Cheers to a remarkable 2025! 🥹🥂Year after year, we continue to be amazed and humbled by our extraordinary musicians, partners, supporters, and ever-growing audience who make it all possible. 🎶
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for our record-breaking 2025 Newport Classical Music Festival! 29 concerts, 92 musicians, 205 pieces (plus plenty of encores), nearly 7,000 tickets sold, and over 200 students inspired through our free education engagements. We’re deeply grateful to our patrons, dedicated staff, incredible production crew, committed volunteers, generous sponsors, and brilliant artists for making this one of our most memorable festivals yet. 💙
While our summer concerts may be coming to a close, the music does not stop here. Join us for our year round Chamber Series and keep the music going all year long!
📸: Lisette Rooney @lisetterooneyphotography
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves! Less than a week until the 56th Newport Classical Music Festival is announced on March 25 at 10 AM! 🎉 🎶 🎻
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Next weekend —5/24— Rhode Island! @toomaiquintet will be playing on Newport Classical’s community concert series. Free show featuring music from Brazil, Cuba, U.S., Mexico, and Spain!
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Find info in @toomaiquintet bio - linktr.ee/toomaiquintet
Details:
——Sunday May 24, 2:30pm
——Newport Craft Brewing — 293 JT Connell Hwy, Newport, RI
@newportcraft
——Free admission
Program to include works by:
Antônio Carlos Jobim, Chiquinha Gonzaga, George Meyer, Tito Puente, Gisela Hernández, Léa Freire, Gilberto Gil, Manuel Ponce, Isaac Albéniz, and more!
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While there could only be one chosen design, we were truly blown away by the creativity and care behind every submission to the 2026 Newport Classical Poster Competition. It was such a joy to review such a strong and inspiring group of designs. 💙
Today, we’re highlighting just a few of the many incredible submissions we received. Thank you to every artist who generously shared their creativity and vision with us. We were genuinely impressed by the range of work submitted and are so grateful to everyone who was part of this process.
We hope you enjoy celebrating these talented artists with us!
We are so pleased to announce the winning poster design for the 2026 Newport Classical Poster Competition! Congratulations to Devon Rea, an artist and designer based in the UK, on his winning design! 🎉🔥🎶
Devon writes: “My design intends to tackle the challenge of contrasting both the intimacy of a small concert and the grandeur Newport Classical’s venues in a single image…merging instrument and architecture into a single form. This visual fusion reflects the festival’s unique identity. World-class music that is experienced up close within historic, grand spaces. By blending tactile detail with architectural presence, the design captures Newport Classical as both deeply personal and timelessly monumental: a living art form rooted in place, light, and connection. The result is an inviting, quietly confident image that positions the festival as both a cultural destination and a deeply personal encounter with music.”
You’ll be hearing more about Devon and his work in the coming weeks! Be on the lookout around town as the posters start making their way up!
With dozens of submissions, we were honored, humbled, and truly blown away by the range of designs and the amount of talent showcased in every single entry. Later this week, we’ll also be highlighting some of the incredible designs we received.
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Newport Classical through Samuel’s eyes 🥹 There are only two more concerts left in our Chamber Series! Join us this Friday with pianist Zijian Wei. 🔗 in bio!
PROJECT Trio through the eyes of our youngest audience members 🥹 💙
Our next free concert is on Sunday, May 24 at @newportcraft with @toomaiquintet ! ☀️ 🎻
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PROJECT Trio brought the house down! 🎶 Taking our audience on a genre-bending ride, they presented an incredibly fun and energetic free concert, featuring everything from classical, jazz, Greg Pattillo’s signature beatboxing on the flute, and more. 😎💃🏻🎷
These free concerts are generously presented as part of the BankNewport Community Concerts Series. Thank you, BankNewport, for sponsoring this series and helping make classical music more accessible in our community!
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