BALTIMORE
September
21 & October
8:
ST. IGNATIUS
CHURCH
740 North Calvert
Street
in Baltimore
st-ignatius.net
September
27:
CHRIST
LUTHERAN CHURCH
701 South Charles Street
in Baltimore
christinnerharbor.org
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Capitol Hill
Chamber Music
Festival is
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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
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2026 Capitol Hill
Chamber Music Festival in Baltimore
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
21 - October 8, 2026
Please
join our MAILING
LIST for updated schedule announcements
(please specify Baltimore)
2026
#1 THESE
DISTRACTED TIMES
Monday, September 21 at 7:00 PM
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba
~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
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
afternoon, September 27 at 2:00 PM
Christ Lutheran
Church at 701 South Charles Street
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 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
Thursday, October 8 at 7:00 PM
St. Ignatius
Catholic Church at 740 North Calvert
Street
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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