2025-2026 Season

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If Music Be The Food

A Season Opening Concert and Album Launch Wed, September 17, 2025 | 7:30 pm | St. Mark’s Capitol Hill

A season opener and launch celebrating Chiarina’s debut album! Featuring music of Carlos Simon, Schoenfield’s Café Music, and other delectable selections.

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Appalachian Spring

SOLD OUT -- waitlist only Sun, November 9, 2025 | 7:30 pm | St. Mark’s Capitol Hill

Copland’s iconic Appalachian Spring for 13 players pairs with Mendelssohn’s joyful string octet. Works by John Williams and DC’s Mary Howe round out this grand program.

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Catalyst Quartet

Brahms, Perkinson, Walker, Montgomery Sun, December 7, 2025 | 7:30 pm | St. Mark’s Capitol Hill

The Grammy Award-winning string quartet plays bold works by George Walker, Jessie Montgomery, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and joins pianist Efi Hackmey in Brahms’s rousing quintet.

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Voices of Remembrance and Resilience

Weinberg, Mumford, Bansal, Salerni, Laitman, Shostakovich Sun, March 15, 2026 | 7:30 pm | St. Mark’s Capitol Hill

Merging sounds of oppression and hope, this thoughtfully curated program conveys human experience through voices of female poets, four living composers, and two stalwart midcentury works.

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Fire and Brilliance

Byron T. “John” Franzén Annual Memorial Concert Sat, April 11, 2026 | 7:30 pm | St. Mark’s Capitol Hill

Violinist Njioma Grevious showcases lyricism and radiance as she joins Chiarina’s artistic directors in works by Prokofiev, Clarence Cameron White, and Mendelssohn.

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Dreams and Dialogues

Rescheduled concert Sun, May 3, 2026 | 2:00 pm | St. Mark’s Capitol Hill

Celebrated clarinetist Ricardo Morales returns to the Chiarina stage with pianist Efi Hackmey in an intimate program of Poulenc, Brahms, Paquito d’Rivera, and Jacob Bancks.

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Family Concert: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Sun, May 17, 2026 | 2:30 pm | St. Mark’s Capitol Hill

Violinist Audrey Wright takes center stage in this dazzling program for all ages that brings to life the captivating story of Vivaldi’s beloved “Four Seasons” concerti.

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