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.
Music of Four Nations
Week 1
Saturday, June 13 at 7:30 pm
Doors open at 6:45 pm
Duration: approx. 2 hours including intermission.
Price: $70. Click “Tickets” below to purchase.
$35 tickets for 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.
Music of Four Nations
Enjoy Mozart’s Violin Sonata in E Minor, universally regarded as one of his finest chamber music works. Delight in Villa-Lobos’ Jet Whistle, a piece combining the diverse influences of Brazilian folk music, his immersion in Parisian modern music and even New York City! Experience the deeply personal, reflective, poignant and even dramatic Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok, composed by Shostakovich for his friends, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya. This is followed by Schumann’s highly romantic and cheerful Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, a work filled with allusions to his love for his wife Clara.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Sonata in E Minor, K. 304
Stella Chen, Lydia Brown
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Assobio a Játo (“The Jet Whistle”)
Tara Helen O’Connor, Julia Yang
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, Op. 127
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Stella Chen, Julia Yang, Lydia Brown
INTERMISSION
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80
Robert McDonald, Catherine Cho, Marcy Rosen
Photo credit: Abigail Kralik
Photo credit: Steve Riskind
Photo credit: Matt Dine
Photo credit: Vicky Lee
Photo credit: Steve Riskind
This concert is generously sponsored by
Elizabeth Koprowski
Pete, Mariana and Nicholas Lesher
in honor of Anna Lesher, Susquehanna University ’26
Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.