Pay-what-you-wish concert brings statewide summer tour to Queen Anne’s County

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra brings its 2026 Music for Maryland summer tour to Queen Anne’s County with a pay-what-you-wish symphonic concert at the Todd Performing Arts Center at Chesapeake College on Thursday, August 6, 2026.

The concert features 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, violin, and Colin Sorgi, viola.

Tickets are pay-what-you-wish, with a recommended donation of $10 per registration. Advanced reservations are highly encouraged and can be made at www.BSOmusic.org/community.

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 2026 summer tour is made possible in part by the leadership support of the State of Maryland, PNC Bank, and Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker.

WHEN:
Thursday, August 6, 2026, 7 pm

WHERE:
Todd Performing Arts Center at Chesapeake College, 1000 College Circle, Wye Mills, MD

WHO:
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Nicholas Hersh, conductor
Agnes Tse, violin
Colin Sorgi, viola

PROGRAM:
MOZART: Symphony No. 29 in A Major
CAROLINE SHAW: Entr’acte
MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major

MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES:
Media are invited to capture performance footage/photos, audience arrival, and interviews with BSO representatives, venue partners, and community members, pending advance coordination.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Sara Warfield
Sara@SaraWarfieldCommunications.com
410-952-1271

About the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

For over a century, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has been recognized as one of America’s leading orchestras and one of Maryland’s most significant cultural institutions. The orchestra is internationally renowned and locally admired for its innovation, performances, recordings, and educational outreach initiatives, including OrchKids.

The BSO performs annually for more than 300,000 people throughout the State of Maryland. Since 1982, the BSO has performed at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, and since 2005, with the opening of The Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD, the BSO became the nation’s first orchestra performing its full season of classical and pops concerts in two metropolitan areas.

In July 2022, the BSO made history with the announcement that Jonathon Heyward would succeed Music Director Laureate and OrchKids Founder Marin Alsop as the Orchestra’s next Music Director. Maestro Heyward began his inaugural season in September 2023.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is a proud member of the League of American Orchestras.

More information about the BSO can be found at BSOmusic.org.