William Drury, conductor
Dave Rivello: Estate Elena Firsova: Lea with Niko Ottersberg Enriquez
Elizabeth Maconchy: Music for Winds and Brass
Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphony #2 Finale arr. for Brass Ensemble

FREE

Samson’s wife Delilah, sung by the incomparable Aurora Martin, tries to seduce Samson once again, but Samson, heroically portrayed by Michael González, wise to Delilah’s sultry ways, angrily rejects her.

Longy-Pickman Hall

Featuring Grammy-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan,
Protest songs and music inspired by social movements and historical events, including Nico Muhly’s Stranger, Akenya Seymour’s Fear the Lamb, and the premiere of Errollyn Wallen’s Protest Songs for Tenor and Strings.

Samson’s wife Delilah, sung by the incomparable Aurora Martin, tries to seduce Samson once again, but Samson, heroically portrayed by Michael González, wise to Delilah’s sultry ways, angrily rejects her.

Parker Quartet, pianist Gloria Chien, and students, alums, and teachers in one big collaborative event.

Jung-Ja Kim, Wha Kyung Byun, HaeSun Paik, Minsoo Sohn, Hannah Byun and Changyong Shin

Mozart: Sonata for Piano Four Hands in D Major, K. 381
Debussy: Petite Suite for Piano Four Hands
Copland/Bernstein: El Salon Mexico for Two Pianos
Schubert: Divertimento in Hungarian Style in G minor,
Ravel: La Valse for Two Pianos

Matthew Marsit presents the New England premiere of Adam Gorb’s Out of the Darkness, as well as Lindsay Bronnenkant’s Tarot, Henk Badings’s Symphony No. 15, faculty member Anthony Barfield’s Red Sky featuring trombone faculty member Angel Subero, and Bramwell Tovey’s Manhattan Music featuring the Boston Conservatory Faculty Brass Quintet.

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street. Cambridge

Renee Hemsing (Violin), Guy Fishman (Cello), Renana Gutman (Piano)

Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano, L. 135
Debussy: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Minor, L. 140
Ravel: Piano Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello in A Minor

Free Admission

a birthday concert that includes his chamber works “Dream Logic” and “Thickly Settled”, plus “Secondary Dominance” from his famous 100 piano études collection. Also on the program are ten new études written by his colleagues and several former students in honor of his distinguished career and teaching. This program is to be performed by Collage New Music, conducted by David Hoose.

Charles Ives | Sonata No. 4
Stefan Jackiw, violin
Max Levinson, piano
Alfred Schnittke | Piano Quintet
Vivian Weilerstein, piano
Masha Lakisova, Kristy Chen, violins
Njord Fossnes, viola
Julia Yang, cello
Johannes Brahms | Trio in C Major, Op. 87
Stefan Jackiw, violin
Jonah Ellsworth, cello
Max Levinson, piano

FREE

TBA FREE

Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
BEETHOVEN Consecration of the House Overture
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
Arturs MASKATS Tango
STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
BEETHOVEN Consecration of the House Overture
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
Arturs MASKATS Tango
STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Whispers: Echoes from the Halls weaves together some of opera’s most chilling moments in a brand new narrative through multiple rooms.

First Parish Church 225 Cabot Street Beverly,

Costello: Sonata Primo for Violin
Handel-Havorsen: Passacaglia for Cello and Violin
Mozart: Duo for Violin and Cello in G Major
Beethoven: Duo for Violin and Cello no. 1 in C

Renee Hemsing (violin), Guy Fishman (cello)

Rudolf Buchbinder, piano
Aaron Diehl Trio (Ellington)^
BEETHOVEN Consecration of the House Overture
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488
ELLINGTON New World A-Coming, for piano and orchestra
ELLINGTON/STRAYHORN Tonk, for piano four-hands
Carlos SIMON Four Black American Dances

Eric Moe, piano
Gil Rose, conductor

Eternal Return by John Aylward (world premiere)
The Sweetness of Despair, the Necessity of Hope by Eric Moe
Time Rift by Richard Cornell (world premiere)
Both by Shelley Washington (

Cello Quintet by Franz Schubert.

L’Étoile Violin Duo (Hsin-Lin Tsai and Miguel Pérez-Espejo), Danny Kim (violin), Blaise Déjardin (cello), and Lluís Claret (cello).

Free; no tickets required.

Jonathan Cohen, conductor
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Whispers: Echoes from the Halls weaves together some of opera’s most chilling moments in a brand new narrative through multiple rooms.

Whispers: Echoes from the Halls weaves together some of opera’s most chilling moments in a brand new narrative through multiple rooms.

ADA Accessible Perfromanmce

Janet Ross, soprano; Jennifer Webb, mezzo-soprano; Heinrich Christensen, organ:
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
$5 suggested

Yo-Yo Ma, cello
HAYDN Symphony No. 22, Philosopher
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 2
Iman HABIBI Zhiân (BSO commission)
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1

Beethoven Piano Trio no. 1 in E-flat major
Higdon Piano Trio
Brahms Piano Trio in B Major

Amy Galluzzo, violin
Carol Ou, cello
Yu-Mei Wei, piano

FREE

Feast of the Swan: Music and merriment from the Dutch Renaissance

Beethoven:

“Coriolan” Overture
“Elegiac Song”
Symphony No. 9

Zeke Fetrow, conductor
Beethoven, Coriolan Overture
Sibelius, King Kristian II Suite
Howard Hanson, Symphony No. 2 (Romantic)
Pre-concert conductor talk Saturday at 7:15 p.m.

Yo-Yo Ma, cello
HAYDN Symphony No. 22, Philosopher
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 2
Iman HABIBI Zhiân (BSO commission)
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1

Robert Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80)Dora Pejačević: Piano Trio No. 2 (1910)

Zeke Fetrow, conductor
Beethoven, Coriolan Overture
Sibelius, King Kristian II Suite
Howard Hanson, Symphony No. 2 (Romantic)
Pre-concert conductor talk Saturday at 7:15 p.m.

Lili Boulanger, Nocturne et cortège for violin & piano
Eric Moe, Frozen Hours Melt Melodiously into the Past for flute, clarinet, string trio & piano
Zoltán Kodály, Duo for violin & cello, Op. 7
Claude Debussy, Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé for soprano & piano
Ernest Chausson, Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 30

Beethoven:

“Coriolan” Overture
“Elegiac Song”
Symphony No. 9

David Loebel, conducts
Valerie Coleman’s Seven O’Clock Shout
Haydn’s Symphony No. 95 in C Minor
Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2.

FREE

Paul Lewis, piano
Thomas Warfield, narrator* (Oct. 21)

Hannah KENDALL The Spark Catchers
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3

Paul Lewis, piano
Thomas Warfield, narrator* (Oct. 21)

Hannah KENDALL The Spark Catchers
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Gautier Capuçon, cello

Haydn | Piano Trio No. 44 in E Major,
Ravel | Piano Trio in A minor
Mendelssohn | Piano Trio No. 2 In C minor, Op. 66

American Spirituals, Black and White, 1800-1900 from neglected early songbook sources and from oral traditions, to tell the story of American spiritual singing, North and South, Black and White, during a crucial century of our country’s history.

Paul Lewis, piano
Thomas Warfield, narrator* (Oct. 21)

Hannah KENDALL The Spark Catchers
James LEE III Freedom’s Genuine Dawn, for narrator and orchestra (BSO co-commission)
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5

Freya Waley-Cohen | Conjure
Salina Fisher | Mata-Au
Errollyn Wallen | Romeo Turn
Jean Cras | String Trio

Erika Baikoff, soprano | Gilles Vonsattel, piano | Benjamin Beilman, violin | Clive Greensmith, cello

RUBINSTEIN: “Romance” from Soirées à Saint-Petersburg arr. for piano, violin and cello, Op. 44, No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY: Souvenir d’un lieu cher for violin and piano, Op. 42
BALAKIREV: “The Goldfish’s Song”
RACHMANINOV: “Arion” Op. 34, No. 5
GLINKA: “The Lark”
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: “Does Not the Wind Blow” Op. 43, No. 2
RACHMANINOV: “These Summer Nights” Op. 14, No. 5
RACHMANINOV: Trio élégiaque in D minor for piano, violin and cello, Op. 9 – in memory of Tchaikovsky

Trio super Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr’, BWV 676 – J.S. Bach
Trio Sonata in B minor, H 567 – C.P.E. Bach
Trio Sonata in C minor, BWV 526 – J.S. Bach
Trio Sonata in A major, H. 570 – C.P.E. Bach
Sonata sopr’il Soggetto Reale from “Musikalisches Opfer”, BWV 1079 –

Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances (lyrics by D. Rathaus), Op. 73 Rachmaninov: 5 selected romances
Schumann: Arabesque, Op. 18
Schumann: Dichterliebe (Poet’s Love), Op. 48

R. Schumann Arabesque, Op. 18 (1839)

Dichterliebe (Poet’s Love), Op. 48 (1840)

Warren Nicholson, guitar
$5 suggested

Music that features composers who have been connected with NEC in a variety of ways.

FREE

Farrenc: Overture No. 1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

Václav Luks, conductor
Lukáš Vondráček, fortepiano
H+H Orchestra

Music for a Young King: Lully, Charpentier, Lalande, Moulinié, Cavalli, Uccellini, and Buonamente

André Cardinal Destouches: instrumental movements from his opéra-ballet Les élémens

Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre: Cantata for soprano, violin, and continuo: Jonas

Antonio Vivaldi: Flute concerto, op. 10 no. 1 “La Tempesta di Mare”

Gregor Joseph Werner: April Suite from (Neuer und sehr curios-Musicalischer Instrumental-Calender (“New and very curious musical instrument calendar”)

André Campra: Motet for soprano, traverso, and continuo: Domine, Dominus Noster

Johann David Heinichen: aria for soprano and orchestra: Così sorgea from Serenata sull’Elba

Jessie Montgomery: Divided for Cello and Strings
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, op. 33
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

Farrenc: Overture No. 1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

Václav Luks, conductor
Lukáš Vondráček, fortepiano
H+H Orchestra

with Vanessa Holroyd, flute

Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Sunrise
Joan Tower: Rising (2009)
Grazyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 4 (1950)

Robert Barney plays the spooky C.B. Fisk Organ
$5 suggested

Anna Vinnitskaya, piano
KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
SCHUBERT Symphony in C, The Great

OPEN REHEARSAL

Anna Vinnitskaya, piano
KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
SCHUBERT Symphony in C, The Great

Anna Vinnitskaya, piano
KODÁLY Dances of Galánta
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
SCHUBERT Symphony in C, The Great

Jean Sibelius – Symphony #5
John Tarrh – Unvanquished (world premiere)
Beethoven – Piano Concerto #5, “Emperor” – Max Levinson, piano

FRAGMENTS 1 composers:

Andy Akiho, Johann Sebastian Bach, Courtney Bryan, Chen Yi, Alan Fletcher, Gabriela Lena Frank, Osvaldo Golijov, Joseph Hallman, Gabriel Kahane, Daniel Kidane, Thomas Larcher, Tania Leon, Allison Loggins-Hull, Missy Mazzoli, Gerard McBurney, Jessie Montgomery, Reinaldo Moya, Jeffrey Mumford, Matthias Pintscher, Gity Razaz, Gili Schwarzman, Caroline Shaw, Carlos Simon, Gabriela Smith, Ana Sokolović, Joan Tower, Mathilde Wantenaar, and Paul Wiancko.

Rachmaninoff Songs (TBA)
Sari Gruber, soprano
Cameron Stowe, piano
Rachmaninoff: Trio Élégiaque No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9
Alessio Bax, piano
Maria Ioudenitch, violin
Brannon Cho, cello
FREE

Sung in French with English supertitles, the performance is conducted by Andrew Bisantz, with stage direction by Nathan Troup.

Beautiful melodies, sparkling vocals, and Rossini’s energetic score weave this timeless Cinderella story, dispensing with the fairy dust for the wisdom of the human heart.

Leonidas Kavakos, violin
LIEBERSON Drala (Nov. 9 & 11 only)
BERG Violin Concerto
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4

TBA

Leonidas Kavakos, violin
LIEBERSON Drala (Nov. 9 & 11 only)
BERG Violin Concerto
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4

Zhou Long: Song of the Ch’in
Henri Lazarof: String Quartet No. 11 “Remembrances”
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor (with Lois Shapiro)

SHAWN OKPEBHOLO – On a Poem by Miho Nonaka “Harvard Square” for solo flute
CHEN YI – Tibetan Tunes for clarinet, cello, and piano
LAVELL BLACKWELL – On the Impulse to Move for oboe, violin, viola and bassoon CO-COMMISSION
MISSY MAZZOLI – Still Live with Avalanche for flutes, clarinets, violin, cello, piano, and percussion
LUCIANO BERIO – Opus Number Zoo for wind quintet

Bac:h Suite No. 2 in D minor for solo cello
Gaspar Cassado Suite for solo cello (1926)
Benjamin Britten Suite No. 1 for solo cello (1964)
Edmund Finnis Five Preludes for solo cello (2021)
Gwilym Simcock Prayer for the Senses (2022)
Leo Brouwer Sonata No. 2 for solo cello (2023)

Fanny Mendelssohn: String Quartet in E-flat
Schuma: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1
Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G, Op. 36

Lucia Lin, Julia Glenn– violins, Rebecca Gitter, Daniel Kim – violas, Jonathan Miller, Owen Young – cellos

Jordan Bak, viola
JiYung Lee, piano

Manuel De Falla, arr. Mateu and Zanetti : Siete canciones populares Españolas
Tyson Gholston Davis, Tableau XII for Solo Viola
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, ko’u inoa
Robert Schumann, Fantasiestücke
George Enescu : Concert Piece for Viola and Piano
Arnold Bax, Viola Sonata

Laurence Lesser, cello Minsoo Sohn, piano,

Béla Bartók | Rhapsody no. 1 for cello and piano
J. S. Bach | Suite no. 6 for solo cello in D Major
Rachmaninoff | Sonata in G minor, for Cello and Piano

FREE

including early recordings of Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, King Oliver and Sidney Bechet; the premiere of Stravinsky’s Les Noces; the beginnings of country music on record; the invention of an 80-string koto; tango legend Carlos Gardel taking Argentinian Citizenship; Henry Cowell going inside the piano wit Aeolian Harp; the first sound films; the first commercial radio; early fascination with technology; and major premieres of pieces by Varese, Prokofiev, Bartok, and Schoenberg.

FREE

BRAHMS Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99 (1886)
KODÁLY Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 (1914)
SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, “Trout” (1819)

Jean-Philippe Rameau | Suite in A minor
Mozart | Sonata No. 12, K. 332
Mendelssohn | Variations sérieuses
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 29, Op. 106, “Hammerklavier ”

Robert Tweten conducts Francesco Cavalli’s “La Calisto.”

FREE

Kirill Gerstein, piano
Ligeti 100
LISZT Les Préludes
LIGETI Piano Concerto
STRAVINSKY Orpheus
Thomas ADÈS Tevot

Beethoven | String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1: I. Allegro con brio,
Alvin Singleton | Time Past, Time Future
Beethoven | String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95: III. Allegro assai vivace ma serioso,
Jessie Montgomery | Rounds
Beethoven | String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1: II. Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando,
Paola Prestini | Code for String Orchestra,
Beethoven | String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132: III. “Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der Lydischen Tonart.” Molto adagio – Andante,

Robert Tweten conducts Francesco Cavalli’s “La Calisto.”

FREE

Kirill Gerstein, piano
Ligeti 100
LISZT Les Préludes
LIGETI Piano Concerto
STRAVINSKY Orpheus
Thomas ADÈS Tevot

John Zorn 18 Studies from the Later Sketchbooks of J.M.W. Turner

Robert Tweten conducts Francesco Cavalli’s “La Calisto.”

FREE

Beethoven’s Cavatina Op. 130
Haydn’s Op. 54 No. 2 Quarte
Schubert’s Cello Quintet in C major.

With Zenas Hsu, Amy Galluzzo, violins; Marka Gustavsson, viola; Timothy Merton, Jennifer Morsches, cellos

Brown Hall NEC

Schoenberg’s thrilling Pierrot Lunaire, featuring Lucy Fitz-Gibbon, and a premiere by Ethan Chaves.

virtuoso performances by current students from across NEC’s departments will illuminate the words of those faculty member who will speak, either live or via recording, to their beginnings as new appointees of Gunther’s and what NEC was like for them
FREE

Jonathan Cohen, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
John Holiday, countertenor
Stuart Jackson, tenor
José Coca Loza, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Jonathan Cohen, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
John Holiday, countertenor
Stuart Jackson, tenor
José Coca Loza, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Steven Banks, saxophone*
FRANCK Le Chasseur maudit
TOMASI Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4

Jonathan Cohen, conductor
Joélle Harvey, soprano
John Holiday, countertenor
Stuart Jackson, tenor
José Coca Loza, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Natacha Diels: What do you Want to See Today?
Rane Moore: new work (premiere)
Marc Mellits: Parking Violation
Mark Applebaum: Aphasia
John Adams: John’s Book of Alleged Dances

Bartok TBA

TBA

Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Karim Sulayman, tenor
Roderick Williams, bass

Robert Duff, Director

Works by Bach, Schein, Mendelssohn, Rheinberger, Whitacre, Lauridsen, Tichelli and contemporary American composers will be included on the program.

Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano
Karim Sulayman, tenor
Roderick Williams, bass

seasonal favorites and evocative choral settings

Handel’s iconic Messiah is a treasured holiday tradition that will be performed by the incomparable Handel & Haydn Society in a special chamber arrangement for 13-member chamber orchestra and chorus led by Associate Conductor Ian Watson.

A Medieval Christmas: Hodie Christus Natus Est features songs to the Virgin Mary, processionals from Saint Martial of Limoges, hymns, lyrics, and miracle ballads, sung in Latin, Old French, Old Provençal, and Saxon, interlaced with Medieval English texts of the Nativity.

Works by Louise Farrenc and Clara Schumann, French Romantic holdout Cécile Chaminade, American pianist and composer Amy Beach, and modernist-turned-folk-revivalist Ruth Crawford Seeger sit alongside works by acclaimed contemporary composers Tania León, Meredith Monk, Phyllis Chen, and Missy Mazzoli.

Jordan Kuspa: Mystery of the Missing Music (2021)
In collaboration with Artbarn Community Theater
Two teen actors

Concerto TBA by Young Artist Competition winner

A Medieval Christmas: Hodie Christus Natus Est features songs to the Virgin Mary, processionals from Saint Martial of Limoges, hymns, lyrics, and miracle ballads, sung in Latin, Old French, Old Provençal, and Saxon, interlaced with Medieval English texts of the Nativity.

Bach: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1003
Paganini: Caprice No. 10 in G minor
Du Yun: Under a Tree, an Udatta for Violin and Tape
Shirish Korde: Svara Yantra (2006)
Wolfgang von Schweinitz: Plainsound Etude (2013-14)

NEC students perform orchestral music from the Baroque period.

FREE

Bach: “Herr, ein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen” from Christmas Oratorio
Bach: “Nur ein Wink von seinen Händen” from Christmas Oratorio
Bach: “Grosser Herr” from Christmas Oratorio
Charpentier: Noels pour les instruments
Scarlatti: Cantata pastorale per la Nativita do Signore Gesu Christo
Corelli: Christmas Concerto
Telemann: Trumpet Sonata in D Major

Ian Watson, director
Teresa Wakim, soprano
David McFerrin, baritone
H+H Orchestra

Holiday music from around the world and—of course—the city’s best opportunity for carol sing-alongs!

Music Director Finalist and Guest Conductor
Stephen Spinelli

Mozart | String Quintet No. 6 in E-flat Major, K. 614
Schubert | String Quintet in C Major, D. 956, Op. posth.

music of Monteverdi, Gabrieli, Cipriano, Marenzio and many more.

Ferrer Ferran, Cinephonics Overture
Scott McAllister, Popcopy
John Williams / arr. Hunsberger, Star Wars Trilogy

FREE

Young Artist Concerto Competition
Debussy – Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Nielsen: Symphony Nº 4 Op. 29 Inextinguishable

Sven-David Sandström: Messiah (2009)
Cantata Singers
Noah Horn, Music Director (co-conductor)
Four vocal soloists TBD

Florence Price – String Quartet No. 1 in G Major
Movement II – Andante Moderato
(arr. by Peter Stanley Martin 2020
Golijov – Azul
Allison Eldridge, Cello Soloist
Respighi – Pines of Rome

a walking tour through Forest Hills Cemetery featuring music and stories inspired by its many remarkable environments. In collaboration with master story-teller Diane Edgecomb,