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Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival 2026

This year’s Festival is generously sponsored by
The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation
Maxine Whalen Millar
Norman and Ellen Plummer
Dr. Joseph and Dixie Schulman

Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.

All artists and program selections are subject to change.

Heritage and Home

Week 1

Sunday, June 14 at 4:00 pm
Doors open at 3:15 pm
Duration: approx. 2 hours including intermission.
Price: $70. Click “Tickets” below to purchase.
$35 tickets to patrons 35 years old and under, subject to availability.

New Chesapeake Music concert goers: 2-for-1 tickets with promotion code new2for1.

Limited free tickets for Students (and one accompanying adult), Educators and Talbot County First Responders.

Heritage and Home
Enjoy both Marcy Rosen’s bravura performance of Beethoven’s fifth cello sonata as well as Tara Helen O’Connor’s highly virtuosic reading of Gabriel Fauré’s competition piece, Fantasie for Flute and Piano. Experience Kian Ravaei’s 2023 composition Gulistan (“Flower Garden”), a work that interweaves songs that represent his “hyphenated identity:” American by birth and Iranian by heritage. Finally, delight in the warm and immensely appealing Brahms’s String Sextet No. 1, written at age 17.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2
Marcy Rosen, Robert McDonald

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Fantasie for Flute and Piano, Op. 79
Tara Helen O’Connor, Lydia Brown

Kian Ravaei (b. 1999)
Gulistan (“Flower Garden”) for Soprano, Violoncello and Piano
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Julia Yang, Lydia Brown

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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18
Catherine Cho, Stella Chen, Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Marcy Rosen, Julia Yang

Marcy Rosen
Photo credit: Steve Riskind
Robert McDonald
Tara Helen O’Connor
Photo credit: Matt Dine
Lucy Fitz Gibbon
Photo credit: Steve Riskind
Catherine Cho
Stella Chen
Photo credit: Fay Fox

This concert is generously sponsored by
Joyce and Ben Schlesinger
Carolyn Thornton
In memory of her husband, Charles Thornton

Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.

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