Playing it Forward
October 24 & 25, 2026 (Sudbury and Boston)
Creative lineages from teachers to students are revealed in this multi-generational program. Works include a trio sonata by Zachow (Handel’s teacher), and an aria by J. C. Smith (Handel’s student), a trio sonata for strings by Kirnberger (J. S. Bach’s student), a flute sonata by Anna Amalia (Kirnberger’s student), an aria by Porpora (Haydn’s teacher), and an aria by Marianna Martines (Haydn’s student).
Christmas in Olde/New England
December 5 & 6, 2026 (Boston and Worcester)
Presented in collaboration with the early music choir Convivium Musicum
Celebrate the season with joyful and spirited Christmas choral and instrumental works from country churches on both sides of the Atlantic. The boisterous singing style of Early American fugueing tunes is featured alongside the rustic West Gallery style of rural England. Enjoy early arrangements of familiar seasonal tunes and festive instrumental works.
When in Rome
March 6 & 7, 2027 (Wayland and Boston)
Baroque composers from across Europe were drawn to the glorious musical culture of the Eternal City to study the highly-regarded expressive style of the Italians. Delight in the blossoming creativity of Handel, Charpentier, Muffat, Bononcini, Froberger, and others in this program that blends international styles in quartets, trios, duos, and solos.
Classical Kaleidoscope
April 17 & 18, 2027 (Worcester and Boston)
Rare chamber works written for multiple historical wind and string instruments come alive! Be immersed in a dazzling array of sonorities as the colors of clarinet, flute, bassoon, and horn blend with strings in an outstanding septet by Johann Nisle (an unjustly overlooked contemporary of Beethoven), and the regional premieres of a quintet by Andreas Lidl and
a sextet by Johann Andreas Amon (composers admired by Haydn).