Chesapeake Chamber Music’s 28th annual Festival will run from June 2 through June 16, 2013 in Easton, St. Michaels and Centreville on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The Festival will feature 13 events, including six concerts, five artist recitals and two rehearsals open to the public at no charge. Twenty artists will perform this year, including many familiar faces, along with some newcomers to the Eastern Shore Festival scene. J. Lawrie Bloom, Bass Clarinet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Marcy Rosen, a founding member of the world-renowned Mendelssohn String Quartet, continue as Artistic Directors.
The Festival, held in Easton and at other Mid-Shore locations, will include two new venues this year. The first, Trinity Cathedral on Goldsborough Street in Easton, will feature two recitals, one by Trio Cavatina and one by J. Lawrie Bloom on clarinet and Ieva Jokubaviciute on piano. The second, the River House at Easton Club, will feature an afternoon of music, including works by Richard Strauss and Antonín Dvořák, and will feature a Provençal picnic afterwards. Generous financial support from the business community and public enables Chesapeake Chamber Music to offer affordable tickets for Festival concerts and recitals; open rehearsals are free to the general public.
Tickets go on sale in April 2012. For additional information, visit www.ChesapeakeChamberMusic.org or call 410 819-0380.
In photo: Pictured at last year’s Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival concert at historic St. Paul’s Church in Centreville are Yura Lee, Melissa Meell, Marcy Rosen, and Hsin-yun Huang. This year’s Festival will run from June 2 through June 16, 2013 in Easton, St. Michaels and Centreville on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.