WYE MILLS — The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Music for Maryland summer tour is returning with full-orchestra performances 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6 at the Todd Performing Arts Center at Chesapeake College in Wye Mills and 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7 at the new Chesapeake Theater at Harford Community College in Bel Air, a performance co-presented with the college.
Admission to all Music for Maryland concerts is pay-what-you-wish, with a recommended donation of $10 per person.
Pre-registration is strongly encouraged.
For more information on the Music for Maryland tour and to reserve tickets, visit www.BSOmusic.org/community.
Both orchestra concerts will feature a 40-member BSO ensemble led by Nicholas Hersh, former BSO assistant/associate conductor and current principal conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Academy.
The program includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 29 in A Major, Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major, featuring BSO musicians Agnes Tse on violin and Colin Sorgi on viola.
Also, Chamber Music for Maryland performances are set for Tuesday, July 28 at the Mar-Va Theater Performing Arts Center in Pocomoke City and Tuesday, Aug. 4 at the Oxford Community Center in downtown Oxford.
Chamber Music for Maryland performances feature small ensembles of BSO musicians in programs well suited to each host venue.
The BSO’s Music for Maryland tour last visited Harford and Queen Anne’s counties in the summer of 2023, and Talbot and Worcester counties in the summer of 2024.
This year’s performance at the Mar-Va Theater in Pocomoke City builds on a recent connection between the BSO and students from Pocomoke Middle/High School, who traveled more than 90 minutes each way on a school day to attend the orchestra’s final open rehearsal of the season at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
“Music for Maryland is one of the clearest expressions of the BSO’s statewide mission,” Mark C. Hanson, president and CEO of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, said in a statement. “These concerts allow us to meet audiences where they are, return to communities that have welcomed the orchestra before and create new points of connection through live music,” he added.
Launched in 2022, Music for Maryland was created to extend the reach of the BSO beyond its homes at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore and The Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda.
The summer 2026 tour is made possible in part by a new $750,000 operating grant from the state of Maryland to support the BSO’s year-round statewide service.
Special support for the 2026 Music for Maryland summer tour is provided by the PNC Foundation.
In honor of the leadership gifts of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, all 2026 Music for Maryland concerts will once again be recognized as Robert E. Meyerhoff & Rheda Becker Community Performances.
