Ask Daniel Foster, a viola player with the National Symphony Orchestra, about performing in a chamber ensemble, and he will call it “a change of pace.”

“It’s a change of medium,” he continued. “It’s something very different, and so it keeps orchestra playing fresh and chamber playing fresh.”

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