ANNAPOLIS
ST. ANNE'S
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
· Church Circle in Annapolis
www.stannes-annapolis.org
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•
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and under FREE •
• All
2025 concerts at 7:30 PM •
We
are grateful to St. Anne's
Episcopal Church for their
support
Live
Arts Maryland
presents high-quality
chamber,
orchestral and choral music
in Annapolis since 1974.
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
Annapolis
thanks to your support.
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2026 Capitol Hill
Chamber Music Festival in Annapolis
~ Period Instrument chamber
music from six centuries ~
~ in collaboration with LiveArts
Maryland and St. Anne's
Episcopal Church ~
2026:
THE QUALITY OF
MERCY
The
2026 Capitol Hill Chamber Music Festival celebrates
our shared humanity
through the musical depiction of experiences of
conflict resolution and compassion,
featuring 17th and 18th-century chamber music
performed by period
instrument specialists from around the country and
Canada.
September
22 - October 7, 2026
Please
join our MAILING
LIST for updated schedule announcements
(please specify Annapolis)
2026 #1
•
THESE
DISTRACTED TIMES •
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Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 7:00
PM
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Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba
~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord
~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute
~
Suites
entitled "La Paix"
(Peace) and "Le Guerre"
(War) by Monteclair 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 •
•
Sunday, September 27, 2026 at 7:00
PM
•
St.
Anne's Episcopal Church at
Church Circle in Annapolis
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 in
France as the
culminating expression
of an opera’s content
at the court of Louis
XIV. In Jean
Baptiste Lully’s
"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 and
Lully's "Ballet du
Temple de la Paix", in
remarkable
transcriptions for a
small ensemble in 1713
by Louis XIV's court
librarian Philidor
l'Ainé, will be
presented alongside
Couperin's "La Paix de
Parnasse" and other
selections by Marin
Marais and Arcangelo
Corelli, which
demonstrate the
stylistic chasm
between the French and
Italian styles that
was debated so
vociferously in France
during the early years
of the 18th century.
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2026 #3
• THE QUALITY OF
MERCY •
SHAKESPEARE IN VENICE 1600
•
Date to be announced
•
St.
Anne's Episcopal Church at Church
Circle in Annapolis
Marlisa
del Cid Woods
~
baroque violin
~
Anna
Marsh
~
dulcian/renaissance bassoon
~
William
Simms
~
baroque guitar and theorbo
~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
renaissance flute
~
Shakespeare
remarked that "The
quality of mercy is not
strain’d, it droppeth as
the gentle rain from
heaven" in "The Merchant
of Venice", first
performed in 1605. The
Italian chamber music
from this time to be
included in this program
for bassoon, transverse
flute, violin and guitar
was imbued with
humanism's late 16th and
early 17th century
perspective that brought
human emotion and
individualism ever more
poignantly into public
consciousness in all the
arts. Music embraced
greater chromaticism and
emotional palpability,
leading to the unfolding
of what we think of
today as baroque style.
Stunning and relatively
unknown musical
selections by Cima,
Buonamente, Merula,
Frescobaldi and others
are to be performed on
very rarely heard
instruments.
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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 28,
2026 ~
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banner: detail from "Indeterminate
Landscape" by James C.
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