https://chestertownspy.org Nonpartisan and Education-based News for Chestertown Sat, 26 Apr 2025 11:00:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/26/chesapeake-musics-40th-anniversary-chamber-music-festival-june-6-14-by-james-carder/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/26/chesapeake-musics-40th-anniversary-chamber-music-festival-june-6-14-by-james-carder/#respond Sat, 26 Apr 2025 11:00:36 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/26/chesapeake-musics-40th-anniversary-chamber-music-festival-june-6-14-by-james-carder/ Reflection and Celebration is the theme of this year’s Chamber Music Festival – six concerts performed by world-class musicians at the Ebenezer Theater in historic Easton, Maryland. Back for this celebration and as a reflection of the Festival’s past four decades are musicians long-associated with the Festival – Catherine Cho, current Artistic Director, Robert McDonald, Peggy Pearson, […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/04/26/chesapeake-musics-40th-anniversary-chamber-music-festival-june-6-14-by-james-carder/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/25/chesapeake-musics-march-interlude-concert-offers-a-delightful-mix-across-musical-genres-for-saxophone-and-piano/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/25/chesapeake-musics-march-interlude-concert-offers-a-delightful-mix-across-musical-genres-for-saxophone-and-piano/#respond Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:00:22 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/25/chesapeake-musics-march-interlude-concert-offers-a-delightful-mix-across-musical-genres-for-saxophone-and-piano/ Predictions are in. The combined talents of saxophonist Salvador Flores and pianist Andrew Kosinski will make Chesapeake Music’s March 22 Interlude Concert a truly memorable event. These extraordinary musicians will play an eclectic mix of classical, jazz, Latin, and fusion music, including two of their own original compositions and a world premiere by Alex Tedrow. […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/02/25/chesapeake-musics-march-interlude-concert-offers-a-delightful-mix-across-musical-genres-for-saxophone-and-piano/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/31/chesapeake-music-receives-another-nea-challenge-america-grant/ https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/31/chesapeake-music-receives-another-nea-challenge-america-grant/#respond Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:00:14 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/31/chesapeake-music-receives-another-nea-challenge-america-grant/ Chesapeake Music is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Challenge America award of $10,000 in support of its youth outreach programming in 2025. “We are thrilled and grateful to receive another round of funding from NEA to continue this important work we began this […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2025/01/31/chesapeake-music-receives-another-nea-challenge-america-grant/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/09/16/a-conversation-with-isidore-string-quartet-violinist-phoenix-avalon/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/09/16/a-conversation-with-isidore-string-quartet-violinist-phoenix-avalon/#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:04 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/?p=179317 Music lovers can look forward to Chesapeake Music’s upcoming Interlude Concert featuring the multi-award-winning Isidore String Quartet at the Ebenezer Theater on October 5. Members of the quartet are violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist, Joshua McClendon. I spoke with Phoenix Avalon who began playing violin when he was three years old, has studied […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/09/16/a-conversation-with-isidore-string-quartet-violinist-phoenix-avalon/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/17/david-faleris-appointed-new-full-time-executive-director-of-chesapeake-music/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/17/david-faleris-appointed-new-full-time-executive-director-of-chesapeake-music/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:42:21 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/17/david-faleris-appointed-new-full-time-executive-director-of-chesapeake-music/ As the 2024 Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival concludes, Chesapeake Music is pleased to announce the appointment of David Faleris of Newburyport, Massachusetts as its new full-time Executive Director. Most recently, Faleris has served as Deputy Director of Newburyport Art Association. Before that, he was the Senior Recruitment & Admissions Officer at the Royal Conservatoire of […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/06/17/david-faleris-appointed-new-full-time-executive-director-of-chesapeake-music/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/05/16/the-aizuri-quartet-returns-to-easton-for-the-chesapeake-chamber-music-festival/ https://chestertownspy.org/2024/05/16/the-aizuri-quartet-returns-to-easton-for-the-chesapeake-chamber-music-festival/#respond Thu, 16 May 2024 10:00:49 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/05/16/the-aizuri-quartet-returns-to-easton-for-the-chesapeake-chamber-music-festival/ “Genuinely exciting” – The New York Times Praised by The Washington Post for “astounding” and “captivating” performances that draw from its notable “meld of intellect, technique and emotions,” the Aizuri Quartet, a finalist of Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition in 2014,  was named the recipient of the 2022 Cleveland Quartet Award by Chamber Music America, with other […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/05/16/the-aizuri-quartet-returns-to-easton-for-the-chesapeake-chamber-music-festival/feed/ 0 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/03/30/chesapeake-music-announces-11th-biennial-chesapeake-chamber-music-competition-for-young-professionals/ Sat, 30 Mar 2024 11:40:29 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/03/30/chesapeake-music-announces-11th-biennial-chesapeake-chamber-music-competition-for-young-professionals/ The 11th Biennial Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition for Young Professionals will be held live on April 13, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Ebenezer Theater in Easton, Maryland, and live-streamed all day. The awards will be given around 5 p.m. This exciting daylong celebration of chamber music will feature five of […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/27/chesapeake-music-presents-chamber-music-reimagined-march-10-at-the-ebenezer-theater/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 12:37:06 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/27/chesapeake-music-presents-chamber-music-reimagined-march-10-at-the-ebenezer-theater/ Chesapeake Music’s Sunday afternoon March 10th Interlude Concert features a piano quintet with artists from the collective ensemble/132.  This concert promises to be a one-of-a-kind chamber music experience characterized by the quintet’s artistry and unique programming. The quintet includes pianist Sahun Sam Hong, violinists, Abi Fayette and Stephanie Zyzak, violist, Luther Warren, and cellist, Zachary Mowitz. Robert Schumann’s […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/12/chesapeake-music-receives-nea-challenge-america-grant/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 11:38:12 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/12/chesapeake-music-receives-nea-challenge-america-grant/ Chesapeake Music is pleased to announce it has been recommended by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a $10,000 Challenge America grant award in support of its 2024 children’s outreach programming. “We are thrilled and grateful to have received this funding from NEA for our youth programming this year,” says Barry Koh, Chesapeake […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/08/chesapeake-music-presents-ensemble-132-on-march-10th-at-the-ebenezer-theater/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:30:39 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/02/08/chesapeake-music-presents-ensemble-132-on-march-10th-at-the-ebenezer-theater/ Chesapeake Music presents an exciting program for its Interlude concert on March 10 at 2:00 p.m. at Easton’s Ebenezer Theater.  A piano quintet of artists from ensemble/132 will delight the audience with a one-of-a-kind chamber music experience.  The quintet includes pianist Sahun Sam Hong, violinists, Abi Fayette and Stephanie Zyzak, violist, Luther Warren, and cellist, Zachary Mowitz. Chesapeake Chamber Music patrons will remember Sahun Sam […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2024/01/31/chesapeake-music-seeks-new-full-time-executive-director/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:02:33 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2024/01/31/chesapeake-music-seeks-new-full-time-executive-director/ Chesapeake Music on Maryland’s Eastern Shore has a mission to bring renowned classical and jazz musicians to delight, engage, and surprise today’s audiences and to educate, inspire, and develop tomorrow’s. Historically, the organization has operated with two part-time staff, several contractors, and a robust volunteer corps. Today, Chesapeake Music is seeking its first full-time Executive […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/06/kaleidoscope-string-quartet-visits-talbot-county-elementary-school-students/ Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:27:14 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/11/06/kaleidoscope-string-quartet-visits-talbot-county-elementary-school-students/ Chesapeake Music’s YouthReach Program recently sponsored the return of the Kaleidoscope String Quartet of New York City to provide classroom visits at Chapel District Elementary School in Cordova and White Marsh Elementary School in Trappe. Students in the second, third, fourth, and fifth grades were able to hear the group perform in assemblies and provide small classroom […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/09/28/margaret-enloe-north-becomes-interim-executive-director-of-chesapeake-music/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:32:23 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/09/28/margaret-enloe-north-becomes-interim-executive-director-of-chesapeake-music/ In early September, career nonprofit professional and consultant Margaret Enloe-North assumed the leadership at one of Talbot County’s premiere organizations for bringing amazing artists and performances to the Mid-Shore. “We are very pleased to welcome Margaret as part of the Chesapeake Music team!” says Board President Barry Koh. “I know that her nonprofit experience will […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/09/26/don-buxton-retires-as-executive-director-of-chesapeake-music/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:12:43 +0000 https://chestertownspy.org/2023/09/26/don-buxton-retires-as-executive-director-of-chesapeake-music/ In 1985, a dedicated group of chamber music lovers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore was approached by the late Ralph Bloom to establish what was initially called the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival. Assisted that year by clarinetist J. Lawrie Bloom and later by cellist Marcie Rosen, Artistic Directors, Donald Buxton of Royal Oak became the […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/06/14/terra-string-quartet-returns-to-chesapeake-chamber-music-festival/ Wed, 14 Jun 2023 10:00:11 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/2023/06/10/terra-string-quartet-returns-to-chesapeake-chamber-music-festival/ On June 15, 16, and 17, Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival audiences will discover the Terra String Quartet, fresh from winning the Bronze Medal at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. They will perform Beethoven’s F-major Quartet, with its second movement inspired by Romeo and Juliet’s tomb scene; they will delight in the “symphonic” sound of […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/05/18/chesapeake-music-brings-jazz-artist-mary-halvorson-to-the-eastern-shore/ Thu, 18 May 2023 10:00:14 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/?p=168373 Chesapeake Music is thrilled to present international performing guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson, winner of multiple DownBeat magazine critics poll awards and MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” fellow. Halvorson will be appearing with her Amaryllis sextet on Friday, July 7, 2023, at the Ebenezer Theatre in downtown Easton, Maryland. The concert begins at 8 p.m. and tickets are available at […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/05/13/the-orion-string-quartet-returns-to-the-chesapeake-chamber-music-festival-in-easton/ Sat, 13 May 2023 10:00:01 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/?p=168116 A treat awaits Chesapeake Music’s 2023 Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival goers on June 9, 10 and 11 at the Ebenezer Theater. The internationally-acclaimed Orion String Quartet will perform Haydn’s energetic, at times mysterious C-major Quartet, “The Bird,” Beethoven’s brilliant Quartet in B-flat Major and Bartók’s sixth String Quartet, as well as Brahms’ second String Sextet, with […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/04/05/chesapeake-music-brings-jazz-to-the-eastern-shore-this-spring/ Wed, 05 Apr 2023 10:00:49 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/?p=166818 Chesapeake Music is thrilled to present the exuberant jazz sounds of composer, arranger, and saxophonist Stephen Philip Harvey and his octet, SPH8, on Saturday, May 6, 2023. The concert begins at 8 p.m. at the Ebenezer Theatre in downtown Easton, Maryland. Harvey and his octet, many of whom are leaders in their own right, will […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2023/04/04/the-aero-saxophone-quartet-returns-2/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:00:40 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/?p=166816 Chesapeake Music’s Interlude Concert Series will present the Aero Saxophone Quartet in concert at the Ebenezer Theater in Easton, Maryland on Saturday, April 22, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. The group will be performing new and traditional music for the saxophone from their upcoming album release including the music of Carlos Simon, Paquito D’Rivera, Alexander Glazunov, […]]]> https://chestertownspy.org/2022/12/17/chesapeake-music-youthreach-program-connects-local-students-to-orchestral-music-through-carnegie-hall-ensemble-connect/ Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:00:41 +0000 https://cs.spycommunitymedia.org/?p=163588 Chesapeake Music’s YouthReach Program recently sponsored the Kaleidoscope String Quartet of New York City to provide classroom visits at Chapel District Elementary School in Cordova and White Marsh Elementary School in Trappe. Students in the second, third, fourth, and fifth grades were able to hear the Carnegie Hall Ensemble Connect group perform and provide instruction […]]]>