Upcoming Performances
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Concert For One: 1 Musician, 1 Listener, 1 Minute of Live Music
With the Celebrity Series of Boston Tuesday September 24th 2020, 12-1pm Thursday Septmeber 26th, 2020, 1-2pm Harvard Science Center Plaza, Cambridge, MA Over ten days this fall, Celebrity Series of Boston will give powerful, free music experiences to 5,000 people: one listener and one musician at a time. Based on a concept by violist and New England Conservatory graduate Rayna Yun Chou. Rayna created the project in Taiwan in 2016 in an effort to address concerns that classical music had become laden with the notion that it’s inaccessible to everyday people and that on the performers’ side, musicians were increasingly isolated from the people for whom they play. In Boston performances will happen inside two specially outfitted shipping containers. The event will focus on making, hearing, and being moved by beautiful music, up-close and personal. For more info visit www.concertforone.org. |
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Pagliacci, by Ruggero Leoncavallo
With the Boston Lyric Opera Friday September 27th 2019 at 7pm Saturday September 28th 2019 at 7pm Wednesday October 2nd 2019 at 7pm Friday October 4th 2019 at 7pm Sunday October 6th 2019 at 2.30pm DCR Steriti Memorial Rink, Boston, MA ICONIC MUSIC | JEALOUSY & PASSION | IMMERSIVE, ONE-OF-A-KIND INSTALLATION When a traveling troupe arrives to perform in a bustling town, the secrets and jealousies among them threaten to explode onstage—with deadly consequences. BLO presents its first-ever Pagliacci through a carnival-style installation that mirrors the “play within a play” of the opera and invites audiences to step into the drama. More information here |
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Come again: Lute Songs of John Dowland and his Contemporaries with In Stile Moderno Friday November 15 2019 at 7:30 pm Brattleboro Music Center, VT Saturday November 16 2019 at 7:30 pm Friends Meeting at Cambridge, MA Agnes Coakley Cox, Sophie Michaux, Corey Dalton Hart, Adam Simon, voices; Nathaniel Cox, lute Beloved and lesser-known lute songs by John Dowland and his contemporaries take on a new dimension in the first concert of our season, which will be performed in historical pronunciation using facsimile table book editions of the music. In Stile Moderno appears for the first time as a four-voice ensemble with lute, bringing to life the poetry of Elizabethan England with the original pronunciation of the time. Otherwise unheard rhymes and puns jump to the ear and a refreshingly direct and earthy timbre colors the language, while Dowland’s virtuosic contrapuntal writing is showcased by the lute and four-voice texture. Join us around the table for a feast of whimsical, melancholy and touching music. More information here |
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Christmas Pilgrimage
with Musicians of The Old Post Road Friday December 13th 2019 at 8pm Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA Saturday December 14th at 7.30pm Unitarian Universalist Church, Gloucester, MA Sunday December 15th 2019 at 4pm First Unitarian Church, Worcester, MA Taking inspiration from the guiding light of Epiphany, this holiday program presents the modern-day premiere of a cantata about seeking and finding a new spiritual home: Christoph Graupner’s cantata Das Volk so im Finstern wandelt (The people that wandered in darkness). Telemann’s New Year cantata Der mit Sünden beleidigte Heiland, and seasonal pastorales by Heinichen and Pez round out the offerings. With vocal soloists soprano Jessica Petrus, alto Sophie Michaux, tenor Jason McStoots, and baritone David McFerrin More information here |
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Che si può fare
A Recital of Barbara Strozzi's solo vocal music
Thursday March 5th 2020, 8pm
Fundazione Cini, Venezia, Italy
With Benjamin Katz, Harpsichord
Paul Holmes Merton, Theorbo
More information coming soon
A Recital of Barbara Strozzi's solo vocal music
Thursday March 5th 2020, 8pm
Fundazione Cini, Venezia, Italy
With Benjamin Katz, Harpsichord
Paul Holmes Merton, Theorbo
More information coming soon
Celebrate this festival!
with the Henry Purcell Society of Boston
Saturday March 21st 2020, 8pm
Cathedral Church of St Paul, Boston, MA
Taking celebratory odes from two occasions: The birthday of Purcell's favorite monarch, Queen Mary and the patron saint of music, Cecilia, the HPSOB will present “Celebrate this Festival.” by Henry Purcell and ”The Glorious Day is come” by John Blow. This concert features a full baroque orchestra with soloists and chorus, and also will hint at our 2020/21 season with a premiere of a contemporary composition by composer Adam Jacob Simon. This 2019 setting of John Dryden’s “Ode to Saint Cecilia,” foreshadows the HPSOB’s plan to hold a bi-annual celebration of the St. Cecilia day, commissioning or premiering a new work each year dedicated to the patron saint. Please join us!
More information here
with the Henry Purcell Society of Boston
Saturday March 21st 2020, 8pm
Cathedral Church of St Paul, Boston, MA
Taking celebratory odes from two occasions: The birthday of Purcell's favorite monarch, Queen Mary and the patron saint of music, Cecilia, the HPSOB will present “Celebrate this Festival.” by Henry Purcell and ”The Glorious Day is come” by John Blow. This concert features a full baroque orchestra with soloists and chorus, and also will hint at our 2020/21 season with a premiere of a contemporary composition by composer Adam Jacob Simon. This 2019 setting of John Dryden’s “Ode to Saint Cecilia,” foreshadows the HPSOB’s plan to hold a bi-annual celebration of the St. Cecilia day, commissioning or premiering a new work each year dedicated to the patron saint. Please join us!
More information here
Past performances:
Lorelei Ensemble
7.3.19 Association of Anglican Musicians Conference
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Boston, MA
INFO AND TICKETS
7.3.19 Association of Anglican Musicians Conference
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Boston, MA
INFO AND TICKETS
VERSAILLES: Portrait of a Royal Domain
Boston Early Music Chamber Opera Series
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director
Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 8pm
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Friday, June 21, 2019, at 8pm and
Saturday, June 22, 2019, at 3pm
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA
Sunday, June 23, 2019, at 4pm
Caramoor Summer Music Festival
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, NY
The GRAMMY Award–winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production inspired by the splendor of Versailles. King Louis XIV transformed his father’s pastoral hunting lodge at Versailles into a lavish palace that served as the seat of government and culture in France. Enjoy a musical feast from the height of the Sun King’s reign with two chamber operas—Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles—exalting the splendor and majesty of the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully’s Atys—called the “King’s Opera” for the favor it enjoyed with Louis XIV. The refined elegance and expressive drama is brought to life by the all-star BEMF Vocal and Chamber Ensembles in a magnificent production featuring gorgeous costumes, Baroque dance, and sumptuous staging.
Produced in partnership with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Boston Early Music Chamber Opera Series
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director
Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 8pm
New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Friday, June 21, 2019, at 8pm and
Saturday, June 22, 2019, at 3pm
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington, MA
Sunday, June 23, 2019, at 4pm
Caramoor Summer Music Festival
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, NY
The GRAMMY Award–winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series returns with an encore performance of our November 2016 production inspired by the splendor of Versailles. King Louis XIV transformed his father’s pastoral hunting lodge at Versailles into a lavish palace that served as the seat of government and culture in France. Enjoy a musical feast from the height of the Sun King’s reign with two chamber operas—Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles and Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles—exalting the splendor and majesty of the palace and its gardens, alongside divertissements from Lully’s Atys—called the “King’s Opera” for the favor it enjoyed with Louis XIV. The refined elegance and expressive drama is brought to life by the all-star BEMF Vocal and Chamber Ensembles in a magnificent production featuring gorgeous costumes, Baroque dance, and sumptuous staging.
Produced in partnership with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Benefit Concert for Reproductive Justice
Monday, June 17, 2019 at 7:30pm
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center at Tufts University
20 Talbot Ave. Medford MA
Suggestion donation: $10, all proceeds go directly to SPARK
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Join us on Monday, June 17 at 7:30pm for a benefit concert in Distler Hall at the Granoff Music Center to support SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW. The concert aims to bring varied Boston-area musicians and concertgoers together to bring awareness to the reproductive justice movement as a critical response to the state of reproductive politics in the U.S. This concert was organized in direct response to the laws passed in Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Georgia, Ohio, Utah, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Arkansas and to the threat to reproductive justice that increases day by day, particularly in our southern states.
Our lineup of musicians includes raga and jazz pianist Utsav Lal, vocalist and composer Claire Dickson, saxophone and guitar duo Umbrella Pine, folk duo Sophie et Adam (joined by accordionist and Tufts faculty Michael McLaughlin), classical chamber group Craft Ensemble, vocalist and composer Melissa Weikart, guitarist duo Lautaro Mantilla (NEC faculty) and Chris Cretella, pianist Ran Blake (NEC faculty), and Gospel vocalist Nedelka Prescod (NEC and Berklee faculty). All of these artists have donated their time and talents to this cause.
Monday, June 17, 2019 at 7:30pm
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center at Tufts University
20 Talbot Ave. Medford MA
Suggestion donation: $10, all proceeds go directly to SPARK
facebook event
Join us on Monday, June 17 at 7:30pm for a benefit concert in Distler Hall at the Granoff Music Center to support SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW. The concert aims to bring varied Boston-area musicians and concertgoers together to bring awareness to the reproductive justice movement as a critical response to the state of reproductive politics in the U.S. This concert was organized in direct response to the laws passed in Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Georgia, Ohio, Utah, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Arkansas and to the threat to reproductive justice that increases day by day, particularly in our southern states.
Our lineup of musicians includes raga and jazz pianist Utsav Lal, vocalist and composer Claire Dickson, saxophone and guitar duo Umbrella Pine, folk duo Sophie et Adam (joined by accordionist and Tufts faculty Michael McLaughlin), classical chamber group Craft Ensemble, vocalist and composer Melissa Weikart, guitarist duo Lautaro Mantilla (NEC faculty) and Chris Cretella, pianist Ran Blake (NEC faculty), and Gospel vocalist Nedelka Prescod (NEC and Berklee faculty). All of these artists have donated their time and talents to this cause.
Lorelei & A Far Cry Orchestra
Friday, May 17, 2019 at 8pm
Jordan Hall
Boston, MA
INFO AND TICKETS
This program will include the world premiere of a new work by Kareem Roustom, that tells the stories of the women of the Odyssey - from the sorceress Circe to the deadly Sirens, from the ghost Of Odysseus’ mother to the resourceful Penelope. Other works to be announced.
Friday, May 17, 2019 at 8pm
Jordan Hall
Boston, MA
INFO AND TICKETS
This program will include the world premiere of a new work by Kareem Roustom, that tells the stories of the women of the Odyssey - from the sorceress Circe to the deadly Sirens, from the ghost Of Odysseus’ mother to the resourceful Penelope. Other works to be announced.
Edith Piaf Tribute Night
Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 at 8pm
Club Passim, Cambridge, MA
With Adam Simon, Guitar and Michael Mc Laughlin, Accordion
Tickets and information here
or Visit: www.SophieEtAdam.weebly.com
4.5.19 & 4.7.19 Lorelei at Harvard University Rising Voices Collegiate Treble Choral Festival
Friday, April 5, 2019
Saturday, April 6th, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Cambridge, MA
pin drop sessions 12: dance, dance, evolution
Palaver Strings+Culomba
Sunday April 7th 2019 at 7pm
Aeronaut Brewing Company, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville, MA
La Mappa Mundi draws a map of Europe, both real and imagined, through song and story. Palaver will be joined by prolific vocalists Sophie Michaux and Adam Jacob Simon for a uniquely collaborative program that travels the British Isles, Transylvania, and the Mediterranean, which have long captured the imaginations of composers and performers alike. Our program runs the gamut of baroque opera, madrigals, drinking songs, dance tunes, blurring the lines between “popular” music and “high art,” old and new, tradition and innovation. We will also perform lullabies with participants from the Lullaby Project, a songwriting partnership between Palaver musicians and expecting mothers.
PROGRAM
Shine You No More (arr. Jesse MacDonald)
DBR, Klap Ur Handz
Purcell: excerpts from Dido & Aeneas
Rossini “Tanti affeti” from “La Donna del Lago”
Corsican Trio (Culomba)
Pleasant and Delightful
-Intermission-
Spanish Renaissance Songs, "Ayo visto la mappamundi" & “El Sarao de la Chacona"
Boccherini, String Quintet Op. 30 No. 6
Bartok (Culomba)
Transylvanian dance set (Legenyes & Friss)
Tickets and more information: here
4.11.19 Lorelei at Bucknell University
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Weis Performance Center
Lewisburg, PA
4.14.19 Lorelei at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Sacred Music in a Sacred Space
New York, NY
Friday, April 5, 2019
Saturday, April 6th, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019
Cambridge, MA
pin drop sessions 12: dance, dance, evolution
Palaver Strings+Culomba
Sunday April 7th 2019 at 7pm
Aeronaut Brewing Company, 14 Tyler Street, Somerville, MA
La Mappa Mundi draws a map of Europe, both real and imagined, through song and story. Palaver will be joined by prolific vocalists Sophie Michaux and Adam Jacob Simon for a uniquely collaborative program that travels the British Isles, Transylvania, and the Mediterranean, which have long captured the imaginations of composers and performers alike. Our program runs the gamut of baroque opera, madrigals, drinking songs, dance tunes, blurring the lines between “popular” music and “high art,” old and new, tradition and innovation. We will also perform lullabies with participants from the Lullaby Project, a songwriting partnership between Palaver musicians and expecting mothers.
PROGRAM
Shine You No More (arr. Jesse MacDonald)
DBR, Klap Ur Handz
Purcell: excerpts from Dido & Aeneas
Rossini “Tanti affeti” from “La Donna del Lago”
Corsican Trio (Culomba)
Pleasant and Delightful
-Intermission-
Spanish Renaissance Songs, "Ayo visto la mappamundi" & “El Sarao de la Chacona"
Boccherini, String Quintet Op. 30 No. 6
Bartok (Culomba)
Transylvanian dance set (Legenyes & Friss)
Tickets and more information: here
4.11.19 Lorelei at Bucknell University
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Weis Performance Center
Lewisburg, PA
4.14.19 Lorelei at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Sacred Music in a Sacred Space
New York, NY
La Mappa Mundi
With Palaver Strings
Saturday March 23rd 2019 at 8pm
One Longfellow Square, Portland, (ME)
Sunday March 24th 2019 at 7pm
St John's Episcopal Church, Boston (MA)
Sophie Michaux, Alto solo
La Mappa Mundi draws a map of Europe, both real and imagined, through song and story. Palaver will be joined by prolific vocalists Sophie Michaux and Adam Jacob Simon for a uniquely collaborative program that travels the British Isles, Transylvania, and the Mediterranean, which have long captured the imaginations of composers and performers alike. Our program runs the gamut of baroque opera, madrigals, drinking songs, dance tunes, and a new commission by Simon, blurring the lines between “popular” music and “high art,” old and new, tradition and innovation. We will also perform lullabies with participants from the Lullaby Project, a songwriting partnership between Palaver musicians and expecting mothers.
PROGRAM
PURCELL excerpts from Dido & Aeneas
SPANISH Renaissance Songs, "Ayo visto la mappamundi" & “El Sarao de la Chacona"
ROSSINI “Tanti affeti” from “La Donna del Lago”
BARTOK “Ne hagyi itt”
BARTOK Romanian Dances
TRADITIONAL Transylvanian dance set, Corsican Paghiella, English Pub Songs
SIMON New Commission
Tickets and more information: here
With Palaver Strings
Saturday March 23rd 2019 at 8pm
One Longfellow Square, Portland, (ME)
Sunday March 24th 2019 at 7pm
St John's Episcopal Church, Boston (MA)
Sophie Michaux, Alto solo
La Mappa Mundi draws a map of Europe, both real and imagined, through song and story. Palaver will be joined by prolific vocalists Sophie Michaux and Adam Jacob Simon for a uniquely collaborative program that travels the British Isles, Transylvania, and the Mediterranean, which have long captured the imaginations of composers and performers alike. Our program runs the gamut of baroque opera, madrigals, drinking songs, dance tunes, and a new commission by Simon, blurring the lines between “popular” music and “high art,” old and new, tradition and innovation. We will also perform lullabies with participants from the Lullaby Project, a songwriting partnership between Palaver musicians and expecting mothers.
PROGRAM
PURCELL excerpts from Dido & Aeneas
SPANISH Renaissance Songs, "Ayo visto la mappamundi" & “El Sarao de la Chacona"
ROSSINI “Tanti affeti” from “La Donna del Lago”
BARTOK “Ne hagyi itt”
BARTOK Romanian Dances
TRADITIONAL Transylvanian dance set, Corsican Paghiella, English Pub Songs
SIMON New Commission
Tickets and more information: here
The Cherry Street Singers present
O Lead me - Art and Folk Songs sung and led
Music by Purcell, Rossini, Poulenc, Simon and others
Sunday March 17th 2019, 4pm
Plainfield Opera House, Plainfield VT
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Kai Ching Chang, Piano
Join mezzo Sophie Michaux and pianist Kai Ching Chang in a riveting program of songs and arias of choice from the baroque to the current day, including world premieres by Boston Composer Adam Simon, and audience-participatory singing! Music from Italy, France, England and the United-States.
O Lead me - Art and Folk Songs sung and led
Music by Purcell, Rossini, Poulenc, Simon and others
Sunday March 17th 2019, 4pm
Plainfield Opera House, Plainfield VT
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Kai Ching Chang, Piano
Join mezzo Sophie Michaux and pianist Kai Ching Chang in a riveting program of songs and arias of choice from the baroque to the current day, including world premieres by Boston Composer Adam Simon, and audience-participatory singing! Music from Italy, France, England and the United-States.
Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs - and Responses
With the ENSEMBLE/PARALLAX
Monday March 11th 2019, 8pm
Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University,
Sophie Michaux and Julia Cavallaro, Mezzo-sopranos
ENSEMBLE/PARALLAX performsBerio’s imaginative settings of well-known folk-songs alongside eleven new responses to each Berio song composed for the occasion by Tufts student, faculty, and guest composers.
Free; no tickets required
With the ENSEMBLE/PARALLAX
Monday March 11th 2019, 8pm
Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University,
Sophie Michaux and Julia Cavallaro, Mezzo-sopranos
ENSEMBLE/PARALLAX performsBerio’s imaginative settings of well-known folk-songs alongside eleven new responses to each Berio song composed for the occasion by Tufts student, faculty, and guest composers.
Free; no tickets required
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2.21.19–2.23.19 Lorelei and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
DEBUSSY Nocturnes PUCCINI Suor Angelica Thursday, February 21, 2019 I 8pm Friday, February 22, 2019 I 8pm Saturday, February 23, 2019 I 8pm Boston Symphony Hall Boston, MA INFO AND TICKETS 2.27.19 Lorelei at National ACDA Conference Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Kansas City, MO 3.1.19 Lorelei at Lawrence University Friday, March 1, 2019 I 8pm Artist Series Appleton, WI INFO AND TICKETS |
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Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain
with the Boston Early Music Festival
Les plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier; Les Fontaines de Versailles by De Lalande
Saturday January 26th 2019, 8pm
The Sendesaal, Bremen, Germany
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Drama Coach
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Kathleen Fay, Executive Director
Sophie Michaux, Ceres
with the Boston Early Music Festival
Les plaisirs de Versailles by Charpentier; Les Fontaines de Versailles by De Lalande
Saturday January 26th 2019, 8pm
The Sendesaal, Bremen, Germany
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Drama Coach
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Kathleen Fay, Executive Director
Sophie Michaux, Ceres
G. F. Handel - Messiah
J. S. Bach - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62
Corelli: Christmas Concerto, Op. 6, No. 8 in G Minor
Richard Webster and Colin Lynch, Conductors
Sunday Dec 9th 2018 at 3pm
Trinity Church of Boston, MA
Alto Soloist
Tickets and more information: here
G. F. Handel - Messiah sing!
Friday Dec 7th 2018 at 7.30pm
All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA
Alto Soloist
Benefit concert for Project Bread
Tickets and more information soon to come
Friday Dec 7th 2018 at 7.30pm
All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA
Alto Soloist
Benefit concert for Project Bread
Tickets and more information soon to come
J. S. Bach - Magnificat
New England Classical Singers
David Hodgkins, Conductor
Sunday Dec 2nd 2018 at 3pm
Christ Church in Andover, MA
Soloist
Tickets and more information: here
Francesca Caccini - Alcina
Boston Early Music Festival
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director
Saturday, November 24, 2018 at 8pm
Sunday, November 25, 2018 at 3pm
NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Monday, November 26, 2018 at 7:30pm
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 7:30pm
Gilder Lehrman Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Francesca Caccini came of age at the Medici court in Florence during the earliest years of opera as an art form. Both a composer and a performer, Caccini was one of the most important musical figures at court, and in 1625 she created the first opera by a woman composer, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina.
Alcina is a gorgeous entertainment, full of wit, magic, and drama, with a demanding title role first sung by the composer herself. At the center of a struggle of illusion and destiny, the sorceress Alcina stands between the valiant magician Melissa and her quest to save the warrior Ruggiero.
Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble
Shannon Mercer, Alcina; Colin Balzer, Ruggiero; Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa
Mindy Ella Chu, David Evans, Daniel Friedley, Brian Giebler, David McFerrin, Jason McStoots, Sophie Michaux, Molly Netter, Ian Pomerantz, Margot Rood, & Teresa Wakim
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble
Paul O'Dette, lute; Stephen Stubbs, lute & Baroque guitar; Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, violin; Sarah Darling, viola; Erin Headley, Christel Thielmann, & Laura Jeppsen, viola da gamba; Kathryn Montoya & Heloise Degrugillier, recorder; Maxine Eilander, Baroque harp; Michael Sponseller, organ, regal & harpsichord
Tickets and more information: here
Boston Early Music Festival
Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
Melinda Sullivan, Dance Director
Saturday, November 24, 2018 at 8pm
Sunday, November 25, 2018 at 3pm
NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Monday, November 26, 2018 at 7:30pm
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 7:30pm
Gilder Lehrman Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Francesca Caccini came of age at the Medici court in Florence during the earliest years of opera as an art form. Both a composer and a performer, Caccini was one of the most important musical figures at court, and in 1625 she created the first opera by a woman composer, La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina.
Alcina is a gorgeous entertainment, full of wit, magic, and drama, with a demanding title role first sung by the composer herself. At the center of a struggle of illusion and destiny, the sorceress Alcina stands between the valiant magician Melissa and her quest to save the warrior Ruggiero.
Boston Early Music Festival Vocal Ensemble
Shannon Mercer, Alcina; Colin Balzer, Ruggiero; Kelsey Lauritano, Melissa
Mindy Ella Chu, David Evans, Daniel Friedley, Brian Giebler, David McFerrin, Jason McStoots, Sophie Michaux, Molly Netter, Ian Pomerantz, Margot Rood, & Teresa Wakim
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble
Paul O'Dette, lute; Stephen Stubbs, lute & Baroque guitar; Robert Mealy & Julie Andrijeski, violin; Sarah Darling, viola; Erin Headley, Christel Thielmann, & Laura Jeppsen, viola da gamba; Kathryn Montoya & Heloise Degrugillier, recorder; Maxine Eilander, Baroque harp; Michael Sponseller, organ, regal & harpsichord
Tickets and more information: here
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9.20.18 Lorelei & Cantus in Concert
Thursday, September 20, 2018 I 7:30pm Ordway Concert Hall, St. Paul, MN INFO AND TICKETS 9.22.18 Lorelei at Vassar College Saturday, September 22, 2018 Skinner Hall of Music Poughkeepsie, NY 9.23.18 Lorelei Impermanence CD Release Party Sunday, September 23, 2018 at 2pm Aeronaut Brewery, Somerville, MA 10.25.18 Lorelei at the University of Iowa Thursday, October 25, 2018 Voxman School of Music Iowa City, IA 11.9.18 Lorelei at Connecticut College Sunday, November 9, 2018 onStage Guest Artist Series New London, CT |
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The Cherry Street Singers present
O Lead me - Art and Folk Songs sung and led
Music by Purcell, Rossini, Strozzi, Poulenc, Simon and others
Sunday June 3rd 2018 at 4pm at St Paul's in Brookline (MA)
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Katz, Harpsichord
Kai Ching Chang, Piano
Join mezzo Sophie Michaux, harpsichordist Benjamin Katz, and pianist Kai Ching Chang in a riveting program of songs and arias of choice from the baroque to the current day, including world premieres by Boston Composer Adam Simon, and audience-participatory singing! Music from Italy, France, England and the United-States.
Tickets: https://oleadme.brownpapertickets.com
$20 General Admission, $10 Students, Seniors, and Starving Artists
Beethoven - Mass is C Major
Haydn - Te Deum
Chorus of Westerly
Andrew Howell, Conductor
Saturday May 19th 2018 at 6pm
Sunday May 20th 2018 at 2pm
George Kent Performance Hall • 119 High Street, Westerly, RI 02891
Sherezade Panthaki, Soprano
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo soprano
Stefan Reed, Tenor
Timothy Jones, Bass
Tickets and more information: Here
Mozart - Mass in C Minor
Onion River Chorus
Larry Gordon, Conductor
Saturday May 12th 2018 at 7.30pm, Montpellier VT
Sunday May 13th at 7pm, Montpellier VT
Mary Bonhag, Soprano I
Sophie Michaux, Soprano II
Adam Simon, Tenor
John Harrison, Bass
Onion River Chorus
Larry Gordon, Conductor
Saturday May 12th 2018 at 7.30pm, Montpellier VT
Sunday May 13th at 7pm, Montpellier VT
Mary Bonhag, Soprano I
Sophie Michaux, Soprano II
Adam Simon, Tenor
John Harrison, Bass
Haydn - Schöpfungsmesse
Colby Symphony Orchestra, Colby Chorale, and Colby Kennebec Choral Society
Eric Christopher Perry, Conductor
Saturday April 28th 2018 at 7.30pm at Lorimer Chapel at Colby College, Waterville, ME
Sunday April 29th 2019 at 7.30 pm at Lorimer Chapel at Colby College, Waterville, ME
Mary Sullivan, Soprano
Sophie Michaux, Alto
Charles Blandy, Tenor
John David Adams, Bass
In the final concerts of the season, these ensembles present Haydn’s Mass No. 13 in B-flat Major, Schöpfungsmesse, also known as Creation Mass. Not to be confused with Haydn’s most famous oratorio, The Creation, this exuberant mass setting is a masterpiece in its own right. Also on the program are Bizet’s L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2 and the winner of the annual student concerto competition.
Free and open to the public
Colby Symphony Orchestra, Colby Chorale, and Colby Kennebec Choral Society
Eric Christopher Perry, Conductor
Saturday April 28th 2018 at 7.30pm at Lorimer Chapel at Colby College, Waterville, ME
Sunday April 29th 2019 at 7.30 pm at Lorimer Chapel at Colby College, Waterville, ME
Mary Sullivan, Soprano
Sophie Michaux, Alto
Charles Blandy, Tenor
John David Adams, Bass
In the final concerts of the season, these ensembles present Haydn’s Mass No. 13 in B-flat Major, Schöpfungsmesse, also known as Creation Mass. Not to be confused with Haydn’s most famous oratorio, The Creation, this exuberant mass setting is a masterpiece in its own right. Also on the program are Bizet’s L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2 and the winner of the annual student concerto competition.
Free and open to the public
Lorelei Ensemble
Tuesday, April 10, 7pm - Wenham, MA
First Church Wenham
Thursday, April 12, 7:30pm - Keene State College, NH
Redfern Arts Center
Friday, April 13, 8pm - Cambridge, MA
First Church Cambridge
Saturday, April 14, 8pm - Nahant, MA
Nahant Town Hall
Sunday, April 15, 3pm - Providence RI
Central Congregational Church
Concert with the Rhode Island Children's Chorus Chamber Choir
Tuesday, April 10, 7pm - Wenham, MA
First Church Wenham
Thursday, April 12, 7:30pm - Keene State College, NH
Redfern Arts Center
Friday, April 13, 8pm - Cambridge, MA
First Church Cambridge
Saturday, April 14, 8pm - Nahant, MA
Nahant Town Hall
Sunday, April 15, 3pm - Providence RI
Central Congregational Church
Concert with the Rhode Island Children's Chorus Chamber Choir
J.S. BACH MASS IN B MINOR
Sunday, March 25 2018, 2:30pm
Woodfords Congregational Church - 202 Woodford St, Portland, ME 04103
Robert Russell, Music Director
Sophie Michaux will sing Soprano 2 Soloist
Tickets and information: Here
Sunday, March 25 2018, 2:30pm
Woodfords Congregational Church - 202 Woodford St, Portland, ME 04103
Robert Russell, Music Director
Sophie Michaux will sing Soprano 2 Soloist
Tickets and information: Here
on Tour
World Premiere: THE_OPER&
by John Supko & Bill Seaman
Directed by Jim Findlay
Performed by Lorelei Ensemble
Thursday, March 8, 8pm - Von der Heyden Studio Theater, at Duke Arts Center, PURCHASE TICKETS
Friday, March 9, 8pm - Von der Heyden Studio Theater, at Duke Arts Center, PURCHASE TICKETS
Saturday, March 10, 3pm - Von der Heyden Studio Theater, at Duke Arts Center, PURCHASE TICKETS
Saturday, March 10, 8pm - Von der Heyden Studio Theater, at Duke Arts Center, PURCHASE TICKETS
Is technology making or breaking our world? That question is central to THE_OPER&, a bold new opera to be developed and premiered at Duke University that uses the high-drama framework of opera and advanced technology to explore ideas of apocalypse, renewal, and survival in the modern age. During each performance, a computer system preloaded with video, sound, and poetic text fragments generates an original world, specific to the room and audience. That world eventually cedes to entropy, disintegrating from disaster and destruction until it falls into chaos, only to be rebuilt. The cycle repeats. A voice — the system’s — narrates the action, expressing the computer’s consciousness as a chorus of voices responds to the changing environment. The score moves from minimal and ambient to complex, industrial textures, a soundscape linked to the rise and fall and rise of the world within the room.
The team behind THE_OPER& (pronounced “the operand”) is an accomplished one. John Supko, a Duke music professor and acclaimed composer, partnered with Duke art professor and “recombinant poetics” pioneer Bill Seaman to build both text and music; Seaman also contributed high-definition video. Award-winning director and designer Jim Findlay, a frequent Duke Performances collaborator and a Duke alumnus, is the production designer and director. Narrated by Seaman and sung by Boston’s heralded eight-voice Lorelei Ensemble, THE_OPER& is a multidisciplinary collaboration that evokes the opera of Robert Ashley, the linguistic games of Raymond Roussel, and the experimental productions of Robert Wilson. An allegory for our uncertain times and an examination of our interface with the technology we create, THE_OPER& asks essential questions about the kind of future we may pursue.
More information: Here
The team behind THE_OPER& (pronounced “the operand”) is an accomplished one. John Supko, a Duke music professor and acclaimed composer, partnered with Duke art professor and “recombinant poetics” pioneer Bill Seaman to build both text and music; Seaman also contributed high-definition video. Award-winning director and designer Jim Findlay, a frequent Duke Performances collaborator and a Duke alumnus, is the production designer and director. Narrated by Seaman and sung by Boston’s heralded eight-voice Lorelei Ensemble, THE_OPER& is a multidisciplinary collaboration that evokes the opera of Robert Ashley, the linguistic games of Raymond Roussel, and the experimental productions of Robert Wilson. An allegory for our uncertain times and an examination of our interface with the technology we create, THE_OPER& asks essential questions about the kind of future we may pursue.
More information: Here
Friday, February 9, 7:30pm - 5 BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL, NYC
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
Sunday, February 11, 4pm - YALE UNIVERSITY, CT
Marquand Chapel, Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
This event is FREE and open to the public
Thursday, February 15, 7pm - HILLSDALE COLLEGE, MI
College Baptist Church
Saturday, February 17, 2pm - CHAMBER MUSIC COLUMBUS, OH
Southern Theatre
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
Thursday, March 1, 7:30pm - BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, PA
Weis Center for the Performing Arts
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
Sunday, February 11, 4pm - YALE UNIVERSITY, CT
Marquand Chapel, Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
This event is FREE and open to the public
Thursday, February 15, 7pm - HILLSDALE COLLEGE, MI
College Baptist Church
Saturday, February 17, 2pm - CHAMBER MUSIC COLUMBUS, OH
Southern Theatre
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
Thursday, March 1, 7:30pm - BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, PA
Weis Center for the Performing Arts
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
The Christmas Revels
A Venetian Celebration of the Winter Solstice
December 8-27, 2017
Sanders Theatre,
45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Megan Henderson, Music Director
A holiday tradition for more than four decades, The Christmas Revels is a joyful theatrical celebration of the winter solstice that travels the world each year showcasing cultural traditions including music, dance, folktales and rituals.
The 2017 Christmas Revels takes us to Renaissance Venice.
18 Performances - Matinees & Evenings
More information HERE
A Venetian Celebration of the Winter Solstice
December 8-27, 2017
Sanders Theatre,
45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Megan Henderson, Music Director
A holiday tradition for more than four decades, The Christmas Revels is a joyful theatrical celebration of the winter solstice that travels the world each year showcasing cultural traditions including music, dance, folktales and rituals.
The 2017 Christmas Revels takes us to Renaissance Venice.
18 Performances - Matinees & Evenings
More information HERE
Northern Harmony
Northern Harmony’s Fall 2017 Tour
Northern Harmony, the unique world music choir based in Vermont, present a thrilling mix of world harmony traditions including South African songs and dances, traditional polyphony from Georgia, Corsica, and the Balkans, American shape-note singing and quartet gospel, and renaissance motets. They will have travelled Northern Harmony’s Fall 2017 Tour will start with a rehearsal week in Vermont in late August 2017 followed by two months touring in the UK, France, Switzerland and Italy, with a final week of performances in New England in early November.
New England Dates:
November 7th- Montpelier, VT,Unitarian Church, 7:30 concert
November 8th – Marlboro, VT, Marlboro College, 7:30 concert
November 9th – New Haven, CT, Yale University
November 10th - Hadley, MA, Wesley Methodist Church, 7:30 Concert
November 11th – Concord, MA, Masonic Hall, evening concert, afternoon workshop with Boston Harmony
November 12th – Boston, Trinity Church, 1:00 workshop, 3:00 concert https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northern-harmony-tickets-37916168280
Full Itinerary at: http://northernharmony.pair.com/northern-harmony/
Tsa Wela (South African) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHWwn2o56Do
Green wood (American): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JoEzAvMmCs
Woman Well (American): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f28Rfx0alOo
Albanian song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O140SNyOYmo
Northern Harmony’s Fall 2017 Tour
Northern Harmony, the unique world music choir based in Vermont, present a thrilling mix of world harmony traditions including South African songs and dances, traditional polyphony from Georgia, Corsica, and the Balkans, American shape-note singing and quartet gospel, and renaissance motets. They will have travelled Northern Harmony’s Fall 2017 Tour will start with a rehearsal week in Vermont in late August 2017 followed by two months touring in the UK, France, Switzerland and Italy, with a final week of performances in New England in early November.
New England Dates:
November 7th- Montpelier, VT,Unitarian Church, 7:30 concert
November 8th – Marlboro, VT, Marlboro College, 7:30 concert
November 9th – New Haven, CT, Yale University
November 10th - Hadley, MA, Wesley Methodist Church, 7:30 Concert
November 11th – Concord, MA, Masonic Hall, evening concert, afternoon workshop with Boston Harmony
November 12th – Boston, Trinity Church, 1:00 workshop, 3:00 concert https://www.eventbrite.com/e/northern-harmony-tickets-37916168280
Full Itinerary at: http://northernharmony.pair.com/northern-harmony/
Tsa Wela (South African) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHWwn2o56Do
Green wood (American): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JoEzAvMmCs
Woman Well (American): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f28Rfx0alOo
Albanian song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O140SNyOYmo
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Lorelei Ensemble
Rockport Music Friday, June 23, 2017 at 8pm at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, in Rockport, MA Heralded for its “warm, lithe, and beautifully blended” sound (New York Times) “impeccable musicality” (Boston Globe) and unfailing display of the “elegance, power, grace, and beauty of the human voice” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) Boston’s Lorelei Ensemble is quickly becoming recognized as a source of some of the most innovative and inventive programming in Boston and beyond. The ensemble performs works by Guillaume Du Fay and William Billings as well as commissions from today’s finest young contemporary composers like Joshua Bornfield, Peter Gilbert and Adam Jacob Simon. INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE |
Witness
Lorelei Ensemble Boston Subscription Series
Saturday June 10th 2017 at 8pm - Marsh Chapel, Boston University
and Sunday June 11th 2017 at 4pm - Marsh Chapel, Boston University
Tickets - $15 Student/$30 General Admission
For its 10th anniversary, Lorelei commissions four new works for women's voices by four brilliant and timely composers: James Kallembach, Augusta Read Thomas, Shawn Kirchner, and Jonathan Woody. Modern spirituals by Thomas, Kirchner, and Woody serve as responses to Kallembach's The Death of Antigone, which parallels ancient martyrdom with 20th century activism. An extension of Lorelei's ongoing "New Americana" initiative (funded by New Music USA in 2014), "Witness" shifts its glance outward toward modern global crises, and offers four re-imaginings of a truly American genre as a vehicle toward global empathy and action.
http://www.loreleiensemble.com/1617-season/
Lorelei Ensemble Boston Subscription Series
Saturday June 10th 2017 at 8pm - Marsh Chapel, Boston University
and Sunday June 11th 2017 at 4pm - Marsh Chapel, Boston University
Tickets - $15 Student/$30 General Admission
For its 10th anniversary, Lorelei commissions four new works for women's voices by four brilliant and timely composers: James Kallembach, Augusta Read Thomas, Shawn Kirchner, and Jonathan Woody. Modern spirituals by Thomas, Kirchner, and Woody serve as responses to Kallembach's The Death of Antigone, which parallels ancient martyrdom with 20th century activism. An extension of Lorelei's ongoing "New Americana" initiative (funded by New Music USA in 2014), "Witness" shifts its glance outward toward modern global crises, and offers four re-imaginings of a truly American genre as a vehicle toward global empathy and action.
http://www.loreleiensemble.com/1617-season/
Come Slowly, Eden!
New songs, Hymns and Madrigals by Adam Simon
setting poetry of Emily Dickinson, Kathleen Raine, ee cummings and others
Friday May 26th 2017, at 7.30pm St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 15 St. Paul Street, Brookline, MA 02446
Sonja Tengblad, Soprano
Sophie Michaux, Alto
Alex Nishiban, Tenor
Adam Simon, Baritone
Lawson Daves, Bass
Christopher Staknys, Piano
Jeremy Harman, Cello
$20 Admission
$10Student/Senior/Starving Artist
Tickets available at http://comeslowlyeden.brownpapertickets.com/
Bach's B Minor Mass
with Trinity Church of Boston
directed by Richard Webster and Colin Lynch
Friday May 19th 2017 at 7.30pm at the Trinity Church of Boston, on Copley Square, Boston MA
Sophie Michaux will be the Alto Soloist
Lorelei and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
February 9th-11th 2017 at 8pm at the Boston Symphony Hall, Boston MA
March 2nd 2017, at 8pm, at Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY
Andris Nelsons conducts Ravel, Benjamin and Berlioz featuring countertenor Benjun Mehta and the Lorelei Ensemble
Artist & Program Information:
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Bejun Mehta, countertenor
Lorelei Ensemble,
Beth Willer, artistic director
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
George BENJAMIN Dream of the Song (BSO co-commission)
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/79668
http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2017/3/2/0800/PM/Boston-Symphony-Orchestra/
February 9th-11th 2017 at 8pm at the Boston Symphony Hall, Boston MA
March 2nd 2017, at 8pm, at Carnegie Hall, New York City, NY
Andris Nelsons conducts Ravel, Benjamin and Berlioz featuring countertenor Benjun Mehta and the Lorelei Ensemble
Artist & Program Information:
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Bejun Mehta, countertenor
Lorelei Ensemble,
Beth Willer, artistic director
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
George BENJAMIN Dream of the Song (BSO co-commission)
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique
https://www.bso.org/Performance/Detail/79668
http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2017/3/2/0800/PM/Boston-Symphony-Orchestra/
Versailles
Portrait of a royal domain, part of the Boston Early Music Festival
SUNDAY | NOVEMBER 27, 2016 | 3PM
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston
BEMF Chamber Opera Series
Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles
& Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Anna Watkins, Costume Designer
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
BEMF Vocal Ensemble
Mireille Asselin, Jesse Blumberg, Olivier Laquerre, Mireille Lebel, Jason McStoots, Sophie Michaux, Aaron Sheehan, Teresa Wakim, & others
BEMF Chamber Ensemble
Portrait of a royal domain, part of the Boston Early Music Festival
SUNDAY | NOVEMBER 27, 2016 | 3PM
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston
BEMF Chamber Opera Series
Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles
& Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Gilbert Blin, Stage Director
Anna Watkins, Costume Designer
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster
BEMF Vocal Ensemble
Mireille Asselin, Jesse Blumberg, Olivier Laquerre, Mireille Lebel, Jason McStoots, Sophie Michaux, Aaron Sheehan, Teresa Wakim, & others
BEMF Chamber Ensemble