Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival Supports
Talbot Restaurant Week

On March 27th beginning at 1 PM, five finalists out of a field of 73 chamber music ensembles will compete for more than $15,000 in prizes at Easton’s Avalon Theatre, capping the fourth biennial Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition.

The finalists are: The Harlem Quartet (New York); The Jasper Quartet (New Haven, CT); The Klimt Trio (Boston); The Red Line Sax Quartet (Rochester, NY); and Trio Sima (New York). Members of the five ensembles have studied at some of the world's finest conservatories. The finalists are multiple prize-winners in their own right, and all have received substantial recognition for the quality of their performances, both in the U.S. and internationally.

The finalists will perform on March 27 before a panel of three internationally acclaimed judges: Pamela Frank, world renowned violin soloist, Lambert Orkis, keyboard at the National Symphony Orchestra and J. Lawrie Bloom, clarinet with the Chicago Symphony. Performances will run throughout the afternoon, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., and continue in the evening from 6:45 p.m. until about 9:00 p.m. The announcement of the first and second prize winners, as well as the winner of the audience choice award, will take place during a reception at the end of the performances.

The Competition performances are open to the general public. Tickets are $10 per person for the entire day, and allow audience members to leave and reenter between individual performances.

Through an arrangement between Chesapeake Chamber Music and the Talbot County Tourism Office, anyone attending the Competition can be entered into a drawing for free tickets to CCM's Festival 25 in June just by dining at one of the restaurants participating in Talbot Restaurant Week on March 27. A coupon to enter the drawing will be given to each person purchasing a ticket.

For more information visit www.ChesapeakeChamberMusic.org or call 410-819-0380