Each August Staunton proudly hosts "Virginia's world-class music festival" (Travel + Leisure), which brings more than 90 world-class musicians from around the world to the Blue Ridge Mountains to perform for ten consecutive days and nights of eclectic chamber, vocal, and symphonic music. All performances are held entirely in historic downtown Staunton.​

The Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project is a three-part, free concert series curated by Nicholas DiEugenio which brings UNC's historical instrument collection together with artists committed to presenting inspired, visceral, historically informed performances of the 19th-century chamber music repertoire.

Stylish. HIP. Inspired.

This season's programming features music of female composers and their artistic circles, and takes advantage of UNC Chapel Hill's collection of historic pianos such as its 1843 Pleyel and Graf replica built by Rodney Regier. This concert features pianist Mimi Solomon and guest cellist Raman Ramakrishnan, and Nicholas joins them in the North Carolina premiere of Amanda Maier's Piano Trio.

Prague Panorama: Mozart and Dvorak

September 26, 7:30 pm, recital

September 27, masterclass

Works of Bach, Pisendel, and Telemann.

Called a “fast-rising group of period-instrumentalists,” by the NY Times, The Sebastians’ 2022 series debut astounded all in attendance. Approaching early music with a fiery intensity, this thrilling group brings energy and elegance to baroque works featuring Bach’s Fourth Brandenburg Concerto.

Concerti by Bach, Pisendel, and Telemann
with the Brandenburg Fourth Concerto

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2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the founding by Frederick Renz of the Early Music Foundation (EMF) and its performance arm, Early Music New York.

As part of the Fall 2024 Staunton Music Festival Recital Series, Nicholas joins cellist James Wilson and fortepianist Carsten Schmidt and the festival's 1830 Graf fortepiano built by Rodney Regier in a performance of the three Schumann Piano Trios.

The Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project is a three-part, free concert series curated by Nicholas DiEugenio which brings UNC's historical instrument collection together with artists committed to presenting inspired, visceral, historically informed performances of the 19th-century chamber music repertoire.

Stylish. HIP. Inspired.

This season's programming features music of female composers and their artistic circles, and takes advantage of UNC Chapel Hill's collection of historic pianos such as its 1843 Pleyel and Graf replica built by Rodney Regier. Nicholas joins pianist Mimi Solomon and UNC Chapel Hill's 1843 Pleyel to explore music of Pauline Viardot and her circle, including Gabriel Faure's iconic Violin Sonata in A Major, op. 13.

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Get in the holiday spirit with The Sebastians, the acclaimed New York early music ensemble with Michigan native harpsichordist Jeffrey Grossman, making their CM Detroit début with a spirited program of joyful Baroque works. Celebrate the season with Handel, Corelli, and others, and be swept away by Vivaldi’s infectious La Folia!

MYCO students perform side-by-side with co-Artistic Director Nicholas DiEugenio and other professional chamber musicians from across the U.S. in a conductor-less chamber orchestra performance.

Jointly presented by Mallarmé Music and the UNC Chapel Hill Newman Series, TENET Vocal Artists visits North Carolina to share deeply expressive music from Claudio Monteverdi’s Italy and Henry Purcell’s England. Among the ensemble’s specialties, TENET explores the rich and fruitful way baroque composers crafted duets as a way to double the impact of a single idea through the use of two voices or instruments with powerful and dazzling results.

TENET Vocal Artists: Jolle Greenleaf and Clara Rottsalk, sopranos, Nicholas DiEugenio and Kako Boga, violins, Daniel Swenberg, theorbo, Jeffrey Grossman, harpsichord

Nicholas brings his "Inspired by Bach" project to The Belvedere Series. The full-length performance of all six of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin is also accompanied by Nicholas' 31 original works of visual art inspired by each of the Bach movements.

Nicholas joins cellist James Wilson and pianist Mimi Solomon in a 19th-century arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Seasons for Piano Trio by Alexander Goedicke. The performance features excerpts of interpolated poetry, narrative, and other writings.

The Gut Instinct Chamber Music Project is a three-part, free concert series curated by Nicholas DiEugenio which brings UNC's historical instrument collection together with artists committed to presenting inspired, visceral, historically informed performances of the 19th-century chamber music repertoire.

Stylish. HIP. Inspired.

This season's programming features music of female composers and their artistic circles, and takes advantage of UNC Chapel Hill's collection of historic pianos such as its 1843 Pleyel and Graf replica built by Rodney Regier.

Along with Mimi Solomon and UNC's Graf fortepiano, Nicholas joins violinist Kako Boga, violist Jessica Troy, and cellists Keiran Campbell and James Wilson in historically informed, visceral performances of Schubert's awe-inspiring cello quintet as well as Fanny Mendelssohn's heart-stopping Piano Trio.

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with Julie Bosworth, soprano, Kako Boga, violin, James Wilson, cello, Adam Cockerham, theorbo

with Julie Bosworth, soprano, Kako Boga, violin, James Wilson, cello, Adam Cockerham, theorbo

Confessions revives a rarely heard gallant work for Soprano, Alto, and Bass with chamber orchestra titled Confitebor by Baldassare Galuppi. The show also features Vivaldi’s La Follia and sacred arias from Salve Regina and Nisi Dominus, as well as a trio sonata by Johann Adolph Hasse. All of these composers understood the healing power of music through their work at Italian Ospedale.

BaroqueFest 2025 assembles 25 superlative musicians for a weekend devoted to J. S. Bach, his music, and the composers who inspired him.  Featured works include the St. John Passion (complete), Orchestral Suites, selections from The Musical Offering and Art of the Fugue, concertos and cantatas, as well as two dozen pieces by composers who influenced Bach, including Vivaldi, Buxtehude, Biber, Pachelbel, Couperin, and others.

All concerts feature acclaimed period-instrument performers. Seven programs include music for voices, orchestra, and chamber ensembles and feature historical keyboards.

The Luby Symposium at UNC Chapel Hill brings world-renowned faculty chamber musicians together with undergraduate, graduate, and young artist students from universities, schools of music, and conservatories across the country.