Performance Calendar

Boston String Academy players perform Aristides Rivas’ Suite Boricua, orchestrated for strings and percussion.  Cellist Rivas also performs in a trio alongside Venezuelan cuatro innovator Carlos Capacho and harpist Eduardo Betancourt. A Stringfest performance.

The adventurous percussion group Sō Percussion is joined by groundbreaking beatboxer Dominic “Shodekeh” Talifero. The contemporary music program includes a diverse range of repertoire from contemporary “classics” to new works in an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” (The New Yorker). Journey into new worlds of sound with this intriguing collaboration. 

Saxophonist Tim Hall and percussionist and public artist Maria Finkelmeier team up for Finding HOME, a program of self-composed music and improvisations for saxophone and marimba – as well as other percussion, electronics, and poetry – that explores the routes that we take to find home and cultivate community.

Los Angeles-based 2023 Grammy-nominated ensemble Wild Up creates mind-bending and theatrical contemporary music experiences by playing with place, structure, the relation of artist to audience: any aspect of the concert experience is up for reinvention at any time. Led by Founder and Artistic Director Christopher Rountree, the collective at once upholds and spontaneously redefines the notion of a traditional ensemble.

Egyptian soprano Fatma Said, making her United States recital debut, and Spanish guitarist Rafael Aguirre bring diverse, interconnected cultures together to create a sublime and illuminating experience that you won’t want to miss. Said’s partnership with Aguirre brings a cross-cultural flair to this recital, which features Spanish, Egyptian, and Lebanese songs, as well as selections from Brazil.

Yasmin Williams is an acoustic fingerstyle guitarist with an unorthodox, modern style of playing. Her style utilizes various techniques including alternate tunings, percussive hits, and lap tapping. Williams’ music is rich and harmonious, while “challenging widespread preconceptions about the music made by young Black people or acoustic guitars” (Washington Post).

Hub New Music celebrates its tenth anniversary with new works by Angélica Negrón and Jessica Meyer as well as "Amid the Noise," a youth participation piece by percussionist Jason Treuting. The program also includes "Scenes from Surreality," a work by Boston-based erhu player and violinist Shaw Pong Liu that was originally commissioned for Neighborhood Arts.

Audiences know pianist Craig Taborn for his versatility as a leader, a soloist, and a sideman in dozens of bands and his brilliance as an improvisor in any number of musical contexts, from straight-ahead jazz to electro-acoustic sound collage. For twenty-five years, he’s continued to push the boundaries of composition and improvisation in jazz, new music, electronic, rock, noise, and more. 

Egyptian soprano Fatma Said, making her United States recital debut, and Spanish guitarist Rafael Aguirre bring diverse, interconnected cultures together to create a sublime and illuminating experience that you won’t want to miss. Said’s partnership with Aguirre brings a cross-cultural flair to this recital, which features Spanish, Egyptian, and Lebanese songs, as well as selections from Brazil.

David Sedaris has shared his life with us and made us laugh for decades. From the absurdist adventures of his early career to his wry and devastating recent examinations of aging, family, and mortality, his essays, diaries, and bestselling books have reflected his expansive curiosity, relentless powers of observation, and cheerful misanthropy.