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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE: Updates, resources, and context

Free Instrumentalist Masterclass Featuring ACRONYM!

Join Chamber Music Wilmingtonand ACRONYM on Sunday September 22 at 11am for a free masterclass at the WHQR MC Erny Gallery! To sign up, click this link. Instrumentalists may sign up to play a Baroque selection of their choice. Auditors should also register to help us with seating arrangements.

Chamber Music Wilmington works in partnership with cultural and educational organizations to support young artists, develop audiences and bring enriching programs to the community. CMW hosts master classes for local middle and high school students, led by the stellar musicians prior to their Sunday evening concerts. These classes are free to participate in and to attend. Classes are held at the WHQR MC Erny gallery. 

Baroque band ACRONYM—an "outstanding young early-music string ensemble" (The New Yorker)—is dedicated to giving modern premieres of the wild instrumental music of the seventeenth century. Playing with “...consummate style, grace, and unity of spirit” (The New York Times), the group formed in 2012 and has released eight critically acclaimed CDs since 2014. Recent projects include the first modern performances and recordings of works by Biber and Rosenmüller, and Samuel Capricornus's epic cantata cycle Jubilus Bernhardi with the Bach Choir of Holy Trinity. Forthcoming albums include the premiere recording of Johann Heinrich Schmelzer’s forgotten oratorio Le Memorie Dolorose alongside the early music ensemble TENET Vocal Artists.

Mary Bradley moved to Wilmington from Los Angeles, CA in May 2007 with her husband Frank and twin baby daughters, Maggie and Kate. In California, Mary had been Drive Director and the producer of Elvis Mitchell's nationally syndicated public radio interview program "The Treatment" for public radio station KCRW for ten years. Mary was raised in Rhode Island and graduated from Boston University. Mary recently served as President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Cape Fear Chapter.