Reverencia | Christine Lamprea, cello

Christine Lamprea grew up with one foot in her Colombian heritage and one foot in the United States. See how her history has moved her to explore the essence of latinidad and all the ways it manifests in classical music.

Free – $20

A concert of early music on the subject of sea life and the biblical tale of Jonah and the Whale. Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s cantata Jonas is framed with sonatas by Isabella Leonarda and sea songs by English composers John Dowland, Thomas Ravenscroft, and others.

$20 suggested

Jennifer Koh, violin

J. S. Bach: Three Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin

As much a musical “installation” as a concert, the works will be played with long breaks between them to encourage visitors to move through the Museum and see the collection. This event is free with admission to the Museum.

Daniel Kurganov, violin
Constantine Finehouse, piano

Bloch: Bael Shem, Three Pictures of Hasidic Life
Tchaikovsky: Valse Sentimentale
Rachmaninoff: Sing not, my beauty, Op. 4 No. 4
Stephanie Ann Boyd: Aurora for violin and piano (world premiere)
Chaussonn: Poeme (arr. Livingston Gearhart)
Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Violin & Piano, No. 3, Op. 108

Emily Bieber-Harris, soprano; Timothy Macri, flute; Heinrich Christensen, organ
J.S. Bach: Ich habe genug

$5 suggested

Lynn Chang, music director

GEORGE WALKER: Lyric for Strings
W.A. MOZART: Serenata Notturna
TAN DUN: “Peking Opera,” “Pink Actress,” and “Drum And Gong” from Eight Colors
JOSEPH HAYDN: String Quartet, op. 77, no. 2, Minuetto: Presto
CAROLINE SHAW: Entr’Acte
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Carnival of the Animals

FREE

Beethoven:

String Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 18, No. 2
String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

The Pavilion’s open-air structure allows BLO to produce large-scale live performances, with full live orchestra and chorus.

With visual inspiration from 1960s Italy, Director Sarna Lapine (The Rape of Lucretia) brings sharp focus to this tale of deadly entanglements between four lovers. BLO Music Director David Angus conducts this one-act, classic Italian operatic drama.

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A concert of early music on the subject of sea life and the biblical tale of Jonah and the Whale. Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s cantata Jonas is framed with sonatas by Isabella Leonarda and sea songs by English composers John Dowland, Thomas Ravenscroft, and others.

$20 suggested

Elisabeth de la Guerre: Passage sur la mer rouge.
Clerambault: Leandre et Hero.
Clerambault’s Sonata La Felicité
Charpentier: Overture
With soprano Teresa Wakim.

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Liszt Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
Brahms: Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118, No. 2
Chopin:
Mazurka in A minor, Op. 59, No. 1
Mazurka in A-flat major, Op. 59, No. 2
Mazurka in F-sharp minor, Op. 59, No. 3

Bach: Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp major WTK 2
Debussy: Suite bergamasque
Rachmaninoff: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor

BWV 139 Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott

The premiere multimedia and immersive opera is based on true stories from Ellis Island featuring music by Gabriele Vanoni, libretto by Ewa Chrusciel, and video installation and stage direction by Laine Rettmer. Experience the clash of cultural identities, the artifacts immigrants bring with them, and the acceptance or intolerance of immigrant cultures through emotional stories of migration.

Trio Notturno

$5 suggested

“Memories and Echoes” Conducted by Tristan Rais-Sherman, ‘21AD

MAZZOLI: Sinfonia (for orbiting Spheres)
KODALY: Dances of Galánta
DEBUSSY: Prélude à L’ Apres-midi d’un faune
SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 97, “Rhenish”

Free and open to the public, in person as well as be streamed.

Kinan Azmeh Dabke on Martense Street
Gonzalo Grau Aroma a Distancia
Osvaldo Golijov New Work
Matana Roberts borderlands …

Lucas and Arthur Jussen, pianos
STRAUSS ‘Love Scene’ from Feuersnot
STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
MOZART Concerto in E-flat for two pianos, K.365

Raimundo Penaforte | Tango for Seven
Shulamit Ran | Lyre of Orpheus for String Sextet

Brahms | String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18

Lucas and Arthur Jussen, pianos
STRAUSS ‘Love Scene’ from Feuersnot
STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
MOZART Concerto in E-flat for two pianos, K.365

Works by Bach, Heiller, Glass, Messiaen

$10/$5/children free

Raimundo Penaforte | Tango for Seven
Shulamit Ran | Lyre of Orpheus for String Sextet
Brahms | String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18

Warren Nicholson, guitar

$5 suggested

Lucas and Arthur Jussen, pianos
STRAUSS ‘Love Scene’ from Feuersnot
STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
MOZART Concerto in E-flat for two pianos, K.365

“Mourning”

HAYDN: Symphony No. 44 in E minor, “Trauer-Symphonie”
WEINBERG: Symphony No. 7, Op. 81

Free and open to the public, in person as well as be streamed.

Lisa Batiashvili, violin
STILL Threnody: In Memory of Jan Sibelius
STRAUSS Symphonic Fantasy on
Die Frau ohne Schatten
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto

The Infinite Energy of Ida Lovelace by Kamala Sankaram

$15 in person and livestreamed via ticket link above

The Infinite Energy of Ida Lovelace by Kamala Sankaram

$15 in person and livestreamed via ticket link above

Vocal & Chamber Ensembles present selections from Monteverdi’s late vocal works on the subject of love.
Danielle Reutter-Harrah & Teresa Wakim, soprano; Cecilia Duarte, mezzo-soprano; Jason McStoots & Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Jonathan Woody, bass-baritone; Tekla Cunningham, concertmaster; Cynthia Roberts, violin; Laura Jeppesen, viola & viola da gamba; Erin Headley, lirone & viola da gamba; Maxine Eilander, Baroque harp; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord; Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, chitarrone

Lisa Batiashvili, violin
STILL Threnody: In Memory of Jan Sibelius
STRAUSS Symphonic Fantasy on
Die Frau ohne Schatten
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto

BWV 180 Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele

Haydn | String Trio in G major, Op. 53, No. 1
Lowell Liebermann | Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (2021) (BCMS Co-commission / world premiere)
Saint-Saens | Piano Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 41

Peter Sulski, viola

$5 suggested

“Big Questions” Conducted by David Loebel

VERDI: Overture to “La Forza del Destino”
IVES: The Unanswered Question
TOWER: Made in America
IVES: Variations on “America”

Free and open to the public, in person as well as be streamed.

Sofia GUBAIDULINA The Light of the End
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 3

Opera: Proving Up by Missy Mazzoli

$15 in person or livestreamed by ticket link above

REBEL: Les Élémens
CORELLI: Concerto Grosso in G, Op. 6, No. 1
HANDEL: Water Music, Suite No. 3 in G Major
HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks

MISSY MAZZOLI: These Worlds in Us
ROSSINI: Overture to La scala di seta
PUCCINI: Act III Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
VERDI: Overture to I vespri siciliani
BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2

led by graduate conducting candidate Francesco Gennaro.

compositions by living composers Gabriela Lena Frank and Julian Grant, along with pieces by Bach, this two day chamber festival continues the long tradition of using music as a tool for storytelling, passing down myths and folk tales throughout time.

Missy Mazzoli: Violent, Violent Sea

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 in G
with ChengCheng Ma

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor

BWV 98 Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan I

Thirty-second Annual Cathedral Organ Benefit Recital for the historic 101-rank 1875 E & GG Hook & Hastings Organ, Opus 801. This performance includes three world premieres of works by Thomas Mellan, Melissa Dunphy, and Howard Skempton

Performers include Leo Abbott, Cathedral Director Emeritus, Carson Cooman, Composer in Residence at The Memorial Church, Harvard University, Dr. Janet Hunt, International Performing Artist, Thomas Mellan, Saint Cecilia Parish, Boston, and Richard J. Clark, Director of Music of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross

Works by Liszt, Peeters, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Mellan, Clark, Jongen, Peeters, Dunphy, and Skempton

Suggested Donation: $50 | $25 Seniors and Students, Children 17 and under are free! Available online here (and at the door):

compositions by living composers Gabriela Lena Frank and Julian Grant, along with pieces by Bach, this two day chamber festival continues the long tradition of using music as a tool for storytelling, passing down myths and folk tales throughout time.

Samuel Barber, Summer Music for wind quintet,
Kenneth Fuchs, Quiet in the Land f
Kodály, Serenade for two violins & viola, Op. 12
Bruckner, String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112

Yo-Yo Ma: Musical selection by video.
Erwin Schulhoff: Sonata for Solo Violin (1927).
Robert Dauber: Serenade for Violin and Piano

Sivan Eldar: “The Song About the Child”
A TMF commission; a setting of our LiberArte poem by Arab-Israeli writer Salman Masalha
Coro Allegro directed by David Hodgkins

Viktor Ullmann
Arrangements of “Anu Oilm” and “Eliahu HaNavi”
Coro Allegro directed by David Hodgkins

Hans Krása
Brundibár Suite, Arr. David Matthews
Annette Miller, narration
Steven Lipsitt, conductor
Coro Allegro directed by David Hodgkins
Joined by Michael Gruenbaum, the last surviving member of the original Terezín cast.

These concerts display the work that goes on daily in NEC’s opera program, as faculty prepare student singers for performing careers

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

Fall concert featuresworks by German baroque composers Heinrich Schütz and Johann Sebastian Bach.

FREE

Victor Wooten, electric bass
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Suite from the ballet
Hiawatha
Victor WOOTEN La Lección Tres, for electric bass
and orchestra
ELLINGTON Suite from The River

Victor Wooten, electric bass
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Suite from the ballet
Hiawatha
Victor WOOTEN La Lección Tres, for electric bass
and orchestra
ELLINGTON Suite from The River

HOLLAND – Intimacy of Harmony
PREVIN – Quintet
HIGDON – Dark Wood
PIAZZOLLA – Tango Suite (arr. Scott)

Vocal & Chamber Ensembles present selections from Monteverdi’s late vocal works on the subject of love.
Danielle Reutter-Harrah & Teresa Wakim, soprano; Cecilia Duarte, mezzo-soprano; Jason McStoots & Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Jonathan Woody, bass-baritone; Tekla Cunningham, concertmaster; Cynthia Roberts, violin; Laura Jeppesen, viola & viola da gamba; Erin Headley, lirone & viola da gamba; Maxine Eilander, Baroque harp; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord; Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, chitarrone

Jan Halloran is joined by guest pianist Sally Pinkas for an afternoon of selections from the clarinet repertoire.
FREE

Duo Lyra

$5 suggested

“Making Choices” Conducted by David Loebel

BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
DAVIS: “Notes from the Underground”
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9, in CM, D. 944, “The Great C Major”

Free and open to the public, in person as well as be streamed.

Beatrice Rana, piano
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Farrenc: Symphony No. 3

American spiritual tradition with folk hymns derived from English and Celtic folklore, African-derived call-and-shout group songs, links in the Black tradition to the experience of slavery, reminiscences of the Civil War, and shared celebrations of striving, freedom, and salvation.

also online

Ruehr Requiem
commissioned by Emmanuel Music in 2020

Jennifer HIGDON Autumn Music, for wind quintet
Marti EPSTEIN Komorebi, for oboe, clarinet, and violin
Shulamit RAN Lyre of Orpheus, for string sextet
FARRENC Nonet for winds and strings

From Paris, Con Amor

Saul Bitran joins with pianist Sally Pinkas in works by Latin American and French masters.

“Across Continents” Conducted by Hugh Wolff

TAN DUN: Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds.
PROKOFIEV: Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 125
William Suh, cello
STILL: Darker America
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Julier Overture- Fantasie

Free and open to the public, in person as well as be streamed.

Venezuelan pianist and Conservatory alum Kristhyan Benitez performs works by Leoš Janacek, Robert Schumann, Ernesto Lecuona, Moisés Moleiro, and Arturo Sandoval.

William R. Hudgins, clarinet
MOZART Clarinet Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2

Open Rehearsal

William R. Hudgins, clarinet
MOZART Clarinet Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2

with Anne Sofie von Otter

Rufus Wainwright Trois valses anglaises (Boston premiere) (arr. Moose)
Schubert String Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden” with voice (arr. Golijov)
Schubert: Selections from Winterreise (arr. Golijov)
Rufus Wainwright: Three songs for Lulu (arr. Moose)

Martinů | Oboe Quartet, H. 315
Brahms | Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34

BWV 60 O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort I

A compositional journey featuring a vibrant selection of Renaissance counterpoint from Josquin, Morales, Gabrieli, and many others, which later developed into the formal Baroque fugal structures on which Bach built The Art of Fugue.

Prokofiev l “Sarcasms,” Op. 17
Szymanowski l Sonata No. 3, Op. 36
Debussy l Pour le piano
Brahms l Sonata No. 3, Op. 5

“New Paths” Conducted by David Loebel

Tuesday Night New Music presents music by the next generation of composers: current New England Conservatory composition students. The series is directed by graduate student Brooks Clarke under the supervision of composition chair Michael Gandolfi.

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

“Contrasts”

ELGAR: Serenade in E minor, Op. 20
SHOSTAKOVICH: Chamber Symphony, Op. 118a
SAY: Chamber Symphony, Op. 62

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

“Great Pens!” Conducted by Charles Peltz

BRANT: Angels and Devils
WIESE: Parallel and Perpendicular (world premiere)
NAVOK: Loose Caboose (world premiere)
SCHULLER (arr. Bozik): Organ Symphony (arrangement premiere)

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
Jörg WIDMANN Towards Paradise (Labyrinth VI),
for trumpet and orchestra (American premiere;
BSO co-commission)
MAHLER Symphony No. 1

“Great Pens!” Conducted by Charles Peltz

This year’s concert selections will include both fiery and introspective works that will represent established pieces in the repertoire as well as recently composed “ink still wet” pieces. NECPG concerts always bring the fascinating combination of the aural and the visual aspects of music-making.

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

Ana Sokolović’s Svadba is a tour de force a capella opera showcasing six female voices. The opera takes place the night before a wedding, as girlfriends prepare the bride-to-be for her impending marriage. The text, based on Serbian poetry, and music, derived from traditional folklore combine to create a world of beautiful and seductive sensations.

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
Jörg WIDMANN Towards Paradise (Labyrinth VI),
for trumpet and orchestra (American premiere;
BSO co-commission)
MAHLER Symphony No. 1

AARON DIEHL, PIANO
DAVID WONG, BASS

Bach, Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851
Bud Powell, Bud on Bach (c. 1957)
Roland Hanna, 24 Preludes (1976­/1977)

Ana Sokolović’s Svadba is a tour de force a capella opera showcasing six female voices. The opera takes place the night before a wedding, as girlfriends prepare the bride-to-be for her impending marriage. The text, based on Serbian poetry, and music, derived from traditional folklore combine to create a world of beautiful and seductive sensations.

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

Mirage Violin Duo

$5 suggested

BRAHMS
Serenade No. 2
Symphony No. 1

A compositional journey featuring a vibrant selection of Renaissance counterpoint from Josquin, Morales, Gabrieli, and many others, which later developed into the formal Baroque fugal structures on which Bach built The Art of Fugue.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, “Ode to Joy,”
Marin Alsop conducting

US premiere of a new text to Ode: To Joy by former US Poet Laureate and Massachusetts native Tracy K. Smith

FREE rain date August 28

BRAHMS
Serenade No. 2
Symphony No. 1

Chamber Opera

Musical Directors Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs
Stage Directors Gilbert Blin and Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière lead four of BEMF’s favorite singers and the all-star BEMF Chamber Ensemble in a side-splitting romp through the battle of the sexes.

Danielle Reutter-Harrah, Vespetta
Douglas Williams, Pimpinone

Amanda Forsythe, Sciarlotta
Jesse Blumberg, Pantaleone

Rota Fortunae, conducted by Erica J. Washburn

Join the NEC Symphonic Choir for the ensemble’s inaugural concert in a 2-part performance of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Satirical in nature, full of texts reflecting romance, impropriety and ridicule, this choral icon of the 20th century is a work which demands the spirit of the greatest bards throughout history.

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

Max Levinson performs works by Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Chopin.

“New Paths” Conducted by David Loebel

From Benjamin Britten’s New York song cycles, to the poems of Luis Cernuda and Marina Tsvetaeva, to the many Austrian and German composers who fled their homelands in the twentieth century, this concert celebrates the resilience of the creative spirit in the face of dislocation and upheaval. We honor the many ways artists have channelled the violence of their immediate circumstances into works of profound beauty and transformation.

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

Conrad Tao/John Adams: Improvisation / “China Gates”
Jason Eckard: Antennaria plantaginifolia, “Pussytoes,”
Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV641
Conrad Tao: Grids of E
Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Fred Hersc:Pastorale (Dedicated to Robert Schumann)
Conrad Tao: new work
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110

Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243
Gabrieli: “Hodie Christus natus est”
J.S. Bach: Cantata, BWV 110,

Raphaël Pichon, conductor
Soloists, TBD
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Eugene Bozza, Scherzo (1945)
Elliott Carter, Quintet for Winds (1948)
Henri Tomasi , Cinq Danses Profanes et Sacrées
Paquito D’Rivera , Wapango (1990)
Valerie Coleman, Afro-Cuban Concerto (2001)
Anders Hillborg, Six Pieces for Wind Quintet

Music Director Finalist Adam Kerry Boyles
Michael Gandolfi: Fanfare in Honor of Richard Pittman
Bernard Rands: DREAM
Amy Beach: Jephthah’s Daughter
Sarah Pelletier, soprano
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite 2

Presented in partnership with the Boston Conservatory at Berklee Music Division.

Presented in partnership with the Boston Conservatory at Berklee Music Division.

“New Paths” Conducted by David Loebel

PERRY: Short Piece for Orchestra
COPLAND: Orchestral Variations
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto no. 2

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

Beethoven:

String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4
String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59, No. 3

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

Maya Kherani, soprano
Christopher Lowrey, countertenor
Aaron Sheehan, tenor
Kevin Deas, bass-baritone

Honoring Josquin des Prez on the 500th anniversary of his death, the centerpiece is Josquin’s monumental and sublimely beautiful Missa Hercules Dux Ferrarie, which is interwoven with motets by Renaissance masters Byrd and Palestrina.

Seven composers engage with their musical DNA. Join Juventas for an enrapturing concert that celebrates multigenerational journeys, spanning five continents.

BWV 147 Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben

“More Than You Can Handel: Handel Arias”

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

“More Than You Can Handel: Handel Arias”

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

“More Than You Can Handel: Handel Arias”

Free and open to the public as well as be streamed.

Christmas spirituality from Medieval France, Italy, England, Provence, including music of the church and songs of private devotion around the joyous theme of the Nativity.

Anne Azéma, Camila Parias, Deborah Rentz-Moore (voices), is joined by Allison Monroe (vielle) and Christa Patton (harp and winds).

Classical works to celebrate the season include Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate along pastorellas by Hupfeld and Werner, an aria for Advent by Haydn, and Leopold Mozart’s Musical Sleigh Ride! With soprano Jessica Petrus.

also streaming

BWV 36 Schwingt freudig euch empor

The Half Hour Messiah

$5 suggested

Heinrich Christensen, organ: Nutcracker Suite

$5 suggested

Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 3, No. 1
Christina Day Martinson, violin
Cimarosa: Il Maestro di Cappella
David McFerrin, baritone

with Alessio Bax, piano
Sophia Burgos, soprano
John Brancy, baritone
BARTÓK Contrasts, for clarinet, violin, and piano
Michael GANDOLFI Cantata, for soprano, baritone, and ensemble (world premiere; BSO commission)
DVOŘÁK String Quintet in G, Op. 77

Conducted by Music Director Finalist Nicholas DeMaison
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Fanfare in Honor of Richard Pittman
Jonathan Bailey Holland: Stories from Home
George Tsontakis: Violin Concerto No. 3
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5

Inon Barnatan, piano
GLINKA Trio pathétique in D minor for clarinet, bassoon, and piano
Sofia GUBAIDULINA Sonata for double bass and piano
Elena LANGER Reflections on Water, for ensemble
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57

Thea Musgrave: Song of the Enchanter
Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major
with Jisun Oh

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5