Community Concerts at Second, Inc.

07/16/2025

WELCOME TO OUR 39th SEASON!!!! 🎹🎻🥳🥳🥳
The twelve concerts on the 2025-26 season offer opportunities to enjoy jazz, classical, brass, vocal music, and more! From the Met Opera tenor Limmie Pulliam and collaborative pianist Mark Markham to Baltimore’s own world-famous jazz vibraphonist Warren Wolf to the acclaimed Merz Trio and locally beloved & internationally celebrated pianist Brian Ganz, the variety of this year’s guest artists is matched by their excellence.

In addition, we will continue to feature musicians from the Baltimore Symphony and the region in concerts pairing rarely performed gems alongside beloved chamber music repertoire.

****SEASON AT A GLANCE***
Sep 14, 2025 | 3:30pm
Limmie Pulliam, tenor
& Mark Markham, piano

Sep 21, 2025 | 3:30pm
Musicians of the Baltimore Symphony

Oct 26, 2025 | 3:30pm
Merz Trio (piano, violin, cello)

Nov 9, 2025 | 3:30pm
Warren Wolf, vibraphone
with piano & string quartet

Nov 30, 2025 | 3:30pm
Musicians of the Baltimore Symphony

Jan 25, 2026 | 3:30pm
Brian Ganz, piano

Mar 15, 2026 | 3:30pm
Birckhead (Jazz Sextet)

Mar 29, 2026 | 3:30pm
Musicians of the Baltimore Symphony

April 12, 2026 | 3:30pm
Tommy Mesa, cello

May 3, 2026 | 3:30pm
Stiletto Brass

May 31, 2026 | 3:30pm
Musicians of the Baltimore Symphony

June 7, 2026 | 3:30pm
Rachel Lee Priday, violin

For more details, visit CC2nd.org !!

07/15/2025

We will be formally announcing our 2025-26 season tomorrow (Wed, July 16!!!)

06/22/2025

We're excited to see you all later today for our final concert of the 2024-25 season! If you can't attend in-person, our livestream will be available on YouTube--here's the link:

Sunday, June 22, 2025 at 3:30pmCC2nd Presents: Musicians of the Baltimore SymphonyPresented in-person and livestreamed on YouTube. Venue: Second Presbyterian...

06/15/2025

Featuring CC2nd Chamber Musicians! We are so excited to finish the season with this one ☺️🎶🎻

06/01/2025

Happening THIS MONTH! 🎶

We are so excited for our last concert of the season, featuring the amazing musicians Marcia McHugh, flute; Melissa Hooper, oboe; Jaewon Kim and YaoGuang Zhai, and Vitor Trindade, clarinet; Schuyler Jackson, bassoon; Megan Hurley, horn; Ivan Stefanović, violin; and Lura Johnson and Michael Sheppard, piano.

We hope you'll join us on June 22nd at 3:30pm for this amazing show! 🎻

05/04/2025

TODAY! National Orchestral Institute + Festival: Chamber Music Spotlight at 3:30pm.
We're thrilled to present this concert in partnership with The Clarice at the University of Maryland (The Clarice) !!! Special thanks to Richard Scerbo, Julian Maddox, and John Warshawsky for making this collaboration happen!!!

Come catch an all-star group of musicians who've traveled from across the country performing works by Beethoven and Prokofiev alongside newer works by Takuma Itoh and Jessie Montgomery.

Musicians on this concert include:

Brendon Elliott, violin
Julian Maddox, violin
Quinn Price, violin
Lauren Spaulding, viola
Sebastian Stefanovic, viola
Maki Kubota, cello
Braizahn Jones, bass
Bethany Slater, oboe
Juan Esteban Martinez, clarinet

04/21/2025

It's Musical Monday! Let's hear from music student, volunteer, and audience member Marcus about the meaning of community 🎶☺️

04/14/2025

It's MUSICAL MONDAY! 🎶 Here's a little moment with one of the amazing members of the Morgan State Choir who performed with us earlier this year, telling us all about the experience of performing for community audiences onstage!

04/13/2025

Today's concert features three very special selections, including two pieces that are rarely performed. We're thrilled to be featuring Lura Johnson Pianist in this concert, for more info on the program please see her post below!

Community Concerts at Second is a free concert series presented at Second Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.

04/10/2025

CC2nd Chamber is happening THIS SUNDAY, featuring the Duo for Violin and Cello by Kodály! We are so excited to feature Holly Jenkins, violin, and Dariusz Skoraczewski, cello on this amazing work for strings. 🎻

Curious to learn more? Watch this video to learn about Kodály's work as an ethnomusicologist and composer, working to preserve folk music as history changed the world around him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26hVmuQw-TQ

04/06/2025

We're just a week away from a BEAUTIFUL CC2nd Chamber performance, which will feature the Smit Trio for viola, clarinet, and piano, performed by Lura Johnson, piano; Jacob Shack, viola; and Vitor Trindade, clarinet. 🎵

In his lifetime, Leo Smit faced unfathomable challenges and suppression. He was tragically persecuted during World War II, leaving behind a legacy of incredible but rarely performed music. To learn more about his life and the organizations working today to preserve the voice of Smit and other silenced composers in classical history, click here: https://leosmitfoundation.org/leo-smit-english

03/31/2025

It's Musical Monday again!!!! Here's a great clip of another audience Musical Moment, featuring Lindsay after listening to Rodney Marsalis's incredible multi-genre brass ensemble concert in January!! 🎶