Performance Calendar

Featuring the world premiere of a Solo(s) Together work by Daniel Bernard Roumain, this performance by a Castle of our Skins quartet also offers small-ensemble works by Black composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Digital concert will be available until December 20, 2022.

Groundbreaking cuatro virtuoso Fabiola Méndez returns to the Series with her latest project, her sextet from her recent album Afrorriqueña. The music pays tribute to the African influences in Puerto Rican culture, and the performance begins with Negrura, a short film by Fabiola Méndez.

Traka, the newest work from Cambridge-based Haitian choreographer Jean Appolon, means "Troubles" in Haitian Creole and explores how dance, community, and culture are pathways to healing. Appolon partners with composer and turntablist Val Jeanty, who provides the rhythmic foundation for this heartfelt and thought-provoking work.

Harpist Charles Overton returns to Celebrity Series alongside violinist Lucia Lin for the world premiere of the latest installment of Lin's In Tandem commissioning and performance project that aims to break down color barriers in classical music and create opportunities for young fans and young musicians to encounter contemporary music that speaks to them.

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.

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.

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.

Don’t miss BeatSong, a soprano and percussion duo founded in 2015 by Sonja Tengblad and Jonathan Hess that creates and performs works that celebrate an unlikely pairing: soprano and percussion.

Cuban flutist, composer, conductor, and bandleader Sheila del Bosque Fuentes appears with her quartet at Arlington Street Church, in partnership with Ágora Cultural Architects.

Chilean tenor saxophonist Patricia Zárate Pérez and her quintet will perform selections from their debut album, "Violetas," a vibrant record that evokes Zárate Pérez’ travels around the world and the colorful characters she has encountered.