Charm City Bronze, Baltimore's premier handbell ensemble, was founded in 2013 by Artistic Director Beau Lochte. The ensemble performs annual Christmas and Spring Concerts, at church services, weddings, social gatherings, and benefit concerts. Maestro Lochte holds a degree in music composition from Towson University and has led several Baltimore area church handbell choirs for over a decade. During the 2024 Spring Semester, he is teaching/co-directing the Gilman Middle and Upper School Handbell Choirs. If you have any questions or are interested in ringing, email us at charmcitybronze@gmail.com
May 19, 2014 HP Rawlings Conservatory Baltimore, MD "The Impossible Concert"
Charm City Bronze Handbell Ensemble live-streamed a concert from the Palm House of HP Rawlings Conservatory in Druid Hill Park, featuring music for handbells with solo flute and violin including original arrangements of Stravinsky's "Firebird" and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade"
“ ...this was truly an “Impossible Concert” – to be seen and heard only online. As for the sound- it was as expected truly magical.”
August 17, 2014 "Top of the Pagoda" from Patterson Park in Baltimore, MD
"Live Peace Now" reads the 25 foot long banner that unfurled as the sublime harmonies of Mussorgsky's "Great Gate of Kiev" resonated in the top of the Pagoda.
Website photography provided by Carol Anstett, George Jakab & B Lochte