma non troppo and newly-written pieces by student composers.
The third concert will include members of the faculty performing at the Winsted Community Bookstore on Thursday, August 1st at 7:30PM. This program will include Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello.
The final concert in the series will be held on Friday, August 2nd at 7:30PM at Northwestern Connecticut Community College’s Founders Hall Auditorium, located at 4 Park Place. The program will include a chamber music repertoire and newly written pieces by student composers.
All concerts are free. For more information, please call (917) 279-2390.