The National Chamber Ensemble 2007/2008 Season has ended. You can see more of the NCE through occasional Summer Concerts. Check here for further updates on summer concerts and next season's schedule! 
THE STEINWAY SERIES
Sunday, July 13th, 2008 3:00pm at Smithsonian's Museum of American Art

2007-2008 SEASON

Concert 1 (past -- pictures/videos)

GROOVIN TO THE CLASSICS
Saturday November 10, 2007 7:30 pm at The Rossyln Spectrum

Concert 2   (past -- pictures/videos)

THREE TRIOS
Saturday January 12, 2008 7:30pm at The Rossyln Spectrum

Concert 3  (past -- pictures/videos)
THE GLORIOUS STRING QUARTET
Saturday April 5, 2008 7:30pm at The Rossyln Spectrum

On a family trip to the south of Germany The 18-year-old Felix Mendelssohn became romantically smitten. The infatuation passed, but not before Mendelssohn, with adolescent hormones a-pumping, wrote a song to a poem by his friend Johann Gustav Droyson, “Frage” (“Questions"). The text has to do with young love. That motto would also serve as the central musical theme and emotional engine of Mendelssohn’s A-Minor String Quartet.

Czech composer Antonin Dvorak spent the summer of 1893 in village of Spillville, Iowa. Of his time there, Dvorak said "As for my "New World" Symphony, the F major String Quartet and the Quintet (composed here in Spillville) -- I would never have written these works 'just so' if I hadn't seen America."