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A green-eyed, brown-haired white woman. She smiles slightly and wears jeans, a brown suede jacket, and a green-blue wool sweater.

Hélène Grimaud, piano (Boston, MA)

French pianist Hélène Grimaud enjoys a busy and varied career on the world’s concert stages as an orchestral soloist, a chamber music partner, and a solo recitalist. Her combination of sheer strength and power tempered by her interpretive subtlety and technical control makes her an impressive pianist in any setting. 

Grimaud’s Boston-area recital debut shows off her expressive skills and technical control: the many moods and the brilliant variations heard in Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 30, the colors and soulfulness of Brahms’ late piano works, the pyrotechnics of Busoni’s transcription of Bach’s Chaconne. 

Saturday Jan. 20
NEC's Jordan Hall
8:00pm
Ticketed, Current Season, NEC's Jordan Hall, Solo Pianist, Classical Music
A green-eyed, brown-haired white woman. She smiles slightly and wears jeans, a brown suede jacket, and a green-blue wool sweater.

Hélène Grimaud, piano (Groton Hill, MA)

French pianist Hélène Grimaud enjoys a busy and varied career on the world’s concert stages as an orchestral soloist, a chamber music partner, and a solo recitalist. Her combination of sheer strength and power tempered by her interpretive subtlety and technical control makes her an impressive pianist in any setting. 

Grimaud’s Boston-area recital debut shows off her expressive skills and technical control: the many moods and the brilliant variations heard in Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 30, the colors and soulfulness of Brahms’ late piano works, the pyrotechnics of Busoni’s transcription of Bach’s Chaconne. 

Sunday Jan. 21
Meadow Hall - Groton Hill Music Center
3:00pm
Ticketed, Current Season, Meadow Hall - Groton Hill Music Center, Solo Pianist, Classical Music
Fifteen men in blue suits hold their instruments standing shoulder to shoulder

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis 

Max Roach Centennial Celebration

Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra pay tribute to one of the greats when they celebrate the centennial of drummer Max Roach. Roach, a pioneering legend and innovative master musician and bandleader, spanned a diverse range of styles and influenced generations to follow with his artistry and his commitment to activism. 

Sunday Jan. 28
Symphony Hall
5:00pm
Ticketed, Current Season, Symphony Hall, Jazz
Crowned with a halo of tangled wire, a black woman in a metallic copper bell-sleeved dress floats her arms away from her sides. Her expression is enigmatic but wary, her makeup metallic and theatrical

Cécile McLorin Salvant 

Brilliant jazz vocalist, composer, and lyricist Cécile McLorin Salvant weaves a tale of women’s secrecy under the male gaze in her latest project, Mélusine. Salvant takes as her inspiration the European folk legend of Mélusine, the woman cursed to spend one day each week as a half-snake. Experience the profound vision of a major talent with this fascinating song cycle from one of today’s most acclaimed singers in any genre. 

Friday Feb. 2
Sanders Theatre
8:00pm
Ticketed, Current Season, Sanders Theatre, Vocal Music, Jazz

What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow, featuring A Far Cry 

Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings 

Rob Kapilow, with the assistance of Boston’s self-conducted chamber orchestra A Far Cry, explores Tchaikovsky’s sweeping Serenade for Strings in the context of Tchaikovsky’s life and career. He unpacks and illustrates some of Tchaikovsky’s compositional choices and provides illuminating biographical and historical context about the composer, and how he negotiated the various political and artistic movements of his time.  

Saturday Feb. 3
NEC's Jordan Hall
8:00pm
Ticketed, Current Season, NEC's Jordan Hall, Classical Music, Spoken Word

Digital Concert: What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow, featuring A Far Cry 

Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings 

Rob Kapilow, with the assistance of Boston’s self-conducted chamber orchestra A Far Cry, explores Tchaikovsky’s sweeping Serenade for Strings in the context of Tchaikovsky’s life and career. He unpacks and illustrates some of Tchaikovsky’s compositional choices and provides illuminating biographical and historical context about the composer, and how he negotiated the various political and artistic movements of his time.  

Monday Feb. 5
Virtual Concert
8:00pm
Ticketed, Upcoming Season, Virtual Concert, Classical Music, Spoken Word
A white man with round glasses in a blue suit in front of a blue background rests an elbow on the top of a piano, his fist at his temple and his other hand idly playing the keys without looking.

Víkingur Ólafsson, piano 

Goldberg Variations

Drawing out the underlying structures and illuminating extraordinary moments, Víkingur Ólafsson reflects and refracts well-known works to make us hear them in new ways. With its rigorous form and opportunities for flights of virtuosic expression, what will this suite become in the hands of one of Bach’s most innovative and thoughtful interpreters? Let’s find out together.  

Saturday Feb. 10
NEC's Jordan Hall
8:00pm
Ticketed, Current Season, NEC's Jordan Hall, Solo Pianist, Classical Music
A string quartet, with two older male members who are white, and two younger members, a man and a woman of East Asian descent. They all smile warmly, in a mountain valley landscape, and hold their instruments.

Takács Quartet 

The Takács Quartet are renowned around the world for their elegant, incisive accounts of the classic quartet repertoire and for their appetite for new music. Their program for this engagement offers two notable nineteenth-century string quartets alongside a new work and Celebrity Series co-commission from violist and composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama. 

Friday Feb. 16
NEC's Jordan Hall
8:00pm
Ticketed, Current Season, NEC's Jordan Hall, Classical Music

Digital Concert: Takács Quartet 

The Takács Quartet are renowned around the world for their elegant, incisive accounts of the classic quartet repertoire and for their appetite for new music. Their program for this engagement offers two notable nineteenth-century string quartets alongside a new work and Celebrity Series co-commission from violist and composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama. 

Sunday Feb. 18
Virtual Concert
8:00pm
Ticketed, Current Season, Virtual Concert, Classical Music
A young Black sits on the edge of a stone bench, his elbows resting on his knees and his hands crossed. He wears a soft blue collared shirt..

Justin Austin, baritone 

Howard Watkins, piano 

Praised in Opera News as “a gentle actor and elegant musician” and in The Wall Street Journal for his “mellifluous baritone,” vocalist Justin Austin is quickly making a name for himself on opera, oratorio, musical theatre, and concert stages around the United States and Europe. Austin’s beautifully “burnished” (The New York Times) baritone voice and compelling stage presence make this recital a can’t-miss Boston debut from a young artist who is rapidly scaling the heights of the operatic world. 

Wednesday Feb. 21
Longy's Pickman Hall - Longy's Edward M. Pickman Hall
7:30pm
Ticketed, Current Season, Longy's Pickman Hall - Longy's Edward M. Pickman Hall, Vocal Music, Classical Music
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Church of the Holy Spirit
Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre
GBH Calderwood Studio
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Meadow Hall at Groton Hill Music Center
More Than Words
Multicultural Arts Center
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