The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota will present a free summer concert by the Northern Lights Chamber Music Institute (NLCMI) on Monday, Aug. 18, at 7 p.m., at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cook. It will be a program of quartets, quintets, sextets, octets and full string orchestra.

This evening of beautiful chamber music will be performed by 33 outstanding young artists, many from our region but also this year from Boston, Chicago, Utah, California, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. The NLCMI is an annual summer institute where 11 days of intense chamber music studies take place at Camp Vermilion on Lake Vermilion. Gifted young musicians of college and high school age, along with internationally acclaimed faculty will participate in this concert.

The NLCMI faculty are Ariana Kim, GRAMMY nominated violin professor at Cornell University; Young-Nam Kim, founding Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota; Daniel Kim, violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Orsen, violist of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; and Michelle Djokic, former principal cellist of the San Francisco Symphony.

The program will be invigorating and consist of engrossing works by Boccherini, Bruch, Dittersdorf, Dvorak, Harbison, Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Mozart, Pleyel, Schulhoff, Schubert, Schumann, Shostakovich, Smetana and Telemann. At the conclusion of the concert, all participants play together in a full string orchestra.

The Northern Lights Chamber Music Institute is the premiere educational wing of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Young-Nam Kim and Ariana Kim, co-artistic directors.