Chesapeake Music celebrates its 40th Anniversary Chamber Music Festival with one of the most exciting rosters and programs to date!

Discover the virtuosic Sonata in C-sharp Minor for Flute and Piano by Mel Bonis, a prolific French female composer in the early modern period. The Juilliard String Quartet, Catherine Cho, and Marcy Rosen will surprise you in Arnold Schoenberg’s 1899 Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”), an early tonal string sextet, inspired both by a poem of the same name and Schoenberg’s nascent love for his future wife. The Festival closes with an overlooked masterpiece – the energetic and beautiful Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor by French composer Gabriel Fauré.Program Details

Saturday, June 14th at 7:30 PM
Festival Finale

Mélanie Hélène “Mel” Bonis (1858-1937)
Sonata in C-sharp Minor for Flute and Piano, Op. 64
Tara Helen O’Connor, Wynona Wang

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”), Op. 4
Areta Zhulla, Ronald Copes, Molly Carr, Catherine Cho, Astrid Schween, Marcy Rosen

Intermission

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 45
Juilliard String Quartet, Wynona Wang