Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival 2025
This year’s Festival is generously sponsored by
Maxine Whalen Millar
Norman and Ellen Plummer
Dr. Joseph and Dixie Schulman
Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.
All program selections are subject to change.
From My Life
Week 2
Wednesday, June 11 at 10:00 am
Free Open Rehearsal!
Click the “Buy Tickets” button above to register. Registration required.
Welcome the Juilliard String Quartet at each concert this week!
Thursday, 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.
Free Student and new Chesapeake Music patron BOGO tickets available.
From My Life
The concert opens with Mendelssohn’s moving String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, a tribute to his teacher and friend, violinist Eduard Rietz. Next comes the stunning Trio in E Minor for Flute, Cello and Piano by Louise Farrenc, one of the most celebrated piano virtuosos and composers of her era, and the only woman to work for the Paris Conservatory in the 19th century. The Juilliard String Quartet will close the concert with a captivating rendition of Smetana’s highly autobiographical String Quartet No. 1 “From My Life,” a work capturing in turns his youthful love of dance, Czech culture, the girl he would marry, and ultimately the health tragedy that would overtake him.
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18
Catherine Cho, Areta Zhulla, Molly Carr, Daniel Phillips, Astrid Schween
Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)
Trio in E Minor for Flute, Cello and Piano, Op. 45
Tara Helen O’Connor, Marcy Rosen, Evren Ozel
INTERMISSION
Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884)
String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor “From My Life”
The Juilliard String Quartet
Photo courtesy of Colbert Artists Management
This concert is generously sponsored by
Elizabeth Koprowski
Hanna and Peter Woicke
Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.
