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Festival 31 June 5–19 2016 Easton St Experience the Extraordinary CHESAPEAKE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 31 JUNE 5–19 2016 EASTON ST. MICHAELS OXFORD 1 BENSON & MANGOLD REAL ESTATE The Mid Shore’s #1 Real Estate Firm 27999 OXFORD ROAD, OXFORD |(410) 822-1415 211 N TALBOT STREET, ST. 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If you should have any questions about this, please don’t hesitate to ask Don Buxton, our Executive Director or Eleanor Shriver Magee, Director of Development. Enjoy the music and we hope you experience the extraordinary at Festival 31. 4 ∫ TABLE OF CONTENTS President’s Welcome .................................................................................................................................7 Chamber Music Artistic Director Profiles .............................................................................................9 Artist Profiles .....................................................................................................................................10–19 Opening Concert | Christ Church: June 5 ........................................................................................20 Program Notes for June 5 Concert.................................................................................................21–23 Artist Showcase I | Academy Art Museum: June 7 .......................................................................25 Artist Showcase II | Oxford Community Center: June 9 ..............................................................26 Concert|Avalon Theatre: June 10 .......................................................................................................27 Program Notes for June 10 Concert ..............................................................................................28–30 Concert|Academy Art Museum: June 11 .........................................................................................31 Program Notes for June 11 Concert ...............................................................................................32–33 Concert | Christ Church: June 12 .......................................................................................................34 Program Notes for June 12 Concert ..............................................................................................35–37 Artist Showcase III | Trinity Cathedral: June 15 ............................................................................39 Concert|Avalon Theatre: June 17 .......................................................................................................40 Program Notes for June 17 Concert ..............................................................................................41–42 Concert|St. Michaels High School Theatre: June 18 .....................................................................44 Program Notes for June 18 Concert ..............................................................................................45–46 Angels Concert – Ingleton Manor: June 19 ......................................................................................47 Board of Directors, Staff, Volunteers ..............................................................................................48–49 List of Advertisers ...................................................................................................................................50 5 ∫ fts that Gi Give Back What is it that defines your passion for music and how will you ensure that the music you love continues for years to come? There are three simple ways that you can support Chesapeake Music with gifts that give back: • Include Chesapeake Music in your will or trust; • Make Chesapeake Music a beneficiary in your life insurance policy, IRA, 401(k), or other retirement plan; and • Take advantage of a Charitable Gift Annuity through our partnership with Mid-Shore Community Foundation. Are you considering remembering Chesapeake Music in your estate plans? Phone or write Executive Director, Donald Buxton, 410-819-0380 or [email protected]. 6 ∫ June 2016 Dear Friends: Chesapeake Music invites you to Experience the Extraordinary! with our 31st Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival. Many of our favorite artists are returning, led by our founding Artistic Directors, Lawrie Bloom and Marcy Rosen, and our Executive Director, Don Buxton. This year we will present ten performances and two open rehearsals. There is one new venue, Christ Church, St. Michaels, where we will present our June 12th concert followed by a reception in the elegant parish hall catered by Gourmet by the Bay. We are also delighted to be returning to Christ Church, Easton, after a hiatus during its extensive renovation. Most of our artists have performed here before, many of them for years. It’s a joy to welcome them back as it is to greet our new musicians. They come here to spend a week or two playing with other great musicians, performing for audiences who love them, and enjoying the hospitality of the Eastern Shore. Lawrie and Marcy have again designed an extraordinary program, carefully combining familiar (there will be a Beethoven composition in every performance) with less familiar music, and featuring our extraordinary artists in groups ranging from duets to octets. The second half of our June 17th Avalon concert will feature the winners of the 2016 Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition—Block 4 who won the $10,000 Gold Prize in competition with four other superb groups, all of whom prevailed in a two-stage preliminary competition. For the 31st time we open the Mid-Shore summer with classical chamber music of a quality normally available only in the largest metropolitan areas and we will bookend the summer with our superb Monty Alexander Jazz Festival on Labor Day weekend. By presenting these festivals, and the international Competition, YouthReach, and our off-season concerts, Chesapeake Music adds immeasurably to the quality of life in our community. We cannot sustain this without the strong financial support of our community. Like other arts organizations, we find that ticket sales cover only a fraction of our costs. We are also very grateful to our remarkable part-time staff and the countless volunteers, who make this all possible. Experience the Extraordinary, Michael Bracy President, Chesapeake Music Board of Directors PO Box 461, Easton, MD 21601 • 410-819-0380 • ChesapeakeMusic.org 7 ™ The Smith Island Baking Company is proud to support Chesapeake Chamber Music Order today, enjoy tomorrow with 410-425-2253 guaranteed nationwide FedEx delivery! SmithIslandCake.com Suzanne Brigham Residential Design Remodeling and New Construction PO Box 1047 St. Michaels, MD 21663 410.745.6877 [email protected] sbresidentialdesign.com 8 ∫ Marcy Rosen J. Lawrie Bloom Cello, Artistic Director Clarinet, Artistic Director Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival Cellist MARCY ROSEN has established Since we last saw him, J. LAWRIE BLOOM herself as one of the most important and taught at the Buffet Academy in Jacksonville, respected artists of our day. In March of 2016 Florida, and backpacked in the Cascades in The New Yorker Magazine dubbed her “A New Washington. In September Lawrie returned York legend of the cello” and the Los Angeles full time to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Times has called her “one of the intimate art’s from his sabbatical leave. The season included abiding treasures.” She has performed in recital the orchestra’s first ever appearance at the new and with orchestras throughout the world Kaufman Center in Kansas City, and a tour and in all fifty of the United States. In recent to Asia. A concert version of Verdi’s Falstaff th seasons she has appeared in China, Korea, and and Mahler’s 4 Symphony, both conducted Cartagena, Colombia. by Ricardo Muti, were season highlights. In November he was one of three US players During the 2015-16 season she performed in invited to perform at the 190th anniversary of Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Boston’s Buffet in Paris. Gardner Museum, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, and the University of Chicago. She was Lawrie continues as a senior lecturer at the also presented at Columbia University in an Bienen School of Music at Northwestern all Boccherini program, which attracted such a University. This summer the International large audience that many were turned away! Clarinet Association is honoring him with a concert in which he and his former students Ms. Rosen has collaborated with the world’s will perform at the ICA annual conference. finest musicians, including Leon Fleisher, While
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