Recognitions

• Chamber Music Wilmington artistic director Barbara McKenzie has shown time after time that when it comes to classical music, you can have entertainment, substance, risk taking and thought-provoking music on one stage, in one night, and have it all fit together ("Currents", Wilmington Star-News)
  
  
• One season featured nationally and internationally known North Carolina composers who came to the concerts and provided the audience with the opportunity to ask questions before the concert. It was stimulating to hear the composers talk about their creative process and to hear them give their take on that evening's program. (Wilma)
  
  
• The concerts give the standards - Bartok, Granados and Haydn - that people know, plus fresh compositions like North Carolina composer Ben Johnson's "Amazing Grace." (Encore)
  
  
• Intimacy at a symphony orchestra concert is as rare as a Stradivarius violin. But getting close to the audience is everything for Chamber Music Wilmngton. ("Currents," Wilmington Star News)
  
  
• Eyes meet. Smiles are exchanged. Arms move with passion and conviction. Fingers fly in a frenzy of emotion. Hmmm...this could be...no, it's not what you think; it's chamber music! And it is this marvelous interplay between musicians and their music making that irresistibly draws you into their private world. (Encore)