Ensemble Aubade
Georgetown Quintet
Georgetown Quintet
Our new season opens with Ensemble Aubade (Peter H. Bloom, flute; Francis Grimes, viola; and Steven Sussman, piano), a distinguished chamber group from Boston. The acclaimed trio will provide an exhilarating tour of chamber music by European and American masters, and they have enthralled audiences across the United States with their virtuosity, versatility, and electrifying performances.
They’ve been praised for “intensity, imagination, skill, and finesse” (St. Lawrence University, New York) and their music has been called “dynamic, expressive, richly colored and affecting” (Loretto Community, Kentucky).
Georgetown Quintet
Georgetown Quintet
Georgetown Quintet
The Georgetown Quintet
This woodwind quintet has been nominated for a Washington Area Music Award as Best Chamber Ensemble of 2009, they have entertained audiences at Strathmore Mansion, the Old Town Hall of Fairfax, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, and Black Rock Center in Germantown, MD. and
individual artists of The Georgetown Quintet have performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Williamsburg Symphony, the National Philharmonic Orchestra, and R&B icon Ray Charles.
Atlas String Quartet
Atlas String Quartet
Atlas String Quartet
The Atlas String Quartet, based at Frostburg State University, includes the concertmaster of the U.S. Marine Band’s White House Chamber Orchestra, a member of the National Symphony Orchestra and faculty of Frostburg State. In addition to formal concerts, they focus on music education throughout the mid-Atlantic area.
Les Delices
Atlas String Quartet
Atlas String Quartet
To close our season we are pleased to bring back Les Délices. the early music group who played for us in 2014. They have built a national reputation as a leader in the field of early music and have been featured on WCPN, WCLV and WKSU in Ohio, WQXR in New York, NPR’s syndicated Harmonia and Sunday Baroque, and had their debut CD featured as part of the Audio-guide for a special exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
2022-2023 Season Concerts
Balourdet String Quartet
Our new season opens with the brilliant young Balourdet String Quartet. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the quartet is currently in residence at the New England Conservatory's Professional String Quartet Program. They received the Grand Prize at the 2021 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition as well as the top prize awarded in the 2021 Premio Paolo Borciani in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The group also received the Gold Medal in the 2020 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the Gold Medal and Audience Award at the 2021 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition.
Mirror Visions Ensemble
Featuring soprano, tenor, baritone and piano, MVE 's programs take audiences on an imaginative journey through song, showcasing well-known and often-neglected pieces by composers both familiar and new, set to texts by poets and historical figures that encompass published works, correspondence and other anecdotes.
Vision Duo
A first for us, this violin and marimba duo features works by classical and contemporary composers and introduces multidisciplinary elements of modern performance. Ariel Horowitz and Britton - René Collins are recipients of the 2020 CAG Competition's Ambassador Prize, awarded to musicians who show an exceptional level of virtuosity and humanity in their interest in community engagement and bringing the voices of new composers to the forefront.
Merz Trio
To close our 41st season we are pleased to present the Merz Trio. Praised for their "fresh and surprising interpretations," the award-winning Merz Trio are known for their passionate, original playing. The Trio have made a sweep of recent US chamber awards, taking top prizes at the 2021 Naumburg, 2019 Concert Artists Guild, 2019 Fischoff, and 2018 Chesapeake Competitions. Upcoming appearances include performances at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.