About CMT

Chamber Music Today, an annual chamber music festival held in gorgeous Seoul, South Korea, presents the world's greatest chamber musicians with unique, thematic programming. Co-Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han carry the highest reputation as performers, artistic administrators, and educators.

The eighth annual Chamber Music Today festival, titled Beethoven Prelude, features David Finckel, Wu Han, and a cadre of world-renowned artists for the much-anticipated concerts in three of Seoul's most beautiful performance venues. The festival comprises three unique concert programs, each beginning with an early work from Beethoven’s catalogue as an entry point into remarkably colorful musical explorations. Featuring additional masterpieces by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Franck, and Schubert, as well as delightful new discoveries by lesser known composers, the Beethoven Prelude festival promises a thrilling exploration of the incomparably iconic composer’s earliest compositions and legacy.