Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival continues until June 16
Chesapeake Music celebrates the 35th Anniversary of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival this year with an exciting virtual festival.
Internationally known artistic directors Marcy Rosen and Catherine Cho have put together a wonderful series of concerts to bring extraordinary music to the audience, given stay-at-home restrictions caused by COVID-19.They are pleased to welcome back distinguished artists who have performed at the festival for years and to greet the outstanding new musicians participating in this year’s festival.
Concerts are free and will be available online for a 24-hour period, with 48 hours between concerts. All concerts will be posted at 5:30 p.m.
Two concerts, professionally filmed and recorded at Queens College, LeFrak Concert Hall, will bookend the festival.
The opening concert will be online Friday to Sunday, June 5 to 7. It features award-winning Steinway pianist Diane Walsh and cellist Marcy Rosen playing Sonatas by Beethoven and Chopin.
The second concert, set for 5:30 p.m., Sunday, June 7, will highlight several festival artists playing works recorded at home. Ieva Jokubaviciute, a much-sought-after chamber musician, will perform solo piano works of Bach/Busoni and Schumann; pianist Diane Walsh will play the 4 Chopin Impromptus; outstanding violinist Todd Phillips will be joined by pianist Rachel Yunkyung Choo performing the Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor; and violinist Francesca dePasquale and wonderful pianist Adam Golka will share the Dvořák Romance in F minor.
The inaugural Young People’s Concert Project, designed specifically for young people but open to all, will be presented at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 10. The concert will feature four members of the Juilliard/Carnegie Hall-sponsored Ensemble Connect, a two-year fellowship program that prepares extraordinary young professional classical musicians for careers that combine musical excellence with teaching, community engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship and leadership. The young musicians offering this concert are violinist Jennifer Liu, violinist Gergana Haralampievam, violist Caeli Smith and cellist Ari Evans.
Flutist Tara Helen O’Connor and her husband violinist Daniel Phillips will perform at 5:30 p.m., Saturday, June 13, from their New York City living room.
The closing concert at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 16, is a program of Haydn, Debussy and Dvořák performed by violinist Catherine Cho, cellist Marcy Rosen and acclaimed pianist Robert McDonald.
For more information and to view the concerts, go to www.chesapeakemusic.org.
