(upbeat music) - Park City Chamber Music Society's Chamber Music Festival is returning, and you won't wanna miss a single moment of this inspiring music.

Here with the details about this year's event is artistic director, Russell Harlow.

Hi, Russell.

- Hi, Laura.

How are you?

- Great.

Thanks for being here.

- My pleasure.

- I understand the festival, or the society's been around for 41 years.

- This is the 41st summer that we've been doing the beauty of chamber music.

- So this is a summer festival up in Park City.

Tell us how long the festival is, where people go to hear this music.

- Well, we're a six week festival.

It's probably the one of the longest in the country, as far as duration.

And so we're doing six weeks of great music.

A lot of players come in from all over the country, South America, and Canada.

And we perform at the Park City Community Church on Saturday evenings at 7:30.

Sunday afternoons at 5:00.

And free concerts in the park under the auspices of Mountain Town Music on Mondays.

Monday evenings.

- Wow.

So that's a busy... - We're busy.

- That's a busy schedule.

Yeah, and those venues are gorgeous.

And, you know, whether you're listening to music inside that church or outside, and Park City's just a lovely setting.

- [Russell] It is.

So why did you choose Park City?

- Why did we choose?

Well, actually it was Leslie, my wife and the director, the founder director of the festival.

In 1983, she came here to be an extra player with the Utah Symphony.

She played viola, and thought, "Wow, this is a great place for chamber music."

And in 1983, Deer Valley was one year old.

- [Laura] Yeah.

- It was brand new.

And so nothing was happening up there.

So she thought it was absolutely marvelous and she started it.

And some of the first people she brought were, you know, like Glenn Dicterow, a concert master of the New York Philharmonic.

- And you have equally excellent artists coming up.

- Equally, absolutely.

- Thank you so much for being here.

And if you would like to learn more about the Park City Chamber Music Society's Festival, it begins July 13th.

It's a six week long series.

You can check the website for times.

You can visit pccms.org.

I'm Laura Durham.

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