CHIARINA CHAMBER PLAYERS

ANNOUNCE 10TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

— CELEBRATIONS —

Washington, D.C., August 19, 2024 - The Chiarina Chamber Players are marking their 10th anniversary and Artistic Directors Efi Hackmey and Carrie Bean Stute have announced a celebratory season of concerts featuring a world-class roster of musicians from around the globe. A series of seven performances between September 2024 and May 2025 feature engaging artistic voices of today, works by six living American composers including the premiere of a new commission, classics of the chamber music literature, and partnerships both longstanding and new. All concerts will take place at St. Mark's Capitol Hill, 301 A Street, SE, Washington, D.C.

A spectacular line up of performing artists will appear on stage at St. Mark's, including Imani Winds; soprano Melissa Wimbish; narrator Carl DuPont; conductor Robert Wood; flutists Sarah Frisof and Adria Sternstein Foster; clarinetists Robert DiLutis, Ricardo Morales, and Patrick Morgan; pianists Michelle Cann, Lisa Emenheiser, and Efi Hackmey; violinists Catherine Cho, Grant Houston, Wanzhen Li, Regino Madrid, Jesse Mills, and Domenic Salerni; violists Philip Kramp and Paul Laraia; cellists Gabriel Cabezas, Marcy Rosen, and Carrie Bean Stute; bassist Aaron Clay; and percussionist Jonathan Bisesi.

The 10th anniversary season exemplifies the distinctive mix of programming

that led the Washington Post to call Chiarina's concerts

“some of the most compelling chamber programs in town."

• Seven works by living American composers, including the world premiere of Chiarina’s new commission by Venezuelan-American composer Reinaldo Moya, along with recent pieces by Reena Esmail, Valerie Coleman, Carlos Simon, Tom Cipullo, and more

• The Chiarina debuts of exciting guest artists including the groundbreaking Imani Winds, acclaimed pianist Michelle Cann, and clarinetist icon Ricardo Morales

• The return of popular guest artists, including Attacca Quartet violinist Domenic Salerni, soprano Melissa Wimbish, and cellist Marcy Rosen

• A commemoration of Black History Month with a chamber opera that brings to life the intriguing story of performer and activist Josephine Baker 

• Music by Louise Farrenc and Florence Price, recently receiving long overdue recognition for their distinctive compositions

• A celebration of the imagination at Chiarina's second concert for families, featuring narrator Carl DuPont performing his new narration for Saint-Saëns’s delightful Carnival of the Animals

• Hallmarks of the chamber music repertoire by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Dvořák, and more

From left to right: Composers Carlos Simon, Andrea Casarrubios, Valerie Coleman, Reena Esmail,

Reinaldo Moya, Tom Cipullo

Season passes and single tickets may be purchased online:

www.chiarina.org

 $30 online

$35 at the door

18 & under free

Season Pass $180

ON SALE DATE

August 19

Founded in 2015 by pianist Efi Hackmey and cellist Carrie Bean Stute, Chiarina brings distinctive chamber music to Capitol Hill, DC. With world-class artists, their mission is to create an engaging, inclusive listening experience that connects audiences, performers, and music from a wide range of composers from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. They hold the conviction that live performance is the cornerstone of their art and should be accessible to all, aiming to bridge gaps with audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Recognized by the Washington Post for presenting “some of the most compelling chamber music programs in town” and named one of Washington Classical Review’s Top Ten Performances of 2021, Chiarina has received grants from Chamber Music America, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the Capitol Hill Community Foundation, including the inaugural Franzén Award for the Arts.

Chiarina's name is inspired by Robert Schumann’s Carnaval, Op. 9 for piano, evoking Schumann’s imaginative spirit and that of his pianist-composer wife Clara, one of the most consequential musical figures of 19th-century Germany.

www.chiarina.org

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Top photo caption:

L to R, row 1: Wanzhen Li, Lisa Emenheiser, Imani Winds, Jonathan Bisesi

L to R row 2: Melissa Wimbish, Ricardo Morales, Grant Houston, Michelle Cann, Sarah Frisof, Marcy Rosen, Patrick Morgan

L to R row 3: Robert DiLutis, Paul Laraia, Jesse Mills, Gabriel Cabezas, Efi Hackmey, Regino Madrid, Carrie Bean Stute

L to R row 4: Carl DuPont, Catherine Cho, Robert Wood, Philip Kramp, Aaron Clay, Adria Sternstein Foster, Domenic Salerni