The latest news on performances of Classical Music in Boston.
New England Conservatory Announces Winter-Spring 2023 Concerts Featuring Expansive Programming Across Genres
by A.A. Cristi - February 01, 2023
New England Conservatory (NEC) announces an expansive winter-spring season of performances, featuring a diverse roster of ensembles and programming. Ensembles large and small perform in NEC's world-class venues, including Jordan Hall and the Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre. ...
Boston Symphony Orchestra Announces 2023 Tanglewood Season Featuring World Premieres, BSO Commissions & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 01, 2023
The 85th Tanglewood season will offer audiences a wide range of programs and events that spotlight favorite guest artists and repertoire, while introducing dynamic new performers, conductors, and composers, with 48 artists in their Tanglewood or BSO debuts, and works by 28 living composers, includin...
Boston Symphony Orchestra Appoints Ed Gazouleas To Head The Tanglewood Music Center For Summer 2023
by A.A. Cristi - January 26, 2023
The Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) will be led this summer by Ed Gazouleas, a longtime TMC faculty member, a former member of the Boston Symphony, and Provost at the Curtis Institute of Music. The announcement was made this week by Jeffrey Dunn, the BSO's interim Eunice an...
Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra To Premiere 242 Year-Old Work In Upcoming Concert
by A.A. Cristi - January 23, 2023
The Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra will perform the United States premiere a composition written in 1781 by Marianna Martines, a student of Franz Joseph Haydn. Martines work is the overture to her oratorio 'Isacco.' This edition by the Philharmonic Orchestra's Music Director Orlando Cela aims to p...
Peterborough Players to Present Live Simulcast of the Met's FEDORA This Week
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 12, 2023
You won't want to miss Fedora via live simulcast at the Peterborough Players on Saturday, January 14th. Tickets are on sale now!...
Boston Baroque Closes 50th Season with March Concert and April Opera
by A.A. Cristi - January 11, 2023
Boston Baroque concludes its 50th season with two programs in March and April. First, Boston Baroque presents two works by Mozart—his “Jupiter” Symphony No. 41 and the Sinfonia concertante featuring soloists Christina Day Martinson, violin, and Jason Fisher, viola. Finally, the season comes to...
Concord Women's Chorus Welcomes New Singers to Open Rehearsals and Auditions
by A.A. Cristi - January 06, 2023
Concord Women's Chorus (CWC), fostering the power of women's voices in song, invites new singers to join its ensemble at “Open Rehearsals” on Tuesday, January 17, 9:30 am, and Tuesday, January 24, 9:30 am, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 81 Elm Street, Concord. Artistic Director and Conductor Jan...
The Danish String Quartet to Present 20th Anniversary US Winter Tour
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 20, 2022
The Danish String Quartet, celebrating its 20th Anniversary season, will return to the U.S. for one week—January 22-29—with stops in Santa Fe, NM, Portland, OR, Wheaton, IL (west of Chicago), Boston, MA, Albany, NY, and Ridgewood, NJ. ...
Three Guest Conductors Open The New Year Of Boston Symphony Subscription Concerts At Symphony Hall
by A.A. Cristi - December 15, 2022
Three guest conductors will open the New Year of BSO subscription concerts. Midori makes a welcome return to BSO subscription concerts—her first since 2003—performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto under the direction of Omer Meir Wellber, who leads the BSO for the first time....
Steven Mackey's CONCERTO FOR CURVED SPACE Premieres In Boston
by A.A. Cristi - December 08, 2022
On January 26-28, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Steven Mackey's Concerto for Curved Space, co-commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra....
Woodwindist/Composer Josh Sinton Embarks On 10-City Tour This December
by A.A. Cristi - November 29, 2022
Woodwindist, composer and creative musician Josh Sinton caps off an extraordinarily productive and busy year with a 10-city tour, Thursday, December 1 – Sunday, December 18. Performances include stops in New York City; Baltimore, MD; Cary, NC; Richmond, VA; Knoxville, TN; Ath...
Lowell Chamber Orchestra's December Performance to Contemplate Immigration, History And Ellis Island
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 21, 2022
Like all Lowell Chamber Orchestra concerts, the performance is free and open to the public, and will take place on: Saturday, December 17, 2022, 7:30 p.m., at Middlesex Community College's Richard and Nancy Donahue Academic Arts Center....
Boston Baroque Publishes Editions, Cadenzas, & Ornaments By Martin Pearlman
by A.A. Cristi - November 17, 2022
Boston Baroque will add to its Resource Library five performing and critical editions, as well as cadenzas and ornamentation for various works, all created by Founding Music Director Martin Pearlman. These additions to the Resource Library represent a significant contribution to the early music fiel...
Concord Women's Chorus Presents SONGS OF PEACE AND PROMISE Concert
by A.A. Cristi - November 09, 2022
Concord Women's Chorus (CWC), fostering the power of women's voices in song, presents the holiday season concert “Songs of Peace and Promise,” on Saturday, December 17, 4 pm, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 81 Elm Street, Concord. The performance is conducted by CWC Artistic Director Jane Ring Fr...
The Cape Symphony To Celebrate The Holidays With Annual Concert Tradition Featuring ViVA Trio & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 09, 2022
The Cape Symphony's joyful tradition will kick off the season with six Holiday on the Cape performances on December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, offering a mix of the secular and the sacred, with popular songs, traditional carols, and an exclusive presentation of scenes from The Nutcracker....
Boston Baroque Celebrates The Holidays With Annual Messiah And New Year's Concerts
by A.A. Cristi - November 02, 2022
Boston Baroque's 50th season continues with a return to two programs that have become beloved holiday traditions for many: Handel's Messiah and a New Year's Celebration. This year, audiences near and far will have the opportunity to join Boston Baroque for the holidays, as we welcome both in-person ...
Pilgrim Festival Chorus Presents Joyeux Noël Holiday Concerts
by A.A. Cristi - October 26, 2022
Pilgrim Festival Chorus (PFC), the region's principal community choral ensemble, presents its holiday season concert, “Joyeux Noël,” on Friday, December 2 at 7:30 pm, Saturday, December 3 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, December 4 at 4 pm, at St. Bonaventure Parish, 803 State Road, Plymouth. The chorus...
Boston Symphony Orchestra Announces Special Discount Ticket Options for 2022-23 Season
by Blair Ingenthron - October 16, 2022
The 2022-23 Boston Symphony Orchestra Season scheduled for September 22 through May 6, will feature a variety of special discounted ticket options....
Handel and Haydn Society to Present Handel's MESSIAH in November
by Blair Ingenthron - October 16, 2022
The Handel and Haydn Society will kick off the holiday season with the glorious tradition of performing Handel Messiah at Symphony Hall. Always animated, Václav Luks, artistic director of Prague's Collegium 1704, will conduct the orchestra and chorus for H+H's 169th consecutive year performing the ...
Tanglewood Announces 2022–23 Programming at Linde Center for Music and Learning
by Blair Ingenthron - October 15, 2022
The 2022–23 TLI Season Concert Series will include five Sunday-afternoon chamber music programs performed by Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians and guests and a special appearance by the musicians from Castle of our Skins. ...
Cambridge Composer To Premiere Intricate New Sacred Work In Boston This Month
by A.A. Cristi - October 12, 2022
Longtime Cambridge-based sacred musician and composer Rachel Burckardt, together with Wood Harbor Orchestra, conducted by Elijah Langille, and Mount Auburn Choir, premiere the new sacred work “Mount Auburn, a Requiem in d minor,” on Saturday, October 22, 8 pm, at Saint Cecelia Parish, 18 Belvide...
Fall 2022 BSO NOW Video-On-Demand Programming Includes September Opening Night Concert And More
by A.A. Cristi - October 07, 2022
The two fall concerts featured at the start of the 2022-23 BSO NOW offerings shine a spotlight on piano soloists, one making his BSO debut, the other making a welcome return....
Goethe-Institut Boston to Host Two-Day Symposium on Diversity and Cultural Inclusion in the New Music Canon
by Blair Ingenthron - October 06, 2022
In conjunction with Ensemble Recherche (Freiburg) and Castle of our Skins (Boston), Goethe-Institut Boston will bring together local and international creatives actively working to diversify new music repertoire in Boston, Germany and beyond. Through a mix of virtual and in-person panels, brainstorm...
Violinist Jennifer Koh Replaces Janine Jansen In Performances Of Bernstein's SERENADE, October 6-8
by A.A. Cristi - September 30, 2022
Violinist Janine Jansen has had to withdraw from her upcoming appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, October 6, 7, and 8, at Symphony Hall, due to illness....
Conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada Makes His Boston Symphony Orchestra Debut, October 13–15
by A.A. Cristi - September 29, 2022
On Thursday, October 13, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, October 14, 8 p.m. (Casual Friday); Saturday, October 15, 8 p.m., Emanuel Ax joins the BSO and Andrés Orozco-Estrada as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K.456, on a program with the suite from Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin, and Enescu'...
Boston Symphony Orchestra Launches The Susan W. And Stephen D. Paine BSO Resident Fellowship Program
by A.A. Cristi - September 22, 2022
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has launched the Susan W. and Stephen D. Paine BSO Resident Fellowship Program, a yearlong training and mentorship opportunity for early-career musicians from historically underrepresented backgrounds in American orchestras. ...
Boston Baroque Opens 50th Season With Bach's B Minor Mass
by A.A. Cristi - September 20, 2022
Boston Baroque opens its 50th Season with Bach's beloved Mass in B minor this October. The performance on Saturday, October 15 at 8pm will be held at GBH's Calderwood Studio in Brighton, welcoming live studio audiences on site and virtual audiences around the world via livestream on IDAGIO's Global ...
Los Angeles Philharmonic to Embark on First Tour Since 2019/20 Season, With Performances in New York City & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 19, 2022
The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced full details of its 2022 fall tour led by Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, taking the orchestra to Boston’s Symphony Hall (Oct. 23), New York City’s Carnegie Hall (Oct. 25–26), Mexico City’s Auditorio Nacional (Oct. 28), and culminating at...
Concord Women's Chorus Premieres New Work GROWN WILD in Concert
by A.A. Cristi - September 14, 2022
Concord Women's Chorus (CWC), fostering the power of women's voices in song, premieres a special commission in “Grown Wild,” a choral concert, on Sunday, October 23, 4 pm at Trinity Episcopal Church, 81 Elm Street, Concord. ...
Boston Baroque Founding Music Director Martin Pearlman Awarded Yale's Sanford Medal
by A.A. Cristi - September 13, 2022
Boston Baroque Founding Music Director Martin Pearlman was awarded the Samuel Simons Sanford Medal by the Yale School of Music on September 8, 2022. In his remarks upon receiving the award, Mr. Pearlman noted, “I'm grateful to receive this honor from the Yale School of Music, which was so importan...
Andris Nelsons With The Opening Concert Of The 2022–23 Season On September 22 At Symphony Hall
by A.A. Cristi - September 13, 2022
Andris Nelsons, marking his ninth season as BSO Music Director, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the opening concert of the 2022–23 season on September 22 at Symphony Hall. Pianist Awadagin Pratt appears for the first time with the BSO, performing a work written for him ...
Symphony Hall Will No Longer Require Proof of Vaccination or Negative Test
by Blair Ingenthron - September 11, 2022
When Symphony Hall opens in the coming weeks for a full season of performances and events, visitors will not be required to show proof of vaccination or a negative test result to enter the hall. In addition, masking will be optional, though the use of high-efficiency masks (KN95 or N95 masks) is str...
New England Conservatory Announces Fall Classical Concerts Featuring A World Premiere & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 01, 2022
New England Conservatory has announced an expansive fall season of classical and contemporary music concerts featuring a diverse roster of ensembles and programming. Ensembles large and small perform in NEC's world-class venues, including Jordan Hall and the Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre....
Handel And Haydn Society Presents GLORIES OF BACH
by A.A. Cristi - August 31, 2022
The Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus will showcase the radiant depth of JS Bach's musical genius with Glories of Bach on October 7 + 9, 2022 at Symphony Hall. Jonathan Cohen, founder and artistic director of Arcangelo, will lead the H+H Orchestra, replacing Bernard Labadie who withdrew ...
New England Conservatory's Pioneering Jazz Studies Department Announces 2022-2023 Season
by A.A. Cristi - August 09, 2022
New England Conservatory’s internationally renowned Jazz Studies Department announces its 2022-2023 season with an array of concerts featuring NEC students performing with faculty and guest artists....
Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra Launches 2022-23 Season With QUIET CITY, September 11
by A.A. Cristi - August 04, 2022
Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra (CCCO), the Cape's professional collaborative orchestra, launches its Season Five performances with the concert “Quiet City,” on Sunday, September 11, from 3 to 5 pm at Pilgrim Congregational Church, 533 Rt. 28, Harwich Port. The orchestra is conducted by Founding Musi...
Tickets On Sale Now for Cape Symphony 2022-23 Season Featuring Scarlett Strallen, Dee Roscioli, Hugh Panaro & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 27, 2022
The Cape Symphony has an exciting slate of new performances scheduled for the upcoming 2022-23 season, designed to inspire joy among audiences. Guests at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center will 'tour' Australia with the ongoing Passport series; drop in on the Roaring '20s and the Romantic era; an...
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival Launches 43rd Summer Season
by A.A. Cristi - July 26, 2022
Celebrating its 43rd year, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival launches its 2022 season of concerts next week, with performances spanning August 2 through 19 across Cape Cod. Artistic Directors Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu have programmed a stellar line-up of four top string quartets and six world-cl...
Boston Symphony Orchestra Welcomes Seven New Members
by A.A. Cristi - July 20, 2022
Violinists Jenny Ahn, Sophie Wang, and Takumi Taguchi; clarinetists Christopher Elchico and Andrew Sandwick; cellist Will Chow; and Assistant Librarian Russel Allyn are the newest members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra....
World-Renowned Borromeo String Quartet Performs On Cape Cod, August 17
by A.A. Cristi - July 20, 2022
Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival's 43rd season features the long-awaited return appearance of Borromeo String Quartet, led in concert by the Festival's former Artistic Director Nicholas Kitchen, at Dennis Union Church, 713 Main Street, Dennis, on Wednesday, August 17, 5 pm....
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