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2014 Chesapeake Chamber Music Gala to Feature All That Jazz Concert with Caterina Zapponi

_29Q7696_2_c[s]2014 Chesapeake Chamber Music Gala to Feature All That Jazz Concert with Caterina Zapponi

The 2014 Chesapeake Chamber Music Gala, “All That Jazz,” will be held on Saturday, March 8, 2014, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Avalon Theatre in Easton, MD. The Gala will begin with a concert headlined by international award-winning jazz vocalist, Caterina Zapponi, and her ensemble.  Zapponi, a talented cabaret singer and the wife of legendary jazz pianist Monte Alexander, has performed music ranging from jazz and American popular song to cabaret and musical theater at prestigious venues, including New York’s Birdland and The Blue Note, and internationally at the Verbier and Saint Barthelemy festivals. She also performed “A Song For You” in the film “For the Love of the Game” with Kevin Costner.

The Chesapeake Chamber Music Gala is underwritten by Wye Financial & Trust, in partnership with Gilman Hill Asset Management. The Gala benefits the free and subsidized tickets provided during the annual two-week Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival in June, as well as YouthReach, and the free violin programs, “First Strings” and “Presto!” for grade school students. Concert only tickets for non-mezzanine balcony seats at the Avalon will be available for $30 each at www.chesapeakechambermusic.org, or by calling the office at 410-819-0380. For further information, visit the website at ChesapeakeChamberMusic.org, or call the CCM office.

Pictured is by gifted multi-lingual vocalist Caterina Zapponi, a talented cabaret singer and the wife of legendary jazz pianist Monte Alexander, who will entertain guests at this year’s Chesapeake Chamber Music Gala Concert, “All that Jazz” on Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 6 p.m. at the Avalon Theatre.

Chesaepeake Chamber Music Requests Poster Submission for 2014 Festival

Chesapeake Chamber Music (CCM) invites Eastern Shore artists to submit original artwork for use as the poster image and graphic theme for the 2014 Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival. The selected artwork will be used on the Festival’s publicity materials, including the Festival poster, flyers, print and online advertising, event programs and the CCM website. Posters will be placed throughout the Eastern Shore during the spring, especially during the months of April and May preceding the June Festival, and the image will be featured in both local and national publications to promote the Festival. The winning work will be auctioned at the CCM Gala on March 8, 2014. The artist will be compensated for his or her work. The Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival will be held in various Mid-Shore locations from June 1 through June 15, 2014.

Chesapeake Chamber Music is looking for artwork that will promote the Festival, emphasizing the beauty of the Eastern Shore as an appropriate setting for beautiful music. Each submission should be an original, one-of-a-kind piece, created by the hand of the artist. Artists who are residents of one of the Eastern Shore counties, including Talbot, Queen Anne’s, Kent, Dorchester, Caroline, Wicomico, Cecil, Worcester and Somerset, are eligible to submit entries. Paintings, photographs, and mixed media works, both abstract and representational, are eligible for submission.

The artwork must be submitted for review in the form of a high quality digital photograph by November 1, 2013. For a complete copy of the competition rules and information on how to submit images please e-mail ccmf@chesapeakechambermusic.org, attention Margaret Welch.

Chesapeake Chamber Music Two – Week Festival Draws Over 1300 Attendees

CCM Festival - St. Michaels Vivaldi Concert (400 x 266)Pictured are the musicians at the “Viva Vivaldi!” concert in St. Michaels. The concert, held at The St. Michaels Middle-High School Performing Arts Auditorium, drew a record crowd of more than 300 people. Pictured left to right are Catherine Cho, violin; Maria Lambros, viola; Melissa Meel, cello; Heesun Shin, violin; Anthony Manzo, bass; and Daniel Phillips, violin. Absent from the photo is Adam Pearl on harpsichord. (Photo by Bill Geoghegan)

Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival Kicks Off This Weekend with New Venues and New Faces

Chesapeake Chamber Music’s 28th Annual Festival will run from June 2 through June 16, 2013, in Easton, Centreville and St. Michaels on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The two-week Festival will feature 13 events, including six concerts, five artist recitals and two rehearsals open to the public at no charge. 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 and are bringing 20 artists from around the world, including many long-time favorites who are returning to the Festival along with a number of new faces.

This year’s Festival, held in Easton and at other Mid-Shore locations, will include two new venues during the first week. Trinity Cathedral on Goldsborough Street in Easton will host two recitals. The first recital on June 2 will feature the award-winning Trio Cavatina, including returning pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute, along with new Festival artists Harumi Rhodes (violin) and Priscilla Lee (cello). They will perform selections from Fauré, Schumann, and Beethoven. The trio formed in 2005 and was first place winner of the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Competition in 2009. The second recital on June 4 will showcase J. Lawrie Bloom on clarinet and Ieva Jokubaviciute on piano performing selections from Gade, Finzi, Busoni, and Debussy. The next new venue, River House at Easton Club, will feature an afternoon of music on June 8, including works by Richard Strauss and Antonín Dvořák, and new musical artists Dimitri Murrath (viola), Bella Hristova (violin), and Priscilla Lee (cello), as well as a number of favorite returning artists. The concert will feature aProvençal picnic afterwards. Both new venues offer unique surroundings to enhance the chamber music listening experience.

Other highlights of the first week include a recital at the Academy Art Museum on June 6 featuring new Festival artists Bella Hristova (violin) and Dimitri Murrath (viola), joining returning artists Maiya Papach (viola) and Robert McDonald (piano) with selections from Mozart, Brahms, and Knox. Hristova has performed with Pinchas Zukerman in the Bach Double Concerto at Lincoln Center and at Carnegie Hall as soloist with the New York String Orchestra under Jaime Laredo. The Washington Post said she “engages with natural command, tenderness and fervent virtuosity.”

The concert at the Avalon Theatre on June 7 includes Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-Flat, Opus 20, composed when he was just 16, along with selections from Bernstein and Suk, featuring clarinetist and Festival artistic director J. Lawrie Bloom. On June 9, the Festival will return to the historically significant St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Centreville in a concert highlighted by two popular Mozart Quintets and works by Bolcom, featuring cellist and Festival artistic director Marcy Rosen and returning artists Catherine Cho (violin), Peggy Pearson (oboe), and Todd Phillips (violin). The church, which was a successful new Festival venue last year, boasts an extraordinary oak-vaulted ceiling shaped like the inverted hull of an early ship – a perfect location for enjoying chamber music works.

This year, there will be two open rehearsals on June 5 and June 12, both at 10 a.m. at the Academy Art Museum. 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. This year’s Festival is supported by the Talbot County Arts Council, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Star-Democrat, Benson & Mangold, and Wells Fargo Financial Advisors.

Tickets are on sale now. For additional information, visit www.ChesapeakeChamberMusic.org or call 410 819-0380.
2013 CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL EVENTS
WEEK ONE
Sunday, June 2, 5:30 pm
Trinity Cathedral, Easton
Recital: Trio Cavatina
Music: Gabriel Fauré, Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven

Tuesday, June 4, 5:30 pm
Trinity Cathedral, Easton
Recital: J. Lawrie Bloom, Clarinet, and Ieva Jokubaviciute, Piano
Music: Niels Gade, Gerald Finzi, Ferruccio Busoni, Claude Debussy
Wednesday, June 5, 10:00 am
Academy Art Museum
Open Rehearsal (Free)
Thursday, June 6, 5:30 pm
Academy Art Museum
Recital: Bella Hristova, Violin, Dmitri Murrath, Viola, Maiya Papach, Viola, and Robert McDonald, Piano
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Garth Knox, Johannes Brahms

Friday, June 7, 8:00 pm
Avalon Theatre, Easton
Concert, “Beautiful Beginnings”
Music: Josef Suk, Leonard Bernstein, Felix Mendelssohn

Saturday, June 8, 4:00 pm
Easton Club, River House
Concert, “Dvořák and More” and Provençale country picnic
Music: Strauss, Penderecki, Dvořák
Sunday, June 9. 4:00 pm
St. Paul’s Church, Centreville
Concert, “Mozart Sandwich”
Music: Mozart and Bolcom

Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival Expands Venues and Continues to Beguile Audiences

Tara and Danny (400 x 267)Chesapeake Chamber Music’s 28th Annual Festival will run from June 2 through June 16, 2013, in Easton, Centreville, St. Michaels and Royal Oak on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The two-week Festival will feature 13 events, including six concerts, five artist recitals and two rehearsals open to the public at no charge. Twenty concert 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 and have planned programs that span centuries and styles with broad appeal.

Sharing his excitement about the program and master musicians scheduled for Festival 28, Artistic Director, J. Lawrie Bloom, comments, “Again, as in the past, we have attempted to put together two weeks of programs filled with audience favorites, gems that may be new to you, and even some that will challenge you in some way. We have brought players from around the world, many that you have come to know through the years, and added new faces that you will want to meet and hear for the first time on the Eastern Shore.”

The Festival, held in Easton and at other Mid-Shore locations, will include two new venues this year during the first week. Trinity Cathedral on Goldsborough Street in Easton, will feature two recitals. The first recital on June 2 will feature the award-winning Trio Cavatina, including piano, violin and cello and playing selections from Fauré, Schumann, and Beethoven. The second recital on June 4 will showcase J. Lawrie Bloom on clarinet and Ieva Jokubaviciute on piano who will perform selections from Gade, Finzi, Busoni, and Debussy. The next new venue, River House at Easton Club, will feature an afternoon of music on June 8, including works by Richard Strauss and Antonín Dvořák, and will feature a Provençalpicnic afterwards.

Other highlights of the first week include a recital at the Academy Art Museum on June 6 featuring Bella Hristova (violin), Dmitri Murrath (viola), Maiya Papach (viola) and Robert McDonald (piano) performing selections from Mozart, Brahms, and Knox. The concert at the Avalon Theatre on June 7 includes Medelssohn’s Octet in E-Flat, Opus 20, composed when he was just 16, along with selections from Bernstein and Suk. On June 9, the Festival will return to the historically significant St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Centreville and will highlight two popular Mozart Quintets. The church, which was a successful new Festival venue last year, boasts an extraordinary oak- vaulted ceiling shaped like the inverted hull of an early ship – a perfect location for enjoying chamber music works.

Highlights of the second week include a Tuesday, June 11 performance by Festival favorites, Tara Helen O’Connor (flute), Daniel Phillips (violin), and Diane Walsh (piano) at Christ Church in Easton, playing selections from Barber, Bach, Reinecke, Schocker, and Doppler. On Thursday, June 13, the Easton Studio and School will host a recital by “Marcy Rosen and Friends,” with selections from Handel/Halvorsen, Rossini, and Kodály. The Festival returns to the Avalon Theatre on June 14 for a performance by the renowned group, “La Fenice,” featuring returning favorites Catherine Cho (violin), Maria Lambros (viola), Peggy Pearson (oboe), Marcy Rosen (cello), and Diane Walsh (piano) performing selections from Haydn, Bach, Corigliano, Brahms, and Stravinsky. On June 15, the Festival continues at the St. Michaels High School in St. Michaels, MD, for a “Viva Vivaldi” concert featuring the always popular “Four Seasons.” The Festival closes on June 16 with the Angels Concert at Deerwood, another new venue for the Festival. This contemporary home is known for its fine gardens on the Tred Avon River near Royal Oak. The concert will feature the music of C.P.E. Bach, Schumann, and J.S. Bach, among others.

This year, there will be two open rehearsals on June 5 and June 12, both at 10 a.m. at the Academy Art Museum. 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. This year’s Festival is supported by the Talbot County Arts Council, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Star-Democrat, Benson & Mangold, and Wells Fargo Advisors Financial.

Tickets went on sale in April 2013. For additional information, visit www.ChesapeakeChamberMusic.org or call 410 819-0380.

In photo: Pictured left to right are Tara Helen O’Connor (flute) and Daniel Phillips (violin), returning artists to the 28th Annual Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival to be held June 2 through June 16, 2013, in Easton, Centreville, St. Michaels and Royal Oak on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

2013 Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival Set for June 2 – 16

Yura Melissa Marcy Hsin-yun (400 x 267)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.

Chesapeake Chamber Music Invites Artists To Submit Works for 2013 Festival Poster

Chesapeake Chamber Music (CCM) invites local artists to submit original artwork for use as the poster image for the 2013 Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival. The selected artwork will be used on the Festival’s publicity materials, including the Festival poster, flyers, print and online advertising, event programs and the CCM website. Posters will be placed throughout the Eastern Shore during the spring, especially during the months of April and May preceding the June Festival, and the image will be featured in both local and national publications to promote the Festival. The selected work will be auctioned at the CCM Gala on March 2, 2013. The artist will be compensated for his or her work. The Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival will be held in various Mid-Shore locations from June 5 through June 18, 2013.

Chesapeake Chamber Music is looking for artwork that will promote the Festival, emphasizing the beauty of the Eastern Shore as an appropriate setting for beautiful music. The artwork should be an original, one-of-a-kind piece, created by the hand of the artist. Artists who are residents of one of the Eastern Shore counties, including Talbot, Queen Anne’s, Kent, Dorchester, Caroline, Wicomico, Cecil, Worcester and Somerset, are eligible to submit entries.

The artwork must be submitted for review in the form of a high quality digital photograph by November 1, 2012. For a complete copy of the competition rules and information on how to submit images please e-mail ccmf@chesapeakechambermusic.org, attention Margaret Welch.

In photo: Karen Mathis’s oil painting, Sunset Sail, was chosen as the image promoting Chesapeake Chamber Music’s Festival 27. Eastern Shore artists who are residents may submit artwork for this year’s Festival poster. The Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival will be held June 5 – 18, 2013. Pictured left to right are Don Buxton, Executive Director of CCM, with board members Bernice Michael, Chloe Pitard, Karen Mathis and Margaret Welch. (Photo courtesy of Bill Geoghegan)

Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival in Easton, MD Showcases U.S. Premiere of Composer Thea Musgrave’s Mini Clarinet Concerto

Chesapeake Chamber Music’s 27th annual Festival continues through June 17, 2012, featuring 19 artists, including internationally acclaimed chamber musicians and talented newcomers to the Eastern Shore Festival scene. Each year the Festival’s Artistic Directors work diligently to develop varied and interesting programs, to solicit new and returning performers, and to provide engaging, memorable performances. This year, the Festival has invited Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave, one of the world’s most respected and exciting contemporary composers, to participate as the Festival showcases her Pierrot for Clarinet, Violin and Piano, as well as her composition,“Towards the Blue.”

Festival Artistic Director J. Lawrie Bloom, Bass Clarinet of the Chicago Sym­phony Orchestra, comments, “When I played her bass clarinet concerto, Autumn Sonata, this fall in Chicago, I got to know Thea Musgrave. I thought our audience would really enjoy getting to know this wonderful lady, and her fantastic music. When Ms. Musgrave offered us the U.S. premiere of her mini clarinet concerto, “Towards the Blue,” the stars had aligned, and we had the right time, and the right way to present these lovely pieces.”

Musgrave was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and entered the musical life of the United States when she became Guest Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She served as Distinguished Professor at Queen’s College in New York from 1987 to 2002. Characterized by a rich and powerful musical language and a strong sense of drama, Musgrave’s compositions were first performed under the auspices of the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Edinburgh International Festival. Consequently, her works have been widely performed in Britain, Europe, the USA, and at the major music festivals.

“Towards the Blue,” her mini clarinet concerto, was inspired by her visit to the Francis Bacon Exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London in December 2008. At the exhibition she beheld “Figure in a Landscape” (1945) in which a figure depicted by a “grotesque smudge” survives under a layer of bright blue sky. From Musgrave’s perspective, the sky was synonymous with hope as is the clarinet. In his closing commentary on the work, Geoff Brown of the “London Times” wrote about her composition, “Everyone reaches the blue sky by the end, even though given Musgrave’s engagingly emollient style the music is never far from blue to begin with.”

The generous financial support from the business community and public enables Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival to offer affordable tickets for the Festival concerts and recitals, as well as access to open rehearsals that are free to the general public. Institutional support has been provided by Wells Fargo and Vantage Wealth Management, Inc., the Talbot County Arts Council, the Maryland State Arts Council, Chesapeake Publishing, Benson & Mangold, and the Midshore Community Foundation. For further information or to purchase tickets, visit www.chesapeakechambermusic.org or call 410-819-0380.

In photo: Pictured left to right are Scottish-American contemporary composer Thea Musgrave and Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival Artistic Director J. Lawrie Bloom, Bass Clarinet of the Chicago Sym­phony Orchestra. Musgrave will showcase her Pierrot for Clarinet, Violin and Piano and premier her mini clarinet concerto, “Towards the Blue,” at this year’s Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival on Sunday, June 16 at 4 p.m. at St. Michaels High School Middle School Auditorium in St. Michaels, MD.

Internationally Acclaimed Chamber Musicians and Talented Newcomers Perform at 2012 Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival’s Week Two

Chesapeake Chamber Music’s 27th annual Festival continues through June 17, 2012, featuring 19 artists, including internationally acclaimed chamber musicians and talented newcomers to the Eastern Shore Festival scene. On Saturday, June 9 at 4:30 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Centreville will welcome newcomers violist Hsin-Yun Huang and flutist Mindy Heinsohn, who will join Festival veterans in a program entitled “Quint-Essential,” featuring chamber works from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The concert will include a Boccherini string quintet, the Brahms Clarinet Quintet and Argento’s Six Elizabethan Songs. Huang recently founded the Variation String Trio and has performed with such distinguished artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Joseph Suk and Menahem Pressler. Heinsohn grew up in Talbot County and had her Carnegie Hall debut under the baton of Kryzstof Penderecki. She has worked with other notable conductors such as Marin Alsop, Reinbert de Leeuw, and Peter Oundjian.

Other musicians new to the Festival this year include Lydia Brown on piano, David Jolley on French horn, Julia Lichten on cello, and Thomas Fleming on bassoon, all of whom will perform during the Festival’s second week. Brown, who is an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera, and also a member of the vocal program of the Marlboro Music Festival, will perform in Beethoven’s Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 11 on Sunday, June 10 at 4 p.m. at Heathland Manor House at Hunters Oak in Queenstown.

Jolley is a member emeritus of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and he currently performs with the virtuoso wind quintet Windscape and the Fleisher-Jolley-Tree-O with Leon Fleisher and Michael Tree. He will appear in a recital on Tuesday, June 12 at 5:30 p.m. at Christ Church in Easton with pianist Diane Walsh and violinist Daniel Phillips. Jolley will also perform in the St. Michaels concert on Saturday, June 16 at 4 p.m., where works of Scottish-American composer Thea Musgrave will be featured, as well as at the Angels Concert in Trappe on June 17. Jolley recently served as one of three final judges for the just-completed Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition.
Julia Lichten, who has toured with musicians from Marlboro, the American Chamber Players, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, will perform in the Dvořák String Sextet at the Avalon Theatre concert on June 15 at 8 p.m. She will also appear at the St. Michaels concert on June 16, along with Thomas Fleming on bassoon, and at the Angels Concert in Trappe on June 17. Fleming holds the principal bassoon seat with the Annapolis Symphony and has performed throughout North America and Europe, including at Lincoln Center.

Festival Artistic Director Marcy Rosen, a founding member of the world-re­nowned Mendelssohn String Quartet, remarks, “Because the music world is so close-knit, I don’t have to look very hard to find wonderful musicians – they are often my colleagues and friends. This year I am thrilled to include among our ’new‘ musicians the pianist Lydia Brown, who has been my colleague at the Marlboro Festival for many years, and the marvelous violist Hsin-Yun Huang, who was for many years in the Borromeo Quartet.”

Each year the Festival’s Artistic Directors work diligently to develop varied and interesting programs, to solicit new and returning performers, and to provide engaging, memorable performances. This year, the Festival has invited composer Thea Musgrave, one of the world’s most respected and exciting contemporary composers, to participate as the Festival showcases her Pierrot for Clarinet, Violin and Piano, as well as her Towards the Blue.

Festival Artistic Director J. Lawrie Bloom, Bass Clarinet of the Chicago Sym­phony Orchestra, comments, “When I played her bass clarinet concerto, Autumn Sonata, this fall in Chicago, I got to know Thea Musgrave. I thought our audience would really enjoy getting to know this wonderful lady, and her fantastic music. When Ms. Musgrave offered us the U.S. premiere of her mini clarinet concerto, Towards the Blue, the stars had aligned, and we had the right time, and the right way to present these lovely pieces.”

The generous financial support from the business community and public enables Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival to offer affordable tickets for the Festival concerts and recitals, as well as access to open rehearsals that are free to the general public. Institutional support has been provided by Wells Fargo and Vantage Wealth Management, Inc., the Talbot County Arts Council, the Maryland State Arts Council, Chesapeake Publishing, Benson & Mangold, and the Midshore Community Foundation. For further information or to purchase tickets, visit www.chesapeakechambermusic.org or call 410-819-0380.

In Photo: Pictured is flutist Mindy Heinsohn, a new participant in this year’s Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival. Heinsohn grew up in Talbot County and had her Carnegie Hall debut under the baton of Kryzstof Penderecki and has worked with other notable conductors such as Marin Alsop, Reinbert de Leeuw, and Peter Oundjian.

In Photo: Pictured is bassoonist Thomas Fleming, who holds the principal bassoon seat with the Annapolis Symphony, has performed throughout North America and Europe, including at the Lincoln Center.

In Photo, above: Pictured is violist Hsin-Yun Huang, a newcomer at this year’s Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival. Huang recently founded the Variation String Trio and has performed with such distinguished artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Joseph Suk and Menahem Pressler.

In Photo: Pictured left to right are Scottish-American contemporary composer Thea Musgrave and Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival Artistic Director J. Lawrie Bloom, Bass Clarinet of the Chicago Sym­phony Orchestra. Musgrave will showcase her Pierrot for Clarinet, Violin and Piano at this year’s Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival on Sunday, June 16 at 4 p.m. at St. Michaels High School Middle School Auditorium in St. Michaels, MD.

2012 Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival Schedule – Week One

Chesapeake Chamber Music’s 27th annual Festival will run from June 3 through June 17, 2012. The following is the schedule for the first week of the Festival. For further information or to purchase tickets, visit www.chesapeakechambermusic.org or call 410-819-0380.

Chesapeake Chamber Music Concert Series

Sunday, June 3, 2012, 5:30 p.m. – St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, Easton – Recital

Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 5:30 p.m. – Inn at 202 Dover, Easton – Recital

Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 10:00 a.m. – Academy Art Museum – Open rehearsal (free)

Thursday, June 7, 2012, 5:30 p.m. – Academy Art Museum, Easton – “Four Hands” Recital

Friday, June 8, 2012, 8:00 p.m. – Avalon Theatre – “Magnificent Mendelssohn” Concert

Saturday, June 9, 2012, 4:30 p.m. – St. Paul’s Church, Centreville – “Quint-Essential” Concert