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

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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

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!

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...

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

Fine Arts Chamber Players (FACP) proudly announces Texas Capital Bank is the Title Sponsor of the final concert of FACP’s 39th annual...

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Evan and Jonathan not only share a stage but a piano at the second concert of the 2019 Basically Beethoven Festival on Sunday, July 14....

All concerts are FREE. Families with children are welcome. Sundays in July: July 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29. Rising Star Recital at 2:30 pm,...

38th annual series spotlights local composers, range of instruments in free concerts We are thrilled to present the FREE 38th annual...