through January 5
Baroque Cello and Continuo Bootcamp
Phoebe Carrai, cello; Peter Sykes, keyboards
Start the new year with your best resolution: more Baroque Cello and Continuo! Registration is now open for cellists, bassists, keyboard players and auditors. Apply now! Only 9 Full Participant Slots for Cello/Bass and 5 Full Participant Slots for Keyboard.
Dec. 31 - Jan. 5 at Harvard’s Memorial Church and First Church in Cambridge or Online
Participant (In-person or Online) $450. Auditor (In-person or Online) $225
Register
Phoebe Carrai, cello; Peter Sykes, keyboards
Start the new year with your best resolution: more Baroque Cello and Continuo! Registration is now open for cellists, bassists, keyboard players and auditors. Apply now! Only 9 Full Participant Slots for Cello/Bass and 5 Full Participant Slots for Keyboard.
Dec. 31 - Jan. 5 at Harvard’s Memorial Church and First Church in Cambridge or Online
Participant (In-person or Online) $450. Auditor (In-person or Online) $225
Register
Wednesday, January 1
New Year's Celebration
Boston Baroque with Angela Yam, soprano; David Kravitz, baritone; Aldo Abreu, recorder; Christina Day Martinson, Sarah Darling, violin; Joseph Monticello, flute
Ring in the New Year with us at our annual celebration of music and new beginnings! Music Director Martin Pearlman leads Boston Baroque in a sparkling program featuring Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins with Christina Day Martinson and Sarah Darling, his Coffee Cantata, Vivaldi’s Recorder Concerto in C major with Aldo Abreu, and much more.
3pm - Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
https://baroque.boston/2425-new-years-celebration
Boston Baroque with Angela Yam, soprano; David Kravitz, baritone; Aldo Abreu, recorder; Christina Day Martinson, Sarah Darling, violin; Joseph Monticello, flute
Ring in the New Year with us at our annual celebration of music and new beginnings! Music Director Martin Pearlman leads Boston Baroque in a sparkling program featuring Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins with Christina Day Martinson and Sarah Darling, his Coffee Cantata, Vivaldi’s Recorder Concerto in C major with Aldo Abreu, and much more.
3pm - Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
https://baroque.boston/2425-new-years-celebration
An Evening of Mozart and Beethoven
Daniel Adam Maltz, fortepiano
The Marblehead Arts Association will be hosting Vienna-based pianist Daniel Adam Maltz, who will play the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn on a reproduction fortepiano based on Mozart's own instrument. Daniel studied historical performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Vienna’s University for Music and Performing Arts, and he made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 22. He is stopping in Marblehead as part of a national concert tour. The Aspen Daily News called Maltz, "the foremost player of the fortepiano in the world." This program is generously sponsored by Marblehead Collision, The Mariner, Flatrock Digital, Cleary Insurance, and Mary Stewart/Heather Kaznoski Real Estate.
7pm - Marblehead Arts Association, 8 Hooper Street, Marblehead, MA
$35
https://marbleheadmuseum.org/upcoming-programs-page/
Daniel Adam Maltz, fortepiano
The Marblehead Arts Association will be hosting Vienna-based pianist Daniel Adam Maltz, who will play the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn on a reproduction fortepiano based on Mozart's own instrument. Daniel studied historical performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Vienna’s University for Music and Performing Arts, and he made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 22. He is stopping in Marblehead as part of a national concert tour. The Aspen Daily News called Maltz, "the foremost player of the fortepiano in the world." This program is generously sponsored by Marblehead Collision, The Mariner, Flatrock Digital, Cleary Insurance, and Mary Stewart/Heather Kaznoski Real Estate.
7pm - Marblehead Arts Association, 8 Hooper Street, Marblehead, MA
$35
https://marbleheadmuseum.org/upcoming-programs-page/
Saturday, January 4
Feeling Obbligated: Sonatas for Oboe, Viola da Gamba and Obbligato Keyboard
Newton Baroque: Alison Gangler, oboe, Douglas Kelley, viola da gamba, Andrus Madsen, fortepiano
7:30 pm - Nathaniel Allen House, 35 Webster St., West Newton, MA
https://www.newtonbaroque.org/concerts.html
Newton Baroque: Alison Gangler, oboe, Douglas Kelley, viola da gamba, Andrus Madsen, fortepiano
7:30 pm - Nathaniel Allen House, 35 Webster St., West Newton, MA
https://www.newtonbaroque.org/concerts.html
Sunday, January 5
Feeling Obbligated: Sonatas for Oboe, Viola da Gamba and Obbligato Keyboard
Newton Baroque: Alison Gangler, oboe, Douglas Kelley, viola da gamba, Andrus Madsen, fortepiano
4:00 pm - Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon St., Boston, MA
https://www.newtonbaroque.org/concerts.html
Newton Baroque: Alison Gangler, oboe, Douglas Kelley, viola da gamba, Andrus Madsen, fortepiano
4:00 pm - Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon St., Boston, MA
https://www.newtonbaroque.org/concerts.html
Friday, January 17
Crossing the Deep
Handel + Haydn with Anthony Trecek-King, conductor and co-creator, Reginald Mobley, countertenor and co-creator, Regie Gibson, spoken word artist, Brianna Robinson, soprano, H+H Orchestra and Chorus
Parallel lives, shared stories, and transatlantic musical traditions intertwine in this revelatory choral drama. Premiered by H+H in 2023 to sold-out houses, Crossing the Deepexplores the resonances and juxtapositions between sacred music by Handel and Negro spirituals by enslaved Africans in America, written at the same time and often using the same Biblical texts. “There should be next performances and then some,” raved The Boston Globe, and we’re glad to deliver: Now, we’re inviting even more Bostonians to join us for this one-of-a-kind emotional journey.
7:30pm - NEC's Jordan Hall, Gainsborough St. Boston, MA
https://handelandhaydn.org/concerts/2024-25/crossing-the-deep-2024/
Handel + Haydn with Anthony Trecek-King, conductor and co-creator, Reginald Mobley, countertenor and co-creator, Regie Gibson, spoken word artist, Brianna Robinson, soprano, H+H Orchestra and Chorus
Parallel lives, shared stories, and transatlantic musical traditions intertwine in this revelatory choral drama. Premiered by H+H in 2023 to sold-out houses, Crossing the Deepexplores the resonances and juxtapositions between sacred music by Handel and Negro spirituals by enslaved Africans in America, written at the same time and often using the same Biblical texts. “There should be next performances and then some,” raved The Boston Globe, and we’re glad to deliver: Now, we’re inviting even more Bostonians to join us for this one-of-a-kind emotional journey.
7:30pm - NEC's Jordan Hall, Gainsborough St. Boston, MA
https://handelandhaydn.org/concerts/2024-25/crossing-the-deep-2024/
Sunday, January 19
Daniel: A Medieval Masterpiece Revisited
Boston Camerata
The fiery prophecies of Daniel, young captive in corrupt Babylon, ring forth again. This stunning, contemporary new production by Anne Azéma of the greatest musical play from the French Middle Ages involves lights, movement, urgent poetry, and a sterling cast including seasoned professionals, children, and Longy School of Music of Bard College students, to make 1310 happen again in 2025. Our singers and musicians are supported by Peter Torpey’s deeply evocative lighting and special effects.
2:00pm - Trinity Church, 206 Clarendon St (Copley Square) Boston, MA
https://bostoncamerata.org/performances/
Boston Camerata
The fiery prophecies of Daniel, young captive in corrupt Babylon, ring forth again. This stunning, contemporary new production by Anne Azéma of the greatest musical play from the French Middle Ages involves lights, movement, urgent poetry, and a sterling cast including seasoned professionals, children, and Longy School of Music of Bard College students, to make 1310 happen again in 2025. Our singers and musicians are supported by Peter Torpey’s deeply evocative lighting and special effects.
2:00pm - Trinity Church, 206 Clarendon St (Copley Square) Boston, MA
https://bostoncamerata.org/performances/
Crossing the Deep
Handel + Haydn with Anthony Trecek-King, conductor and co-creator, Reginald Mobley, countertenor and co-creator, Regie Gibson, spoken word artist, Brianna Robinson, soprano, H+H Orchestra and Chorus
Parallel lives, shared stories, and transatlantic musical traditions intertwine in this revelatory choral drama. Premiered by H+H in 2023 to sold-out houses, Crossing the Deepexplores the resonances and juxtapositions between sacred music by Handel and Negro spirituals by enslaved Africans in America, written at the same time and often using the same Biblical texts. “There should be next performances and then some,” raved The Boston Globe, and we’re glad to deliver: Now, we’re inviting even more Bostonians to join us for this one-of-a-kind emotional journey.
3:00pm - NEC's Jordan Hall, Gainsborough St. Boston, MA
https://handelandhaydn.org/concerts/2024-25/crossing-the-deep-2024/
Handel + Haydn with Anthony Trecek-King, conductor and co-creator, Reginald Mobley, countertenor and co-creator, Regie Gibson, spoken word artist, Brianna Robinson, soprano, H+H Orchestra and Chorus
Parallel lives, shared stories, and transatlantic musical traditions intertwine in this revelatory choral drama. Premiered by H+H in 2023 to sold-out houses, Crossing the Deepexplores the resonances and juxtapositions between sacred music by Handel and Negro spirituals by enslaved Africans in America, written at the same time and often using the same Biblical texts. “There should be next performances and then some,” raved The Boston Globe, and we’re glad to deliver: Now, we’re inviting even more Bostonians to join us for this one-of-a-kind emotional journey.
3:00pm - NEC's Jordan Hall, Gainsborough St. Boston, MA
https://handelandhaydn.org/concerts/2024-25/crossing-the-deep-2024/
Friday, January 31
English Country Dance
Seven Times Salt: Karen Burciaga, fiddle; Dan Meyers, winds, percussion; Josh Schreiber, bass viol; Matthew Wright, lute
STS will provide splendid live music for the Harvard Square English Country Dance. You’ll hear tunes popular from 1650 up to the present; some are elegant, some rowdy, some romantic, some playful. English Country Dance is social, community dancing. Ourfriendly dance caller Orly Krasner will teach all the dances; no experience is necessary. Presented by CDS-Boston.
7:30-9:30pm - Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA
$4 students, $6 members, $7 general.
www.seventimessalt.com
Seven Times Salt: Karen Burciaga, fiddle; Dan Meyers, winds, percussion; Josh Schreiber, bass viol; Matthew Wright, lute
STS will provide splendid live music for the Harvard Square English Country Dance. You’ll hear tunes popular from 1650 up to the present; some are elegant, some rowdy, some romantic, some playful. English Country Dance is social, community dancing. Ourfriendly dance caller Orly Krasner will teach all the dances; no experience is necessary. Presented by CDS-Boston.
7:30-9:30pm - Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA
$4 students, $6 members, $7 general.
www.seventimessalt.com