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Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 10:30 am
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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Friday, April 19, 2024 at 1:30 pm
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Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:00 pm
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Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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  • Boston Public Quartet (V) presents
  • Les Bonnes Chansons
  • Location: Various Boston-area locations
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • The Strand Theater, 543 Columbia Ave., Boston

    A Radical Welcome, a concert with music and dance, including On the Impulse to Move by Lavell Blackwell, with original choreography by Liana C. Percoco; Strum by Jessie Montgomery; and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Piano Quintet in G minor.


Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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Friday, April 19, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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  • Boston Early Music Festival (SPC) (617-661-1812) presents
  • Stile Antico
  • Location: St. Paul’s Church, 29 Mount Auburn St
  • Tickets: here
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  • A Divine Hope: Dante’s journey from inferno to paradise

    Tomás Luís de Victoria: Eram quasi agnus
    Nicolas Gombert: Media vita in morte sumus
    Luzzasco Luzzaschi: Quivi sospiri pianited alti guai
    Francisco Guerrero: Vexilla regis
    Victoria: Te lucis ante terminum
    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestringa: Salve Regina a 5
    Claudio Merulo: Salvum fac populum tuum a 12
    Cristóbal de Morales: Agnus Dei from Missa Mille Regretz
    Orlande de Lassus: Beati pauperes spiritu
    Morales: Asperges me
    Anonymous: Venite a laudere
    Merulo: Vergine, madre, figlia del tuo
    Vicente Lusitano: Regina Caeli a 5
    Giovanni Gabrieli: Magnificat a 12
    with excerpts from Dante’s Divine Comedy


Friday, April 19, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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Friday, April 19, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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  • Musicians of the Old Post Road (OSC) presents
  • Earth: Rustic Classical
  • Location: Old South Church, 645 Boylston St.
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • chamber music with a Bohemian flair for flute and strings, including a flute quartet by Gyrowetz, a nocturne for string trio by Brandl, a flute quintet by Lidl, lively Hungarian dances, and a period arrangement of Mozart’s Rondo alla Turca.


Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 2:00 pm
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 4:00 pm
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  • A Far Cry (617-553-4887) presents
  • Animal Banter
  • Location: St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1 Roanoke Ave.
  • Tickets: here
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  • Dinuk Wijeratne | Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems: 1. “A Letter from the After-life”
    Jessica Meyer | Getting Home (I must be…)
    Caroline Shaw | Punctum
    Eleanor Alberga | Animal Banter
    Errollyn Wallen | Music for Tigers
    Reena Esmail | Zeher (poison)
    Jessica Meyer | Slow Burn
    Gonzalo Grau | Five-legged Cat
    Vijay Iyer | Dig the Say


Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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  • MIT Music Department (KR) ((617) 253-3210) presents
  • MIT Wind Ensemble 25th Anniversary Concert
  • Location: Kresge Auditorium, 48 Mass. Ave
  • Tickets: here
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  • This special event features two works commissioned by MITWE (Awakening by Jamshied Sharifi ’83, and Reminiscence by Kathryn Salfelder), Rubies by Institute Professor Emeritus John Harbison, Evan Ziporyn, from his celebrated Pop Channel recording, and the MITWE flute section will perform Vincenzo Sorrentino’s Settimino.


Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Boston (FC)
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  • Chameleon Arts Ensemble (617-427-8200) presents
  • Shadows, Canons, Veils
  • Location: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St
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  • Rebecca Clarke, Midsummer Moon for violin & piano
    Serge Arcuri, Les furieuses enluminures for flute, clarinet, piano & string quartet
    Beethoven, Quintet in E-flat Major for piano & winds,
    Thomas Adès, Les baricades mistérieuses for clarinet, bass clarinet, viola, cello & double bass
    Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 57


Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 10:00 am
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 1:30 pm
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  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (617 278 5156) presents
  • Castle of Our Skins
  • Location: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Fenway
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  • David Baker – “Roots II” piano trio (1992)
    Trevor Weston – “Eurythmy Variations” for solo piano
    Shelley Washington – “Middleground” String Quartet
    Hannah Kendall – “Network Bed” for piano quartet (2018)
    Brian Raphael Nabors – new piano quintet (2024)


Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 2:00 pm
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 2:00 pm
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  • Sebastian Baverstam (V) presents
  • Baverstamiade
  • Location: Various Boston-area locations
  • Tickets: here
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  • with pianist Constantine Finehouse and violinst Jean Huang,

    Baverstam debuts his original and recently written chamber works for piano trio. Violins recital hall at Johnston Strings.

    $65 includes one “Settling Old Scores” album and light refreshments.


Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 3:00 pm
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  • Guerilla Opera (V) presents
  • Celebrating LGBTQ+ Stories
  • Location: Various Boston Area locations
  • Tickets: here
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  • Bully Boy Distillers, 44 Cedric Street, Boston,

    Guerilla Opera gives reading of the libretto of “The Windows, “a new opera features music by Elizabeth Gartman and libretto by Susan Bywater. Food and open bar. Pay what you can and bring up to 3 additional friends.


Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 3:00 pm
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 3:00 pm
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  • Boston Chamber Music Society (JH) presents
  • Chamber Music
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • DEBUSSY Caprices en blanc et noir for Two Pianos, L. 134
    Paul SCHOENFIELD Café Music (1986)
    SCHOENBERG Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (1912)


Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 4:00 pm
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 4:00 pm
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  • Chameleon Arts Ensemble (617-427-8200) presents
  • Shadows, Canons, Veils
  • Location: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St
  • additional information
  • Rebecca Clarke, Midsummer Moon for violin & piano
    Serge Arcuri, Les furieuses enluminures for flute, clarinet, piano & string quartet
    Beethoven, Quintet in E-flat Major for piano & winds,
    Thomas Adès, Les baricades mistérieuses for clarinet, bass clarinet, viola, cello & double bass
    Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in g minor, Op. 57


Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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  • Collage New Music (KH) presents
  • Conccet
  • Location: Killian Hall, MIT
  • Tickets: here
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  • Len Tetta, New Work (World Premiere)
    Donal Fox, New Work (50th Anniversary Commission
    Michael Gandolfi, New Work (50th Anniversary Commission; World Premiere
    Mark DeVoto, New England Verses (2019; World Premiere)
    Steven Mackey, Micro-Concerto (2009)

    Tony Arnold, soprano
    Pre-concert Talk at 7:00 pm


Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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  • Celebrity Series (SH) presents
  • Bamberg Symphony, Jakub Hrůša, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Wagner | Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin
    Brahms | Symphony No. 3
    Schumann | Piano Concerto
    Lukáš Vondráček, piano
    Wagner | Overture to Tannhäuser


Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 7:00 pm
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Chamber Singers
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • The NEC Chamber Singers and Symphonic Choir givet their final concert of the 2023-24 academic year, conducted by Erica J. Washburn,


Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Thomas Rolfs, trumpet

    Sofia GUBAIDULINA Prologue for Orchestra
    Detlev GLANERT Trumpet Concerto
    PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 4


Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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  • Boston Baroque (HT) presents
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni
  • Location: Huntington Theater
  • Tickets: here
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  • The world-renown cast features the return of Susanna Phillips to the Boston Baroque stage, company debuts for Patrick Carfizzi and Michelle Bradley, and a role debut for Sidney Outlaw. Boston Baroque will perform the original Prague version of Mozart’s opera, 38 years after performing the American period instrument premiere of the work in 1986.


Friday, April 26, 2024 at 12:00 pm
in Medford
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Friday, April 26, 2024 at 1:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Thomas Rolfs, trumpet

    Sofia GUBAIDULINA Prologue for Orchestra
    Detlev GLANERT Trumpet Concerto
    PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 4


Friday, April 26, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Baroque (HT) presents
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni
  • Location: Huntington Theater
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • The world-renown cast features the return of Susanna Phillips to the Boston Baroque stage, company debuts for Patrick Carfizzi and Michelle Bradley, and a role debut for Sidney Outlaw. Boston Baroque will perform the original Prague version of Mozart’s opera, 38 years after performing the American period instrument premiere of the work in 1986.


Friday, April 26, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Chestnut Hill
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  • Seraphim Singers (CR) presents
  • exploration of the stars and planets
  • Location: Church of the Redeemer, 379 Hammond St
  • Tickets: here
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  • Organist Peter Sykes will perform his transcription of Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets. Between the movements of Holst’s work choral pieces will illuminate a glorious journey through the heavens.
    Plus
    Timothy Takach’s Helios
    Robert Schumann: An die Sterne longs
    Elliott GygerWie schön leuchtet die Morgenstern Patricia Van Ness: Starsby


Friday, April 26, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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  • Boston Philharmonic (SH) (617.236.0999) presents
  • RAVEL / BERG / MAHLER
  • Location: Symphony Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • MOZART: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 24 IN C MINOR
    BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 9

    BENJAMIN ZANDER, CONDUCTOR
    ALESSANDRO DELJAVAN, PIANO


Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 1:00 pm
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  • BU School of Music (SH) presents
  • Boston University Symphony Orchestra & Symphonic Chorus
  • Location: Symphony Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Benjamin Britten – Four Sea Interludes
    Ēriks Ešenvalds – War – A Soldier’s Grave,
    Vaughan Williams – Dona nobis pacem,
    Elgar – Enigma Variations Symphony Orchestra


Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Newton
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Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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  • Boston Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Andris Nelsons, conductor
  • Location: Symphony Hall Boston
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  • Thomas Rolfs, trumpet

    Sofia GUBAIDULINA Prologue for Orchestra
    Detlev GLANERT Trumpet Concerto
    PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 4


Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 10:00 am
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Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 2:30 pm
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Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 3:00 pm
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  • Palaver Strings (Various) presents
  • Between Us with Attacca Quartet
  • Tickets: here
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  • Themes of togetherness and collective vision, in the natural world.

    Caroline Shaw’s Plan & Elevation
    Paul Wiancko’s Only Ever Us
    Under the Sea Wind, by Dana Lyn and Kyle Sanna
    Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings,


Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Milton
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  • Milton Community Concerts presents
  • Celebrating LGBTQ+ Stories
  • Location: First Parish of Milton, 535 Canton Avenue
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  • musical theater favorites, jazz standards, concert
    songs, arias, and cabaret songs by LGBTQ+
    composers. Featured singers Alexis Peart,
    Morgan Mastrangelo, Nick Fahrenkrug, and
    Michael Alexander Aoun, with Joel Clemens,
    dancers Michael Winward and Holly Stone,
    and pianist Timothy Steele. Benefiting Transgender Emergency Fund

    “Donate” at the door $20 general, $10 seniors, free under 18


Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 3:00 pm
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  • New England Philharmonic (JH) presents
  • A Messiah for Our Time
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Sven-David Sandström: Messiah (2009)
    Cantata Singers
    Noah Horn, Music Director (co-conductor)
    Four vocal soloists TBD


Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Baroque (HT) presents
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni
  • Location: Huntington Theater
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • The world-renown cast features the return of Susanna Phillips to the Boston Baroque stage, company debuts for Patrick Carfizzi and Michelle Bradley, and a role debut for Sidney Outlaw. Boston Baroque will perform the original Prague version of Mozart’s opera, 38 years after performing the American period instrument premiere of the work in 1986.


Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 4:00 pm
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Monday, April 29, 2024 at 2:00 pm
in Newton
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  • Music Monday presents
  • Trio Tableau
  • Location: Scandinavian Cultural Center, 206 Waltham St.
  • Tickets: here
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  • Martinu: Promenades, H.274
    Burleigh: Southland Sketches (1916)
    Bonis: Sonata (1904)
    Rabaud: Andante et Scherzetto, Op. 8
    Gaubert: Médailles Antiques (1916)

    David Houston, flute
    Catherine French, violin
    Joy Phinney, piano


Monday, April 29, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • NEC Symphony
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • NEC Symphony, directed by David Loebel, performs Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, a concerto with one of the winners of the Concerto Competition, and the premiere of a student composition chosen by competition.


Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Boston Area
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  • Nightingale Vocal Ensemble (V) presents
  • Ecliptic
  • Location: Various Boston-area locations
  • Tickets: here
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  • Museum of Science, Charles Hayden Planetarium

    Nightingale Vocal Ensemble and Juventas New Music Ensemble, for ECLIPTIC, a collaboration premier twelve voices, string quartet, and electronics. by Nightingale composers Laura Nevitt, Michal Nissimoff, Nicholas Ford, and Nathan Halbur, as well as Aaron Copland’s epic choral masterpiece, In The Beginning,

    The universe brought to life by the planetarium’s visual team and long-time Nightingale collaborator Chad Dorsey.


Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 7:30 pm
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Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Cambridge
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Friday, May 3, 2024 at 1:30 pm
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Friday, May 3, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • Chamber Music Gala
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • New England Conservatory fills the air with the sounds of piano trios, string quartets, and more, both day and night. Performers include NEC’s faculty of chamber music superstars, and the students coached by these great artists.


Friday, May 3, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Cambridge
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Friday, May 3, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Chestnut Hill
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  • Skylark Ensemble (CR) presents
  • Goodnight Moon
  • Location: Church of the Redeemer
  • Tickets: here
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  • Reflecting on childhood, parenting, and unconditional love with a new commission by celebrated jazz pianist and composer Dan Tepfer, along with Eric Whitacre’s sparkling setting of “Goodnight Moon”.


Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Newton
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Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 3:00 am
in Newton
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Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 10:00 am
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  • Emmanuel Music presents
  • Bach Cantata Series
  • Location: Emmanuel Church of Boston
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  • BWV 137 – Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren
    Commissioned motet premiere – Wallen


Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Joshua Peckins (FCC) presents
  • Season Finale
  • Location: Lindsay Chapel at First Church
  • Tickets: here
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  • Joshua Peckins, Violin
    Eliko Akahori, Piano

    J. Bologne, Sonata in G Minor Op 1a No 3
    L. Boulanger, D’un Matin de Printemps
    Ravel, Deux Mélodies Hébraïques
    Debussy, Violin Sonata
    Saint-Saëns, Violin Sonata no 1 in D Minor Op 75
    Massenet, Meditation from Thaïs


Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Camerata (CC) presents
  • Celestial Visions
  • Location: Church of the Covenant
  • Tickets: here
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  • Wind player and composer Mara Winter will lead Camerata through musings on humankind’s relationship to the universe, the mystery of creation, and the magic of the natural world, sung in all three of medieval Britain’s literary languages: Latin, English and French.


Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Glissando (617-784-2549) presents
  • Music of Vienna
  • Location: First Church, 66 Marlborough St,
  • Tickets: here
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  • Schubert: Six Moments Musicaux, D. 780

    Sergey Schepkin, piano

    Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op. 76 No. 3 (“Emperor”)

    Beethoven: Grosse Fuge in B-flat, Op. 133
    Kroma Quartet: Clayton Hancock, violin; Arun Asthagiri, violin; Nathan Emans, viola; Sophia Knappe, cello


Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 5:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Camerata (CC) presents
  • Celestial Visions
  • Location: Church of the Covenant
  • Tickets: here
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  • The essential role of instruments in the musical fabric of medieval Britain will also featured, with originally composed instrumental monophony performed in the high medieval style, blending playfully from traditional forms of instrumental music that survive today in the British Isles.“We will travel in an arc through each of these visions and allegory to contemplate the role which the natural world plays in representing the celestial spheres at play on Earth,


Monday, May 6, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Boston
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  • New England Conservatory presents
  • First Monday at Jordan Hall
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Brahms | Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, op. 101

    David McCarroll, violin
    Angela Park, cello
    Ieva Jacubaviciute, piano

    Chausson | Concerto in D Major for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21

    Miriam Fried, violin
    Marc-André Hamelin, piano
    Harriet Langley, Amelia Dietrich, violin
    Ramón Carrero-Martínez, viola (Terra String Quartet)
    Audrey Chen, cello (Terra String Quartet)


Friday, May 10, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Back Bay Chorale presents
  • Fragile Freedoms
  • Location: Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard
  • Tickets: here
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  • David Lang: The National Anthems
    Reena Esmail : When the Violin
    Haydn: Missa in Angustiis (Nelson Mass) Hob. XXII/11

    Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
    Christina English, mezzo-soprano
    Deborah Selig, soprano
    Greg Zavracky, tenor
    Caron Daley, Guest Conductor


Friday, May 10, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • A Far Cry presents
  • Perception
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Gubaidulina | Meditation on a Bach Chorale “
    Mozart | Eine kleine Nachtmusik,
    Bartók | Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta,


Friday, May 10, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • A Far Cry presents
  • Animal Banter
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • Gubaidulina | Meditation on “Vor deinen Thron”
    Mozart | Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525
    Bartók | Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta,


Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 7:00 pm
in Arlington
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  • Cantilena presents
  • I Will Be Earth:
  • Location: First Parish Arlington, 630 Mass. Ave
  • Tickets: here
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  • A Girl’s Garden – Randall Thompson (Frost)
    This is the garden – Vincent Persichetti (cummings)
    Les nymphes des bois – Leo Delibes (Nuitter)
    Threaded with Stars – Susan LaBarr (Teasdale)
    Let the River Run – Carly Simon (inspired by Whitman)
    Be Like the Bird – Abbie Betinis (Hugo)
    Bird – Roger Bourland (Alarcon)
    Cocoons – Roger Bourland (Dickinson)
    Songs for Women’s Voices – Gwyneth Walker (Swenson):
    Love is a Rain of Diamonds
    In Autumn
    I Will Be Earth


Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 7:00 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble (FMH) (617-429-0332) presents
  • Birds of a Feather
  • Location: Friends Meeting House
  • Tickets: here
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  • ith a flourishing send-off in the finale of our 25th anniversary year, birds of a feather include Rosenmüller, Reincken, Westhoff, Schmelzer, Scheidt, and Bach, with his sparkling harpsichord concerto in E major.

    With Christina Day Martinson, Megumi Stohs Lewis, violins; Jenny Stirling, viola; Jennifer Morsches, piccolo cello; Timothy Merton, cello; Maggie Cole, harpsichord.


Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Beverly
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  • Cantemus Chamber Chorus presents
  • love is love is love
  • Location: St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 4 Ocean Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • From a new arrangement of “The Parting Glass”… to Bernstein’s “To What You Said” … to Linthicum-Blackhorse’s arrangement of the Lakota lullaby “Chante Waste Hoksila (My Kind-hearted Boy)” … to Joan Szymko’s rousing “It Takes a Village” and more. What the world needs now is love —


Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Longwood Symphony Orchestra presents
  • Transfiguration
  • Location: Jordan Hall
  • Tickets: here
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  • JOTARO NAKANO, MUSIC DIRECTOR
    LONGWOOD CHORUS, DIRECTOR JEREMY FAUST

    BRAHMS Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)
    NINA SHEKHAR Lumina
    STRAUSS Tod und Verklärung
    BEETHOVEN Hallelujah from Christ on the Mount of Olives


Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Musica Sacra presents
  • In Music is Such Art:
  • Location: First Church, Cambridge, MA
  • Tickets: here
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  • Choral Music set to texts of Shakespeare by Th0omsas Morley, Mäntyjärvi, Diemer, Komulainen, Harris, Helldén, Johanson, and Hamilton, Macfarren, Pearsall and Amy Beach.


Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 10:00 am
in Boston
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Civic Symphony presents
  • Francis Noya, conductor
  • Location: Jordan Hall
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  • 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


Sunday, May 12, 2024 at 7:00 pm
in Lexington
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  • Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble presents
  • Birds of a Feather
  • Location: Follen Community Church, 755 Massachusetts Ave
  • Tickets: here
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  • ith a flourishing send-off in the finale of our 25th anniversary year, birds of a feather include Rosenmüller, Reincken, Westhoff, Schmelzer, Scheidt, and Bach, with his sparkling harpsichord concerto in E major.

    With Christina Day Martinson, Megumi Stohs Lewis, violins; Jenny Stirling, viola; Jennifer Morsches, piccolo cello; Timothy Merton, cello; Maggie Cole, harpsichord.


Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 6:30 pm
in Boston
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  • Crescendo Productions (V) presents
  • Musique Francaise
  • Location: Various Boston-area locations
  • Tickets: here
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  • The French Library, 53 Marlborough Street,

    Trio in a minor, Maurice Ravel
    Three pieces for cello and piano, Nadia Boulanger
    Etude, op. 35, no. 2, Cécile Chaminade

    Renee Hemsing (violin), Guy Fishman (cello), Renana Guzman (piano)


Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Radius Ensemble (L) (617.792.7234) presents
  • Epitome
  • Location: Pickman Hall, Longy
  • Tickets: here
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  • CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES – Sonata for violin and viola in B-flat major, Op. Posth
    GEORGE CRUMB – Vox balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for amplified flute, cello, and piano
    STEVE REICH – New York Counterpoint for clarinet and tape
    ELENA RUEHR – Broadway Boogie Woogie premiere


Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 6:30 pm
in Boston Area
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Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 7:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Boston Chorale Ensembler (V) presents
  • Fauré Requiem (Staged)
  • Location: various area locations
  • Tickets: here
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  • Lutheran Church, 1310 Centre St, Newton Centre,

    A fully-staged production of this classic choral work in collaboration with director Patrick Chiu that combines theatrical movement with exquisite choral singing


Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Newron
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  • Orchestra Without Borders (FUU) presents
  • borderlines: east-west
  • Location: First Unitarian Universalist Society of Newton
  • Tickets: here
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  • Luca Antonucci, director
    A Collaboration with Communities Without Borders
    Featuring Hannah Shanefield, Soprano
    Music by Arson Fahim, Odaline de la Martinez, Adolphus Hailstork, and others


Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 7:30 pm
in Jamaica Plain
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  • Apollo Ensemble presents
  • Elias Miller, conductor
  • Location: St. John’s Church, 1 Roanoke Avenue
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  • Julian Gau – A Bridge
    Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending (Aidan Ip, Violin)
    Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”)
    Suggested: $20 General Admission; $10 Student


Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Boston (FC)
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  • Chameleon Arts Ensemble (617-427-8200) presents
  • Water, water, every where
  • Location: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St
  • Tickets: here
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  • Guy Ropartz, Prélude, Marine et Chansons for flute, violin, viola, cello & harp (1928)
    Hanns Eisler, Fourteen Ways to Describe the Rain for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello & piano (1941)
    David Bruce, The Consolation of Rain for oboe, cello, percussion & harp
    Schubert, Quintet in A Major “Trout”


Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 2:00 pm
in 1912 Mass. Ave
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  • Hancock United Church of Christ ((781) 862-4220) presents
  • Forgotten Treasures
  • Location: Hancock United Church of Christ
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  • A Joyful Noyse

    Aria gems from operas staged in 18th-century Hamburg by Handel, Telemann, Keiser, Mattheson, and Graupner, some presented for the first time in the Boston area. Performed on period instruments.

    $15 to support the Hancock Music Program.


Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Newton
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Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 4:00 pm
in Cambridge
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  • Cambridge Community Chorus (K) ((617) 517-3169) presents
  • Spring Concert,
  • Location: Kresge Auditorium, 48 Mass. Ave
  • Tickets: here
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  • Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass
    Daniel Pinkham: Wedding Cantata
    Z. Randall Stroope: Omnia Sol
    With other selections

    Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Traveling Chorus, Director Ivan Stafanov
    Music Director: Pamela Mindell


Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 4:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 4:00 pm
in Boston (FC)
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  • Chameleon Arts Ensemble (617-427-8200) presents
  • Water, water, every where
  • Location: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St
  • Tickets: here
  • additional information
  • Guy Ropartz, Prélude, Marine et Chansons for flute, violin, viola, cello & harp (1928)
    Hanns Eisler, Fourteen Ways to Describe the Rain for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello & piano (1941)
    David Bruce, The Consolation of Rain for oboe, cello, percussion & harp
    Schubert, Quintet in A Major “Trout”


Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 6:30 pm
in Boston Area
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Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in Chestnut HIll
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Saturday, June 8, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Sound Ways (FCB) presents
  • Ivan Gusev & Sergey Voronov, duo pianists
  • Location: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • The Art of the Piano Duo

    Schumann: Andante and Variations, op. 46
    Brahms: Five Waltzes from op. 39
    Ravel: La Valse
    Arensky: Suite No. 2 for 2 pianos, op.23 “Silhouettes”
    Rachmaninov: Suite No. 1 for 2 pianos in G minor, op. 5


Sunday, June 9, 2024 at 3:00 pm
in West Newton
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Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 8:00 pm
in Boston
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  • Sound Ways (FCB) presents
  • The Art of the Piano Duo
  • Location: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street
  • Tickets: here
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  • Alexander Rudin (piano, cello) & Ekaterina Derzhavina (piano)
    The Heart and Soul of Franz Schubert

    Eight Variations on a French Song (“Le bon chevalier”),
    Sonatina in G minor, D. 408 (cello & piano)
    Characteristic March in C major, D. 968b, no. 2
    Rondo in D major, D. 608 (piano 4 hands)
    “Grand Duo” in A major, D. 574 (cello & piano)