Since 1973
Take a break from your busy life and enjoy one of life's gentler pleasures — chamber music at its best, in one of the most spectacular settings imaginable.
Making it happen
We strive to provide enriching experiences for everyone — locals and visitors, kids and grown-ups, classical fans and newcomers alike. Here's exactly what we are doing to serve the community, and to create new partnerships, programs, and capacity-building that makes the next decade of TCM possible.
Through an extended process with experienced consultants, partners, and community, we shaped a clear direction and actionable plan for the next five years of healthy operation and growth.
After extensive planning and development, our modern new site (you're using it now!) allows us to provide a better experience for users, while being significantly easier to maintain. This modern and flexible new site puts us in a position to expand in the future to improved booking and other new capabilities.
A program created at Allred's Restaurant designed specifically during a tough ski season to create extra paid performance opportunities for local musicians and support the restaurant staff by bringing in the crowds.
In 2025 we took chamber music concerts to the wider San Miguel community for the first time. We are excited to continue bringing music to the wider region, creating broader opportunities for musicians, and more warm summer evenings of free music with our neighbors in Norwood.
Telluride Theatre, community members, and musicians of the New York Philharmonic teamed up for a family-engaging production of Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf, a special collaboration brought together by Telluride Chamber Music.
We bring innovative modern artists to reach new audiences in our community, with unique, genre-blending performances at The Alibi. By experimenting with new types of performances and guest artists, we discover new ways to serve the community.
A new non profit collaboration giving our community concerts a larger, better-equipped home. This gorgeous venue on the river trail brings free classical music to everyone, dogs included.
Since 2022 we brought MusicFest and Telluride Chamber Music together in a wonderful partnership. 2026 sees the addition of new initiative with Telluride Academy and an extra musician - the wonderful clarinetist Alan Kay!
Want to see more opportunities in the community? Your support is the reason it happens.
Mission
Our mission is to present exceptional musical performances, educational programs, and events that inspire people to connect to the arts and our community. We achieve this in intimate and welcoming environments that create transformational experiences for audiences and artists alike.
Vision
A draw of Telluride is the feeling that the mountains give us — that there's something beyond ourselves. We mirror that experience in music. We envision a community where:
Values
Leadership
Claire Beard
Kathy Jepson — President
Mary Beth Mueller — Vice-President / Treasurer
Josie Preston — Secretary
Andy Atkinson
David Barmak
Jean Shimotake
Dominique Bruneau
Tom Stone
Roy Malan — Co-Founder
Gordon McPhee
Dalen Stevens
Executive & Artistic Director
Claire Beard
A Royal Academy of Music flautist who performed on London's great stages before making Telluride home — now shaping every TCM season.
