New photos page
For a look at some of the performers -- and audience members -- at recent concerts, please click here.

Please email us
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions you would like to make about our program, players, venues, etc., write to us at info@musicaloffering.org.

2007–2008 schedule
Click here to get a complete schedule for the new music year.

Background music
When this page comes up, you should hear Franz Schubert's String Quartet No. 14, Death and the Maiden, performed by the Musical Offering, October 2005, at the Weisman Art Museum. (If the music does not start automatically, click here.)

The Musical Offering began in 1971 as a quintet — for piano, violin, cello, flute, and oboe.

Jane Garvin, the Musical Offering's flutist, warms up before the Oct. 14, 2007 concert.

In the mid-1980s, he group added four instruments — viola, clarinet, bassoon, and bass — and now play everything from duets to nonets.   

In four annual concerts, the Offering present an outstanding repertoire of chamber music — rare, and rarely heard, combinations of instruments and sounds, as well as familiar pieces, from the 18th-through- 21st-century chamber music repertoire.

In 2007– 2008, our 36th season, the Offering present chamber music from Germany, France, England, Bohemia, Russia, and America.

	Douglas Wright, guest trombonist,, gets ready for the Offering's inaugural Oct. 14  concert.

While some programs include well-known composers and works (Beethoven's Ghost Trio), others invoke less often heard and appreciated ghosts (Blackwood's Sonata, Reger's Clarinet Quintet).

Please join us for our 36th season at the Sundin Music Hall, at Hamline University. It's an intimate and acoustically equisite venue, where you can get close to the players ... and see, and hear, everything.

As always, this exquisite music comes at a price you can easily afford.

For the new 2007– 2008 program, click here.

And here for prices and tickets.