Is there is a whiff of conspiracy about Chamber Music at Bethany's season-opener? Or it all just a simple misunderstanding?

No, no, no. Nothing of the sort. We at CM@B are simply here to serenade you with the musical best that two (totally-not-conspiring) countries, Russia and America, have to offer.

CM@B Co-Directors Yasuko Oura and Tim Munro will be joined by a string quartet made up of some of Chicago's best players, and busy bass baritone Sam Handley, a rising Chicago star praised for “his rich, burnished” voice.

For our third concert, Co-Artistic Director Yasuko Oura will be joined by Emily Birsan, soprano, Nathalie Joachim, flute, and Nicholas Photinos, cello for mostly French chamber music.

Co-Artistic Director Tim Munro will be joined by some of Chicago's finest chamber musicians in music for winds and strings, including Mozart's beloved Clarinet Quintet, with clarinetist Cory Tiffin, and a quirky suite by Telemann.

MUSIC OF BRAHMS, MAHLER, AND COPLAND