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.
MUSICAL MEMORIES
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
This concert is generously sponsored by
Anonymous
Dede and Marvin Lang
Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.
Photo credit: Steve Riskind
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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
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.
Photo credit: Abigail Kralik
Photo credit: Steve Riskind
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Photo credit: Vicky Lee
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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
INTERMISSION
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
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.
Photo credit: Steve Riskind
Photo credit: Matt Dine
Photo credit: Steve Riskind
Photo credit: Fay Fox
Week 2
Wednesday, June 17 at 10:00 am
Free Open Rehearsal!
Click the “Buy Tickets” button above to register. Registration required.
Thursday, June 18 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.
Bridging the Eras
Enjoy Mozart’s Horn Quintet in E-flat Major, in which lyricism leads to a spirited close with a series of “hunting horn”-like fanfares. Be moved by Brahms’s intense, passionate and lyrical String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor. Delight in one of audiences’ all-time favorites, Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A Major, “The Trout,” written when he was 22. Schubert based the work partly on his song “Die Forelle” (“The Trout”) at the request of the patron who commissioned the work, and its melodies suggest a jumping trout and rippling water.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Horn Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 407
Stewart Rose, Catherine Cho, Maiya Papach, Ara Gregorian, Chase Park
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51
Catherine Cho, Christina Nam, Maiya Papach, Marcy Rosen
INTERMISSION
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Quintet in A Major, “The Trout,” D. 667
Ieva Jokubaviciute, Christina Nam, Ara Gregorian, Chase Park, Anthony Manzo
This concert is generously sponsored by
Maria Grant and John Dean
Lyn and Andy McCormick
Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.
Photo credit: Rebecca Albers
Photo credit: Monika Požerskytė
Friday, June 19 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.
Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition Winners and More
Delight in Schubert’s B-flat Major String Trio, a stand-alone movement which is considered a miniature gem and a treasured work in the string repertoire. Discover Vaughan Williams’s Piano Quintet in C Minor, a work written, like Schubert’s “Trout,” for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass, with a start almost orchestral in nature and a serene closure.
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 471
Ara Gregorian, Christina Nam, Chase Park
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Piano Quintet in C Minor
Ieva Jokubaviciute, Catherine Cho, Maiya Papach, Marcy Rosen, Anthony Manzo
INTERMISSION
Winners of the 2026 Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition Lerman Gold Prize:
This concert is generously sponsored by
Cecilia and Robert Nobel
Anna and Gilbert Snow
Hanna and Peter Woicke
Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.
Photo credit: Helen Adams
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Saturday, June 20 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.
Festival Finale
Delight in Boccherini’s Quintet in C Major, an elegant and pleasing work, with seductively attractive melodies and creative “conversations” among the instruments. Allow Brahms’s Trio in E-flat Major for Horn, Violin and Piano, written following his mother’s death, to move you and thrill you as the horn conjures a galloping hunt complete with hunting horn calls, bringing the Trio to an unexpected upbeat conclusion. Enjoy Tchaikovsky’s String Sextet in D Minor, “Souvenir de Florence,” an exuberant work written upon the composer’s return from Florence and filled with beautiful melodies, passion and lyricism.
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
Quintet in C Major, Op. 25, No. 4, G. 298
Catherine Cho, Ara Gregorian, Maiya Papach, Chase Park, Marcy Rosen
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Trio in E-flat Major for Horn, Violin and Piano, “Horn Trio,” Op. 40
Christina Nam, Stewart Rose, Ieva Jokubaviciute
INTERMISSION
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
String Sextet in D Minor, “Souvenir de Florence,” Op. 70
Ara Gregorian, Christina Nam, Maiya Papach, Catherine Cho, Chase Park, Marcy Rosen
This concert is generously sponsored by
CW Advisors
Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.
Photo credit: Steve Riskind
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