Sunday, September 22, 4 pm

Bach Project

Dashon Burton, bass-baritone

Julia McKenzie, baroque violin

Andrew Sheranian, organ

Ashmont Boy Choir

Parish of All Saints, 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester

 

Praised for his “nobility and rich tone,” (The New York Times) and his “enormous, thrilling voice seemingly capable … [of] raising the dead;” (Wall Street Journal), bass-baritone Dashon Burton has established a world-wide career in opera, recital, and in many works with orchestra.

 

Program

 

 Fantasia in G major for organ, BWV 572

 Ich habe genug, BWV82

 Sonata for Violin solo in G minor, BWV1001

 Der Friede sei mit dir, BWV158

 

Tickets:  Adult: $25; Student: $18; EBT Card Holder: $3, children under 17 free.

Sunday, October 20, 4:00 pm

Claremont Trio

Peabody Hall, 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester

 

Lauded as “one of America’s finest young chamber groups” Strad Magazine, the Claremont Trio is sought after for its thrillingly virtuosic and richly communicative performances. First winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Claremonts are consistently lauded for their "aesthetic maturity, interpretive depth, and exuberance" (Palm Beach Daily News).

 

 

Program
Haydn, Trio No. 39 in G major, Hob. XV/25 “Gypsy”
Judd Greenstein,  A Serious Man, 2013

(commissioned for the Claremont Trio)
Dvorak,  Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90 “Dumky”     

 

 

 

Tickets:  Adult: $25; Student: $18; EBT Card Holder: $3, children under 17 free

Sunday, November10, 4 pm

Randall Goosby, violin

Zhu Wang, piano

Peabody Hall, All Saints Church, 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester

 

First Prize in the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions as well as the Buffalo Chamber Music Society Prize, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Prize, Harriman-Jewell Series Prize, Vancouver Society Prize, The LP Classics, Inc. Debut Recording Prize and the Sander Buchman Prize

 

He “exerted a masterly level of control and lavished an exquisite tone...his performance won him a deserved standing ovation for its sheer virtuosity.” New York Times

 

Program

 

Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Chaconne in G minor

Claude Debussy, Sonata in G minor

William Grant Still, Suite for Violin and Piano

Richard Strauss, Sonata in E-flat Major

 

 

Tickets:  Adult: $25; Student: $18; EBT Card Holder: $3, children under 17 free.

Sunday, March 15, 4 pm

HUB New Music & Hannah Lash

(concert cancelled: recording to be presented on August 16, 4pm)

 

Peabody Hall, 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester

 

Hub New Music and the "striking" (New York Times) composer/harpist Hannah Lash collaborate on a new multi-movement work for mixed quartet and harp. Lash joins the ensemble as the harpist in her thirty minute work that explores the limitless expressive range of this new instrumentation. Also on the program, Lash performs her own solo harp works, HNM offers works from its quartet repertoire, and the two collaborate on their transcriptions of Messiaen's kaleidoscopic Piano Preludes.

 

Program

Takuma Itoh, Wavelengths*

Judd Greenstein, at the end of a really great day

 

Hannah Lash, The Nature of Breaking

i. Refractions

ii. ...in remembrance of...

iii. Time Plays

iv. To Hold, Nearly

 

Tickets:  Adult: $25; Student: $18; EBT Card Holder: $3, children under 17 free.

 

Hannah Lash's commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund. Additional support for this commission has been provided by the Cricket Foundation.

Sunday, April 19, 4 pm

Omer Quartet

This concert will open with a performance by the

Project STEP Honors String Quartet

Peabody Hall, 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester

Distinctive among today’s young string quartets, the Omer Quartet won First Prize in the 2017 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and it made debuts during the 2018-2019 season in New York at Merkin Concert Hall and in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center. The quartet came into prominence in 2013 when it received Grand Prize and gold medal at the Fischoff National Competition. It has also received Top Prize at the 2017 Premio Paolo Borciani Competition in Italy, Second Prize at the 2017 Trondheim International Competition in Norway, and Special Prize at the 2016 Bordeaux Competition in France.

Program

 

Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartet Op.20 No. 3 in G Minor 

Johannes Brahms, String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major

Osvaldo Golijov, Yiddishbbuk: Inscriptions for String Quartet  

 

Tickets:  Adult: $25; Student: $18; EBT Card Holder: $3, children under 17 free.

Sunday, February 9, 4 pm

Bach & Ragas

Jan Müller-Szeraws, cello

Jonathan Hess, vibraphone

Amit Kavthekar, tabla

Peabody Hall, 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester

 

The juxtaposition between East and West in the master works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Shirish Korde opens the listener's ears to a profound aural world, enabling fresh insight of the old and the new. It is a journey which reveals glimpses of the deep shared source of human creativity.

 

Program

Tabla solo Improvisation 

Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007, JS Bach

"Anusvåra", Shirish Korde (1945)

Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012, J.S. Bach

"Lalit", Shirish Korde

 

Tickets:  Adult: $25; Student: $18; EBT Card Holder: $3, children under 17 free.

Sunday, May 17, 4 pm

Bach Project II

All Saints Church, 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester

 

The second Bach Project event of the season, this concert features choral and instrumental music performed by some of the nation’s finest period singers and instrumentalists, who will be joined by the Ashmont Boy Choir.

 

Program

 

Motet: Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226

Concerto for Oboe d’amore, strings and continuo in A major, BWV 1055

Cantata: Ich hab’ in Gottes Herz und Sinn BWV 92 

 

 

Tickets:  Adult: $25; Student: $18; EBT Card Holder: $3, children under 17 free.

Sunday, August 16, 4 pm

HUB New Music & Hannah Lash

Hub New Music and the "striking" (New York Times) composer/harpist Hannah Lash collaborate on a new multi-movement work for mixed quartet and harp, presented in a videorecording created especially for AHCM. Lash joins the ensemble as the harpist in her thirty minute work that explores the limitless expressive range of this new instrumentation. Also on the program, Lash performs her own solo harp works, HNM offers works from its quartet repertoire, and the two collaborate on their transcriptions of Messiaen's kaleidoscopic Piano Preludes.

 

(We will publish the link to the recording just as soon as we have it!)

Program

Takuma Itoh, Wavelengths*

 

Hannah Lash, The Nature of Breaking

i. Refractions

ii. ...in remembrance of...

iii. Time Plays

iv. To Hold, Nearly

 

 

Hannah Lash's commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund. Additional support for this commission has been provided by the Cricket Foundation.

 

The concert is free, but if you would like to make a donation to help cover the costs of the recording, please click the Donate button at the top of this page.