• Exceptional Chamber Music

    Featuring Olga Kern, Orava Quartet, VAF Chamber Players, and more!

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Welcome to the Virginia Arts Festival's 2026 Chamber Music Series!

Our Connie & Marc Jacobson Director of Chamber Music, the Van Cliburn Gold Medalist pianist Olga Kern, has assembled irresistible programs that match world-renowned artists with chamber classics — a veritable who's who of great music.

Hear selections from master composers Hailstork, Brahms, Still, and more in beautiful venues across Hampton Roads, performed by the Orava Quartet, Alexandre Da Costa, Tommy Mesa and the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players.

We hope you will join us again and again!

Meet the Musicians

  • Olga Kern, piano

    Conn & Mark Jacobson Director of Chamber Music

  • Mayu Kuroda Cipriano

    Violin

  • Alexandre Da Costa

    Violin

  • Brendon Elliott

    Violin

  • Beverly Kane Baker

    Viola

  • Michael Daniels

    Cello

  • Tommy Mesa

    Cello

  • Debra Wendells Cross

    Flute

  • Alexander Mayer

    Oboe

  • Chris Creviston

    Saxohone

  • Hannah Creviston

    Piano

  • Orava String Quartet