The Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival celebrates its 26th season with a series of concerts including a free community performance on September 12. The eclectic program for strings, clarinet, and piano features music from Brazil as well as short works by classical composers Niccolò Paganini, de Beriot, Rebecca Clarke, Osmo Vänskä, and others in a one-hour lunchtime concert, with no tickets or registration necessary. Cellists Edward Arron and Raphael Bell, pianist Cristian Budu, violinists Jennifer Frautschi, Erin Keefe, Muriel Razavi, and Timothy Summers, and clarinetist Osmo Vänskä perform.
Friday 9/12. Free, 12:30pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. cvillechambermusic.org
