Chamber Music Free Concert

from Tidewater Times December 2022

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Kaleidoscope Quartet Free Family Concert December 2

The Kaleidoscope Quartet will perform a free Family Concert at 6 p.m. on Saturday, December 2 at the Ebenezer Theater, 17 South Washington Street, Easton. Featuring music by American women composers Florence Price, Reena Esmail and Gabriela Lena Frank, the interactive performance will encourage the audience to join the quartet in exploring how composers reconcile and communicate their personal cultures and identities through their music. The Family Concert is presented by Chesapeake Music and is open to the public. No tickets are required.

Alumni of the nation’s top musical conservatories, Kaleidoscope Quartet members Brian Hong (violin), Ruben Rengel (violin), Caeli Smith (viola) and Arlen Hlusko (cello) met in New York City and trained together at Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect Program before forming the quartet. The players place a high value on personal and engaging concerts and on using music to connect with each listener, regardless of their experience with classical music.

The Family Concert is part of a residency by the Kaleidoscope Quartet in Talbot County Public Schools, sponsored by Chesapeake Music. Through the residency, the quartet will visit Chapel District and White Marsh elementary schools to perform excerpts of Gabriela Lena Frank’s “An Andean Walkabout” and to provide students with a closer look at their instruments and the collaborative music-making process.

Based in Easton, Chesapeake Music is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing renowned classical and jazz musicians to de-

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light, engage and surprise today’s audiences, and to educate, inspire and develop tomorrow’s. The organization has a long history of educational outreach to the Mid-Shore Arlen Hlusko

community, including Chamber Music Festival Family Concerts, discounted tickets to chamber music, jazz and competition concerts, free open rehearsals during its annual Chamber Music Festival, and special video-recorded music programs for students. Upcoming events in Chesapeake Music’s educational outreach program include local school visits in April 2023 by the Aero Saxophone Quartet.

For more information about the concert and Chesapeake Music’s programs, visit chesapeakemusic. org.