Chesapeake Chamber Music’s 28th Annual Festival will run from June 2 through June 16, 2013, in Easton, Centreville, St. Michaels and Royal Oak on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The two-week Festival will feature 13 events, including six concerts, five artist recitals and two rehearsals open to the public at no charge. Twenty concert artists will perform this year, including many familiar faces, along with some newcomers to the Eastern Shore Festival scene. J. Lawrie Bloom, Bass Clarinet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Marcy Rosen, a founding member of the world-renowned Mendelssohn String Quartet, continue as Artistic Directors and have planned programs that span centuries and styles with broad appeal.
Sharing his excitement about the program and master musicians scheduled for Festival 28, Artistic Director, J. Lawrie Bloom, comments, “Again, as in the past, we have attempted to put together two weeks of programs filled with audience favorites, gems that may be new to you, and even some that will challenge you in some way. We have brought players from around the world, many that you have come to know through the years, and added new faces that you will want to meet and hear for the first time on the Eastern Shore.”
The Festival, held in Easton and at other Mid-Shore locations, will include two new venues this year during the first week. Trinity Cathedral on Goldsborough Street in Easton, will feature two recitals. The first recital on June 2 will feature the award-winning Trio Cavatina, including piano, violin and cello and playing selections from Fauré, Schumann, and Beethoven. The second recital on June 4 will showcase J. Lawrie Bloom on clarinet and Ieva Jokubaviciute on piano who will perform selections from Gade, Finzi, Busoni, and Debussy. The next new venue, River House at Easton Club, will feature an afternoon of music on June 8, including works by Richard Strauss and Antonín Dvořák, and will feature a Provençal picnic afterwards.
Other highlights of the first week include a recital at the Academy Art Museum on June 6 featuring Bella Hristova (violin), Dmitri Murrath (viola), Maiya Papach (viola) and Robert McDonald (piano) performing selections from Mozart, Brahms, and Knox. The concert at the Avalon Theatre on June 7 includes Medelssohn’s Octet in E-Flat, Opus 20, composed when he was just 16, along with selections from Bernstein and Suk. On June 9, the Festival will return to the historically significant St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Centreville and will highlight two popular Mozart Quintets. The church, which was a successful new Festival venue last year, boasts an extraordinary oak- vaulted ceiling shaped like the inverted hull of an early ship – a perfect location for enjoying chamber music works.
Highlights of the second week include a Tuesday, June 11 performance by Festival favorites, Tara Helen O’Connor (flute), Daniel Phillips (violin), and Diane Walsh (piano) at Christ Church in
Easton, playing selections from Barber, Bach, Reinecke, Schocker, and Doppler. On Thursday, June 13, the Easton Studio and School will host a recital by “Marcy Rosen and Friends,” with selections from Handel/Halvorsen, Rossini, and Kodály. The Festival returns to the Avalon Theatre on June 14 for a performance by the renowned group, “La Fenice,” featuring returning favorites Catherine Cho (violin), Maria Lambros (viola), Peggy Pearson (oboe), Marcy Rosen (cello), and Diane Walsh (piano) performing selections from Haydn, Bach, Corigliano, Brahms, and Stravinsky. On June 15, the Festival continues at the St. Michaels High School in St. Michaels, MD, for a “Viva Vivaldi” concert featuring the always popular “Four Seasons.” The Festival closes on June 16 with the Angels Concert at Deerwood, another new venue for the Festival. This contemporary home is known for its fine gardens on the Tred Avon River near Royal Oak. The concert will feature the music of C.P.E. Bach, Schumann, and J.S. Bach, among others.
This year, there will be two open rehearsals on June 5 and June 12, both at 10 a.m. at the Academy Art Museum. Generous financial support from the business community and public enables Chesapeake Chamber Music to offer affordable tickets for Festival concerts and recitals; open rehearsals are free to the general public. This year’s Festival is supported by the Talbot County Arts Council, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Star-Democrat, Benson & Mangold, and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial.
Tickets go on sale in April 2013. For additional information, visit www.ChesapeakeChamberMusic.org or call 410 819-0380.
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