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· Church Circle in Annapolis
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All
2025 concerts at 7:30 PM
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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
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2026 #1
THESE
DISTRACTED TIMES
Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 7:00
PM
Susie
Napper
(Montreal)
~
viola da gamba
~
Elisabeth
Wright
(Bloomington, IN)
~
harpsichord
~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute
~
Suites
entitled La Paix
(Peace) and Le
Guerre (War) by
Monteclair, settings by
Francesco Barsanti and
Francesco Geminiani of
Scottish ballads
associated with the
Battle of Flodden Field
in 1513 and a soldier's
sad farewell, and A
Sad Pavan for these
Distracted Times
by Thomas Tomkins,
written following the
execution of Charles I
and the destruction of
his organ ... these all
reflect the 18th-century
composer's insight in
providing perspective
and solace in the face
of discord and suffering
and are to be included
among other works by the
warrior king and flutist
Frederick the Great,
Johann Sebastian Bach
and George Friderick
Handel, alongside a solo
for viola da gamba by
Carl Friedrich Abel.
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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 (Montreal)
~
pardessus de viole
~
Susie
Napper
(Montreal)
~
viola da gamba ~
Elisabeth
Wright
(Indiana)
~
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 statement
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. "Le
Temple de la Paix" was
premiered in 1685 two
days after Louis XIV
revoked the Edict of
Nantes. Chaconnes from
these operas, in
remarkable
transcriptions from
1713 for chamber music
presentation to Louis
XIV by his court
librarian Philidor
l'Ainι that Jeffrey
Cohan discovered at
the Bibliotheque
Nationale in Paris,
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 French and
Italian styles that
was debated
vociferously in France
during the mid-18th
century (the "Guerre
des Bouffons").
The
rarely heard pardessus
de viole is the
highest-pitched member
of the fretted viol
family of stringed
instruments,
corresponding to the
violin but played in
the lap, alongside the
viola da gamba or bass
viol, also fretted
like a guitar and with
a range approximating
that of the cello.
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2026 #3
THE QUALITY OF
MERCY
SHAKESPEARE IN VENICE 1600
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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
asserted that The
quality of mercy is
not straind, 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
was imbued with
humanism's late 16th and
early 17th century
perspective that brought
human emotion,
individualism and an
obsession with the
heroic 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
"L'Eroica" by Andrea
Falconieri are to be
performed on instruments
seldom heard today.
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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 September 9,
2026 ~
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