Young, hungry chamber musicians crowd into The Crown on Wednesday, March 6th for a heated competition and camaraderie. The audience votes and a new royal court of the "Best Classical Bar Musicians" will be crowned.

Competing ensembles include musicians from the Peabody Institute, one of the top destinations for classical music study right in the middle of Baltimore, and frequent performers at Classical Revolution Baltimore.

Sarah Robinson, host
Sarah Robinson is a founding member of Helix Collective, a Los Angeles-based ensemble that specializes in multi-media, collaborative performance and recording. The ensemble has released three critically acclaimed albums and has recorded the scores for over twenty films. She is the director of Helix Collective’s Los Angeles Live Score Film Festivaland co-director of Classical Revolution: L.A. Sarah is the author of Clubbing for Classical Musicians, a guide to presenting music in alternative venues which has been called “enlightening, instructional, and inspiring.”

Peabody Institute
Located in the heart of Baltimore’s Mount Vernon Cultural District, the Peabody Institute was founded in 1857 as America’s first academy of music by philanthropist George Peabody. Today, Peabody—comprising both the degree-granting Conservatory and the community-based Preparatory—boasts a preeminent faculty, a nurturing, collaborative learning environment, and the academic resources of one of the nation’s leading universities, Johns Hopkins. In campus facilities featuring five beautiful and state-of-the-art performance spaces, Peabody presents nearly 100 major public concerts and events each year, ranging from classical to contemporary to jazz. Learn more at www.peabody.jhu.edu

Classical Revolution Baltimore
Classical Revolution Baltimore is a collective of musicians, founded in 2011, that works to promote public art and get new people into classical music in Baltimore City. We do this by organizing free classical music performances in unlikely venues such as bars, cafes, and parks.

We are a volunteer run organization. All of our organizers and performers believe strongly in our mission to break classical music out of its shell and make it a part of people's every day lives in our city.

Recognition of Classical Revolution Baltimore’s work has led to an invitation to perform a live in-studio broadcast on Baltimore alt-rock station 89.7 WTMD, developing out-of-the concert hall performances for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, presenting at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012 and being featured in the Baltimore Sun.