The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra begins an exciting new chapter with a three-concert Chamber Music Series featuring Atlanta Symphony Orchestra musicians and guest artists at the new Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families beginning January 30.

The premiere concert heralds the grand opening of the Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families, offering audience members a new way to experience music performed by small ensembles of ASO musicians. They offer a fresh reimagining of celebrated works, including Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances, arranged for woodwind quintet, and Rossini's Une Larme for cello quartet. Chamber works from Wagner, Janáček, and Mozart round out the performance by Gina Hughes (flute), Zach Boeding (oboe), Jesse McCandless (clarinet), Alcides Rodriguez (bass clarinet), Cameron Bonner (bassoon), Andrew Burhans (French horn) and cellists Tommy Carpenter, Ray Kim, Isabel Kwon and Nathan Mo.

The next concert in the series on March 8 features harpsichordist Chloé Sévère performing The Wild Harpsichord, a charming one-woman show that portrays the life of a harpsichordist through arrangements of popular tunes, inviting audiences to experience the harpsichord in a new light. Sévère later joins the Orchestra and Nathalie Stutzmann for Bach's B minor Mass, performing in the basso continuo.

The third installment of the Chamber Music Series on April 26 is part of the ASO’s America @ 250 series, featuring a performance of Dvořák’s iconic “American” Quartet. Barber's powerful String Quartet in B minor includes the original version of the famous melody that he eventually turned into the Adagio for Strings. Rounding out the concert are works from rising-star José Elizondo and a world premiere by Atlanta Symphony Orchestra flutist Robert Cronin. This celebration of American chamber music features ASO flutists Robert Cronin and Gina Hughes, violinists Kevin Chen, Lauren Roth-Gómez, Olga Shpitko and Yaxin Tan, violists Yang Yoon Kim and Yiyin Li, and cellists Ray Kim and Isabel Kwon.

The ASO Chamber Music Series showcases more intimate musical explorations at the newly renovated Goizueta Stage for Youth & Families (formerly the Rich Theater), opening January 30.