Robert Tweten conducts NEC Opera students and members of NEC Philharmonia in two concert performances of Mozart’s iconic opera, The Magic Flute.

This is an in-person event with a public live stream.

Robert Tweten conducts NEC Opera students and members of NEC Philharmonia in two concert performances of Mozart’s iconic opera, The Magic Flute.

This is an in-person event with a public live stream.

The Strange Child, opera by composer Julia Werntz and librettist Kim Adrian in video format

Quince Ensemble and Kamraton Ensemble with Anna Elder, Eugene Perry, Robert Frankenberry, Anneke Harger, Alexandria Zallo, Franklin Mosley, Paul Yeater, and dancers Jo-Chen Chang and Isabelle Ramey—directed by Shana Simmons and Daniel Curtis.

FREE

works by Purcell, Scelsi, Coates, Lang, and Boston Conservatory at Berklee composition faculty member Marti Epstein.

FREE

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello*
Carlos SIMON New work
BLOCH Schelomo: Rhapsody Hébraïque, for cello and orchestra
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Mozart: Piano Trio in Bb, K.502, 1: “Allegro”
Pärt: “Mozart-Adagio”
Beethoven: Piano Trio, op. 1, no. 2: Finale-Presto
Schubert: Piano Trio, op. 99
Bolcom: Haydn Go Seek: “Introduction”
Haydn: Piano Trio no. 1: 3: “Gypsy Rondo”

Essex Piano Trio:
Ashley Offret, violin David Cabral, cello Beverly Soll, piano

FREE – Donations welcome

ENNO POPPE Prozession (2015/20)

CHAYA CZERNOWIN The Fabrication of Light (2019/20)

Conductor: Johannes Kalitzke

Vimbayi Kaziboni leads the Boston Conservatory Composers Orchestra in a performance of new works by Boston Conservatory composition students

FREE

Roderick Williams, baritone
Masaaki Suzuki, director & harpsichord

music by Bach and Telemann, including Bach’s l cantata Ich habe genug (I have enough).

Josquin Desprez’s sunny mass based on the song Fortuna desperata and a group of six settings of Dido’s last words, Dulces exuvie, by Josquin, Marbriano De Orto, Alexander Agricola, Johannes Ghiselin, Jean Mouton, and anonymous.

Featuring young Newton pianist Laetitia Ji!
Prokofiev – Symphony No. 1 – Larghetto and Gavotte
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 21 – Andante
Elgar – Salut d’amour
Martini – Plaisir d’amour

Plus various popular love songs across generations!

Lusitano: Motet for 6 Voices

Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria

Bach: Sinfonia No. 11, BWV 797 & Sinfonia No. 12, BWV 798 for 3 voices

Beethoven: Opus 74 Quartet
IV. Allegro con variazioni
Brahms: Op.18 Sextet in Bb Major

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello*
Carlos SIMON New work
BLOCH Schelomo: Rhapsody Hébraïque, for cello and orchestra
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

With improvisational arrangements of Bach’s Flute Sonatas and Keyboard Preludes, the program is orchestrated for baroque flute and the forces of Ruckus that include theorbos, baroque guitars, baroque bassoon, cello, viola da gamba, harpsichord, organ, bass, and even banjo.

Louise Farrenc: Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 33
Chen Yi : Tunes from My Home (2007)
Stewart Goodyear: World Premiere Gardner Museum Commission

Ina Zdorovetchi, harp
Ann Bobo, flute
Ryan Yure, clarinet
Christine Vitale, Zenas Hsu, violins
Andra Voldins Dix, viola
Ronald Lowry, cello
Paul Glenn, bass

Marcel Grandjany, Rhapsody on a Theme of a Gregorian Easter Chant for harp and orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and strings), Op. 10
Jean Françaix, Quintet for flute, string trio, and harp
Claude Debussy, Danses sacrée et profane
Maurice Ravel, Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
Paul Hindemith, Sonata for Harp
Sir Arnold Bax, Quintet for harp and strings,
Gilad Cohen, Trio for a Spry Clarinet, Weeping Cello, and Ruminating Harp

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 11 in F minor,
LIGETI String Quartet No. 2
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

Joseph Bologne,Overture to “L’Amant anonyme”
Mozart | Piano Concerto (to be selected)
Haydn | Symphony No. 80 in D Minor,

Hankus Netsky’s klezmer “Nonantum Bulgar” and Michael Gandolfi’s landmark “Vientos y Tangos” variations. The program also features singer/songwriter Delfina Cheb-Terrab, a CMA alum, and CMA vocalists in New England shape note singing as a prelude to William Schuman’s arrangements of “Chester” and “When Jesus Wept;’ and Thomas Duffy’s genre-crossing “Three Places in New Haven.”

Dr. Alexander Lingas conduct sworks in Greek from medieval Constantinople, followed by liturgical works by twentieth-century Greek American composers.
Associate Music Director John Michael Boyer, will feature the East Coast premiere of Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation, a setting of Psalm 103.
by composers: Tikey Zes, +Richard Toensing, GRAMMY-nominee Kurt Sander,Alexander Khalil, John Michael Boyer, and Matthew Arndt

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical
KHACHATURIAN Piano Concerto
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6,

Aisslinn Nosky and Ian Watson, co-directors
H+H Orchestra

Boston Conservatory students perform side-by-side with Silkroad artists Maeve Gilchrist and Edward Perez.

FREE

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical
KHACHATURIAN Piano Concerto
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra violist Daniel Orsen, and pianist Pierre Nicolas Colombat perform, among other things, music Wagner would definitely not like.

With Alessio Bax, piano

Program to include:
Valerie COLEMAN Umoja, for wind quintet
PROKOFIEV Quintet in G minor for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and double bass, Op. 39

music by British composers Charlotte Bray, Benjamin Britten, John Dowland, and Thomas Morley.. Our illustrious and generous artists include Don Weilerstein, Vivian Weilerstein, Kim Kashkashian, Jeffrey Ho, Katherine Whyte, Cameron Stowe, Yiliang Jiang, Meesun Hong Coleman, and WIlliam Coleman.

Premieres by Berklee composition faculty and studdents

Yoon-Ji Lee: Mystic Resonator
Ryan Suleiman: Two Pieces in Variable Order for Percussion Solo
Andrew List: Night Wanderings for Clarinet and Percussion Quartet, Kliment Krylovskiy, clarinet soloist

Free and open to the public

piano music by women and men
Student performers will play:

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Das Jahr
P. I. Tchaikovsky: The Seasons

FREE but tickets required

Liv Redpath, soprano
Ashley Dixon, mezzo
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Alfred Walker, baritone Chorus Pro Musica
Marsh Chapel Choir, Boston University

Georg Friedrich Haas’s HYENA features a remarkable score accompanying the autobiographical story of Haas’s wife, the writer Mollena Lee Williams-Haas. Williams-Haas narrates, with music by Boston’s Sound Icon Ensemble led by Jeffrey Means.

The Black Student Association presents a concert of spirituals in celebration of Black History Month and in memory baritone Robert Honeysucker.

FREE

Bach Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen, BWV 12

Liz Lane’s “Linear Lines,”
Poulenc’s “Elegy,”
Amy Dunker’s “When There Are Nine,
Elizabeth Knudson’s “Alchemy,”
Barbara York’s “Every Day an Alleluia.”

Anne Howarth, horn, Julia Scott Carey, piano and Valerie Thompson, cello.

Free; no tickets required.

Bach’s Mass in B Minor

Songs for Solo Voice and Organ
Soloists from the King’s Chapel Choir
Heinrich Christensen, organ

new works for percussion and multimedia by composers Seong Ae Kim, Adam Mirza, Rick Burkhardt, and Ted Moore that incorporate live audio and video processing, saturated spoken text, a hybrid acoustic-analog-digital instrument, and instrumental theater.

FREE

piano music by women and men
Student performers will play:

Clara Schumann: Variations, op. 20
Brahms: Variations, op. 9
Satie: Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear
Meredith Monk: Ellis Island, Totentanz, Phantom Waltz
Florence Price: Sonata in E Minor (1932)
Charles Griffes: Sonata (1917)
Tania Lèon: Ritual
Messiaen: Neumes rhythmiques
Joan Tower: Or like a … an Engine
Alkan: Chemin de fer

FREE but tickets required

Unsuk Chin | subito con forza (2020)
Antonino Pasculli | Concerto on Themes from ‘La Favorita’ by Donizetti | Sojeong Kim ’23 MM, oboe
Brahms | Symphony No. 1 in C Minor

Works by Bach, Lachenmann, and Wagner.

FREE

Program TBA

HOLLAND – The Stone and the Milkweed for horn, viola, piano and narrator
GARDNER – The Way of Ideas for flute, clarinet, violin and cello
WOOLF – String Trio (Prueraria Lobata)
POULENC – Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

Korngold, Suite from Much Ado About Nothing for violin & piano
Vaughan Williams, Six Studies in English Folk Song for English horn & piano
David Matthews, Terrible Beauty for soprano, flute, clarinet, harp & string quartet,
Thomas Adès, Court Studies from The Tempest for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Elgar, Piano Quintet in a minor, Op. 84

Led by conductor Adam Grossman, and accompanied by Eric Mazonson, the program will include: two works by Fanny (Mendelssohn) Hensel, choral piece “Gartenlieder” and piano solo “März” from Das Jahr; Brahms’ “Zigeunerlieder”; and three works by Schubert: “An die Sonne”, “Lebenslust” and “Der Tanz”.

Beethoven:
Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109
Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

North Bennet Street School, Boston

Showcasing the lyra viol, complete with sympathetic strings and its relationship to different contexts of music making.

Ashley Mulcahy, mezzo-soprano; James Perretta, viol; Sarah Mead, viol

Songs of Sacred Contemplation

Selections from Telemann’s sacred solo cantatas and Passion Oratorios

Donations to support the Hancock Music Program are welcome.

Korngold, Suite from Much Ado About Nothing for violin & piano
Vaughan Williams, Six Studies in English Folk Song for English horn & piano
David Matthews, Terrible Beauty for soprano, flute, clarinet, harp & string quartet,
Thomas Adès, Court Studies from The Tempest for clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Elgar, Piano Quintet in a minor, Op. 84

Patricia Van Ness, In principio
Abbie Betinis, Songs of Smaller Creatures
Benjamin Britten, God’s Grandeur
Rhiannon Randle, Our Burning World
Edie Hill, Do I Wake or Sleep (world premiere)
Christina Whitten Thomas, Songs of Gold
Gwyneth Walker, God’s Grandeur

Brownlee will perform brand-new music that he is commissioning from acclaimed Black composers.

“The Second Coming” (Yeats)

set by Edmar Colón, Howard Frazin, Elena Ruehr, and Tom Schnauber

Christina English, mezzo-soprano
Sasha Callahan and Megumi Stohs Lewis, violin
Alexander Vavilov, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello

Johannes Ockeghem | Excerpts from Missa Prolationem
NEC Chamber Singers, Erica J. Washburn, conductor

Ligeti | Ramifications for 12 Solo String Players
Donald Palma, conductor

Ligeti | Aventures (1962) and Nouvelles Aventures

music by Berklee Composition Department Faculty Francine Trester, featuring vocal settings of her original poetry and compositions that use poetry (her own and others) as a reference point. Performers include: Carrie Cheron, mezzo soprano; Eileen Huang, Lois Shapiro, and Eric Sawyer, piano; violists David Wallace, Consuelo Sherba and Scott Woolweaver; Kristen Watson, soprano, and the composer on violin and viola.

FREE

Valerie Coleman | Seven O’Clock Shout
Dvořák | Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, op. 70
conducted by David Loebel

Beethoven — Piano Trio No.5 in D, Op.70, No. 1, “Ghost”
Shostakovich — Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op.57
????? — Mystery Piece — Guess the composer and win tickets
Ayano Ninomiya, Sharan Leventhal – violins, Daniel Kim – viola, Jonathan Miller – cello, Randall Hodgkinson – piano

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Music of Dvořák and Brahms will stand beside the work of American composers Amy Beach, Harry Burleigh, Aaron Copland, Nathaniel Dett, Charles Ives and George Walker, among others.
Conducted by Michael Barrett.

Bach Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54

BRAHMS Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114
BERG Adagio for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano f
SCHUBERT Piano Trio in E-flat major, D. 929

Beethoven: Piano Trio No.5 in D, Op.70, No. 1, “Ghost”
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op.57
???????: Mystery Piece — Guess the composer and win tickets
Ayano Ninomiya, Sharan Leventhal – violins, Daniel Kim – viola, Jonathan Miller – cello, Randall Hodgkinson – piano

Violist Hsin-Yun Huang top prize winner of the Lionel Tertis and ARD international competitions and current faculty member at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music. Huang will be joined by pianist Hae Sun Paik,

Barbara Allen Hill & Friends
“Irrational Consistency: A Consideration of Pi”
$5 suggested

guest conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto
Debussy | Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes, L. 98
Gabriela Ortiz | Téenek – Invenciones de Territorio
Copland | Third Symphony

Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano*
Lorelei Ensemble
Beth Willer, conductor
GÓRECKI Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Julia WOLFE Her Story, for vocal ensemble and orchestra (BSO co-commission)

Michael Ching’s short children’s opera, Three Little Pigs Remix, an exciting retelling of the classic story of the three little pigs and the big, bad wolf. In this remix, three important themes are explored—interpretation, cooperation, and habitation.

Matthew Locke Fantasy from Suite No. 5 in G minor from “Consort of Fower Parts”
Dvorak Songs my Mother Taught Me
Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-flat Major,
Mahler Kindertotenlieder (arr. for soprano and string quartet by Ivo Bauer)
Gershwin Lullaby for string quartet

Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté | Tegere Tulon*
Angélica Negrón | Marejada*
Jessie Montgomery | Break Away
Wu Man | Two Chinese Paintings*
Reena Esmail | Ragamala
Aeryn J. Santillan | Recall

Benjamin Wright, Trumpet

BOULANGER: D’un matin de printemps
SIMON The Block
HAYDN Trumpet Concerto in Eb
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano*
Lorelei Ensemble
Beth Willer, conductor
GÓRECKI Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Julia WOLFE Her Story, for vocal ensemble and orchestra (BSO co-commission)

JOTARO NAKANO, CONDUCTOR & MUSIC DIRECTOR FINALIST
BENJAMIN WRIGHT, TRUMPET

BOULANGER: (Of a Spring Morning)
SIMON : The Block
HAYDN : Trumpet Concerto in Eb
SIBELIUS : Symphony No. 2

Jotaro Nakano, conductor

Szymanowk: Mythes, Op. 30 (1915)
Stravinsk: Divertimento (after The Fairy’s Kiss) (1934)
Erkki-Sven Tüü: Conversio (1994)

Berton: Nouvelle Chaconne in E Minor
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17

Matthew Locke Fantasy from Suite No. 5 in G minor from “Consort of Fower Parts”
Dvorak Songs my Mother Taught Me
Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet in E-flat Major,
Mahler Kindertotenlieder (arr. for soprano and string quartet by Ivo Bauer)
Gershwin Lullaby for string quartet

Jonathan Wessler, organ
J.S. Bach Birthday Recital

$5 suggested

Andrew Grams, conductor – Stewart Goodyear, piano

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | Othello Suite
Stewart Goodyear | Callaloo, Caribbean Suite for piano and orchestra
Florence Price | Symphony No. 1

Edgaras Montvidas, tenor
Danielle DeNiese, narrator*
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Children’s Choir
James Burton, conductor
STRAVINSKY Perséphone
Thomas ADÈS Inferno Suite
Thomas ADÈS Paradiso

the Missa Mi mi, the motet Intemerata dei mater, and the song Presque transi – as well as the famous lament for Ockeghem, Nymphes des bois, by Josquin Desprez.

Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, “Jupiter”
Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major, K. 364
Christina Day Martinson, violin
Jason Fisher, viola

Edgaras Montvidas, tenor
Danielle DeNiese, narrator*
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Children’s Choir
James Burton, conductor
STRAVINSKY Perséphone
Thomas ADÈS Inferno Suite
Thomas ADÈS Paradiso

Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929
Tchaikovsk: Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50

Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551, “Jupiter”
Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major, K. 364
Christina Day Martinson, violin
Jason Fisher, viola

Béla Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Alma Mahler’s Four Songs,

Victoria, Handl, Selby, Pinkham, Hindemith, Poulenc
King’s Chapel Choir
Heinrich Christensen, director

Haydn | String Quartet in F Major, op. 74 no. 1
Bartók | String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor

Music featuring composers who have been connected with NEC curated by ohn Mallia

Antonio Bononcini: Stabat Mater
J.S. Bach: Easter Oratorio, BWV 249

Ted Hearne | Law of Mosaics
Juantio Becenti | The Glittering World (new commission)

Stay Out for Freedom
The Premier Choir and Central Intermediate Advanced Choir take inspiration from Ruth Batson, a civil rights activist who organized an impactful anti-segregation school protest in 1963.

Mendelssohn O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden and Verleih uns Frieden

Roberto Plano, piano
Irina Muresanu, violin
Jason Fisher, viola
Ronald Lowry, cello

Ravel, Sonata for violin and cello
Schumann, Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47
Schubert, Allegretto in C minor, D 915
Schubert, Klavierstück No. 3 in C major, D 946

Debussy, Première rhapsodie for clarinet & piano,
Helen Grime, Pierrot Miniatures for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello & piano
Fauré, Cinq mélodies “de Venise” for soprano & piano
Andrea Clearfield, Unremembered Wings for oboe & piano
Mendelssohn, Sextet for piano, violin, 2 violas, cello & double bass

György Ligeti, Trio for French horn
William Purvis, french horn
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Mihae Lee, piano

Franz Schubert, String Quartet in G Major, D. 887
Borromeo String Quartet

Program TBA

Beethoven | Sonata No. 1, Op. 12
Prokofiev | Sonata No. 1 in F minor
Franck | Sonata in A Major

Eric Lu, piano*
Unsuk CHIN subito con forza
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

Eric Lu, piano*
Unsuk CHIN subito con forza
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

Bach Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden,

Karl Henning Ensemble
Works by Henning & Marshall

$5 suggested

David Loebel, conductor
Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
plus competition-winning student composition.

Gautier Capuçon, cello
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
Thierry ESCAICH Cello Concerto (American premiere; BSO co-commission)
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

Gautier Capuçon, cello
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
Thierry ESCAICH Cello Concerto (American premiere; BSO co-commission)
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

Chopin | Sonata No. 2
Beethoven | Hammerklavier Sonata

a gorgeous physical production borrowed from the Maryland Lyric Opera.

Primosch Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus

With Vivian Choi, piano

RAVEL Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet, and strings

GUBAIDULINA Sonata for double-bass and piano
BEETHOVEN Septet in E-flat for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass,

Shawn Okpebholo: CryptOlogiE (2014)
Boston Premiere
Lingbo Ma: New Work (2023)
50th Anniversary Commission
World Premiere
Eric Moe: Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years? (2023)
50th Anniversary Commission
World Premiere
Peter Child: Tableaux I (1991)
1991 Commission and Premiere

talk at 7:00

Lily Tsai, violin
Ken Allen, viola
Mozart & Martinu

$5 suggested

Led by stage director Mo Zhou, the production stars Metropolitan Opera star Wendy Bryn Harmer in her role debut as Iphigénie, William Burden as Pylade, Jesse Blumberg as Oreste, and David McFerrin as Thoas.

new cantata commissioned from Nell Shaw Cohen for chorus, string quartet, and soloists. There will be a talk 45 minutes prior to the concert.

Led by stage director Mo Zhou, the production stars Metropolitan Opera star Wendy Bryn Harmer in her role debut as Iphigénie, William Burden as Pylade, Jesse Blumberg as Oreste, and David McFerrin as Thoas.

Chamber Series presents works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, John Heiss, Marta Kowalczuk, Jacques Ibert, Ludwig van Beethoven, and others, performed by renowned Boston Conservatory at Berklee faculty members Saul Bitran (violin), Ann Bobo (flute), Anne Howarth (horn), Michael Lewin (piano), Andrew Mark (cello), Marcus Rojas (tuba), and Nancy Zeltsman (marimba).

Complicated time and advanced harmony are a focus of the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, featuring works by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Igor Stravinsky, Magnus Lindberg, and Cindy McTee

FREE

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
Golda Schultz, soprano*
SIBELIUS Luonnotar
Thomas ADÈS Air, for violin and orchestra (American premiere; BSO co-commission)
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

Bach Ich bin ein guter Hirt, BWV 85

Eric NATHAN Just a Moment for Two Oboes
MOZART Divertimento in E-flat major for String Trio,
MOZART Serenade in C minor for Wind Octet, K. 388

George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Haydn: Concertino in C major for harpsichord and orchestra (Tracy Richardson)

Mark Hagerty: New work for harpsichord and orchestra (Tracy Richardson)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

J. S. Bach | Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue
Mozart | Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K.311
Debussy | Estampes
Rachmaninoff:
Prelude in A minor, Op. 32, no. 8
Prelude in G-flat Major, Op. 23, no. 10
Eight Études-tableaux, Op. 33

Composer David Ibbett has sonified the light of black hole galaxies as musical notes and chords, woven into a dramatic electro-symphonic score set to immersive 3-D visuals from the Charles Hayden Planetarium.

Hugh Wolff, conductor
Brahms, Tragic Overture in D Minor, op. 81
Gabriela Lena Frank, Conquest Requiem
Lutoslawski, Concerto for Orchestra

England’s Nightingale: Music of William Byrd

Sophie Michaux and Jason McStoots will be joined by an ensemble of medieval instrumentalists – including fiddle player Anna Danilevskaia (artistic director of Solazzo Ensemble) from Switzerland, French lutenist Emma-Lisa Roux from Paris, and multi-instrumental virtuosa Debra Nagy (artistic director of Les Délices) from Cleveland – in a program of music connected to the great patroness Isabella d’Este of Ferrara, Marchesa of Mantua.

Britten: Phaedra, Serenade, and Les Illuminations – the orchestra and soloists of Emmanuel Music will guide you from the heights of Greek melodrama to the libertine Bacchanalias of Arthur Rimbaud, in an expression of the everlasting theme of intemperate and unrestrained love.

Seong-Jin Cho, piano
Caroline SHAW Punctum (April 29 only)
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
STRAVINSKY Petrushka (1947 version)

Isabella Ensemble, the Olmsted Quartet, and special guests with conductor Julius Williams explore the relationship among landscape, landscape architecture, and music through a collaboration among George Steel, Abrams Curator of Music, and Charles Waldheim, Ruettgers Curator of Landscape and professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Alone Together
Don MacDonald: When the Earth Stands Still
Arcade Fire: Deep Blue
David Lang: Manifesto

Ingrid Michaelson: Twitter Song
Saint-Saëns: Calme Des Nuit
Joni Mitchell: River
Libby Larsen: You III. You, know … who, are
Simon and Garfunkel: A Most Peculiar Man
Camina Siempre Adelante – Alberto Cortez
Pasek and Paul: Disappear/You Will Be Found
Steven Stametz: We Two –
Beethoven/Matthews: Gesang der Gravedigger
Lennon and McCartney: She’s Leaving Home

The Harvard Choruses, conducted by Andy Clark, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by Federico Cortese, perform Verdi Requiem.

Suzanne Stumpf and Rachel Carpentier, traversi; Sarah Darling and Jesse Irons, violin; Marcia Cassidy, viola; Daniel Ryan, cello; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord

Christoph Graupner: Concerto in E Minor for two traversi, strings, and continuo
Johann Fasch: Sonata a quattro for traverso, two violas, and continuo
Count Ernst-Louis: Suite for strings and continuo
Georg Philipp Telemann: Quartet for strings and continuo
Graupner: Trio Sonata in B Minor for traverso, violin, and continuo
Graupner: Sonata in G Major for traverso and obbligato harpsichord

Matt Sharrock leads Boston Conservatory Composers Performance Ensemble in a concert featuring chamber music from the standard repertoire, as well as new works by Boston Conservatory composition students.

FREE

selection of contemporary and classic works co-directed by Matt Smallcomb and Sam Solomon.

FREE

Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Maria Brea, soprano
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo

Augustin Hadelich, violin
Ildar Abdrazakov, bass*
Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
BRITTEN Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar

Omar, a new biographical opera with a luminous score composed by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels.

Augustin Hadelich, violin
Ildar Abdrazakov, bass*
Men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor
BRITTEN Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar

Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Renée Tatum returns to delight and inspire the Needham Concert Society audience with a program of art songs and opera selections with pianist Eileen Downey/

Omar, a new biographical opera with a luminous score composed by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels.

Geneva Lewis, violin
Evren Ozel, piano

Fazil Say, Sonata, Op. 7
Beethoven, Violin sonata No. 10 in G major,
Douglas Lilburn, Sonata (1950)
Bartok, Violin sonata no. 1, Sz. 75

Kevin Harris: Pulse” is a large, compelling chamber composition combining improvised and fully notated music.
Bach’s organ prelude “Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland.” This deeply personal piece keeps the listener moving through an ever changing musical landscape. The next piece, “Joy Boy” by Julius Eastman

Bach Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, BWV 194

STILL Can’t You Line ‘Em
GRIFFES Poem for Flute and Orchestra
CHAMINADE Concertino for Flute
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

Anthony Trionfo, flute

Florence Price, Fantasie No. 1 in g minor for violin & piano
Hindemith, Kleine Kammermusik
John Musto, Divertimento for flute, clarinet, viola, Schubert, Octet in F Major

Mykola Lysenko: verture to Taras Bulba
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Tatiana Dimitriades, violin soloist
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

Florence Price, Fantasie No. 1 in g minor for violin & piano
Hindemith, Kleine Kammermusik
John Musto, Divertimento for flute, clarinet, viola, Schubert, Octet in F Major

Spirituals
Handel: Selections from Chandos Anthems

Anthony Trecek-King, conductor and co-creator
Reginald Mobley, countertenor and co-creator
Regie Gibson, narrator
H + H Orchestra and Chorus

Spirituals
Handel: Selections from Chandos Anthems

Anthony Trecek-King, conductor and co-creator
Reginald Mobley, countertenor and co-creator
Regie Gibson, narrator
H + H Orchestra and Chorus