Events

this season

SALONMUSIK

Nightingale Vocal Ensemble

Saturday, August 31, 2024 | 7:00 PM
Forsyth Chapel・Forest Hills Cemetery
Jamaica Plain, MA

Nightingale Vocal Ensemble opens its sixth season with SALONMUSIK. This program explores the many faces of the nightingale through music from the Renaissance era to the 21st century, in a range of languages and styles.
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Featuring
Mezzo solo: A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
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Gounod Requiem

Alto Soloist
Old South Church in Boston

Sunday, November 3, 2024 | 11:00 AM
Old South Church in Boston
Boston, MA

The Old South Church Festival Choir presents Gounod's stunning Requiem in celebration of All Saints' Sunday.
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Sounds of Christmas

Dee Opera

Saturday, December 8, 2024 | 3:00 PM
Saint Mary's Church
55 Warren Street, Charlestown

Get in the holiday spirit with the Beatrice Master Singers of Dee Opera! Featuring our professional choral ensemble of 24 voices, the Beatrice Master Singers of Dee Opera ring in the holiday season with Christmas Carols and holiday favorites.

Admission is free of charge
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A Very Mudville Christmas

The Mudville Madrigal Singers

Friday, December 13, 2024 | 8:00 PM
Christ the King Lutheran Church
600 Central Street, Holliston, MA

Saturday, December 14 | 3:00 PM
The Congregational Church of Weston
130 Newton Street, Weston, MA
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The Mudville Madrigal Singers gather for their annual holiday concert, featuring the music of Byrd, Elgar, Vittoria, Vaughn Williams, Irving Berlin, and more!
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Admission is free of charge
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Christmas Celebration Concert

Our Lady of the Good Voyage Quartet

Saturday, December 15, 2024 | 4:00 PM
Our Lady of the Good Voyage Shrine
51 Seaport Bvld., Boston

Pause amid the holiday shuffle to enjoy a program of beloved Christmas hymns and carols, presented by a quartet of singers.
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Admission is free of charge
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SOLSTICE

Nightingale Vocal Ensemble

Saturday, December 21, 2024 | 5:00 PM & 8:00 PM
Cathedral Church of Saint Paul
Boston, MA

SOLSTICE invites you to dissolve the boundaries between audience and performer and embrace a collective act of creation with the members of Nightingale. Celebrate the winter solstice—a time of community, ritual, and feasting—by coming together on the darkest night of the year to embrace mysteries and magic stretching back to the dawn of human history.
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Don Carlo

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra

Sunday, January 26, 2025 | 3:00 PM
Sanders Theater at Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

BYSO Opera presents Verdi's Don Carlo under the baton of Federico Cortese, directed by Joshua Major.

Please note that this performance is suitable for children age 10 and older.
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Stories in Song

Boston Cecilia

Saturday, March 1, 2025 | 3:00 PM
United Parish ・Brookline, MA
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Jamie joins the Boston Cecilia's inaugural Family Concert to perform Kelvyn Koning's Birds of a Feather with a quartet of fellow Nightingale Vocal Ensemble members.
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Voices of Water

Nightingale Vocal Ensemble

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Shalin Liu Center・Rockport, MA

Friday, March 14, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Cathedral Church of Saint Paul・Boston, MA

Saturday, March 15, 2025 | 7:00 PM
1717 Meetinghouse・West Barnstable, MA

Nightingale celebrates the water-influenced history of the Bay State through a rich musical representation of our beloved New England home.
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NightinGala: Renaissance Reimagined

Nightingale Vocal Ensemble

Saturday, May 3, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Gordon Chapel at Old South Church・Boston, MA

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Nightingale had existed 400 years ago? Come and find out by joining us for this year’s NightinGALA: Renaissance Reimagined, a performance of new compositions based on early sources paired directly with the pieces that informed them.
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The Waking Sun

Back Bay Chorale

Saturday, May 17, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Sanders Theater at Harvard University・Cambridge, MA

Hailed as ‘a knockout’ by the  Philadelphia Inquirer, Kile Smith's The Waking Sun  opens a window into that "otherness" waiting patiently for each of us while we tend to our daily existence. It's an ancient philosophy for the modern age.

‍Henry Purcell: Hear my prayer, Oh Lord
‍Giacomo CARISSIMI: Jephte
Kile SMITH: The Waking Sun
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Spring Concert

Mudville Madrigal Singers

Friday, May 30, 2025 | 8 PM
Holliston, MA
Saturday, May 31, 2025 | 8 PM
Weston, MA

The Mudville Madrigal Singers conclude their concert season with a celebration of Spring, presented at two performances at the end of May.

Admission to these concerts is free of charge
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Frederick Douglass by Ulysses Kay

Odyssey Opera

Friday, June 20, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Jordan Hall・Boston, MA

In October 2021, Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) announced As Told By: History, Race, and Justice on the Opera Stage, the most extensive and ambitious presentation of opera by Black composers to ever take place in the US. Ulysses Kay’s Frederick Douglass is the second installment of five operas that depict vital figures of Black liberation and thought across 250 years of history.
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past seasons

Winter - Spring 2024

The Good King

Old South Church in Boston

World Premiere
‍Sunday January 7, 2024| 11 AM
Old South Church⎜645 Boylston St, Boston

Jamie debuts the role of Otto (Page) in this premiere performance of The Good King: a micro-opera in two scenes. Devised and directed by Mitchell Crawford, this telling of the King Wenceslas story features music by Leo Sowerby with libretto by John Mason Neale.
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Bellini's Norma

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra

Sunday January 21, 2024| 3 PM
Sanders Theater at Harvard University, Cambridge

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra presents Vincenzo Bellini's tragic opera Norma under the baton of Federico Cortese.
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When Peace Was Far Away:
a cantata for Walnut Hill

World Premiere
Walnut Hill School for the Arts

Thursday January 25, 2024
Walnut Hill School, Natick

Commissioned by the Walnut Hill School for the Arts for  January Project 2024, this cantata demonstrates compositional mastery in its text setting and harmonic structure. Jamie joins the Walnut Hill Music Department Choir under the baton of conductor and composer, William David Cooper for this world premiere performance.

Features
Trio, movement IV "My Soul, There is a Country"
Pink blooming flowers in front of wispy grass, and a blue sky with wispy clouds

Les Belles Chansons

The Boston Cecilia

Saturday March 16, 2024 | 8 PM
All Saints Parish, Brookline

The Cecilia Spring Concert celebrates the music of the French cultural diaspora with works by French composers Lili Boulanger, Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel and Camille Saint-Saëns, Haitian-American composer Sydney Guillaume, Quebecois composer Lionel Dauner, and more.

Featuring
Mezzo-soprano solo, L'hymne au Soliel - Lili Boulanger
Solo quartet, Constellation - Marie-Claire Saindon
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Palm Sunday

Old South Church in Boston

Sunday March 24, 2024 | 11 AM
Old South Church, Copley Square

Old South marks Jesus’ triumphal entrance into Jerusalem as shouts of Hosanna fade to the drama of the coming week.

Featuring
Alto solo, Let This Mind Be In You - Austin C. Lovelace
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Good Friday

Old South Church in Boston

Friday March 29, 2024 | 7 PM
Gordon Chapel, Old South Church‍

Guided by Franz Liszt's Via Crucis, this service journies through the stations of the cross on the most somber day of the Christian year. Old South gathers in prayer and song to reflect on the last hours of Christ, and mourn the death that changed the world.

Featuring
Mezzo-soprano solo, Via Crucis - Franz Liszt
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Aerial view of a church in Germany

Mozart Requiem

The Boston Cecilia
with the Lowell Chamber Orchestra

Saturday May 4, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Academic Arts Center, Lowell・Michael Barrett, conductor
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Saturday May 11, 2024 | 8 PM
All Saints Parish, Brookline・Orlando Cela, conductor

To complete this exciting season, Cecilia will partner with the Lowell Chamber Orchestra for two performances of the Robert Levin completion of Mozart’s final masterpiece, his unfinished Requiem.
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2023
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La damnation de Faust

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra

January 22, 2023 | 3 PM
Sanders Theater at Harvard University

BYSO presents Berlioz's La damnation de Faust under the baton of Federico Cortese.
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A bare tree on a winder landscape invites audiences to The Boston Cecilia's Prophecy concert.

Prophecy

The Boston Cecilia

March 11, 2023 | 8 PM
All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA

This concert explores the complex history of how Dvorak's vision for an American style of music came to be heeded by some and shunned by others, and how the long shadows of slavery and racism played such pivotal roles in the landscape of classical music in the United States, up to the present day.

Featuring
Quintet, O Praise the Lord - Walker
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Holy Week 2023

Old South Church in Boston

April 6 |7 PM - Maundy Thursday
Tenebrae worship service led by the Willie Sordillo Ensemble with Choral Fellows of Old South Church

April 7 | 7 PM - Good Friday
Soprano Soloist
Seven Last Words of Christ, Dubois
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April 9 | 9 & 11 AM - Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday services featuring the music of Vaughn Williams
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Exultet Terra

Cappella Clausura

October 14, 2023 | 8 PM
Grace Church, Newton
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October 15, 2023 | 4 PM
Emmanuel Church, Boston
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Cappella Clausura opens its 20th season with Hilary Tann's Exultet Terra for double reed quintet and double choir. Performed with oboist Jennifer Slowik and friends.
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Brahms Requiem

Old South Church Choir

November 5, 2023 | 11 AM
Old South Church in Boston

The Old South Church choir presents Ein Deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms in observation of All Saints Day.
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Meetinghouse Sunday

Old South Church Choir

November 19, 2023 | 9:45 AM
Old South Meetinghouse, Boston

Old South Church returns to its historic meetinghouse for an annual exuberant Thanksgiving service, featuring classic American repertoire and the Old South Ringers handbell choir.

Featuring
Quartet, Autumn Carol - arr. Schulz-Widmar
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Prophecy

The Boston Cecilia

November 19, 2023 | 4 PM
St. John's Episcopal Church, Beverly Farms, MA

As a guest performing group, Cecilia will offer a repeat of its highly successful March 2023 program, Prophecy: Brahms' Legacy in American Choral Music, in the St. John's Concert Series in Beverly Farms.

Featuring
Quintet, O Praise the Lord - Walker
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Candle beside sheet music paper with a pen

Bach Illuminated

The Boston Cecilia

Friday December 8, 2023| 8 PM
Church of the Advent⎜30 Brimmer St, Boston

Sunday December 10, 2023| 3 PM
Livestreamed Performance
All Saints Parish⎜1773 Beacon St, Brookline

Cecilia offers a concert for the holiday season that shines a light on Johann Sebastian Bach: on the composers who influenced him and those who were influenced by him.
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Featuring
‍‍‍Trio,  Jesu, Mein Freude mvt. 8 - J.S. Bach
Quartet, Halt was du hast - J.M. Bach
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2022
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Our Transcendental Passion

World Premiere
The Boston Cecilia

April 2, 2022 | 8 PM
All Saint's Paris, Brookline
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April 3, 2022 | 8 PM
Umbrella Arts Center, Concord
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Cecilia performs the world premiere of Paul John Rudoi's Our Transcendental Passion, a poetic and musical meditation on the Transcendentalist movement. The libretto is based on the words of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as those of marginalized voices, Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.
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Blue and yellow flowers, and a blue and yellow flag adorn the chancel of Old South Church, with choir members in crimson robes in the background.

Holy Week 2022

Old South Church in Boston

April 14, 7 PM - Maundy Thursday
Tenebrae worship service led by the Willie Sordillo Ensemble with Choral Fellows of Old South Church

April 15 | 7 PM - Good Friday
The Crucifixion, Sir John Stainer
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April 17 | 9 AM, 11 AM and 1 PM - Easter Sunday
The "Church of the Finish Line" celebrates a special Easter Festival Worship & Marathon Blessing with the music of Calvin Hampton.
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A Musical Banquet

The Boston Cecilia

June 4, 2022 | 8 PM
First Church in Cambridge, MA

The Boston Cecilia joins forces with Convivium Musicum for the world-premiere of Land-Locked, a work for double chorus composed especially for Cecilia and Covivium by Gregory W. Brown, alongside polychoral works by Joby Talbot and Mikołaj Zieleński.
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A red farmhouse sits on a hill in the Fall, text reads A Wondrous Light

A Wondrous Light

Soloist, The Boston Cecilia

October 20, 2022 | 7 PM
The Concord Museum

Featuring choral arrangements from Paul John Rudoi's Transcendental Passion, and a premiere composition by Cecilia member Benjamin Perry.
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Nightingale Vocal Ensemble invites audiences to Winds of Change

Winds of Change

Soloist, Nightingale Vocal Ensemble

October 22, 2022 | 8 PM
St Peter's Episcopal, Cambridge

October 23, 2022 | 6 PM
Old North Church, Boston

Music for chamber choir about the human toll of climate change & war, featuring a premiere composition by Laura Nevitt
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Fauré's Requiem

Old South Church in Boston

November 6, 2022 | 10 AM
Old South Church, Boston

The Old South Church Choir performs a premiere arrangement of Fauré's Requiem by Mitchell Crawford.
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Front view of the brick facade and white wood steeple of the colonial era Old South Meetinghouse in Boston on a crisp, clear day.

Meetinghouse Sunday

Old South Church Choir

November 20, 2022 | 9:45 AM
Old South Meetinghouse, Boston

Old South Church returns to its historic meetinghouse for an annual exuberant Thanksgiving service, featuring classic American repertoire and the Old South Ringers handbell choir.
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Incandescent bulbs create a warm glow inviting audiences to The Boston Cecilia's Evensong program

Evensong

The Boston Cecilia

December 2, 2022 | 8 PM
Church of the Advent, Boston

December 3, 2022 | 8 PM
All Saints Parish, Brookline
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Cecilia ushers in the holiday season with a new take on the tradition of Evensong, offering a set of sacred works from different faiths and traditions to aurally illuminate the dark hours of the darkest time of year.
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Christmas Eve

Old South Church in Boston

December 24, 2022
Old South Church, Boston
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5 PM Children's Pageant
8 PM Lessons & Carols
11 PM Candlelit Chapel Service

Old South Church celebrates Christmas Eve with three distinct services, first a children's pageant with duets of hymns and carols, one grand and formal with full choir, and the final intimate and serene with a chamber choir of The Old South Choral Fellows.
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2021
Solo hiker walking towards the sea on a hill covered in tall, yellow grass, with text that says Santiago, referencing the Camino de Santiago.

Path of Miracles

Soloist, The Boston Cecilia & ODC/dance

October 7, 8 & 9, 2021 | 8 PM
First Church in Cambridge, MA
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The Boston Cecilia, joined by colleagues from Convivium Musicum and the Jameson Singers, presents an immersive performance of Joby Talbot's 17-part Path of Miracles in collaboration with San Francisco's ODC/Dance.
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Presented by Global Arts Live
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Poster for Renaissance Reborn, a concert presented by the Boston Cecilia, featuring the faces of composers on the program.

Renaissance Reborn

The Boston Cecilia

December 10, 2021 | 8 PM
Church of the Advent, Boston
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December 12, 2021 | 3 PM
All Saint's Parish, Brookline
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Cecilia ushers in the holiday season with music of the 20th and 21st centuries that reflects the influence of the 15th and 16th century European musical Renaissance. This live, a cappella program cleverly pairs the old and new to reveal connections and highlight features common to then and now.
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