News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
Get to know the apprentice musicians of the National Music Festival up close and personal with four free Lunchtime Chamber Bites Concerts, Tuesday through Friday, June 14 – 18 at 12:30pm in Chestertown, MD. “It’s an hors d’oeuvre, not a meal,” Thomas Parchman, the Festival’s Director of Operations and clarinet mentor, says of the music […]
Continue ReadingRIDGELY, MD – Music will once again lilt through the trees when Adkins Arboretum hosts Forest Music on Saturday, September 25, 2021 from 2 to 4 p.m. Presented in partnership with Chestertown’s National Music Festival (NMF), the event will feature four musicians playing separately in the forest and then coming together for a brief quartet […]
Continue ReadingThe National Music Festival welcomes two new members to its Board of Directors, Susan Baisley and Mark Schulman. “Susan and Mark bring a wealth of relevant experience to the National Music Festival,” said Caitlin Patton, the festival’s executive director. “As we celebrate our 10th Anniversary this year, we look forward to our new board members […]
Continue ReadingThe National Music Festival will celebrate its 10th Anniversary August 1-14, 2021 in Chestertown, Md. NMF will feature music to suit virtually every taste – from symphonies and chamber music to hints of jazz. More than 30 concerts and over 200 open rehearsals are scheduled throughout the festival. In its first nine seasons, the Festival […]
Continue ReadingRousing folk tunes of Appalachia will meet tender melodies sung in Gaelic at the first Resonance concert of the New Year at 3 p.m. Sunday, January 12, 2020. IONA will present a program of traditional Celtic music spun by exceptional musicians at St. Paul’s Kent, 7579 Sandy Bottom Rd., south of Chestertown. The sources of […]
Continue ReadingDespite what you may have heard, it can take three to tango. The passion sparked by its rhythms doesn’t inspire just dancers. Three international stars of classical music have also been bitten by the tango bug. Chestertown’s Resonance concert series will open its 2019-2020 season with the Piazzolla Trio, October 27, 2019 at 3 p.m. […]
Continue ReadingRIDGELY, MD – Adkins Arboretum joins the National Music Festival in presenting a unique improvisatory performance in the Arboretum forest on Thursday, June 6, 2019 when the NewBassoon Institute performs Forest Music. Positioning themselves throughout the forest, within hearing distance though not necessarily within sight of one another, these innovative musicians will engage in a […]
Continue ReadingChestertown, MD – The National Music Festival returns to Maryland’s Eastern Shore June 2 – 15, 2019 with 32 concerts and over 200 free open rehearsals in historic Chestertown. Now in its ninth season, the Festival brings together world-class professional musicians — from major orchestras, chamber ensembles and conservatory faculties — and gifted student musicians […]
Continue Reading“If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready,” says Karen Slack. It is wisdom that has served her well in a career as an opera singer. Perhaps never so much so as when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut 13 years ago. The soprano will be featured in the National Music Festival’s next […]
Continue ReadingThe viola will emerge from the shadow of the violin, its smaller, higher-voiced sibling, when Miles Hoffman performs in Chestertown on February 17, 2019 at 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church, Kent County. Hoffman is the founder and violist of the American Chamber Players, with whom he regularly tours the United States. However, he is […]
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