The Vicksburg Chamber Music Festival, in its 11th year, kicks off Sunday evening and will run weekly through May 2.

Vicksburg Chamber Music Festival

The series kicks off at 5 p.m. Sunday and will run weekly — same time, same day — through May 2. Tickets are $15 per person at the door. A reception will follow each concert.

The schedule:

• Sunday — Pianist Minju Choi of South Korea; Crawford Street United Methodist Church, 900 Crawford St., 601-636-5612.

• April 25 —  Hsiaopei Lee, Alexander Russankovsky and Theresa Sanchez presenting the music of composer Frederic Chopin; First Presbyterian chapel, 1501 Cherry St., 601-636-1200.

• May 2 — Mississippi Symphony Brass Quintet; Mary Harwood House, 600 Fort Hill Drive, 601-636-9421.

The event — presented by Four Seasons of the Arts, a local nonprofit arts organization — will feature music by the Mississippi Symphony Brass Quintet as well as international, award-winning performers, including one of the Chamber Music Festival’s founding members.

“We feel like it’s a real milestone that we’ve been able to continue to offer this event,” said coordinator Frances Koury. “We’ve been able to continue because of a supportive community and sponsors.”

Admission is $15 per person per event.

“This kind of music takes you back to another time and place,” Koury said.

Solo pianist Minju Choi will open the series Sunday. Choi, who began playing piano at age 4, has performed as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician with the Shreveport and Indianapolis symphonies, Music Academy of the West and Juilliard orchestras. A South Korean who grew up in Indiana, Choi has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School and a doctorate from Stony Brook University. She has studied in Paris and Hannover, Germany.

Second in the series will be an April 25 performance by violist Hsiaopei Lee, cellist Alexander Russankovsky and pianist Theresa Sanchez. They will present the music of Polish composer Frederic Chopin.

Lee, who has performed on three continents, has been on the strings faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi since 2005 and is the lead violist of the Meridian Symphony Orchestra. She studied in Taiwan and has a master’s degree from Columbia University Teachers College in New York and a doctorate in musical arts from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Russankovsky, a graduate of Yale University and the University of Santa Barbara, has performed in Russia, Israel, Europe, Taiwan, Latin America and the U.S. In 2001, he joined the music faculty at Southern Miss.

Sanchez, a Jones County Junior College faculty member, was the founding artistic administrator of the Chamber Music Festival. She has performed with the International Music Institute in Pontlevoy, France, as well as in Canada and across the U.S.

Closing out the series on May 2 will be a performance by the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra’s Brass Quintet on the lawn of the Mary Harwood Home on Fort Hill Drive. The quintet features Darcie Bishop and Wayne Linehan on trumpet, Richard Hudson on French horn, David Dick on trombone and Wade Rackley on tuba.

Bishop has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in trumpet performance from Juilliard and a doctorate from the University of Mississippi. Linehan has a bachelor’s in music education and a master’s in trumpet performance, and is working on his doctorate in musical arts. Hudson is the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra’s director of operations and personnel manager. Dick is the lead trombone player for the symphony and its brass quintet. He has bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees. Rackley is the MSO’s lead tuba player and is a tuba instructor at Millsaps College.

Contact Manivanh Chanprasith at mchan@vicksburgpost.com