🔆 The summer programs page lists 9 programs (last change 3/31/25).

Auditions

Auditions are open for Boston Jazz Voices and Gloriae Dei Cantores. See the auditions page for more information.

April 25, 2025 (Friday)

7:30 PM. Boston Baroque [MA]: Ariodante. G.F. Handel: Ariodante. Megan Moore, Ariodante; Amanda Forsythe, Ginevra; Ann McMahon Quintero Polinesso. For more information, call 617-987-8600 or email info@bostonbaroque.org. GBH Calderwood Studio, 1 Guest Street, Boston MA 02135 ⓘ 🔗

April 27, 2025 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Boston Baroque [MA]: Ariodante. G.F. Handel: Ariodante. Megan Moore, Ariodante; Amanda Forsythe, Ginevra; Ann McMahon Quintero Polinesso. For more information, call 617-987-8600 or email info@bostonbaroque.org. GBH Calderwood Studio, 1 Guest Street, Boston MA 02135 ⓘ 🔗

3:00 PM. Nashoba Valley Chorale [MA]: Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem. "London" version for piano four-hands. Deborah Selig, soprano; David McFerrin, baritone; Shawn McCann & Abigail Charbeneau, piano. For more information, call 978-540-5022 or email info@nashobachorale.org. Groton-Dunstable Performing Arts, 344 Main Street, Groton MA 01450 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

4:00 PM. The Common Voice: Community Chorus at UMass Lowell [MA]: UMass Lowell Spring Choral Concert. Kyle Pederson: A Vision Unfolding, a new extended work on a theme of social justice. With spoken word artist, solo trumpet, solo violin, and solo snare drum. Also on the program are UML's Chamber Singers, University Choir, and the Alumni Chorus. For more information, email owenkelly@alliesinmusicedu.org. Moloney Performing Arts Center, 35 Wilder St, Lowell MA 🔗

May 2, 2025 (Friday)

7:00 PM. Skylark Vocal Ensemble [MA]: Rachmaninoff Vespers. Fotina Naumenko, soprano; Eric Alatorre, basso profundo;Matthew Guard, director. For more information, call 918-688-2236 or email info@skylarkensemble.org. St. Paul's Parish, 29 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

7:30 PM. Westborough Community Chorus [MA]: Be Our Guest. A selection of Disney favorites, from “When You Wish Upon a Star” to “Circle of Life,” with songs from Cinderella, Pinocchio, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, Tangled, Encanto, Coco, Frozen I and II, and Wish, plus many more! Children of all ages are welcome, and costumes are encouraged! Tickets: $15, $10 seniors/children/students. For more information, call 508-614-8081 or email president@westborocommunitychorus.com. Gibbons Middle School, 20 Fisher Street, Westborough MA 01581 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

May 3, 2025 (Saturday)

3:00 PM. Chorus pro Musica/ New England Philharmonic [MA]: Paths of Peace. John Adams: Harmonium; Eric Nathan: Open again a turn of light (Boston Premiere); Roxanna Panufnik, Abraham(Boston Premiere, Dani Maddon, violin); Paul Hindemith, Mathis der Maler (7 pm concert only). For more information, call 855-463-7445 or email manager@choruspromusica.org. United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard St, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ 🔗

3:00 PM. Highland Glee Club [MA]: Cream of American Folk. A musical state-by-state tour of the USA, via gorgeous mid-century folk music for men's vocals. Brian Middleton, guitar; Bob Salitsky, upright bass; and Don Shulsinger, banjo. Attendees are invited to bring along a can of soup to help The Highland Glee Club support the Newton Food Pantry. Tickets: $20 advance, $25 at the door, free for children. For more information, call 508-641-9985 or email highlandgleeclub@gmail.com. War Memorial Auditorium, Newton City Hall, 1000 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton MA 02459 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

4:00 PM. Concord Women's Chorus [MA]: Concord Fragments: A Celebration of Music Written by and for Women. Libby Larsen: Concord Fragments; Melissa Dunphy: Grown Wild (text by Concord poet Melissa Apperson); Rosephanye Powell: To Sit and Dream (text by Langston Hughes); Tara Traxler: Birds of Passage; Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Concord Hymn (new arrangement). With piano, oboe, clarinet, and violin. For more information, call 978-369-6341 or email contact@concordwomenschorus.org. Trinity Episcopal Church, 81 Elm Street, Concord MA 01742 ⓘ 🔗

7:00 PM. Chorus pro Musica/ New England Philharmonic [MA]: Paths of Peace. John Adams: Harmonium; Eric Nathan: Open again a turn of light (Boston Premiere); Roxanna Panufnik, Abraham(Boston Premiere, Dani Maddon, violin); Paul Hindemith, Mathis der Maler (7 pm concert only). For more information, call 855-463-7445 or email manager@choruspromusica.org. United Parish in Brookline, 210 Harvard St, Brookline MA 02446 ⓘ 🔗

7:30 PM. Westborough Community Chorus [MA]: Be Our Guest. A selection of Disney favorites, from “When You Wish Upon a Star” to “Circle of Life,” with songs from Cinderella, Pinocchio, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, Tangled, Encanto, Coco, Frozen I and II, and Wish, plus many more! Children of all ages are welcome, and costumes are encouraged! Tickets: $15, $10 seniors/children/students. For more information, call 508-614-8081 or email president@westborocommunitychorus.com. Gibbons Middle School, 20 Fisher Street, Westborough MA 01581 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

8:00 PM. Assabet Valley Mastersingers [MA]: Come Together: Songs of Hope and Inspiration. Olla Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass; Elaine Hagenberg: Illuminare; Christopher Tin: Walayo Yamoni (sung in Swahili); Jake Runestad: “We Can Mend the Sky”. Caitlin Felsman, mezzo-soprano; Christon Carney, tenor. With string orchestra. Tickets: $25, $20 senior/students, free for children under 12 with accompanying adult. For more information, call 314-495-2258 or email manager@avmsingers.org. 1LT Charles W. Whitcomb Middle School, 25 Union Street, Marlborough MA 01752 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

8:00 PM. Jameson Singers [MA]: Dona nobis pacem. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem; Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei; Arvo Pärt: Da pacem Domine; Pēteris Vasks: Dona nobis pacem. Dana Lynne Varga, soprano; Paul Max Tipton, bass-baritone. With orchestra. For more information, email info@jamesonsingers.org. First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

8:00 PM. The Seraphim Singers [MA]: Light in the Treasure Trove. Sacred masterpieces from the Middle Ages to today, including the ancient chants of Hildegard von Bingen and the intricate harmonies of Britten, Ducasse, and Boulanger, as well as music by Bach, Dickinson/Maiben, Gibson, Hagenberg, Henderson, and Lusitano. Joshua Lawton and Maria Gajraj, organ; Miranda Loud, piano; Jessie Pierpont, conductor. Tickets: $25, $20 senior, $10 student, $15 virtual (Sunday 3 pm concert, view live or later at your convenience). For more information, call 617-312-8328 or email darylbichel@aol.com. Holy Name Church, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

May 4, 2025 (Sunday)

2:00 PM. Westborough Community Chorus [MA]: Be Our Guest. A selection of Disney favorites, from “When You Wish Upon a Star” to “Circle of Life,” with songs from Cinderella, Pinocchio, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, Tangled, Encanto, Coco, Frozen I and II, and Wish, plus many more! Children of all ages are welcome, and costumes are encouraged! Tickets: $15, $10 seniors/children/students. For more information, call 508-614-8081 or email president@westborocommunitychorus.com. Gibbons Middle School, 20 Fisher Street, Westborough MA 01581 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

3:00 PM. Arlington-Belmont Chorale [MA]: Sponsors’ Concert. With the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra. For more information, call 617-240-1240 or email chorale@psarlington.org. First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 630 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington MA 02476 ⓘ 🔗

3:00 PM. The Seraphim Singers [MA]: Light in the Treasure Trove. Sacred masterpieces from the Middle Ages to today, including the ancient chants of Hildegard von Bingen and the intricate harmonies of Britten, Ducasse, and Boulanger, as well as music by Bach, Dickinson/Maiben, Gibson, Hagenberg, Henderson, and Lusitano. Joshua Lawton and Maria Gajraj, organ; Miranda Loud, piano; Jessie Pierpont, conductor. Tickets: $25, $20 senior, $10 student, $15 virtual (Sunday 3 pm concert, view live or later at your convenience). For more information, call 617-312-8328 or email darylbichel@aol.com. First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

May 9, 2025 (Friday)

8:00 PM. Vox Lucens [MA]: Rediscovering Appenzeller's Requiem. The first known modern performance of the requiem mass by Benedictus Appenzeller, in a newly transcribed edition by Vox Lucens’ director, Holly Druckman. For more information, email voxlucens.info@gmail.com. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 838 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

May 10, 2025 (Saturday)

5:00 PM. Boston Saengerfest Men's Chorus [MA]: German Songs From the Heart. Johannes Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; works by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel; Clara and Robert Schumann; Franz Schubert. Sylvia Leith, mezzo-soprano. With the Burbank String Quartet. For more information, call 781-269-1133 or email info@saengerfest.org. Unitarian Universalist Society Of Wellesley Hills, 309 Washington Street, Wellesley MA 02481 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

7:00 PM. Cantilena [MA]: Maternal Figures: Reflections on Mothering and Being Mothered. Patricia van Ness, Lingbo Ma, and Laura Nevitt: a newly commissioned three-movement work for treble voices on the topic of motherhood. The composers will be invited to give either a pre-concert talk or a post-concert “talk-back” with audience members. With other musical works on mothering and mother/child relationships by Bobby McFerrin, Ysaye Barnwell, Zae Munn, and others. ​A reception follows the performance. For more information, call 339-298-7730 or email info@cantilena.org. First Parish Arlington, 630 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington MA 02476 ⓘ 🔗

7:30 PM. Musica Sacra [MA]: From Screen to Stage: Settings of Movie and Video Game Music. Music from movies, TV, and video games, both previously composed and original to the medium, including movie music from Lord of the Rings and La Grande Bellezza; TV title themes from Game of Thrones and Outlander; and video game music from Civilization and Halo. Following the concert, there will be a reception in Margaret Jewett Hall celebrating Mary Beekman’s 45th year with Musica Sacra. For more information, call 617-349-3400 or email info@musicasacra.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

7:30 PM. Reading Community Singers [MA]: For the Beauty of the Earth. John Rutter: For the beauty of the earth; What Sweeter Music; Randall Thompson: Alleluia; Thomas Morley: "My bonny lass she smileth"; P.D.Q. Bach: "My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth"; Josef Zawinul: Birdland; Burton Lane: "On A Clear Day"; Kirby Shaw (arr): "Broadway Blast"; Len Thomas (arr): "Blowin' In the Wind/America"; Mark Hayes (arr): "Wade in the Water"; Roger Emerson (arr): "Forever Motown". Elijah Botkin, Music Director; Joe Beninati, accompanist. For more information, email info@readingcommunitysingers.org. Reading Memorial High School, 62 Oakland Road, Reading MA 01867 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

8:00 PM. Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus [MA]: For Our Common Home: Resounding Ecojustice. Linda J. Chase: For Our Common Home: Resounding Ecojustice (premiere). Edward Elwyn Jones, director. Text by Pope Francis; the music blends classical, jazz, gospel, and klezmer idioms. Tickets: $25, $15 for seniors, students free. Free parking available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage. For more information, call 617-496-2222 or email tickets@fas.harvard.edu. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

8:00 PM. Master Singers of Lexington [MA]: 30th Anniversary Concert. Clement Janequin: Le chant des oiseaux; Felix Mendelssohn: Die Nachtigal; Lerchengesang; Benjamin Britten: Five Flower Songs; J.S. Bach: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden; Adam Grossman: New Work. For more information, call 781-729-7975 or email msingers@themastersingers.org. Pilgrim Congregational Church, 55 Coolidge Ave, Lexington MA 02420 ⓘ 🔗

8:00 PM. Vox Lucens [MA]: Rediscovering Appenzeller's Requiem. The first known modern performance of the requiem mass by Benedictus Appenzeller, in a newly transcribed edition by Vox Lucens’ director, Holly Druckman. For more information, email voxlucens.info@gmail.com. St. Anne's in-the-Fields Episcopal Church, 147 Concord Road, Lincoln MA 01774 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

May 16, 2025 (Friday)

7:30 PM. Lexington Pops Chorus [MA]: Songs of Liberty: Echoes of 1775. Randall Thompson: Testament of Freedom; Mark Hayes (arr.): An American Trilogy; Joseph Haydn: Missa Brevis St.Joannis de Deo; Lin-Manuel Miranda: "Dear Theodosia” from Hamilton; Eric Whitacre: "Sleep"; Five Hebrew Love Songs; Ed Lojeski (arr.): Les Miserables. Tickets: $20 adults, $5 children 12 and under. For more information, call 781-365-0576 or email info@LexPops.org. Pilgrim Congregational Church, 55 Coolidge Avenue, Lexington MA 02420 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

May 17, 2025 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Boston Choral Ensemble [MA]: To the Hands. Tracy Wong: Antata (Between); Sarah Quartel: “I Will Be With You”; Caroline Shaw: “To Thy Hands”; and other works by predominantly women composers that celebrate strength, resilience, and grace through the powerful metaphor of human hands. For more information, email info@bostonchoral.org. University Lutheran Church, 66 Winthrop Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

7:30 PM. Back Bay Chorale [MA]: The Waking Sun. Kile Smith: The Waking Sun; Giacomo Carissimi: Jephte. For more information, call 617-648-3885 or email info@bbcboston.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

7:30 PM. Spectrum Singers [MA]: See, Hear, Speak [No Evil]. Adolphus Hailstork: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes (Terrence Chin-Loy, tenor); Chiara Margarita Cozzolani: Psalmus 121; Johannes Brahms: Psalm 13; Bobby McFerrin: Psalm 21; Jean Belmont Ford: The Passionate Shepherd To His Love; Sydney Guillaume: Renmen, Renmen; Alice Parker: Hear Me, O God, nor Hide Thy Face; To God in Whom I Trust; Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal; Edward Elgar: Nimrod, from Enigma Variations. Max Holman, conductor. For more information, call 617-492-8902 or email info@spectrumsingers.org. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

8:00 PM. Boston Cecilia [MA]: Tipping Point. Reena Esmail: Tipping Point for chorus and tabla; works of Texu Kim, Kenneth Tay and others celebrating the rich and varied traditions of Asian and Asian-American choral music. For more information, call 617-232-4540 or email info@bostoncecilia.org. All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02445 ⓘ 🔗

May 18, 2025 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Lexington Pops Chorus [MA]: Songs of Liberty: Echoes of 1775. Randall Thompson: Testament of Freedom; Mark Hayes (arr.): An American Trilogy; Joseph Haydn: Missa Brevis St.Joannis de Deo; Lin-Manuel Miranda: "Dear Theodosia” from Hamilton; Eric Whitacre: "Sleep"; Five Hebrew Love Songs; Ed Lojeski (arr.): Les Miserables. Tickets: $20 adults, $5 children 12 and under. For more information, call 781-365-0576 or email info@LexPops.org. Pilgrim Congregational Church, 55 Coolidge Avenue, Lexington MA 02420 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

3:00 PM. Masterworks Chorale [MA]: Mozart, Haydn...and George Washington? W.A. Mozart: Credo Mass, K. 257; Alma Dei creatoris, K. 277; Regina coeli, K. 276/321; Johann Michael Haydn: Te Deum, Hob. XXIIIc:1; F.J. Haydn: Ave regina, Hob. XXIIIb:3. Teresa Wakim, soprano; Emily Marvosh, contralto; Jason McStoots, tenor; Dana Whiteside, baritone; Kevin Leong, director. With Baroque ensemble. Why George Washington? Reenactor Web Tilney will welcome the audience, ‘revisiting’ First Church (as he did in 1775), drawing connections to his history training 15,000 militia on the Cambridge Common, and maintaining his headquarters in the George Vassall house on Brattle Street (now the Longfellow House). His appearance acknowledges connections with the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, and the founding of Masterworks Chorale in 1940 as the Lexington Choral Society. For more information, call 617-858-6782 or email info@masterworkschorale.org. First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

3:00 PM. Nashua Choral Society [NH]: Vive la France. Maurice Durufle: Requiem; other French composers. David Williams, conductor. For more information, email nashuachoralsociety@gmail.com. Immaculate Conception Church, 216 East Dunstable Road, Nashua NH 03062 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

4:00 PM. Cambridge Community Chorus [MA]: Brahms Requiem. With professional orchestra and soloists. For more information, call 617-517-3169 or email admin@cambridgechorus.org. Kresge Auditorium at MIT, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139 ⓘ 🔗

4:00 PM. Commonwealth Chorale [MA]: Community and Connection. Aaron Copland: Selections from Old American Songs; Nathaniel Dett: The Chariot Jubilee; Alice Parker: folk song and spiritual arrangements. For more information, call 617-527-7464 or email info@commonwealthchorale.com. Church Of The Holy Name, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

June 5, 2025 (Thursday)

7:30 PM. Koleinu, Boston's Jewish Community Chorus [MA]: Spring Concert. For more information, call 617-433-7464 or email info@koleinu.org. Temple Ohabei Shalom, 1187 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02446 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

June 8, 2025 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Charles River Wind Ensemble / Andover Choral Society [MA]: The Ambiguity of Love. Christopher Marshall: Glimpses of Love (with chorus); Alexandre Kosmicki: Nitescence crépusculaire; Frank Ticheli: Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (Jason Huffman, trumpet). Free admission, free parking. For more information, email info@crwe.org. 300 Hammond Pond Parkway, Chestnut Hill MA 02467 ⓘ 🔗

June 10, 2025 (Tuesday)

7:30 PM. Zamir Chorale [MA]: Concert in the Round—An Immersive Experience. A unique “surround-sound” concert event: Listeners will be placed inside a circle of singers for music by Gershwin, Rossi, Bernstein, Lewandowski, Schiller, Shemer, and others. Singers in rotating positions and arrangements will treat the audience to a range of polyphonic and, at times, interactive music from many traditions—from meditative to rousing, whimsical to mystical, jazzy to prayerful. For more information, call 617-244-6333 or email manager@zamir.org. Temple Reyim, 1860 Washington Street, Auburndale MA 02466 (View flier) ⓘ 🔗

June 13, 2025 (Friday)

7:30 PM. Arlington-Belmont Chorale [MA]: Strawberry Festival and Pops! Concert. With the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra. Strawberries and Ice Cream from 6:00 pm, Pops concert at 7:30 pm. For more information, call 617-240-1240 or email chorale@psarlington.org. Arlington Town Hall, 730 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington MA 02476 ⓘ 🔗

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