Great chamber music for your mind and heart
Join us as we celebrate the multifaceted contributions to the world of music by American composers, performers, and ideas in honor of the 250th anniversary o the United States.
Summermusic Subscriptions
Kevin Gebo, Principal Trumpet of HSO & Friends
Kevin Gebo & Andrew Boylan, trumpets; Rick Lee, horn; Gregory Hammond, trombone; Andrew Dougherty, tuba
Sunday, July 12, 2026 at 4 P.M.
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 at 7:30 P.M.
Peter Sirotin & Claudia Chudacoff, violins
Elias Goldstein & Hannah Rose Nicholas, violas
Julian Schwarz, cello; Stuart Malina, piano
Karen Slack, soprano & Mark Markham, piano
Season Sponsor:
Carole DeSoto
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Summermusic Sponsors:
Michael & Shelly Page John & Annie Standley
UPMC
Kevin Gebo, HSO's principal trumpet, will open Summermusic 2026 with his friends performing a richly varied program of chamber music for Brass Quintet including works by Handel, Rachmaninoff, Eirc Whitacre, Eugene Bozza, John Williams and others.
Sunday, July 19, 2026 at 4 P.M.
All Summermusic performances take place
at Market Square Presbyterian Church
20 South Second Street, Harrisburg PA
Summermusic 2026 will continue with DvoÅ™ák’s magnificent "American" String Quintet featuring violinists Peter Sirotin, co-director of Market Square Concerts, and Claudia Chudacoff, former concertmaster of the Marine Band, violists Elias Goldstein and Hannah Rose Nicholas, as well as cellist Julian Schwarz. Stuart Malina will join the group at the piano for the Arthur Foote Piano Quintet, one of the first compositions by an American composer for this instrumentation.
Dream Variations
Summermusic 2026 will conclude with "Dream Variations: Nina, Lena and Tina," a musical tribute to Nina Simone, Lena Horne and Tina Turner, inspired by the Langston Hughes's poem and featuring tremendous range of songs from Mahler and Strauss to George Gershwin and Michel Legrand. This unique program features a collaboration between Grammy winner, soprano Karen Slack and pianist Mark Markham, a longtime recital partner of the legendary Jessye Norman.
