Basically Beethoven celebrates its 45th year at its annual Basically Beethoven Festival, three free concerts featuring a crowd-pleasing repertoire performed by exceptional professional classical musicians. The festival will take place on Sundays, July 12, 19, and 26, 2026, beginning at 2:30 PM (Rising Stars) and 3:00 PM (Featured Performers) at Moody Performance Hall. RSVP at www.basicallybeethoven.org

BBF25 Wrap-up; BB Hallam Season 2025 - 2026 Announcement

DALLAS, TX – June 20, 2025 – Basically Beethoven announces its summer festival series, three free concerts featuring exceptional professional local classical musicians and celebrating the organization's commitment to music education in its Rising Star segment. The festival will take place on Sundays, July 13, 20, and 27, 2025, beginning at 2:30 PM (Rising Star) and 3:00 PM (Featured Performer) at Moody Performance Hall in Dallas.

The nonprofit's annual festival returns next month at Moody Performance hall, featuring a young pianist and Basically Beethoven student on July 27 as a Rising Star

We're proud to announce that one of our Music Residency students is featured on NPR's "From the Top" this week! “From the Top” is America’s largest national platform celebrating young classically-trained musicians and is broadcast on WRR in Dallas, Saturdays at noon. Basically Beethoven's Music Residency program entirely subsidizes professional teaching artists in Dallas schools that lack robust music programs.

Basically Beethoven is proud to announce the 2024 - 2025 Basically Beethoven Hallam Concert Series, set to take place at Central Commons (47

DALLAS (August 1, 2024) – Fine Arts Chamber Players, now known as Basically Beethoven, is thrilled to announce the successful conclusion of the 2024 Basically Beethoven Festival, with a record-breaking total of 1608 patrons attending the three free concerts held at Moody Performance Hall. This marks an impressive increase in attendance compared to last year, with an average of 536 attendees per concert—33 more patrons per concert than in the previous year. Despite hosting one

Basically Beethoven is pleased to announce the free 2024 Basically Beethoven Festival at Moody Performance Hall in July.

Fine Arts Chamber Players is now Basically Beethoven!

Fine Arts Chamber Players announces Hallam Family Concert series dates, players, and repertoire DALLAS (Sept 23, 2023) – Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP) is pleased to announce the Hallam Family Concert series will be performed live Saturdays at 3:00pm at several Dallas venues. Finalized dates for 2023 are Sept 30th at Moody Performance Hall and November 4th at Wilshire Baptist Church. The Hallam Family Concert series includes 7 free chamber music concerts featuring many of D

Review by Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News - 9:57 AM on Jul 31, 2023 A fine finale for this year’s Basically Beethoven Festival Piano quartets by Mozart and Schumann got spirited but subtly inflected performances. Even “name” chamber music ensembles, let alone ad-hoc groups of “name” musicians assembled for individual concerts, don’t reliably play with the care and polish demonstrated by five area musicians Sunday afternoon at Moody Performance Hall. This was the last

Review by Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News 9:33 AM on Jul 24, 2023: This year’s Basically Beethoven Festival is on a roll Violinist Chloé Trevor and pianist Alex McDonald gave vivid performances of Beethoven and Stravinsky. For the third week in a row, the Basically Beethoven Festival had a winning concert Sunday afternoon. This time, the performers were violinist Chloé Trevor and pianist Alex McDonald, both of whom have roots in the area. Both have degrees from major

Review by Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News: Basically Beethoven presents a lively program for winds and piano Musicians from the Fort Worth Symphony and Dallas Opera Orchestra played with pizzazz and poetry. There were times in past years when performances in the annual Basically Beethoven Festival, presented by the Fine Arts Chamber Players, weren’t quite as polished as you’d hear in main season concerts. This year, at least in the first two concerts, there’s been no

Review by Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News: Impressive new chamber orchestra, piano trio open Basically Beethoven Festival The Metamorphosis Dallas Chamber Orchestra and Yolutra Trio were both excellent. With any luck, the new Metamorphosis Dallas Chamber Orchestra will become a vital, ongoing presence on the North Texas classical music scene. In its debut concert Sunday afternoon at Moody Performance Hall, the conductorless group performed with skill and suavity in an

DALLAS (June 7, 2023) – Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP) is pleased to announce the 2023 Basically Beethoven Festival (BBF) will be...

Go to our Hallam Family Concerts page to RSVP - looking forward to seeing you there! You can read all about it HERE as well

Join us in July for the 2022 Basically Beethoven Festival!

Click here to RSVP New Stages, Same Standard of Excellence Free chamber music series moves around Dallas; registration required September 24, 2021 – After 18 months of online programming, Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP) is pleased to announce the 2021/2022 season of its FREE Hallam Family Concerts returns to the stage, performed live before an audience. A cornerstone of FACP’s public programming, the Hallam Family Concerts are seven free chamber music performances feat

Fine Arts Chamber Players announces its summer series, the Basically Beethoven Festival, will be produced online in July 2021. For the second consecutive year, FACP will record and share Festival performances for the Basically Beethoven Festival-in-Place. Musicians will be recorded in a concert setting and the footage will premiere online as scheduled: July 11, July 18, and July 25 at 3:00 p.m. Long-time attendees will note this is a slight shift from the usual 2:30 p.m. curt

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