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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•
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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
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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 •
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Monday, September 21 at 7:00 PM
•
Susie
Napper
~
viola da gamba
~
Elisabeth
Wright
~
harpsichord
~
Jeffrey
Cohan
~
baroque flute
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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
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
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
•
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 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 26,
2026 ~
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