CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026

The Chamber Music Festival Chania is delighted to welcome the Athens State Orchestra Wind Quintet, an ensemble with a long and distinguished artistic presence in Greek musical life. The ensemble joins forces with internationally acclaimed Russian pianist Alexei Volodin in one of the most beloved works ever written for winds and piano, Francis Poulenc’s Sextet.

If Poulenc’s Sextet evokes the atmosphere of an intimate conversation among close friends, Schubert’s String Quintet, which completes the evening’s program, opens a window onto the most spiritual and universal realms accessible to the human mind. One of the supreme masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire, this Quintet remains an endlessly fascinating journey to the very limits of human feeling, into a realm where the perception of time gives way to the immediate and disarming experience of transcendence.