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.
Festival Opening Extravaganza
Week 1
Wednesday, June 10 at 10:00 am
Free Open Rehearsal!
Click the “Buy Tickets” button above to register. Registration required.
Friday, June 12 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.
Light reception following the concert.
Festival Opening Extravaganza!
Enjoy the lyricism of Schubert’s String Quartet No. 8, composed when he was 17. Discover the fun and wild, some would say unhinged, virtuosic score of Kate Soper’s Only the Words Themselves Mean What they Say for soprano, flute, bass flute and piccolo. And be moved by Dvořák’s highly romantic Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, a masterwork notable for its use of melodies he composed in a Slavic folk-music style.
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Quartet No. 8 in B-flat Major, D. 112
Daniel Phillips, Catherine Cho, Todd Phillips, Marcy Rosen
Kate Soper (b. 1981)
Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Tara Helen O’Connor
INTERMISSION
Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81
Robert McDonald, Catherine Cho, Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Marcy Rosen
Photo credit: Steve Riskind
Photo credit: Matt Dine
This concert is generously sponsored by
Anonymous
Dede and Marvin Lang
Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.