Zenith Chamber Music Festival

Zenith Chamber Music Festival The Zenith Chamber Music Festival is an annual summer concert series in Des Moines highlighting local, national, and international artists.

This festival is dedicated to highlighting professional musicians from across the globe as well as local artists. The mission and goals of the festival include:

1) Enhancing arts in the community through innovative programming.
2) Offering performances in diverse and unique and intimate venues.
3) Collaborating with area educators to provide interactive community outreach.
4) Building strong comm

unity ties through creative partnerships with local and regional businesses.
5) Celebrating the arts by bringing world-renowned artists to the area to perform for and alongside local artists. The festival is a free community event with focus on bringing classical music to various venues for Des Moines audiences and is funded by generous support from patrons and business sponsorship. The structure of the festival, which includes both highly regarded professional musicians and selected aspiring professionals, also provides opportunities for mentoring young artists. All concerts are free admission.

07/17/2026

Zenith wouldn’t be what it is today without YOU!

We love sharing this music festival with our community and appreciate each and every person who came out to experience these lovely performances with us!

Thank you, and see you next June😉

With support from Bravo Greater Des Moines, the Zenith Chamber Music Festival hosted its 12th season in June! Each seaso...
07/08/2026

With support from Bravo Greater Des Moines, the Zenith Chamber Music Festival hosted its 12th season in June!

Each season, our concert series concludes with a performance that features the Zenith Virtuosi. Through this program, Zenith aims to provide young musicians with opportunities to unleash their artistic potential.

Plus, with support from our donors and Bravo, all of our performances are FREE to the public.

Thank you, Bravo, for supporting our mission!

If you missed them at Zenith, here is your chance to see the amazing Jupiter String Quartet in action! Tune in to see th...
06/30/2026

If you missed them at Zenith, here is your chance to see the amazing Jupiter String Quartet in action! Tune in to see these upcoming streamed performances!

So happy to see that our Bowdoin concerts will be livestreamed on The Violin Channel! Tune in on July 20th at 7:30PM (ET) for our performance with the Ying Quartet and on August 3rd at 7:30PM (ET) for our concert of Haydn, Clarice Assad, and Brahms.

Zenith’s 12th season ended with performances by the Jupiter String Quartet and the Zenith Virtuosi on Saturday evening!T...
06/15/2026

Zenith’s 12th season ended with performances by the Jupiter String Quartet and the Zenith Virtuosi on Saturday evening!

Thank you to everyone who came out to support this year’s festival!

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On Friday, the Jupiter String Quartet played their beautiful program at Grace United Methodist Church!See them perform o...
06/13/2026

On Friday, the Jupiter String Quartet played their beautiful program at Grace United Methodist Church!

See them perform one more time TONIGHT at Sheslow Auditorium with the Zenith Virtuosi!

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🎶Zenith presents the Jupiter String Quartet, featuring the Zenith Virtuosi, in the final FREE concert of Zenith's 12th s...
06/12/2026

🎶Zenith presents the Jupiter String Quartet, featuring the Zenith Virtuosi, in the final FREE concert of Zenith's 12th season! See these talented performers on June 13th at Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University.

For more information, head to zenithchambermusicfestival.org

🎶See you TONIGHT for Jupiter String Quartet at Zenith's FREE concert! Come out to Grace United Methodist Church in Des M...
06/12/2026

🎶See you TONIGHT for Jupiter String Quartet at Zenith's FREE concert! Come out to Grace United Methodist Church in Des Moines at 7pm.

Find more information at zenithchambermusicfestival.org

Duo Scorpio performed for Day 2 at Valley Community Center! This dynamic harp duo showed off the versatility of the inst...
06/11/2026

Duo Scorpio performed for Day 2 at Valley Community Center! This dynamic harp duo showed off the versatility of the instrument!

Join us for more concerts this week!

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🎶Zenith presents the Jupiter String Quartet, featuring the Zenith Virtuosi, in the final FREE concert of Zenith's 12th s...
06/06/2026

🎶Zenith presents the Jupiter String Quartet, featuring the Zenith Virtuosi, in the final FREE concert of Zenith's 12th season! See these talented performers on June 13th at Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University.

For more information, head to zenithchambermusicfestival.org

Join the Zenith Chamber Music Festival in Des Moines for a week of live chamber music every June.

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2507 University Ave
Des Moines, IA
50311

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