WASHINGTON DC
ST. MARK'S
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
301 A Street, SE
in Washington, D.C.
https://www.stmarks.net/
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Donation:
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(a free will offering - everyone
welcome)
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and under FREE •
 
The Capitol Hill Chamber Music
Festival is proud to be an
affiliate organization of
Early Music America, which
develops, strengthens, and
celebrates early music and
historically informed
performance in North America.
CHCMF presents outstanding
early chamber music in
Baltimore
thanks to your support.
Please donate! All donations
are fully tax-deductible.
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2026 Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival in
Annapolis
~ Period Instrument chamber
music from six centuries ~
~ in collaboration with St. Marks
Episcopal Church
~
THE
QUALITY OF MERCY
September
20 - October 9, 2026
Please
join our MAILING
LIST for updated schedule announcements
(please specify Annapolis)
2026
#1 • THESE
DISTRACTED TIMES •
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba
~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord
~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute
~
Suites entitled "La Paix"
(Peace) and "Le Guerre"
(War) by Monteclair,
Couperin's "La Paix de
Parnasse" and "A Sad Pavan
for these Distracted
Times" by Thomas Tomkins
all reflect the
18th-century composer's
proficiency in providing
perspective and solace in
the face of discord and
suffering and are to be
included among other works
by Couperin, Johann
Sebastian Bach, Élisabeth
Jacquet de La Guerre and
Louis Couperin.
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2026
#2 • A CHACONNE FOR PEACE •
Melisande
Corriveau
~
pardessus de viole
~
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba ~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord
~
Jeffrey
Cohan
Les
Voix humaines, the
widely celebrated
prize-winning duo of
viols from Montreal,
joins us in a program
illuminating the role of
the chaconne as the
ultimate expression and
culmination statement of
operas by Jean Baptiste
Lully at the court of
Louis XIV. In "Phaeton"
(1683), warring nations
are unified in global
harmony. In "Persée"
(1682) divine
intervention brings a
celebration of peace for
the people of Ethiopia.
Chaconnes from these
operas, transcribed for
a small ensemble in 1713
by Louis XIV's court
librarian Philidor
l'Ainé, will join others
by Marin Marais,
Arcangelo Corelli, and
from Lully's "Ballet du
Temple de la Paix".
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2026 #3
• THE QUALITY OF
MERCY •
SHAKESPEARE IN VENICE 1600
•
Date to be announced
•
Marlisa
del Cid Woods
~
baroque violin
~
Anna
Marsh
~
dulcian/renaissance bassoon
~
William
Simms
~
baroque guitar and theorbo
~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
renaissance flute
~
Les
Voix humaines, the
widely celebrated
prize-winning duo of viols
from Montreal, joins us in a
program illuminating the
role of the chaconne as the
ultimate expression and
culmination statement of
operas by Jean Baptiste
Lully at the court of Louis
XIV. In "Phaeton" (1683),
warring nations are unified
in global harmony. In
"Persée" (1682) divine
intervention brings a
celebration of peace for the
people of Ethiopia.
Chaconnes from these operas,
transcribed for a small
ensemble in 1713 by Louis
XIV's court librarian
Philidor l'Ainé, will join
others by Marin Marais,
Arcangelo Corelli, and from
Lully's "Ballet du Temple de
la Paix".
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The
Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival has
since 2000 presented chamber music by
familiar as well as little-known composers
from the Renaissance through the present on
Capitol Hill in period instrument
performances which shed new light upon early
performance practice and contemporary works.
Unpublished works from the Library of
Congress are given particular attention, and
many have received their modern day
premieres during these concerts, in addition
to premieres of works by Slovenian
composers. The Capitol Hill Chamber Music
Festival is a nonprofit corporation in the
District of Columbia and an affiliate
organization of Early Music America.
~ updated August 18,
2026 ~
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