Luciano Berio: Cinque Variazioni (original version, 1953)
Lee Hyla: Riff and Tranfiguration (1997)
Claude Debussy: Suite bergamasque (1890)
Manuel de Falla: Fantasia Bætica (1919)

FREE, no ticket required

Beethoven: Quartet No. 16 in F Major, op. 135
Michael Gilbertson: Quartet (2017)
Boston Premiere (commissioned by the Verona Quartet, Concert Artists Guild, and BMI Foundation)

Mendelssohn: Quartet No. 4 in E minor, op. 44 No. 2

free but ticket required

The group will perform Steve Reich’s early-1970s masterwork, Drumming. Inspired by the music of Ghana, Drumming is a powerful and hypnotic piece considered by many to be minimalism’s first masterpiece.

The Craft Ensemble: Amy Sims, Colleen Brannen, violins; Amelia Hollander Ames, viola, Velléda Miragias, cello
with guest Vanessa Holroyd, flute

Source Code by Jessie Montgomery

Schertch (for Alto Flute and String Quartet) by Osnat Netzer (Boston premier)

Prokofief: String Quartet #1 in B minor, Op. 50
Piston: Quintet for Flute and String Quartet

Benefit Concert for HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

Free! (but donations for HIAS most warmly appreciated)

Aidan Lang, director
Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano (Dido)
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone (Sorceress/Sailor)
Reginald Mobley, countertenor (Spirit)
Sarah Yanovitch, soprano (Belinda)
Sonja DuToit Tengblad, soprano (2nd Woman)
Margot Rood, soprano (1st Witch)
Sarah Brailey, soprano (2nd Witch)
David McFerrin, baritone (Aeneas)
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Purcell:
Chaconne in G Minor
A new Irish tune in G Major
“God is gone up” (Canon a 7)
A new Scotch tune in G Major
“Welcome to all the pleasures”
Dido and Aeneas

Music from the 13th to 20th centuries of France. Perotin, Dufay, Boismortier, Pleyel, Saint-Saëns, Debussy & Gaubert.

CK Ensemble
Elzbieta Brandys-O’Neill, flute
Cherry Kim, cello
Ai-Ying Chiu, piano

$15, Students $10, Subscribers $12, under 12 free

Gian Carlo Menotti’s Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Consul is a response to the many stories of refugees fleeing Eastern Europe after World War II.

Featuring an eclectic mix of jazz, show tunes, and the American Songbook.

FREE with $15 suggested

Karim Al-Zand, “Fantasy on Bulgarian Rhythms”
Shih-Hui Chen, “Fantasia on a Theme of Plum Blossoms”
Caroline Shaw, “Valencia”
Steven Snowden, “Appalachian Polaroids”
Tanya Tagaq, “Sivunittinni”

Nicole Parks, Kyra Davies, violins
Lauren Nelson, viola; Gramm Drennen, cello

$10-15 suggested

Newly composed original music in collaboration with flutist Weronika Balewski.

free, but $15-$25 suggested

Tomás Luis de Victoria’s “Missa O magnum mysterium” (1592); John Wilbye’s “Draw on, sweet night” (published 1609); J. S. Bach’s “Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich” (about 1707); John Rutter’s “Birthday Madrigals” (1995); the premiere of Frank Li’s “special relativity” (2019)

Hiob
Lobegesang
Oratorium nach Bildung der Bibel (“The Cholera Cantata”)

16 core singer/soloists and orchestra, Guiomar Turgeon, Concert Mistress and Clerici Quartet, principals

Hiob
Lobegesang
Oratorium nach Bildung der Bibel (“The Cholera Cantata”

16 core singer/soloists and orchestra, Guiomar Turgeon, Concert Mistress and Clerici Quartet, principals

$40/Adults, $35/Seniors, $25/Students

Chad Hoopes & Francisco Fullana, violins
Matthew Lipman, viola; Brook Speltz, cello
Jasmine Choi, flute; Romie de Guise Langlois, clarinet

Chaminade, Concertino for Flute
Debussy, Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane
Maurice Ravel, Introduction and Allegro
Saint-Saëns, Fantasie for violin and harp
Caplet, Conte Fantastique
Bernstein, “For Felicia Montealegre” (1948) from Four Anniversaries

Lydian String Quartet players past and present perform the delightful Mendelssohn Octet to benefit the Mary Ruth Ray Fund. Special guests: Wilma Smith, Daniel Stepner, Gillian Ansell and Rhonda Rider.

$20$15/$5 to benefit the Mary Ruth Ray Scholarship Fund

Aidan Lang, director
Susan Bickley, mezzo-soprano (Dido)
Matthew Brook, bass-baritone (Sorceress/Sailor)
Reginald Mobley, countertenor (Spirit)
Sarah Yanovitch, soprano (Belinda)
Sonja DuToit Tengblad, soprano (2nd Woman)
Margot Rood, soprano (1st Witch)
Sarah Brailey, soprano (2nd Witch)
David McFerrin, baritone (Aeneas)
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Purcell:
Chaconne in G Minor
A new Irish tune in G Major
“God is gone up” (Canon a 7)
A new Scotch tune in G Major
“Welcome to all the pleasures”
Dido and Aeneas

Hiob
Lobegesang
Oratorium nach Bildung der Bibel (“The Cholera Cantata”

16 core singer/soloists and orchestra, Guiomar Turgeon, Concert Mistress and Clerici Quartet, principals

$40/Adults, $35/Seniors, $25/Students

Cellist Patrice Jackson-Tilghman is joined by pianist David Berry in recital.

Boston Trio
György Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet

Sungwoo Steven Kim, flute
John Ferrillo, oboe
Somin Lee, clarinet
Nicholas Auer, French horn
Richard Svoboda, bassoon
Brahms: Excerpts from Hungarian Dances for one piano, four hands
ARTISTS
Victor Rosenbaum, piano
Max Levinson, piano
Kati Agócs: Immutable Dreams
II. Microconcerto [in Memoriam György Ligeti]

ARTISTS
Heng-Jin Park, piano
Sungwoo Steven Kim, flute
Somin Lee, clarinet
Irina Muresanu, violin
Jonah Ellsworth, cello
Béla Bartók: Contrasts
ARTISTS
Donald Weilerstein, violin
Richard Stoltzman, clarinet
Katherine Chi, piano
FREE but ticket required

Bui: The Diminished, The Assembled
Robert Bui ’21, Student Composition Competition Winner

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2
Jiyoun Lee, Soloist and Concerto Competition Winner
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique

Lauren Nelson, viola
Sonata for Viola
Rose Mary Harbison, violin
Harbison – Four Songs

Free but reservations requested

Ravel, Schubert and Staud trios

Tickets are free but required

SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, Spring
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Music for Holy Week
by Palestrina and Gesualdo

Schola Cantorum of Boston
Frederick Jodry, Director
$25 general – $8 students and starving artists

Amy Beach: Theme and Variations for Flute and String Quartet,
Elena Ruehr: String Quartet No. 3 (2001)
Ketty Nez: sea-changes(2010) for Viola and Piano
Grazyna Bacewicz: Piano Quintet No. 1 (1952)

Guests: Vanessa Holroyd, flute and Ketty Nez, piano

free, but $20. suggested

“WHAT MAKES MUSIC JEWISH?”

Ernest Bloch — Paysages
Philip Glass — String Quartet No. 2
Mieczyslaw Weinberg — String Quartet No. 5 in B-Flat
Aaron Copland — Two Pieces for String Quartet
Darius Milhaud — String Quartet No. 1
George Gershwin — Lullaby

$10 suggested

Robert Mealy & Avi Stein, directors
Amanda Forsythe, soprano | Jesse Blumberg, baritone

SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, Spring
STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

Brahms: German Requiem, Op. 45 Edith Auner and Thomas Stumpf, pianists. In addition, the choruses will perform the world premiere of “Songs for the Earth” for choir, percussion, and piano, a work by Tufts alumna Rebecca Sacks (Class of 2006).

Free; no tickets required

Works of Attaignant, Cavazzoni, Gabrieli, Frescobaldi, Fischer, Graupner, and Bach

$15 suggested; $10 BCS Friends; free with student ID

Dan Forrest:

The Music of Living
You Are the Music
Requiem for the Living

World premiere of a new work by Kati Agócs’, commissioned by Ashmont Hill Chamber Music for the ensemble. Additional works on the program by Matthew Aucoin and Judd Greenstein.

$25; Student: $18; EBT Card Holder: $3, under 13 free.

MAHLER Rüchert Lieder
WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
DEBUSSY Danse Sacré et Danse Profane for harp & strings

L. Newman, viola; Q. Hou, violin; E. Ruske, horn; I. Zdorovetchi, harp; K. Dugan, mezzo soprano; J. Müller-Szeraws, cello; D. Palma, bass; G Diaz, violin, S. Lee, clarinet; K. Jernigan, oboe; L. Fieweger, bassoon, J. Scolnik, flute

pianist Damien Francouer-Krzyzek, violinists Leonard Fu and Haruno Sato, violist Daniel Orsen and cellist Jamie Clark. The program will include the world premier of Benjamin Park’s quintet for piano and strings.

$25, $10 for students and seniors suggested

Peter Griggs, guitar: “Café Barcelona”
Program: Flamenco, Jobim, and more

$5 suggested

Director: Joshua Major
Music Director: David Agler

Presented by NEC Graduate Opera

Cora Swenson Lee, cello
Harbison – Suite for Cello
Gabriela Díaz, violin
Harbison – For Violin Alone

Free but reservations requested

Director: Joshua Major
Music Director: David Agler

Presented by NEC Graduate Opera

Director: Joshua Major
Music Director: David Agler

Presented by NEC Graduate Opera

Verdi: Nabucco Overture
Florence Price: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Works by of John Adams, George Benjamin, Carl Schimmel, and Anton Webern. Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor.

Sergio Tiempo, piano
Aquiles Machado, tenor
Gustavo Castillo, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,

Paul DESENNE Hipnosis Mariposa
GINASTERA Piano Concerto No. 1
ESTÉVEZ Cantata Criolla

A retrospective concert of the works of Owen Hartford

Performed by Al Fresco Mandolin Quartet, Enigmatica, L’Esperance Mandolin Ensemble, Mair-Martel-Moser Trio, New American Mandolin Ensemble, Providence Mandolin Orchestra. Includes a world premier of an international prize-winning composition.

$10 suggested

Director: Joshua Major
Music Director: David Agler

Presented by NEC Graduate Opera

Bach The Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus I – IV
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K.414 with Paul Lewis
Beethoven String Quartet, Opus 130 (arr. for string orchestra)
Beethoven Grosse fuge, Opus 133 (arr. for string orchestra)

Buxtehude: Selections from Jesu Membra Nostr

All-American program for four-hand piano.

Gershwin/arr. Henry Levine: Rhapsody in Blue
Bernstein/arr. Carol Klose: Selections from West Side Story
Copland/arr. Bennett Lerner: Variations on a Shaker Melody from “Appalachian Spring”
Rossini/arr. L.M. Gottschalk: Overture to “William Tell”

WAGNER: Overture to Meistersinger
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2, IN MO YANG, VIOLIN
TCHAIKOVSKY: Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet
MAHLER : Symphony No. 3, Finale (“What love tells me”)

MOZART Quartet in F for oboe and strings, K.370
FRANÇAIX Dixtuor, for winds and strings
BEETHOVEN Septet in E-flat for strings and winds,

Bax: Fantasy Sonata for Viola and Harp
Harbison: String Trio (2013)
Brahms: String Quintet No. 1 in F major,

Jesse Mills & Alyssa Wang, violins
Dimitri Murrath & Marcus Thompson, violas
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Jessica Zhou, harp

David Coll – *world premiere* for soprano, clarinet, viola, transducers and projectors [New Commission]

Matthew Schumaker – *world premiere* for clarinet and electronics [New Commission]

Patricia Alessandrini – Collaborative work with live instruments, transducers and sheet metal

MIT composition seminar students –new works inspired by this themed event
– Admission Free –

NEC Concert Choir
NEC Chamber Singers

works by Dello Joio, Gibbs, Hawley, Mendelssohn, Parry, Rautavaara, and NEC alumnus Henry Mollicone ’68, ’71 MM. The second half will be devoted to selections of Holst’s Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda and Vedic Hymns, and will feature six graduating soloists.

Graham Scott, piano

BEETHOVEN: Bagatelles op. 126
CHOPIN: Polonaise-Fantasie
SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 19 in F, K.459
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5, Reformation

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 19 in F, K.459
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5, Reformation

(The Egyptian Helen)
Boston Premiere
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Presented in concert, Performed in German with English supertitles

Francesco Piemontesi, piano

BACEWICZ Concerto for String Orchestra
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 19 in F, K.459
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5, Reformation

Haydn, String Quartet in F Major, Op. 77, No. 2
Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132
Caroline Shaw, Entr’acte
Caroline Shaw, Valencia
Bernstein (arr. Andrew Yee), from Piano Anniversaries

Circa Harmonie Boston
Program: Mozart Serenade

$5 suggested

Daniil Trifonov, piano

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 15

twentieth- and twentieth-first century American women composers, including Ruth Crawford Seeger, Amy Beach, Libby Larson, and Marjorie Merryman.

Musicologist Liane Curtis will give a pre-concert talk at 6:30pm, free to all

Semi-staged in new performing versionby Martin Pearlman,with soprano Amanda Forsythe in the title role, joined by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as Nero, Alessandra Visentin as Ottavia, with stage direction by Tara Faircloth.

Celebrating American art song composer Juliana Hall, with works by her mentors and a world premiere by the composer herself.

Evangelia Leontis, Laura Strickling, sopranos
Megan Roth, Mezzo-Soprano
Christina Wright-Ivanova, Piano

Daniil Trifonov, piano

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 15

WV 42 Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbat

BACH: Chaconne in D Minor from Violin Partita No. 2 (arr. Busoni)
SCHUMANN: Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
WEISSENBERG, ALEXIS: Six Arrangements of Songs Sung by Charles Trénet
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Cipressi, Op. 17
CHOPIN: Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat major,
CHOPIN: Scherzo No. 4 in E major, Op. 54

Semi-staged in new performing versionby Martin Pearlman,with soprano Amanda Forsythe in the title role, joined by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as Nero, Alessandra Visentin as Ottavia, with stage direction by Tara Faircloth.

Voices of Hope
Schubert: Trout Quintet
Francine Trester, Sekelela (Rejoice) (2018)
Schumann, Piano Trio #2 in F Major, Op.80

Triple Helix Piano Trio:
Bayla Keyes, violin; Rhonda Rider, cello; Lois Shapiro, piano
Michelle LaCourse, viola; Paul Glenn, bass
Vocal quartet: Deborah Selig, Britt Brown, Gregory Zavracky, Ryne Cherry
FUUSN Choir, Anne Watson Born, conductor

Ticket holders invited to a talk at 3:15

Joshua Bell, violin; Jeremy Denk, piano; Steven Isserlis, cello

Mendelssohn Trio TBD
Shostakovich Trio No. 2 in E minor
Rachmaninoff Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor
Ravel Trio in A minor

Schubert: String Quartet No. 12, D. 703, “Quartettsatz”
Bartok: String Quartet no.2 in A Minor, op. 17, BB75, Sz. 67
Blackwell: Discarded Vernacular
Ravel: String Quartet in F Major

Works written for percussion ensemble.
Kyle Brightwell and Samuel Z. Solomon, directors
FREE

Bach Odyssey
English Suite No. 1 in A Major,
English Suite No. 2 in A minor,
Suite in F minor, BWV 823
English Suite No. 3 in G minor, Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 894

Free but tickets required,

MOZART: Symphony No. 36 (“Linz”)
HAYDN: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D, Hob.VIIb:2 (featuring Patrice Jackson-Tilghman, cello)
BEETHOVEN: Creatures of Prometheus Suite
Bruce Hangen, conductor

FREE

Baiba Skride, violin

STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Sebastian CURRIER Aether, for violin and orchestra
(world premiere; BSO co-commission)
STRAVINSKY Petrushka

Joélle Harvey, soprano
Sandra Piques Eddy, mezzo-soprano; Tom Randle, tenor; Soloman Howard, bass
H+H Orchestra and Chorus
Young Men’s Chorus, Young Women’s Chamber Choir

Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music
Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus
Bach: Singet dem Herrn
Mozart: Requiem

A deliciously heady and high quality cocktail of classical, jazz, klezmer, Latin, and pop music

Dmitri Shostakovich’s beautiful and scathing String Quartet No. 6, performed in nearly complete darkness. Then listen again as acrobats and aerialists weave the composition into a story.

Dvoràk’s “Dumky” Trio in e minor
Brahms Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 32

Klaudia Szlachta, Jean Huang, violins
Amy Galluzzo, viola; Hyun-ji Kwon, cello
Victor Rosenbaum, piano

STRAVINSKY Scherzo à la Russe
ZACHARY WADSWORTH Piano Concerto
Doris Stevenson, Piano
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, B. 163

Rarely-heard chamber works by cutting-edge scientist-musicians along with Baroque music inspired by gazing at the sky. Astronomical imaginations!

$35 preferred / $30 general / $10 students
7-17 are admitted FREE with adult.

Baiba Skride, violin

STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Sebastian CURRIER Aether, for violin and orchestra
(world premiere; BSO co-commission)
STRAVINSKY Petrushka

Brahms, Sonata No. 1 for Violoncello and Piano
Beethoven, Seven Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen”
Ginastera, Pampeana No. 2 for Cello and Piano,
Bach (arr. Silioti/Casals), Adagio from Toccata in C Major, BWV 564 (c. 1715/1925)

Gisèle Ben-Dor, Guest Conductor

Javier Álvarez: Metro Chabacano
Gabriela Lena Frank: Will-o’-the-Wisp
Cynthia Meyers, piccolo
Dvořák: Serenade for Strings in E major

Joélle Harvey, soprano
Sandra Piques Eddy, mezzo-soprano; Tom Randle, tenor; Soloman Howard, bass
H+H Orchestra and Chorus
Young Men’s Chorus, Young Women’s Chamber Choir

Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music
Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus
Bach: Singet dem Herrn
Mozart: Requiem

Lavietes Pavilion at Harvard Athletics Complex
Featuring Jennifer Johnson Cano, Caroline Worra, Maria Zifchak, Matthew DiBattista, David Cushing, and Michelle Trainor
With Jesse Darden, Kathryn Skemp, Chelsea Basler, Felicia Gavilanes, Vera Savage, Lynn Torgove and Omar Najmi

Conductor David Angus
Stage Director Anne Bogart
Movement Director Shura Baryshnikov

Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Op. 20 No. 4
Aaron Travers: Hunger for Soprano and String Quartet (2017) (World Premiere)
Ravel: String Quartet in F major

free but $20 suggested

Lavietes Pavilion at Harvard Athletics Complex
Featuring Jennifer Johnson Cano, Caroline Worra, Maria Zifchak, Matthew DiBattista, David Cushing, and Michelle Trainor
With Jesse Darden, Kathryn Skemp, Chelsea Basler, Felicia Gavilanes, Vera Savage, Lynn Torgove and Omar Najmi

Conductor David Angus
Stage Director Anne Bogart
Movement Director Shura Baryshnikov

David Carrier, Music Director

Menotti: The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and the Manticore

Thompson: Frostiana
$30/, $35 preferred , $25/Seniors Students

Gabriele Carcano, piano
Yoojin Jang & Joseph Lin, violins
Kei Tojo, viola; Sarah Rommel, cello

Schubert, Quartettsatz in C Minor,
Brahms, Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor,
Bartók, String Quartet No. 5
Bernstein, Five Anniversaries (1949-1951)

Music for Bach’s Favorite Instruments:
Suite No. 3 in C Major – Shirley Hunt, ‘cello

Suite in E minor Michael Sponseller, harpsichord

Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582 – Andrew Sheranian, organ

$25; Student: $18; EBT Card $3; under 13 free

Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello
Loeffler: Two Rhapsodies for Viola, Oboe and Piano
Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21

Peggy Pearson, oboe; Yura Lee & Jennifer Frautschi, violins; Marcus Thompson, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Max Levinson, piano

The world premiere of a new work by Kareem Roustom, that tells the stories of the women of the Odyssey – from the sorceress Circe to the deadly Sirens, from the ghost Of Odysseus’ mother to the resourceful Penelope. Other works to be announced.

Music Director: Pamela Mindell
Soprano: Rachele Schmiege
Mezzo-soprano: Christina English
Tenor: Stefan Barner
Baritone: Thomas Jones

$25; $15 students and seniors; pay-as-you-are-able

Margaret Lias, mezzo-soprano
Jason McStoots, tenor
Sumner Thompson, baritone
with professional period orchestra
Kevin Leong, conductor

Antonio Lotti: Crucifixus [a 8]
Bach: Der Gerechte kommt um, BC C 8
Handel: I Will Magnify Thee, O God, HWV 250b
Purcell: O Sing unto the Lord, Z 44
Handel: Jubilate (“Utrecht”), HWV 279

Tickets: $50, 35, 20

Ravel, Sonata for violin & piano No. 2 in G
Fauré, Piano Trio in d minor, Op. 120
Carter, Tempo e Tempi for soprano, oboe, clarinet, violin & cello
Arnold Bax, Elegaic Trio for flute, viola & harp
Brahms, String Quintet No. 2 in G Major

John Tyson, director

Performing Renaissance madrigals, chansons and dances, contemporary and popular music on nine sizes of Renaissance recorders, sopranino to contrabass, made by Italian master craftsman Francesco LiVirghi

Works of: Josquin des Prez, Giovanni Gabrieli, Salamone Rossi, Luca Marenzio, John Bennet,
Sören Sieg and more!

$$ suggested

Zdenek Fibich – Vesna (Spring)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 1

The Beautiful Helen: Boston Premiere
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy

Fully staged, Performed in English