Performance Calendar

Members of Boston's Castle of our Skins artist collective -- dedicated to advancing Black artistry through music and related performance -- team with youth ensembles from City Strings United, Boston Citywide String Orchestra, and Boston String Academy in the latest in our Stringfest series.

Vocalist and Cuatro player Fabiola Méndez leads her trio -- featuring Juan Maldonado on bass and Miguel Martínez on percussion -- in a set of Latin jazz and Puerto Rican-inspired originals with a modern twist.

Castle of our Skins -- a collective of artists of all kinds dedicated to advancing Black artistry through music -- remembers Dr. King's legacy and his complicated life, and presents the most-performed works of two essential 20th-century American composers. Daniel Bernard Roumain's String Quartet No. 2 ("King") is a meditation on the recordings of phone calls between King and his mistresses and the women's roles in shaping the Civil Rights Movement. George Walker's Lyric for Strings is a poignant navigation of the space between pain and hope dedicated to Walker's memories of his grandmother, who had been enslaved. Her grandson grew up to be the first Black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music and emerged as one of the most-honored American composers of the late 20th century.

Violinist Alyssa Wang, heard most recently on the Series in her work with Hub New Music, shares a program of solo works from her home.

Quartet Kalos features a roster of artists whose lives have intertwined in unique ways - from tours abroad, to schooling, summer workshops, and Midwestern roots. The ensemble will present a program of self-composed works paired with folk music arrangements and commissioned works, offering joyful and reflective songs for their unique instrument combination: marimba, clarinet, cello, and voice.

Hub New Music returns to Celebrity Series at Home with a program entitled "Listening Local," featuring five world premieres by Shaw Pong Liu, Eric Nathan, Natalie Diettrich, Molly Herron, and Dai Wei.

It's an unlikely pairing of instruments -- a harp and a vibraphone -- but the extraordinary duo of Charles Overton and Julian Loida make it work so well. The two are frequent collaborators, and they weave their ethereal sounds together in music that crosses and combines styles: ambient, jazz, world, classical, and much more.

Boston-based Guy Mendilow -- whose musical explorations range around the world, from the Ladino music of the Sephardic Jewish Diaspora, to China, South Africa, and beyond -- presents an evening of videos that will include a virtual adaptation of "The Forgotten Kingdom" with sand animation, along with new videos and live recordings from his Ensemble.

Women of the World -- four vocalists from around the globe who come together in friendship and music-making -- return to the Series for a performance that celebrates the beauty in the diverse ways that people from cultures all over the world express themselves through song.

Join Neighborhood Arts favorite, Verónica Robles, and her all-female mariachi band as they celebrate Mexico’s national holiday commemorating the nation’s victory over the French at Puebla in 1862. Veronica brings her all-female mariachi band for a lively evening of music and song from this rich Mexican tradition.