Performance Calendar

Olivia Pérez-Collellmir is a Boston based pianist, composer, and musical director who adds a Flamenco touch to her chamber jazz. Fusing the Catalan sounds of her hometown, Barcelona, with Flamenco, chamber music elements, and jazz piano, Olivia creates vibrant music that speaks to her heritage and global sounds.

Trumpeter Jason Palmer and pianist Kevin Harris reunite for a set of inventive, shape-shifting duets. Drawing from jazz history and personal chemistry, their performance promises depth, dialogue, and spontaneity built on years of collaboration and mutual respect. This is improvisation at its most responsive and alive. Two voices, one musical conversation.

Bassist and composer Ciara Moser channels her lived experience into a powerful musical statement. Her quartet weaves modern jazz with narrative depth and social purpose, grounded in fearless groove and rich improvisation. Fresh off her acclaimed debut album, Moser brings bold vision, clarity, and heart to this unmissable festival finale.

Celebrated mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, acclaimed for captivating roles in opera houses worldwide, delivers a powerful vocal recital highlighting her rich voice and dramatic presence. Known for portrayals of iconic characters like Nefertiti and Carmen, Bridges enchants listeners with nuanced performances that reveal profound emotional depth, vividly showcasing her command of operatic and recital stages.

Music From The Sole combines exhilarating tap dance with dynamic live music in House is Open, Going Dark, a performance depicting the creative process between musicians and dancers sharing intimate space. Known for their energetic, genre-blurring performances, this ensemble transforms everyday interactions into extraordinary art, providing audiences with an immersive exploration of rhythm, movement, and collaboration.

Music From The Sole combines exhilarating tap dance with dynamic live music in House is Open, Going Dark, a performance depicting the creative process between musicians and dancers sharing intimate space. Known for their energetic, genre-blurring performances, this ensemble transforms everyday interactions into extraordinary art, providing audiences with an immersive exploration of rhythm, movement, and collaboration.

In this What Makes It Great? performance, Celebrity Series favorite Rob Kapilow unpacks the first of the late quartets of Haydn’s Opus 76. He reveals how Haydn playfully subverted expectations and how this quartet encompasses much of what made Haydn great over his long and innovative career. Joining Kapilow is the renowned Balourdet Quartet, fresh off major career milestones, including a 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Music From The Sole combines exhilarating tap dance with dynamic live music in House is Open, Going Dark, a performance depicting the creative process between musicians and dancers sharing intimate space. Known for their energetic, genre-blurring performances, this ensemble transforms everyday interactions into extraordinary art, providing audiences with an immersive exploration of rhythm, movement, and collaboration.

Pianist Yunchan Lim showcases Bach’s Goldberg Variations, highlighting his versatile artistry: he captured the classical music world’s attention with Romantic-era virtuosity and now takes on nuanced Baroque clarity. Don’t miss Yunchan Lim’s Celebrity Series recital debut: be amazed by a young artist who can do it all.

Baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Daniil Trifonov offer a deeply expressive recital featuring one of Schubert’s profound late masterpieces, and an earlier work from the prime of his career. Combining Goerne’s interpretative depth with Trifonov’s fiery pianism, they deliver an emotionally rich performance exploring themes of farewell, introspection, and serenity through moving renditions of Schwanengesang and the G Major Piano Sonata (D. 894), the final piano sonata published in Schubert's lifetime.