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Individual tickets are available for all of our concerts but our subscription rate provides great savings as well as helping to assure the ongoing financial stability of our society. All concerts are held at St. Peter the Fisherman Church, Jackson Street in downtown Fairmont,WV at 3:00 PM or 7:30 PM on Sunday evenings.
St. Peter may be entered with low physical effort through the side entrance and a new elevator has been installed.
Contact John Ashton for advance tickets. Tickets are available at the door. St. Peters is a large church with beautiful acoustics. We'll see you there.
These programs are presented with financial assistance from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Our CORPORATE PATRON is Fairmont General Hospital. Thank you all for your support.

Our 2008-2009 Season

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BRAVO!!!  October 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM Marcia Henry Liebenow Violinist Marcia Henry Liebenow, concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra and founding member of the Concordia String Trio will open our new season. Her recording of the three Grieg violin sonatas was released by Centaur Records in 2007 and she leads an active career as a recitalist, chamber musician and soloist across the United States and abroad. She last played for us in February of 1992.

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BRAVO!!!  November 16, 2008 at 3:00 PM The Eaken Trio Granny nominated recording artists The Eaken Trio played for us last season in a snow and ice storm that limited attendance, so our board has invited them back to play for us again. The Eaken Trio has numerous commercial recordings under both the Naxos and Catalpa Classics labels, they are heard regularly on classical music radio including NPR’s All things Considered and Performance Today. They maintain a rigorous touring schedule and in the last three years have returned for multiple tours in Europe with performances in England, France Germany and Italy. In June of 2008 they will be touring in China. Their second holiday radio program I’ll be Home for the Holidays was aired on over 150 stations nationwide for the last ten years and will be heard again this holiday season.

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BRAVO!!!  February 22, 2009 at 3:00 PM Cellist Richard Sher Cellist Richard Sher has appeared in major concert halls in Europe and New York in both recital and concerto appearances. He made his New York debut at 16, and at 18 became the youngest cellist ever to join the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The following year he became the youngest principal cellist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. At 20 he was a founding member of the famed Vermeer Quartet which concertized throughout Europe and the U.S.

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BRAVO!!!   April 5, 2009 at 7:30 PM Prima Trio Moved to Baptist Temple due to contruction. See flyer. Read and hear a recent WV PBS interview. The final program of our twenty-seventh season will feature the violin, clarinet and piano Prima Trio, Grand Prize and Gold Medal winners of the 2007 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. The Trio formed in 2004 at the Oberlin Conservatory, and made their European debut at Italy’s Emilia Romagna Festival. They have performed at the Kennedy Center in DC and throughout the United States.

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All (almost all) performances are held at St. Peter the Fisherman Church How to get there! Church web site 407 Jackson Street Fairmont, WV 26554-2941 in downtown Fairmont, West Virginia.

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Tax Deductibility of Donations
Fairmont Chamber Music Society, Inc. is recognized as a publicly supported organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Service Code. As such, donors who contribute to the Foundation may deduct their contributions as provided in Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Service Code. Bequests, legacies, devises, transfers or gifts to the FCMS Inc. or for its use are deductible for Federal estate and gift tax purposes if they meet the applicable provisions of sections 2055, 2106 and 2522 of the Code. In "English", this means that a donor may contribute to the FCMS, Inc. and take a tax deduction for that donation on their Federal Income Tax return.

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Officers / Board Members PRESIDENT: John Ashton Vice Pres: Alison Poland Treasurer: Ruth Brooks Secretary: Marcella Yaremchuk Members: Dr. Prasad Devabhaktuni, Dr. Harry Faulk, Dr. Michael Fulda, Alan Keiser, Joyce McVicker, Kenneth Miller, Frances Moody, Dr. Michael Schroering, Dr. Stephen Smigocki, Captain Thomas F. Smith,USAF,retired, & James DeLong.