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May 2022 eNewsletter – What a Night!, 25th Season Artist Spotlight, Our 25th Season is Coming! August 4-20, 2022
April 2022 eNewsletter -Third Coast Percussion – April 16, 7:00 pm PT, Our 25th Season is Coming!
March 2022 eNewsletter – Great Young Pianists, A Peek Ahead to April: Third Coast Percussion!, Musical Memory Interlude, The 25th Season of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival is coming! August 4-20, 2022
February 2022 eNewsletter – Meet Mary!, Aloysia, Live, in Concert from Houston, This month’s Musical Memory Interlude, Mark your Calendars!
December 2021 eNewsletter – Beethoven is Back!, Musical Memory Interlude, Happy Holidays!
November 2021 eNewsletter – A Fantastic Evening, We’re hiring!, And now…a little music
September 2021 eNewsletter – Just a few of the many highlights of OICMF’s 24th Season August 6-21, 2021
August 2021 eNewsletter – Our 24th Season, Coming to You, Wherever You Are… , Additional In-Person Tickets!, OICMF Masks!
July 2021 eNewsletter – Tickets Now Available!, OICMF Masks!
June 2021 eNewsletter – Our 24th Season August 6-21, In-person Concert Ticketing, Livestreams
May 2021 eNewsletter – An Evening of Conversation with Composer Jake Heggie, Aloysia, could you please tell us a bit about the plans for our 24th Season, August 2021?, Who Needs Yo-Yo Ma?
April 2021 eNewsletter – Our 24th Season, Cooking with John Largess, Save the Date! An Evening of Conversation with Composer Jake Heggie, Thank You, Professor Parker
March 2021 eNewsletter – Great Composers Get a Makeover With Lisa Bergman, A Very Sweet Evening, Cooking with John Largess
February 2021 eNewsletter – Hearts of Gold Gala!, Save the Dates!, Celebrate!!!
January 2021 eNewsletter – Our newly freshened logo and a few colorful OICMf icons would like to take a bow, The Bowmakers – A Film, Gregory D’Agostino – Organist and Photographer, Save the Date – Hearts of Gold February 16, 2021
December 2020 eNewsletter – The Complete Beethoven Piano Trios – Live with the Gryphon Trio, Free Happy Birthday Beethoven Zoom Party!, Holiday Shopping, It’s not Too Late for more Beethoven!
November 2020 eNewsletter – From Second to First and Back Again: Roles and Leadership inside a Professional String Quartet. A Zoom Session withWill Fedkenheuer, Back by Popular Demand, for a Limited Time Only!, A Grammy Contender!, Orchestral Beethoven – A Message from Jon Kimura Parker, There’s More Coming, Save the Dates
October 2020 eNewsletter – A Fun and Helpful Zoom Session with Monique Mead, Have You Visited Us on Social Media Lately?
September 2020 eNewsletter – A Wonderfully Different 23rd Season!, Our Web Site has a new look!
April 2020 eNewsletter – A Message from our Founder and Artistic Director (view video here), An Unprecedented Exciting Opportunity
March 2020 eNewsletter – Spring is coming, and things are happening!, Local Boy Makes Good, We’re Hiring!
February 2020 eNewsletter – March Musician-in-Residence Monique Mead, In Memoriam Alan Morgan, Recipe of the Month
January 2020 eNewsletter – Tickets on Sale January 31 for Beethoven Quartets in June!, Learn to Conduct, Chamber Music at the Spa,
December 2019 eNewsletter – Postcard from Aloysia, Recipe of the Month: Aloysia shares Friedmann family favorite cookies, just in time for your holiday baking
November 2019 eNewsletter – Leaves of Gold 2019, Get Ready for The Beethoven Cycle, Recipe of the Month
October 2019 eNewsletter – Orcas Island in Houston!, Name That Chair!, Recipe of the Month, Upcoming Performances of Home
September 2019 eNewsletter – Our 22nd Season was a Wonderful Success!!!
August 2019 eNewsletter – Change to Meet the Composer Lecture
July 2019 eNewsletter – Guitar Workshop!, Meet the Composers, Recipe of the Month, Tickets now on Sale!
May 2019 eNewsletter – Good Times with Time for Three!, Rachel Buchman is Coming!, Early Birds!
Behind the Baton Date Correction – Monday, August 5th
April 2019 eNewsletter – The Time has Come for Time for Three, Festival Music Education!
March 2019 eNewsletter – We would like to dedicate this month’s Scherzo to the memory of Aloysia’s father, Martin Friedmann, who might also be called the father of OICMF. Here is his obituary – wonderful memories of a wonderful man. He shall be sorely missed.
February 2019 eNewsletter – Musicians-in-Residence: Aloysia Friedmann and Jon Kimura Parker, Let the Temptation Begin!, New Feature: Recipes from the Artists
January 16, 2019 eNewsletter – All the exciting details of our January Musicians in Residence!, Preview of Coming Attractions
January 8, 2019 eNewsletter – Musical America Top Professionals of the Year, January Musicians-in-Residence: Aloysia Friedmann and Jon Kimura Parker, A Golden Evening
December 1, 2018 eNewsletter – Postcard from Asia, Meet Leaves of Gold Artist
Artem Kuznetsov, Happy New Year!