The 2025-26 CMLV season launches with an ensemble comfortably ensconced in the tradition of classical chamber music (founded at Juilliard in 2003, has programmed 68 Haydn string quartets and all of Beethoven’s, residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, performs at all the right international venues, etc.). And yet, the quartet is also and often wildly unconventional.

It was love at first note for our audience when Young Concert Artists’ chamber music touring ensemble—YCA On Tour—kicked off CMLV’s 72nd season last year. Now—ASAP—they’re back! Sort of. Every year, the prestigious musical incubator and artist management organization sends out a different mix of fresh talent and instrumentation.

CMLV hearts the Claremont Trio. They have appeared on our stage four times in the quarter century since their founding at Juilliard in 1999. A fifth appearance scheduled in 2020 fell victim to the COVID pandemic, and we are so happy, at last, to welcome them back.

The Young Artist Residency offers a thrilling glimpse into Chamber Music Lehigh Valley’s reimagined future, where performance meets community and connection. Pianist Lucas Amory, violinist Leah Amory, clarinetist Anoush Pogossian, and cellist Elena Ariza bring together Ravel’s Sonata for Violin and Cello, Brahms’s Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114, and The Land of Armenia—a commission by Pogossian celebrating heritage and modern artistry—to illuminate how chamber music bridges generations, stories, and souls.

Conceived in Spain in 2006 as a “project” and established in New York city in 2013 as a bandoneonist-violist-cellist-pianist-flutist-dancers-visual artists performing group, currently the CreArtBox is chock full of performances, productions, programs, festivals, series, residencies, commissions, global touring, streaming, podcasts, magazines, and an online store where you can order caps, t-shirts, and tote bags.

As comfortable with Chick Corea and George Gershwin as with Bach, Schubert, and Debussy, these two cellists and a pianist deliver “original music, inventive covers, and twists on the classical canon” through crossover programming that includes “pop, folk, Broadway, and more.”