Events under 'Symphony Concerts'

The Cape Symphony Orchestra will perform with the Chatham Chorale on Sunday, April 27 at Monomoy Regional High School. The concert, titled “Grandeur and Glory,” features masterworks by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Joeph Haydn’s Mass in D minor, known as the Nelson Mass. Joseph Marchio will conduct.

Grandeur and Glory

The performance includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 34 and Ave verum corpus. Mozart composed the festive and exuberant Symphony No. 34 in 1780 at age 24; it is the last symphony he wrote in Salzburg before moving to Vienna. Ave verum corpus (“Hail true body”) is a short Eucharistic hymn with words attributed to the 14th century pope Innocent VI. Mozart set the hymn to music in 1791 for his friend Anton Stoll, musical director of St. Stephan, Baden.

Four Chorale soloists will be featured in the performance of the Nelson Mass. Written in 1798 for the Esterházy family of Hungarian nobility, it is Haydn’s largest mass and said to be his greatest composition. World affairs were then in turmoil as Napoleon’s advancing armies threatened Vienna. Unbeknownst to Haydn, British forces led by Admiral Horatio Nelson had just defeated Napoleon in the Battle of the Nile. The coincidence gave the mass its nickname. The association was cemented in 1800, when the Mass was performed for Admiral Nelson himself during a visit to the Esterházy palace.

Conductor Joe Marchio serves as Assistant Conductor of the Cape Symphony and Music Director of the Chatham Chorale. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from the Yale University Institute of Sacred Music and a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from Boston Conservatory. He is also Pastor and Director of Music of the First Congregational Church of Chatham.

About Chatham Chorale

The Chatham Chorale, incorporated in 1977, is dedicated to performing the world’s rich diversity of choral music and supporting the musical arts and artists on Cape Cod. The Chorale performs annually with the Cape Symphony Orchestra at their Holiday on the Cape concerts.

Date: May 17 & 18, 2025

Showtimes: Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3:00pm

Featured Artist:

Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
Jean Meilleur, Vocals
John Regan, Piano 

CapePOPS! 4

The title says it all. Our culminating Pops concert of the season celebrates the genius of the first, last, and only “Piano Man.” Stellar guest artists will join forces with the Orchestra to perform Billy Joel’s greatest hits that have spanned more than five decades. Classics like “You May Be Right,” “More Than a Woman,” and “Only the Good Die Young” will have you on your feet and wanting more. Don’t wait too long… this one will sell out fast!

Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor

In July 2023, Kevin Fitzgerald won the Special Prize for Best Performance of the Contemporary Piece at The Mahler Competition. He is the first conductor to win this award, a prize sponsored by the Mahler Foundation, which led to him conducting the world premiere of Bernd Richard Deutsch's Con Moto with the Bamberger Symphoniker during the competition's final concert. Kevin was a 2021 Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellow and has been awarded Career Assistance Grants by the Solti Foundation U.S. for four consecutive years. He has been Associate Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony since the 2022-23 season, during which he conducted over 35 performances, including a fully-staged production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. In 2023-24, Kevin made his subscription debut with the Jacksonville Symphony and pianist Joyce Yang, to lead a recording of Sean Shepherd's Concerto for Ensemble with the University of Chicago's Grossman Ensemble by invitation of the composer, and his debut with the Cape Symphony. Also, Kevin will return to the New York Philharmonic as a cover conductor for three programs, in addition to assisting Stéphane Denève at the St. Louis Symphony.

Date: May 17 & 18, 2025

Showtimes: Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3:00pm

Featured Artist:

Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
Jean Meilleur, Vocals
John Regan, Piano 

CapePOPS! 4

The title says it all. Our culminating Pops concert of the season celebrates the genius of the first, last, and only “Piano Man.” Stellar guest artists will join forces with the Orchestra to perform Billy Joel’s greatest hits that have spanned more than five decades. Classics like “You May Be Right,” “More Than a Woman,” and “Only the Good Die Young” will have you on your feet and wanting more. Don’t wait too long… this one will sell out fast!

Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor

In July 2023, Kevin Fitzgerald won the Special Prize for Best Performance of the Contemporary Piece at The Mahler Competition. He is the first conductor to win this award, a prize sponsored by the Mahler Foundation, which led to him conducting the world premiere of Bernd Richard Deutsch's Con Moto with the Bamberger Symphoniker during the competition's final concert. Kevin was a 2021 Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellow and has been awarded Career Assistance Grants by the Solti Foundation U.S. for four consecutive years. He has been Associate Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony since the 2022-23 season, during which he conducted over 35 performances, including a fully-staged production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. In 2023-24, Kevin made his subscription debut with the Jacksonville Symphony and pianist Joyce Yang, to lead a recording of Sean Shepherd's Concerto for Ensemble with the University of Chicago's Grossman Ensemble by invitation of the composer, and his debut with the Cape Symphony. Also, Kevin will return to the New York Philharmonic as a cover conductor for three programs, in addition to assisting Stéphane Denève at the St. Louis Symphony.

Date: May 17 & 18, 2025

Showtimes: Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3:00pm

Featured Artist:

Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor
Jean Meilleur, Vocals
John Regan, Piano 

CapePOPS! 4

The title says it all. Our culminating Pops concert of the season celebrates the genius of the first, last, and only “Piano Man.” Stellar guest artists will join forces with the Orchestra to perform Billy Joel’s greatest hits that have spanned more than five decades. Classics like “You May Be Right,” “More Than a Woman,” and “Only the Good Die Young” will have you on your feet and wanting more. Don’t wait too long… this one will sell out fast!

Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor

In July 2023, Kevin Fitzgerald won the Special Prize for Best Performance of the Contemporary Piece at The Mahler Competition. He is the first conductor to win this award, a prize sponsored by the Mahler Foundation, which led to him conducting the world premiere of Bernd Richard Deutsch's Con Moto with the Bamberger Symphoniker during the competition's final concert. Kevin was a 2021 Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellow and has been awarded Career Assistance Grants by the Solti Foundation U.S. for four consecutive years. He has been Associate Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony since the 2022-23 season, during which he conducted over 35 performances, including a fully-staged production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. In 2023-24, Kevin made his subscription debut with the Jacksonville Symphony and pianist Joyce Yang, to lead a recording of Sean Shepherd's Concerto for Ensemble with the University of Chicago's Grossman Ensemble by invitation of the composer, and his debut with the Cape Symphony. Also, Kevin will return to the New York Philharmonic as a cover conductor for three programs, in addition to assisting Stéphane Denève at the St. Louis Symphony.

Date: June 14 & 15, 2025

Showtimes: Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3:00pm

Featured Artist:

James Blachly, Conductor
Sonja Tengblad, Soprano
Bradford Gleim, Baritone
Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline 

Masterpiece 5

The grandeur of the sea has enthralled the artistic imagination since the dawn of time. Like painters and poets, composers from Beethoven to Wagner and Rimsky-Korsakov to Led Zeppelin have aspired to capture the massive force of our oceans in their work. Our fascination with this natural resource is primal and unceasing. In this program, the music of Maurice Ravel, Toru Takemitsu, and Ralph Vaughan Williams brings the sea to the concert stage, from its calmest to its most majestic beauty.

James Blachly, Conductor

James Blachly is a Grammy®-winning conductor and composer dedicated to enriching the concert experience by connecting with audiences in memorable and meaningful ways. He serves as Music Director of the Experiential Orchestra and the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, and is a versatile guest conductor with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic.

The Masterpiece Series concerts also feature the Musically Speaking pre-concert talks, insightful and entertaining looks into the music you are about to hear. These free 30-minute talks begin one hour prior to each Masterpiece Series concert.

Date: June 14 & 15, 2025

Showtimes: Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3:00pm

Featured Artist:

James Blachly, Conductor
Sonja Tengblad, Soprano
Bradford Gleim, Baritone
Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline 

Masterpiece 5

The grandeur of the sea has enthralled the artistic imagination since the dawn of time. Like painters and poets, composers from Beethoven to Wagner and Rimsky-Korsakov to Led Zeppelin have aspired to capture the massive force of our oceans in their work. Our fascination with this natural resource is primal and unceasing. In this program, the music of Maurice Ravel, Toru Takemitsu, and Ralph Vaughan Williams brings the sea to the concert stage, from its calmest to its most majestic beauty.

James Blachly, Conductor

James Blachly is a Grammy®-winning conductor and composer dedicated to enriching the concert experience by connecting with audiences in memorable and meaningful ways. He serves as Music Director of the Experiential Orchestra and the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, and is a versatile guest conductor with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic.

The Masterpiece Series concerts also feature the Musically Speaking pre-concert talks, insightful and entertaining looks into the music you are about to hear. These free 30-minute talks begin one hour prior to each Masterpiece Series concert.