It’s almost here! Mark your calendars to join us for an exciting 40th Anniversary Festival! This year, our remarkable musicians will present six captivating and diverse concerts built around the theme of “Reflection and Celebration”. Concert dates are June 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, and 14, with two free open rehearsals June 4 and 11. WE PROMISE TO DELIGHT, SURPRISE AND ENGAGE YOU! Back for this celebration and as a reflection of the Festival’s past four decades are musicians long associated with the Festival — including violinist & co-Artistic Director Catherine Cho, pianist Robert McDonald, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, violinists/violists Daniel and Todd Phillips, and founding members clarinetist Lawrie Bloom and cellist & co-Artistic Director Marcy Rosen, as well as award-winning younger musicians such as returning Rising Star cellist Sterling Elliott, pianist Albert Cano Smit, and violist Zhanbo Zheng. The iconic Juilliard String Quartet will headline the Festival’s second week and our audiences will be introduced to another young award-winning pianist, Evren Ozel. They will join long-time festival favorites. Experience timeless classics, modern, intriguing, and accessible contemporary works — from Haydn, Boccherini, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Beach to Beethoven, Brahms, Smetana, Farrenc, Dvořák, Fauré, Schoenberg, and Widmann. We are also excited to again offer an Early Subscription! Purchase now through midnight April 21 and you will receive all six concerts for the price of five and preferred seating (first-come, first-seated). Get more information about subscription prices, individual ticket prices and information about our individual concerts at www.chesapeakemusic.org or feel free to give our office a call at 410-819-0380 and we'll be glad to help! (fb)

Well good morning everyone! It's April Fool's Day BUT we're going to be nice and just tell you some more about the next event for us here at Chesapeake Music, The Hesper Quartet along with pianist Ying Li on April 27th at 2pm at the The Ebenezer Theater! Sojeong Kim, Violin Ye Jin Yoon, Violin SoHui Yun, Viola Connor Kim, Cello The Hesper String Quartet is a Korean-American chamber ensemble that was formed as a student group at the Emerson String Quartet Institute of Stony Brook University in 2022. Since its formation, the quartet maintains an energetic balance of performing works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Haydn, while performing works by living composers such as Joan Tower. Notable achievements include winning first prize at the Fanny Mendelssohn International Competition, the Servaas Competition, and the Ackerman Chamber Competition and here at Chesapeake Music's 2024 International Competition taking home the Silver Prize. Its members–Sojeong Kim, Ye Jin Yoon, SoHui Yun ,Connor Kim–hold degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, Yale University, Stony Brook University, and Seoul National University. “Hesper” means evening star, and like how each star in the night sky has its own story, the Hesper Quartet strives to tell the fascinating story of each work of music that they play. Ying Li - Piano Chinese pianist Ying Li is the First Prize Winner of the 2021 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, as well as recipient of The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Prize and the Tri-I Noon Recitals Prize. She has received top awards in numerous national and international competitions including the inaugural Antonio Mormone International Prize, Sarasota Artist Series Piano Competition, Brevard Music Festival, International Liszt Piano Competition for Young Pianists, and was a finalist at Concours musical international de Montréal. Ying has performed with many leading orchestras such as The Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Brevard Music Festival Orchestra, L’Accademia Orchestra del La Scala, NWD-Philharmoniker, and the Stuttgart Philharmonic with conductors such as Lina Gonzalez-Granados, Xian Zhang, Dan Ettinger, Eric Jacobsen, and Jonathon Heyward. During the 24-25 season, Ying will make appearances with the Minnesota Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Orlando Philharmonic, Eugene Symphony, Aiken Symphony, and the Salisbury Symphony, among others. So soak up the lovely sunshine and welcome April in by going to our website at www.chesapeakemusic.org or giving our office a call at 410-819-0380 to order your tickete for this incredibly talented group of young and spirited musicians! We can't wait to hear them again along with Ying Li. Our March concert sold out so don't wait, get your tickets today and, SEE YOU AT THE THEATER! (fb)