Performance Calendar

Karim Sulayman and Sean Shibe, two fascinating artists with wide-ranging performance interests and big ideas, come together for a beautifully eclectic recital that examines the relationship between the East and the West. The program brings together 16th- and 17th-century Italian and English works; traditional Sephardic and Arab-Andalusian songs; Benjamin Britten’s settings of translated poems, Songs from the Chinese; 20th-century and contemporary compositions; and more.   

Molly Tuttle, praised for her "expressive, crystalline voice and astounding flat-picking guitar skills" (Rolling Stone Country), is a standout in roots music's new generation and the first woman to be named Guitar Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. She and her band Golden Highway return to Berklee Performance Center for the first time as headliners! Singer-songwriter Jobi Riccio supports.

Violinist Chelsey Green makes a return to the Series (and a Neighborhood Arts debut) with her quartet for an afternoon of electrifying and innovative jazz that will make you hear the violin and viola in a whole new way!

Lakecia Benjamin, voted Rising Star Alto Saxophonist in the 2020 DownBeat Critics Poll and selected among 2020’s “25 for the Future” by the same publication, fuses traditional conceptions of jazz, hip hop, and soul to create electrifyingly danceable grooves.  

Castle of our Skins, nationally renowned collective dedicated to Black musical artistry, celebrates the holiday season with Brian Rapahael Nabors’ Kwanzaa Suite, as well as chamber music with African roots and Pan-African ideals. 

From 2022: A six-piece band led by Malian percussionist Balla Kouyaté and cellist Mike Block comes together to create a program of joyous, effervescent music that blends West African beats and vocals with bluegrass, funk, and rock.

Armenian violinist Diana Adamyan is quickly gaining an international reputation as one of her generation’s most outstanding violinists. After winning First Prize at the 2018 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, the world’s most prestigious prize for young violinists, she went on to receive First Prize in the 2020 Khachaturian International Competition. Adamyan takes the Pickman Hall stage alongside Boston-based pianist Renana Gutman, a faculty member at Longy School of Music, for her Boston recital debut. 

Our Stringfest concerts give young strings players the chance to learn from and perform alongside top professional musicians.  

Violin and viola innovator Chelsey Green, a jazz virtuoso and committed music educator, and her quartet share a program of jazz, funk, pop, and more with talented young players from local string ensembles. Green, an Associate Professor at Berklee, enjoys a busy career as a performer and academic. 

Chelsey Green and her Quartet also appear this season in concert at Roxbury Community College’s Media Arts Center on November 18. 

Acclaimed pianist and author Jeremy Denk curates a program that unites female composers across the centuries, telling a story of women’s genius, whether celebrated, neglected, remembered, or forgotten. He lends his insight, technical panache, and uniquely expressive style to this era-spanning program. 

Armenian violinist Diana Adamyan is quickly gaining an international reputation as one of her generation’s most outstanding violinists. After winning First Prize at the 2018 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, the world’s most prestigious prize for young violinists, she went on to receive First Prize in the 2020 Khachaturian International Competition. Adamyan takes the Pickman Hall stage alongside Boston-based pianist Renana Gutman, a faculty member at Longy School of Music, for her Boston recital debut.