Friends
The Baltimore-Washington Metro Area is an embarrassment of riches in classical music. Meet a few of our friends!
APollo Orchestra
The Apollo Orchestra provides a platform for the Washington D.C. area’s finest young professional musicians. Many recently graduated from major music schools and conservatories from the metropolitan area, the nation, and from around the world. They join forces with exciting accomplished opera singers and vibrant instrumental soloists, many in the early stages of their international professional careers. The Apollo Orchestra offers dynamic interpretations of the major orchestral, opera, and concerto repertoire, as well as underperformed gems of all eras.
Learn more: apolloorchestra.com
Baltimore Boom Bap Society
Baltimore Boom Bap Society is conceived as a forum for experimentation and collaboration between local Hip-Hop artists, while placing Hip-Hop in dialogue with other forms of music. Host DJ/producers Wendel Patrick & DJ Dubble8 invite special guests to perform with them in diverse combinations, to explore a hybrid of free improvisation and beat-based composition.
Learn More: Baltimore Boom Bap Society
Evolution Contemporary Music
a destination for outstanding
new music since 2005.
Founded and directed by composer and Peabody Institute faculty member Judah Adashi, the Evolution Contemporary Music Series has made Baltimore a destination for outstanding new music and musicians since 2005. Praised by Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun for having "elevated and enriched Baltimore's new music scene enormously," and by the Baltimore City Paper as "superb...not the same-old, same-old," the Evolution Series has presented or premiered works by over 75 composers, performed by acclaimed musicians from Baltimore and beyond. Featured guests have included Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Pulitzer Prize-winning composers Caroline Shaw and John Luther Adams; and music critics Tim Page (Washington Post) and Alex Ross (New Yorker).
Learn more: evolutionseries.org.
Ocassional Symphony
MISSION
The Occasional Symphony creates innovative concert celebrations to engage the Baltimore community and illuminate the unparalleled experience of hearing live music curated for living spaces.
STORY
Founded in 2012 in Baltimore, MD by a group of seven, Occasional Symphony aims at a new model for presenting orchestral concerts. Central to its mission, Occasional Symphony concerts are held in distinctive venues not necessarily associated with orchestral music. Each program is designed to resonate with the specific venue and occasion.
Learn More: occasionalsymphony.org
