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Happy New Year!
Happy Holidays and warm New Year wishes from Camerata! As we look ahead to the heart of the season, we're carrying forward the spirit that shaped our recent concerts: thoughtful programming, close musical conversation, and performers who bring both rigor and warmth to...
Moving our concerts back to Loucks Auditorium
When the Salem Public Library built Loucks Auditorium in 1991, Camerata Musica was delighted to move its concerts from the Library’s Anderson Room into Loucks. Loucks became our home. Of course Covid stopped that. We were ready to resume concerts before the Library...
2025-26 Camerata Musica Season is in Full Swing!
If you were at our last concert with the Dave Brubeck Tribute Band, we don't have to tell you how much fun it was! Wow! What a time! At our next concert - November 9th. Tomás Cotik, Grace Choi, and Steven Pologe will perform a concert of wonderful duos and piano...
Dave Brubeck Tribute Band
An outstanding performance by the Thunderegg Consort opened our season in September. This weekend, Oct. 5, we look forward to the best of jazz, with the Dave Brubeck Tribute band. It's 2:30 at the Unitarian Universalist congregation of Salem.
Noah on KMUZ About Our New Season
Cellist and Camerata board president Noah Seitz was interviewed Sept. 18 on KMUZ radio. He talked about the upcoming season, this weekend's concert featuring the Thunderegg Consort, and other ensembles performing in our 25-26 season. If you'd like to hear...
September 16, 2025
Our audience has not rebounded after Covid. People are gradually finding their way back, but not to the audience numbers we were used to. We regret that budget cuts at the Salem Public Library keep us out of our home in Loucks Auditorium. But the Unitarian...
December 1st, 2021
We had a superb concert on Sunday, and I was pleased that our audience was up to over 80 people. This is still far below our normal pre-Covid audience, but significantly higher than the 50-something of our first two concerts this fall. Our lineup of concerts for 2022...
November 12th, 2021
Project Chamber Music has presented concerts in the Elsinore for the last several years, and will again Friday, November 19. The force behind this is Caitlyn Lynch, who grew up in Salem and got an excellent musical start here. She is now the violist of the Aeolus...
November 9th, 2021
We now have a January concert scheduled! Hammers and Bows is a piano trio: Casey Bozell, violin; John Hubbard, cello, and Chris Engbretson, piano. Their concert will be January 23. It will be at our usual time of 2:30. Their blockbuster program will include the...