Dermot Gleeson, guitar

$5 suggested

Gayane Chebotaryan – Piano Trio
Astor Piazzolla – The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Brahms – Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8 in B major

Violin: Haig Hovsepian
Cello: Ismael Guerrero Bombut
Piano: Matias Nestor Cuevas

Bach & Beer

Aaron Larget-Caplan: Moving still and honey cadence
J.S. Bach: Prelude-Fugue-Allegro, BWV 998
Bach: Keyboard Preludes, WTC Book I & 2 (select)
Karl Henning: Uneasy Sleep (2025) – World Premiere
George Papajohn: Berceuse Antiphon (2026) –
Laurie Spiegel: Remembering (2021)
John Cage: A Room
J. Rosamond Johnson: Lift Every Voice and Sing
Samuel Smith: Star Spangled Banner

Dermot Gleeson, guitar

$5 suggested

Emanuel Ax, piano
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22, K.482
BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

In The Breath of Music, pianist Alexandros Kyriakopoulos directs a romantic, lyric musical adventure as dancers float on the notes debuting choreography by Gianni Di Marco and Heather Nichols. Artwork display and live drawing by Vineeta Kapoor accompany the program.

$22 suggested

a reimagining of Goldberg Variations, expanding Bach’s iconic keyboard masterpiece in revelatory, unexpected ways for piano and string orchestra.

Nicola Matteis
Ayres for the Violin, Book I (1676)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Sonata No. 3 in F major, C. 140 (1681)
John Eccles
A Melancholy Aire from The Mad Lover (about 1700)
Giuseppe Tartini
Sonata in G minor, B.g5, “The Devil’s Trill”
III. Andante, arranged for solo violin (1713)
J.S. Bach
Sonata No. 2 in A major for Violin and Harpsichord, BWV 1015 (1717–1723)

Jean-Marie Leclair
Sonata in D major, Op. 9, No. 3, “Tombeau” (1743)
Francesco Maria Veracini
Sonata in D minor, Op. 2 No. 12, “Sonate accademiche” (1744)
Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer
La Marche des Scythes (1746)
Jacques Duphly
Pièces de clavecin, Livre 2 (1748)
Wanessa Dourado
Canto Bachiano (2023)

Artist
Twelfth Night Ensemble is:
Rachell Ellen Wong, violin
David Belkovski, harpsichord
Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Schrank II ~ Cabinet II:
Choice works by Händel, Vivaldi, Lully, Campra, Locatelli, Telemann & J.G. Pisendel. Additionally, Sarasa will present a world premiere by NYC-based composer Rebecca Scout Nelson

With Richard Pittsinger, tenor; Rebecca Scout Nelson, composer/violin, Susanna Ogata, Nelli Jabotinsky, violins; Emily Dahl Irons, violin/viola; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, cellos; John McKean, harpsichord

GUBAIDULINA/Elena FIRSOVA Prologue for orchestra (Posthumous world premiere; BSO co-commission) MAHLER Symphony No. 7

ohn Adams: Fellow Traveler
Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight
Philip Glass: String Quartet No. 3 (Mishima)
Bernard Herrmann: Echoes for string quartet (1965)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat

Paul Huang 黃俊文, violin
Helen Huang 黃海倫, piano

Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel for violin and piano
Beethoven: Sonata No. 9 for Violin and Piano, “Kreutzer”
Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata No.1 in D minor, Op.75

Purcel : Fantasias for four viols, Nos. 5 & 7 (1680)
Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5 (1772)
Ornstein: Piano Quintet, Op. 92 (1927)
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Suite No. 2 for Four Strings and Piano

Artist
Geneva Lewis, violin
YooJin Jang, violin
Emma Wernig, viola
Jay Campbell, cello
Conrad Tao, piano

How to Get Tickets | Museum Admission

Music Director, Mark Latham
Giovanni Bottesini: Gran Duo Concertante, Emmanuel Feldman, Cello, and Pascal Delache-Feldman, Double Bass
Elisabetta Brusa: Merlin, for orchestra, Op.20
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Works of Frescobaldi, Froberger, and Bach

Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B-flat major, Op.
Marguerite Canal: Violin Sonata (1922)
Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

Mozart: String Quartet in C major, K. 465 “Dissonance”
Billy Childs: Variation on a Rondo
Billy Childs: Oscuro
Billy Childs: Agitato
Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat major, Op. 127
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59, No. 3

FREE but ticket required

Erin Matthews, soprano; Sam Bradley, tenor

$5 suggested

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 1
Florence Price: The Oak
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben

FREE but ticket required

NEC’s new Director of Wind Ensembles, Kevin Fitzgerald, makes his debut with the NEC Symphonic Winds.

Karel Husa: Cheetah
Bach (Arr. Hunsberger): Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
David Liptak: Through Brightening Air
Percy Grainger: Linconshire Posy

FREE but ticket required

Seong-Jin Cho, piano
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2

Paula Robison, flute
Deborah de Wolf Emery, piano
Nigel Potts, organ

Program to include a solo flute world premiere by Allison Loggins-Hull

$30/$20 suggested

Andrus Madsen will perform music from mid-18th-century Paris on a copy of a 1769 Taskin harpsichord built by Robert Hicks. With its rich, generous sound, this instrument is ideally suited to the sonorous music of mid-century Paris, including works by Couperin, Duphly, and Forqueray

Schubert: Quartet No. 14 “Death and the Maiden”
George Walker: String Quartet No. 1 (1946)
Carlos Simon: An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave (2015)

Reich, Poulenc, and Beethoven

FREE but ticket required

Mozart: Symphony No. 25 in G Minor, K. 183/173
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, op. 93

FREE but ticket required

Kirill Gerstein, piano
BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture
Francisco COLL Piano Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Roxbury BPL

Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons to life with brilliance, energy, and vivid storytelling, from the sparkling joys of spring to winter’s icy chill. Presented by Roxbury Concert Series in partnership with Neighborhood Arts.

FREE with rsvp

Kirill Gerstein, piano
BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture
Francisco COLL Piano Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Benjamin Britten, Phantasy Quartet for oboe & strings,
Elliott Carter, Woodwind Quintet (1948)
Beethoven, Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12
John Cage, Nocturne for violin & piano
Richard Strauss, Piano Quartet in c minor, Op. 13, T

Edvard Grieg – Holberg Suite
Kristof Penderecki – Sinfonietta for Strings
William Walton – Sonata for Strings

FREE but ticket required

Kirill Gerstein, piano
BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture Francisco COLL Piano Concerto (U.S. premiere; BSO co-commission) BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

Hilary Hahn, violin
Seth Parker Woods, cello
TCHAIKOVSKY Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
Carlos SIMON Double Concerto Suite for violin and cello (BSO co-commission)

Shostakovich| Selections from 24 Preludes and Fugues,
Shostakovich| Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op. 144
Bach | Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 849
Beethoven | Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

Twelfth Baptist Church

Foundational spirituals published by H.T. Burleigh, James Weldon Johnson, and R. Nathaniel Dett will be woven through reimagined contemporary works by such composers as Shawn Okphebelo, Adolphus Hailstork, and Jessie Montgomery.

FREE with RSVP

MOZART | Overture to Cosi fan tutte
BEETHOVEN | Symphony No. 8
BRAHMS | Violin Concerto

Avlana Eisenberg, conductor
Joshua Brown, violin

MARY KOUYOUMDJIAN – Studies on Rage for Each Day of the Week for flute, bassoon and piano (2025)
JONATHAN RUSSELL – Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (2026)
WORLD PREMIERE RADIUS CO-COMMISSION
CAROLINE SHAW – Limestone and Felt for viola and cello (2012)
FRANCIS POULENC – Sextet for piano and winds (1932)

Esther in the Age of Rembrandt
With special guests: Amanda Forsythe, Teresa Wakim, Kim Leeds, Aaron Sheehan, and Jesse Blumberg

Salomone Rossi:
Sinfonia grave à5 (about 1607)
Gagliarda Massara (about 1607)

Leonora Duarte: Sinfonia à5, No. 5
Giacomo Carissimi: Regina Hester (
Johann Heinrich Schmelze\: Balletto, genandt das Narrenspitall
Charpentier: Historia Esther
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Esther (about 1708)

Shelen Hughes Camacho, soprano and Joseph Parrish, baritone, Amir Farid, piano

Love Letter to the Americas features songs, arias, and show tunes from Mozart to the present.

Jessie Montgomery – Overture
Haydn – Symphony No. 88
Dvořák – Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, Nos. 2 and 6
Dvořák – Symphony No. 8

FREE but ticket required

Caroline Shaw and Andrew Yee, Grammy Award–winning musicians, who will perform a selection of their music inspired by the restless matter that shapes the arresting places and settings we imagine and inhabit.

FREE but reservation required

Franco-Flemish chansons and the sacred motets and masses that borrow their secular tunes. Featuring music by Binchois, Du Fay, Okeghem, Agricola, La Rue, and Bauldeweyn.

Méhul – Symphony No. 1
Ravel – Ma Mère l’Oye
Debussy – La mer

Jules Massenet: C’est au temps de la chrysanthème
Léo Delibes: Chrysanthème (1889)
Giacomo Puccini: Crisantemi (1890)
Scott Joplin: : The Chrysanthemum: An Afro-American Intermezzo
Dora Pejačević: Chrysanthemums (1908)
Nikolai Harito: Ottsveli khrizantemy (1910)
William Penn: Chrysanthemums (1912)
Zbigniew Maciejowski: Chryzantemy złociste
Ernesto Lecuona: Crisantemo (before 1940)
Tōru Takemitsu: From far beyond Chrysanthemums…
Xiaogang Ye: December Chrysanthemum
Juantio Becenti: Piano Trio: III. In the Greenhouse

Akshaya Avril Tucker: Breathing Sunlight for violin & cello
Fabian Otten: L’Assillo for violin & marimba
Paul Wiancko: American Haiku for viola & cello
Caroline Shaw: Limestone and Felt for viola & marimba
Krzysztof Penderecki: Ciaccona for violin & viola
Osvaldo Golijov: Mariel for cello & marimba

Exploring the life-affirming sounds of the young Republic, as its citizens sang and played forth their love of freedom and rejection of tyranny.

Gabriela Lena Frank: Frida y Diego Suite (2025) from El último sueño de Frida y Diego
Derrick Skye: Tesseract (world premiere)
Tessa Lark, violin
Deborah Pae, cello
Berlioz: Romeo alone and the Capulet’s Ball from Romèo et Juliette
Ravel: La valse

FREE but ticket required

with Green Room Ensemble

Eleanor Alberga
String Quartet No. 1 (1993)
String Quartet No. 2 (1994)
String Quartet No. 3 (2001)
Piano Quintet No. 2, “Stark” (2022) world-premiere tour

Artist
Eleanor Alberga, piano

Green Room Ensemble is:
Thomas Bowes, violin
Nathan Meltzer, violin
Jordan Bak, viola
Sterling Elliott, cello

Haydn’s The Creation

Louise Alder, soprano
Bogdan Volkov, tenor
David Steffens, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Castle of our Skins givers an interdisciplinary performance and artist salon celebrating Black artists who challenge convention, embrace creative risk, and imagine new possibilities for expression.

Monteverdi:
‘Volgendo il ciel’ (From Madrigals, Book 8)
‘Baci soavi e cari’ (Book 1)
‘Ecco mormorar l’onde’ (Book 2)
‘Chiome d’oro’ (Book 7)
‘Lamento della Ninfa’ (Book 8)
‘Sfogava con le stelle’ (Book 4)
‘Si ch’io vorrei morire’ (Book 4)
‘A quest’olmo (Book 8)
‘Il Combattimento’ (Book 8)
‘Romanesca’ (Book 7)
‘Zefiro Torno’ (Book 6)
‘Ballo ‘Tirsi e Cloro’ (Book 7)

Haydn’s The Creation

Louise Alder, soprano
Bogdan Volkov, tenor
David Steffens, bass-baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus

Beethoven :
Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1
Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 “The Tempest”
Sonata No. 25 in G Major, Op. 79
Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 “Waldstein”

Music Director Francisco Noya,
Brahams’ Tragic Overture
Stravinsky’s Petrushka
Beethoven’s Triple Concerto

TBA

FREE but ticket required

Serbian and French musicians, united by friendship and a shared desire to inspire one another toward their highest artistry. Making its U.S. debut in 2026 with Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.”

Selections include works by Vivaldi, Albinoni, Castello, Handel, Maria Teresa Agnesi, Antonio Archilei, Colin Jacobsen, and traditional Italian folk music.

Cécile McLorin Salvant, vocalist
Davóne Tines, bass-baritone
Cyro Baptista, percussion
Kayhan Kalhor
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
BSO x NEC Honors Children’s Choir
Creation (World premiere; BSO commission)
Music by Osvaldo GOLIJOV
Book by David Henry HWANG
Lyrics by Leah Hager COHEN

Brahms | Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67
Pura Fé | Rattle Songs
Dvořák | Quartet No. 11 in C Major, Op. 61

Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 1, No. 1 Dvořák: Terzetto in C major for Two Violins and Viola,
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 (1891)

TBA

FREE but ticket required

Jan Lisiecki, Piano
WEBER Overture to Oberon
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, Spring

Thea lively and rarely performed masque from Restoration London features a libretto by Peter Anthony Motteux and music by John Eccles and Gottfried Finger.

conducted by Robert Tweten and directed by Joshua Major.

Jan Lisiecki, Piano
WEBER Overture to Oberon
MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No. 1
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, Spring

conducted by Robert Tweten and directed by Joshua Major.

Host Rob Kapilow, Boston’s A Far Cry chamber orchestra, and clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois unlock the secrets of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
RAVEL Pavane for a Dead Princess
GERSHWIN Concerto in F
RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome
RESPIGHI Roman Festivals

Harry Christophers, conductor
Hilary Cronin, soprano
Christopher Lowrey, countertenor
Robert Murray, tenor
Roderick Williams, bass-baritone
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
RAVEL Pavane for a Dead Princess
GERSHWIN Concerto in F
RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome
RESPIGHI Roman Festivals

Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors
Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, Stage Director & Choreographer
Robert Mealy, Concertmaster

Samuel Barber

Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6
Thomas Barth, cello, and Sergey Schepkin, piano
Piano Sonata, Op. 26
Yi-Zhe Wu, piano

Hermit Songs, Op. 29
Darren Chase, baritone, and Sergey Schepkin, piano

Music of Vivaldi and Boccherini

Renée Hemsing, Susanna Ogata, violins
Guy Fishman, cello
Members of NEC’s Early Music Collective

Music of Vivaldi and Boccherini

Renée Hemsing, Susanna Ogata, violins
Guy Fishman, cello
Members of NEC’s Early Music Collective

Celebrate Christmas in the English-speaking world down through the centuries with wonderful songs and carols from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to early America.

Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry, op. 79
sung in Yiddish by soprano, alto and tenor soloists
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, op. 26
with Clayton Stephenso
Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 edition)

FREE but ticket required

Bach | Prelude and Fugue in B Major, BWV 892
Unsuk Chin | Six Études
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Hélène de Montgeroult | Études
Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

conducted by Christoph Koncz. with soloists: soprano Liv Redpath, mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce, tenor Eric Ferring, and baritone Benjamin Appl.

Schütz: Hodie Christus natus est, SWV 456
Vierdanck: Sonata No. 28 (from Capricci, Canzoni und Sonaten,
Praetorius: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
Schein: Intrada (No. 21 from Banchetto Musicale, 1617)
Schein: Gagliarda, Allemanda (from Banchetto musicale,
Schütz: Heute ist Christus, der Herr, geboren SWV, 439
Praetorius: Ballet TMA 268, La Bouree TMA 32
Schütz: Auf dem Gebirge, SWV 396
Schein: Padouana (from Suite No. 10 of Banchetto Musicale, 1617)
Schütz: Siehe, es erschien der Engel, SWV 403
Schütz: Die Weihnachtshistorie (“The Christmas Story”),

Jonathan Cohen, conductor
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor (Evangelist)
H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Graceful melodies, exuberant cross-rhythms, and dazzling polyphony to celebrate this festive season. Experience Christmas in England in the 15th century with plainchant, carols, antiphons, and polyphonic Mass settings.

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major
Antoine Dauvergne: Concert de Simphonies No. 4 in A
Bach: Brandenburg Concert No. 6 in
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8; “Christmas Concerto”

Graceful melodies, exuberant cross-rhythms, and dazzling polyphony to celebrate this festive season. Experience Christmas in England in the 15th century with plainchant, carols, antiphons, and polyphonic Mass settings.

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major
Antoine Dauvergne: Concert de Simphonies No. 4 in A
Bach: Brandenburg Concert No. 6 in
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8; “Christmas Concerto”

Beethoven:

Three Leonore overtures, Romance No. 2 for violin and orchestra and the Choral Fantasy for fortepiano, vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra

Mozart – Symphony No. 32
Elgar – Cello Concerto | Sibelius
Symphony No. 2

Music of the 17th & 18th centuries to stir the passions

Elisa Citterio, Renée Hemsing, violins
Guy Fishman, cello
Heather Miller Lardin, violone
Ian Watson, harpsichord
Dušan Balarin, lute

an attempt to recreate the unique musical, poetic, and spiritual climate of Iberia in the thirteenth century.

fabulous, age-old music and poetry, and very much from the female point of view, around the always-contemporary themes of desire, yearning, and fulfillment.

Emilie Mayer – Faust Overture
Schubert – Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”
Beethoven – Triple Concerto

Music Director Francisco Noya
Gonzalo Grau’s Odisea, a Concerto for Cuatro and Orchestra with Jorge Glem.
Silvestre Revueltas: Sensemayá,
works by Inocente Carreño, Daniel Doura, &Jimmy López.

Music by Beethoven and Schumann

Shunske Sato, Renée Hemsing, violins
viola TBA
Guy Fishman, cello
Shuann Chai, piano

Music by Beethoven and Schumann

Shunske Sato, Renée Hemsing, violins
viola TBA
Guy Fishman, cello
Shuann Chai, piano

Cooper – World Premiere
Saint-Saëns – Cello Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5

Music Director Francisco Noya conducting Brahms’ German Requiem, in a collaboration with Chorus pro Musica.