Classical performances in and around Richmond, with selected events elsewhere in Virginia and the Washington area. Program information, provided by presenters, is updated as details become available. Adult single-ticket prices are listed; senior, student/youth, group and other discounts may be offered.
SCOUTING REPORT
* Not-quite doldrums: With the fall-to-spring season winding down, it’s time to check the oil and kick the tires for summer-festival road trips. The prime Richmond attraction is Centenary United Methodist Church’s summertime showcase
of early music, with Stanley M. Baker conducting the Festival Choir and period-instruments orchestra in works of Samuel Wesley, nephew of Methodist patriarch John Wesley, on June 27. . . . On the road, the Fredericksburg Chamber Music Festival, June 1-4 at St. George’s Episcopal Church (with a bit of klezmer music on opening night); the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival (you know who plus Barber, Mahler, Schumann and folk singer-instrumentalist John McCutcheon), June 13-20 at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg; and the Washington Early Music Festival (French-accented this year), June 4-26 at various D.C. venues (who could resist the June 13 program, "Au Naturel" by The Suspicious Cheese Lords?) . . . Tickets are scarce for pianist André Watts playing Beethoven’s "Emperor" Concerto with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony, June 5 at Strathmore in the Maryland suburbs of D.C., and cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing Osvaldo Golijov’s "Azul" with Jeffrey Kahane and the National Symphony, June 29 at Washington’s Kennedy Center; but still available for percussionist Evelyn Glennie’s performances of Erkki-Sven Tüür’s "Magma" with Neeme Järvi and the National Symphony, June 10-12 at the Kennedy Center, and cellist Alisa Weilerstein playing Beethoven, Britten, Chopin and De Falla, June 15 at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington. . . . Pianist Soheil Nasseri plays Chopin, Schumann and Beethoven alongside music by contemporary Iranian composers, June 6 at Strathmore. . . . Actors Derek Jacobi and Richard Clifford, countertenor David Daniels and baritone Robert McDonald join the Folger Consort in readings from Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" with incidental music by Matthew Locke, plus arias by Handel, June 11 at Strathmore.June 1 (7 p.m.)
St. George’s Episcopal Church, 905 Princess Anne St., Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Chamber Music Festival:
Bayla Keyes & Peter Zazofsky, violins
Steven Ansell, viola
Michael Reynolds, cello
Paul Glenn, double-bass
Carol Wincenc, flute
Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet
Kathleen Reynolds, bassoon
William Scharnberg, French horn
Michele Levin, piano
Christina Crowder, accordion
Nielsen: "Serenata in vano"
Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 25, for flute, violin and viola
klezmer selections TBA
Dvořák: Trio in F minor, Op. 65
$25
(540) 374-5040
http://www.fredfest.org/
June 1 (7:30 p.m.)
June 4 (7:30 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Opera House, Washington
Washington National Opera
Plácido Domingo & Patrick Fournillier conducting
Thomas: "Hamlet"
Liam Bonner/Michael Chioldi (Hamlet)
Diana Damrau (Ophelia)
Samuel Ramey (Claudius)
Elizabeth Bishop (Gertrude)
John Tessier (Laertes)
Leo An (Polonius)
José Ortega (Marcellus)
Thaddeus Strassberger, stage director
in French, English captions
$50-$300
(800) 876-7372
http://www.dc-opera.org/
June 3 (7 p.m.)
St. George’s Episcopal Church, 905 Princess Anne St., Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Chamber Music Festival:
Bayla Keyes & Peter Zazofsky, violins
Steven Ansell, viola
Michael Reynolds, cello
Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet
Michele Levin, piano
Rossini: Quartet No. 1 in F major
Haydn: "The Seven Last Words of Christ"
narrator TBA
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
$25
(540) 374-5040
http://www.fredfest.org/
June 3 (7 p.m.)
June 4 (1:30 p.m.)
June 5 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Iván Fischer conducting
Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade"”
Stravinsky: "The Rite of Spring"
$20-$85
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/
June 4 (7 p.m.)
St. George’s Episcopal Church, 905 Princess Anne St., Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Chamber Music Festival:
Bayla Keyes & Peter Zazofsky, violins
Steven Ansell, viola
Michael Reynolds, cello
Paul Glenn, double-bass
Carol Wincenc, flute
Michele Levin, piano
C.P.E. Bach: Quartet in G major
Prokofiev: Sonata in C major, Op. 56, for two violins
Handel-Halvorsen: Passacaglia for violin and double-bass
Dohnányi: Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 1
$25
(540) 374-5040
http://www.fredfest.org/
June 4 (8 p.m.)
All Souls Memorial Episcopal Church, 2300 Cathedral Ave. NW, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
Orpheus
Philip Cave, director & tenor
Roger Isaacs, countertenor
Michael McCarthy, bass
Kevin Payne, therobo
Scott Detra, organ
"Motets and Airs by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and his contemporaries"
$20
(202) 232-4244
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 5 (8 p.m.)
St. Columba's Episcopal Church, 4201 Albemarle St., Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
The Vivaldi Project
"The French-Italian Connection," works by Vivaldi, Lully, Campra, Muffat
$20
(202) 363-4119
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 5 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting
Barber: Adagio for strings
Bartók: "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta"
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor")
André Watts, piano
$30-$90 (waiting list)
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
http://www.strathmore.org/
June 6 (4 p.m.)
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 520 N. Boulevard, Richmond
Richmond Choral Society
Markus J. Compton directing
"A Sentimental Journey," music by Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, others
$10
(804) 967-9878
http://www.richmondchoralsociety.org/
June 6 (2 p.m.)
Chandler Hall, Diehl Arts Center, Old Dominion University, Norfolk
Virginia Arts Festival:
Fellows of John Duffy Composers Institute
vocal, instrumental works TBA (premieres)
Free
(757) 282-2800
http://www.virginiaartsfest.com/
June 6 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Kennedy Center Chamber Players
Walter Gieseking: Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
Szymanowski: "Myths" for violin and piano
Schubert: String Quartet in C major, D. 956
$35
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/
June 6 (4 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Soheil Nasseri, piano
Chopin: Waltz in A flat major, Op. 30, No. 1
Chopin: Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
Schumann: Humoresque in B flat major, Op. 20
Hormoz Farhat: "Persian Bagatelles" (premiere)
Javad Maroufi: "Jila"
Javad Maroufi: "Khabhaye Talaei" ("Golden Dreams")
Ruhollah Khaleghi: "Ey Iran"
Beethoven: Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 ("Appassionata")
$15-$35
(301) 581-5100
http://www.strathmore.org/
June 8 (8 p.m.)
Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Charlottesville
Charlottesville Municipal Band
Steve Layman directing
"A New Season of Old Favorites," works by Sousa, Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, others
Free
(434) 979-1333
http://www.theparamount.net/
June 9 (7 p.m.)
St. James's Episcopal Church, 1205 W. Franklin St., Richmond
Karen Johnson, violin
Joanne Kong, piano
Schumann: Sonata in a minor, Op. 105
Schumann: Sonata "Frei aber einsam" (excerpts)
Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 131 (third movement)
Schumann: Fantasy, Op. 17 for piano
Elgar: "Chanson de Nuit"
Elgar: "Chanson de Matin"
donation requested
(804) 359-1779
http://doers.org/pages/musiccalendar.htm
June 10 (7 p.m.)
June 11 (8 p.m.)
June 12 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi conducting
Grieg: "Lyric Suite"
Erkki-Sven Tüür: "Magma"
Evelyn Glennie, percussion
Bernstein: "Candide" Overture & Suite
Duke Ellington: "Harlem"
$20-$85
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/
June 10 (8 p.m.)
Christ Church on Capitol Hill, 620 G St. SE, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
Harmonious Blacksmith
Linda Tsatsanis, soprano
Justin Godoy, recorder
Josh Lee, viola da gamba
John Lenti, lute
Joseph Gascho, harpsichord
"L'Amour et la Mort: Love and Death in 17th-century French Music"
$20
(202) 547-9300
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 10 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting
Barber: "Knoxville, Summer of 1915"
Janice Chamdler-Etemé, soprano
Brahms: "A German Requiem"
Janice Chandler-Etemé, soprano
Stephen Powell, baritone
The Washington Chorus
Julian Wachner directing
Morgan State University Choir
Eric Conway directing
$25-$80
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
http://www.strathmore.org/
June 11 (7:30 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU alumni concert
works by Bach, Debussy, Simon Sargon, Joseph Turrin, Alexander Goesdicke, others
Free
(804) 828-6776
http://www.vcumusic.org/
June 11 (8 p.m.)
St. Peter's Catholic Church on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St SE, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
Carmina/Illuminare
"A Festival of Praise"
anon: "The Mass of Tournai"
Peter Abelard: "Planctus virginum Israel"
works by Dufay, Josquin des Prez, Lhéritier
$20
(202) 547-1430
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 11 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Folger Consort
Handel: arias TBA
David Daniels, countertenor
Matthew Locke: "The Tempest" incidental music, with readings from Shakespeare’s play
Derek Jacobi & Richard Clifford, actors
David Daniels, countertenor
Robert McDonald, baritone
$25-$75
(301) 581-5100
http://www.strathmore.org/
June 12 (8 p.m.)
St. Peter's Catholic Church on Capitol Hill, 313 2nd St. SE, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
The Countertop Ensemble
"Les Douces Memoires: La musique anncienne de France"
Pre-concert talk at 7 p.m.
$20
(202) 547-1430
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 13 (3 p.m.)
Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival:
Festival Orchestra
Kenneth Nafziger conducting
Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 2
Joan Griffing, violin
Mary Kay Adams, flute
Sandra Gerster, oboe
David Wick, French horn
Bach: "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 5
Joan Griffing, violin
Mary Kay Adams, flute
Marvin Mills, harpsichord
John McCutcheon: songs, instrumental pieces
John McCutcheon, singer-instrumentalist
$25
(540) 432-4582
www.emu.edu/bach
June 13 (4 p.m.)
La Maison Française (French Embassy), 4101 Reservoir Road NW, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
The Suspicious Cheese Lords
"Au Naturel: Early French Music for Unaccompanied Voices"
$20
(202) 944-6400
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 13 (7 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
Laura Ward, piano
Cavani String Quartet
works by Handel, Schumann, Chausson, Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, others
$35-$85
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
http://www.wpas.org/
June 14 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Beethoven Found Philharmonic
Yuval Waldman conducting
Beethoven: “Macbeth” Overture
Beethoven: Oboe Concerto (andante)
H. David Meyers, oboe
Beethoven: "Choral Fantasy"
Aglaia Koras, piano
Aurelia String Quartet
City of Washington Chorus
Robert Shafer directing
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
$75
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/
June 15 (8 p.m.)
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW, Washington
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Inon Barnatan, piano
Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major, Op. 102, No. 2
Britten: Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 65
De Falla: "Suite Populaire Espagnole"
Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65
$40
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts Society)
http://www.wpas.org/
June 16 (8 p.m.)
Capitol Hill United Methodist Church, 421 Seward Square SE, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
La Ménéstrandise
"Springtime in Paris," 18th-century works for recorders, oboe, gamba, harpsichord and bass
$20
(202) 546-1000
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 17 (7 p.m.)
June 18 (8 p.m.)
June 19 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Juraj Valcuha conducting
Haydn: Symphony No. 85 ("La Reine")
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1
Jennifer Koh, violin
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
$20-$85
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/
June 18 (7:30 p.m.)
Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival:
Festival Orchestra
Kenneth Nafziger conducting
Bach: Cantata 211 ("Coffee Cantata")
Anne Gross, soprano
Joel Ross, tenor
James Richardson, bass
Mahler: "Five Rückert Songs"
Heidi Kurtz, mezzo-soprano
Barber: "Knoxville, Summer of 1915"
Anne Gross, soprano
Osvaldo Golijov: "Lullaby and Doina"
$25
(540) 432-4582
www.emu.edu/bach
June 18 (8 p.m.)
St. Mark's on Capitol Hill, 118 3rd St. SE, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
Repast Baroque Ensemble
Amelia Roosevelt, baroque violin
John Mark Rozendaal, viola da gamba
Avi Stein, harpsichord
"La Pantomime," works by Leclair, Mariais, Rameau, Fourquery, Couperin, Morel
$20
(202) 543-0053
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival:
Festival Orchestra
Kenneth Nafziger conducting
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 2
Chopin: Variations on "La ci darem la mano"
Lynne Mackey, piano
Barber: "Mutations from Bach"
W.F. Bach: Sinfonia in F major
Schumann: "Konzertstück" for four horns & orchestra
David Wick, Barbara Josenhans, Jay Chadwick & Tara Islas, French horns
$25
(540) 432-4582
www.emu.edu/bach
June 19 (7:30 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
18th Street Singers
Benjamin Olinsky directing
"New Beginnings," works by Rachmaninoff, Morten Lauridsen, Eric Whitacre, Howard Hanson, others
$15-$20
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/
June 19 (8 p.m.)
St. Mark's on Capitol Hill, 118 3rd St SE, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
Modern Musick
"Salon Parisien: Instrumental Music by Rameau, Boismortier and Corrette"
$20
(202) 543-0053
www.earlymusicdc.org
June 20 (4 p.m.)
St. John Neumann Catholic Church, 2480 Batterson Road, Powhatan
Greater Richmond Children's Choir
Hope Armstrong Erb directing
program TBA
$5
(804) 598-3754
http://www.grcchoir.org/
June 20 (6 p.m.)
The Gardens at Sunday Point, Brandermill, 4602 Millridge Parkway, Midlothian
Richmond Philharmonic
Robert Mirakian conducting
"Just for Fun," light-classical & pops works TBA
Free
(804) 673-7400
http://www.richmondphilharmonic.org/
June 20 (10 a.m.)
Lehman Auditorium, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival Leipzig Service:
Festival Choir & Orchestra
Kenneth Nafziger conducting
Marvin Mills, organ
Bach: Cantata 39, "Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot"
Anne Gross, soprano
Joel Ross, alto
James Richardson, bass
Barber: Adagio for strings
Bach: Sanctus in D major, BWV 238
donation requested
(540) 432-4582
www.emu.edu/bach
June 20 (3 p.m.)
St. Paul's Parish, K Street, 2430 K St. NW, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
BHB
Barbara Hollinshead, mezzo-soprano
Howard Bass, lutes
"Airs de Cour," 16th- and 17th-century French songs and solos
$20
(202) 337-2020
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 20 (7:30 p.m.)
Grace Episcopal Church, 1607 Grace Church Road, Silver Spring, MD
Washington Early Music Festival:
L'Arabesque Baroque
Leslie Nero, violin
Billy Simms, therobo
Douglas Wolters & Cariolana Simon, viols
"An Evening at Versailles: Court Music for the Sun King"
$20
(301) 585-3515
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 22 (12:10 p.m.)
Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
Arco Voce
Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano
Elizabeth Field & Nina Falk, violins
Douglas McNames, cello
Steven Silverman, harpsichord
William Sharp, baritone
John Moran, viola da gamba
"Airs du Coeur," works by Monteclair, Leclair, Couperin, Guillemain, Jacquet de la Guerre
$20
(202) 347-2635
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 24 (7 p.m.)
June 25 (8 p.m.)
June 26 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra Pops
Marvin Hamlisch conducting
Jim Owen, Tony Kishman, Tom Teeley, Chris Camilleri & Martin Herman, guest stars
"Classical Mystery Tour," music of The Beatles
$20-$85
(800) 444-1324
http://www.kennedy-center.org/
June 24 (8 p.m.)
St. Mark's on Capitol Hill, 118 3rd St SE, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
Ensemble Gaudior
"Splendors of Versailles," works by Rameau, Couperin, Marais
$20
(202) 543-0053
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 25 (8 p.m.)
St. Mark's on Capitol Hill, 118 3rd St. SE, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
Armonio Nova
Constance Whiteside, director & medieval harp
Marjorie Bunday, alto
Allison Mondel, soprano
Jay White, countertenor
Craig Resta, vielle
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano
"When Love Was Art: Passionate Music from the Age of Chivalry"
$20
(202) 543-0053
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 26 (8 p.m.)
St. Mark's on Capitol Hill, 118 3rd St. SE, Washington
Washington Early Music Festival:
Stephen Ackert & Keith Reas, organs
Steven Silverman & Atsuko Watanabe, harpsichords
"Four Early Keyboards," program TBA
$20
(202) 543-0053
http://www.earlymusicdc.org/
June 27 (5 p.m.)
Centenary United Methodist Church, 411 E. Grace St., Richmond
Centenary Festival Chorus & Orchestra
Stanley M. Baker conducting
"A Walk with Wesley"
Samuel Wesley: Concerto in D major
Grant Hellmers, organ
Risa Browder, violin
Samuel Wesley: "Funeral Anthem on the Death of the Late Charles Wesley"
Brittany Brooks & Lynn LaBarre, sopranos
Emily Martin, alto
Todd Minnich, tenor
Dustin Faltz, baritone
Samuel Wesley: "Exultate Deo" (orchestral version)
Samuel Wesley: "Ode to Saint Cecilia"
Anne O’Byrne, soprano
Lynn Kotrady, alto
John C. Ford Jr., bass
$15 suggested donation
(804) 648-8319
http://www.centumc.org/
June 29 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Jeffrey Kahane conducting
Ravel: "Alborada del gracioso"
Ravel: "Ma mère l’oye"
Ravel: "Rapsodie espagnole"
Osvaldo Golijov: "Azul"
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
$30-$125 (waiting list)
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org