User:JohnnaBandy/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival

The Yale School of Music in Norfolk
When Ellen Battell died in 1939, she left her home "in a private trust with instructions that the facilities be used for a summer music school operated by Yale University." Shortly After, the Yale Summer School of Music was established in 1941. Since that time, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival has played host to thousands of emerging young professional musicians. Today the Festival offers intensive tuition-free programs each summer to approximately eighty students in chamber music, new music and choral repertoire.

copied from Norfolk Chamber Music Festival

History
Father of Ellen started concert series after wanting to have more than the one occasional concert every now and then.

Ellen and her husband Carl held concerts in their home.

Litchfield County Choral Union.

Nicola Laucella wrote and premiered a piece about his experiences at the festival.