Past Performances
2023-2024 Season
Epic Journeys
October 22, 2023, 3pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall
Eric Nathan In Between II (2023)
Co-commission with Oberlin College & Conservatory
Oswald Huynh Gia Đình (2021, rev. 2022)
2023 Call for Scores Winner
Boston Premiere
He Zhanhao and Chen Gang The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (1959)
Sophie Wang, violin
Family Concert
December 10, 2023, 3pm
Boston University Tsai Performance Center
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, 1st movement
Henry Tushman, piano
2023 Young Artist Competition Winner
Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, 1st movement
Sophie Long Sha Tung, violin
2023 Young Artist Competition Winner
Jordan Kuspa Mystery of the Missing Music (2021)
Boston premiere
In collaboration with Artbarn Community Theater
Lila Gurry and Hannah Nocon, teen actors
New Music New England
March 3, 2024, 3pm
Boston University Tsai Performance Center
Wang Lu Surge (2022)
Charles Ives Three Places in New England (1935)
David Sanford Thy Book of Toil (2014)
Kati Agócs Perpetual Summer (2010)
John Harbison What Do We Make of Bach? (2018)
Paul Jacobs, organ
A Messiah for Our Time
April 28, 2024, 3pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall
A Co-Production with Cantata Singers
Sven-David Sandström Messiah (2009)
Boston premiere
Noah Horn, Cantata Singers Music Director (Co-conductor)
Maggie Finnegan, soprano
Maria Dominique Lopez, mezzo-soprano
Dylan Morrongiello, tenor
Leroy Davis, bass-baritone
2022-2023 Season
Remembered Futures
Sunday, October 30, 2022, 3pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall
John Corigliano Symphony no. 1 (1988)
Iván Rodríguez A Metaphor for Power (2018)
New England premiere
Mary D. Watkins Soul of Remembrance, from Five Movements in Color (1994)
Boston premiere
Eric Nathan Opening (2021)
New England premiere
Symphonic Dance Party
Annual Family Concert
Sunday, December 4, 2022, 3pm
Boston University Tsai Performance Center
Texu Kim, Spin-Flip (2014)
New England premiere
Claude Debussy, Danses Sacrée et Profane
Olivia Lee, harp
Gabriela Ortiz, Kauyumari (2021)
New England premiere
Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto in D minor, mvt. I
Ayaan Ahmad, violin
Aaron Copland, Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes (1942)
Poetic Dances
Saturday, February 18, 2023, 8pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Thank You Notes for Richard Pittman (2022)
NEP commission, World premiere
Kareem Roustom Ramal (2014)
Boston premiere
Elijah Daniel Smith Wraith Weight (2021)
2022 NEP Call for Scores winner
New England premiere
Matthew Aucoin Two Dances (arr. 2022)
Keir GoGwilt & Danielle Maddon, violins
World premiere of orchestral arrangement
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances (1940)
People in Between
Sunday, May 7, 2023, 3pm
Boston University Tsai Performance Center
Adeliia Faizullina Bolghar, for Quray and Symphony Orchestra (2020)
Adeliia Faizullina, quray
New England premiere
Thomas de Hartmann Violin Concerto, op. 66 (1943)
Danielle Maddon, violin
Boston premiere
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony no. 7, “Leningrad” (1941)
2021-2022 Season
Opening a New Door
October 16, 2021, 8pm
All Saints Parish, Brookline, MA
Conducted by Composer-in-Residence Eric Nathan
Bernard Hoffer Fanfare for Dick (2021)
NEP Commission, World premiere
Eric Nathan the space of a door (2016)
Hannah Kendall The Spark Catchers (2017)
Igor Stravinsky Firebird Suite (1919)
Dreams of Love and War
December 5, 2021, 3pm
Boston University Tsai Performance Center
Conducted by Music Director Finalist Adam Kerry Boyles
Michael Gandolfi Stepping Up (2021)
Fanfare in Honor of Richard Pittman, NEP Commission, World Premiere
Bernard Rands DREAM (2019)
Boston Premiere
Amy Beach Jephthah’s Daughter, op. 53 (1903)
Sarah Pelletier, soprano, World Premiere with full orchestration
Camille Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor (1863)
Ella J. Kim, violin, 2021 Young Artist Winner
Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chloé Suite 2 (1913)
Our Stories, Ourselves
February 26, 2022, 8 pm
Boston University Tsai Performance Center
Conducted by Music Director finalist Nicholas DeMaison
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich Upbeat! (1998)
Boston Premiere
Jonathan Bailey Holland Stories from Home (2017)
George Tsontakis Violin Concerto No. 3 (2019)
Danielle Maddon, Violin
Boston Premiere
Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 5, op. 82 (1914-19)
Refold, Rebuild, REVUELTAS!
May 1, 2022, 3 pm
Boston University Tsai Performance Center
Conducted by Music Director Finalist Tianhui Ng
Yehudi Wyner Richard Pittman… Come Back! (2022)
World Premiere, NEP Commission
Sofía Rocha Replier (2019, rev. 2022)
2020 Call for Scores winner
World Premiere
Chen Yi Spring in Dresden (2005)
Danielle Maddon, Violin
Silvestre Revueltas La noche de los Mayas (1939, suite. arr. José Ives Limantour 1961)
Into the Spotlight
June 18, 2022, 8 pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall
Conducted by Music Director Finalist Yoichi Udagawa
Kathryn Salfelder Fanfare for Richard Pittman (2022)
World Premiere, NEP Commission
Igor Santos ploy, pivot (2014-15)
2021 Call for Scores Winner
Boston Premiere
TJ Cole Nightscape (2015)
Boston Premiere
Eric Nathan Double Concerto for Solo Violin, Solo Clarinet, and Strings (2019)
Stefan Jackiw, violin, and Yoonah Kim, clarinet
Co-commission with The New York Classical Players
Boston Premiere
Witold Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra (1954)
2020-2021 Season
Out of health concerns and due to COVID restrictions, live concerts were cancelled during the 2020-21.
Visit our Youtube channel to view our Listening In series, created by Dani Maddon, Concertmaster and Eric Nathan, Composer-in-Residence.
2019-2020 Season
Left Dreaming
October 26, 2019, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Hilary Purrington Above the last cloud
Boston premiere, Winner, 2019 NEP Call for Scores
Gunther Schuller The Past is in the Present (2012)
Maurice Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand (1929-30)
Jeffrey Swann, piano
Hannah Lash God Music Bug Music (2011)
Boston premiere
Arnold Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (1909, rev 1949)
Together & Apart
February 23, 2020, 3pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall
John Adams The Chairman Dances (1985)
Bernard Hoffer Violin Concerto No. 2 (“Decapod”) (2019)
Danielle Maddon, violin
World premiere
Judith Weir Moon and Star (1995)
Metropolitan Chorale, Lisa Graham, conductor
Bela Bartok Kossuth (1903)
Boston premiere
Story Telling
December 7, 2019, 3pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Annual Family Concert
Christopher Rouse The Infernal Machine (1981)
Benjamin Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (1946)
Joyce Kulhawik, narrator
Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, 4th mvt. (1919)
Fionn O’Connor, cello, Winner of 2019 Young Artist Competition
Bernard Hoffer Little Red Riding Hood (2018)
Westborough High School Women’s Chorale, Alyson Greer Espinosa, director
Joyce Kulhawik, narrator
Flowers in the Dark
April 25, 2020, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
THIS CONCERT WAS CANCELLED DUE TO SAFETY CONCERNS RELATED TO COVID-19.
Igor Stravinsky Feu d’artifice (1908)
Eric Nathan Double Concerto for Solo Violin, Solo Clarinet, and Strings (2019)
Stefan Jackiw, violin
Yoonah Kim, clarinet
Co-commission with The New York Classical Players
Boston premiere
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1
2018-2019 Season
Spirit of the Bells
October 27, 2018, 8pm
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall
Lachlan Skipworth Spiritus (2017)
United States premiere, Winner, 2017 NEP Call for Scores
John Harbison Symphony No. 1 (1981)
Sergei Rachmaninoff The Bells (1913)
Sarah Pelletier, soprano
Yeghishe Manucharyan, tenor
David Kravitz, baritone
Commonwealth Chorale, David Carrier, director
From Bruckner to the Moon
March 2, 2019, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Melinda Wagner Proceed, Moon (2016)
First Boston performance
Francis Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1932)
Leslie Amper and Randall Hodgkinson, duo piano
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (“Wagner”) (1878)
Including the world premiere of 38 bars in the finale (from 2nd version 1877)
Big Bad Wolf
December 2, 2018, 3pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Annual Family Concert
Aaron Copland “Prairie Night” and “Celebration” from Billy the Kid (1938)
Andy Vores Big Bad Wolf (2000)
Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor, op. 64 1st mvt.
Luke Henderson, violin, Winner of 2018 Young Artist Competition
Bernard Hoffer Little Red Riding Hood (2018)
World premiere, NEP commission
Boston City Singers, Joshua DeWitte, director
Joyce Kulhawik, narrator
Elements
April 27, 2019, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Hector Berlioz Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict (1860-62)
Yehudi Wyner Epilogue: in memory of Jacob Druckman (1996)
Angela Elizabeth Slater Roil in Stillness (2015)
2018 NEP Call for Scores Winner, World premiere
Leoš Janáček Violin Concerto (“The Wandering of a Little Soul”) (1926)
Danielle Maddon, violin
David Rakowski Symphony no. 7 (2018-19)
World premiere, NEP commission
2017-2018 Season
Eerie Company
October 28, 2017, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Andrew Norman Sacred Geometry (2003)
Joseph Schwantner Magabunda “Four Poems of Agueda Pizarro” (1983)
Sarah Pelletier, soprano
Peter Child Punkie Night (2006)
Igor Stravinsky Petrushka 1947 version
Ancient, Modern and Bernstein
March 3, 2018, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Leonard Bernstein Three Dance Variations from Fancy Free
Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Eric Nathan Paestum
World premiere of orchestral version
Ferruccio Busoni’s Indian Fantasy for piano and orchestra, op. 44
Jeffrey Swann, piano
Steven Stucky Symphony
Boston premiere
The Usual Orchestral Suspects
December 10, 2017, 3pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986)
Aaron Copland Old American Songs, set 1 (1954)
Cambridge Children’s Chorus, a division of Boston City Singers
Wendy Silverberg, Director
Nathaniel Stookey The Composer Is Dead (2006)
Former Boston Police Commissioner, Ed Davis, Narrator
Pablo de Sarasate’s “Zigeunerweisen” (Gypsy Airs) Op. 20
Violinist Keila Wakao, violin, 2017 Young Artist Competition Winner
Dancing in Time
April 28, 2018, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Hector Berlioz Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict (1860-62)
David Rakowski Water (2018)
World premiere
Sebastian Currier Time Machines (2007)
Boston premiere
Danielle Maddon, violin
Bernard Hoffer Three Pieces for Orchestra (2018)
World premiere
Maurice Ravel Bolero (1928)
2016-2017 Season
Finding the Key
October 29, 2016, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Andy Vores Xylophonic (2016)
World premiere
Yehudi Wyner Piano Concerto “Chiavi in mano” (2004)
Geoffrey Burleson, piano
Carl Ruggles Evocations (1934–43)
Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra (1943)
A Child of Our Time
40th Anniversary Concert
March 4, 2017, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Richard Cornell Melospiza melodia (2017)
World premiere
Gunther Schuller Vertige d’Eros (1945)
Michael Tippett A Child of Our Time (1939-41)
Sarah Pelletier, soprano
Krista River, mezzo-soprano
Charles Blandy, tenor
Sumner Thompson, bass
Chorus pro Musica, Jamie Kirsch, Director
The Big Bad Wolf
December 11, 2016, 3pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Annual Family Concert
William Schuman Newsreel in 5 Shots (1942)
Bernard Hoffer Nocturne: The Timber Wolf (2016)
World Premiere
Andy Vores Big Bad Wolf (1996)
Paul Patterson Little Red Riding Hood Song Book (1994)
WBZ-TV’s Eric Fisher, Narrator
Boston City Singers, Joshua DeWitte, Director
Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, 1st mvt.
Khoi Le, piano, 2016 Young Artist Competition Winner
A Fanfare and Fireworks
April 29, 2017, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center at Boston University
Peter Child Flourish! Fanfare for Orchestra (2017)
World premiere
Aaron Copland Orchestral Variations (1957)
David Rakowski Violin Concerto No. 2 (2017)
NEP Commission, World premiere
Danielle Maddon, violin
Sebastian Currier Microsymph (1997)
Zoltán Kodály Peacock Variations (1939)
Liliya Ugay Oblivion (2015)
Boston premiere
2016 Call for Scores Winner
2015-2016 Season
Stepping Stones of the 20th Century
October 25, 2015, 3pm
Tsai Performance Center
Irving Fine Toccata Concertante
Anton von Webern Six Pieces for Orchestra
Maurice Ravel Shéhérazade
Sarah Pelletier, soprano
Dmitri Shostakovich October
Gunther Schuller The Past is in the Present
Boston premiere
Miracles & Rhapsodies
February 27, 2016, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center
Roy Harris Symphony No. 3
Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43
Randall Hodgkinson, piano
Brian Robison In Search of Miraculous
Boston premiere
Bernard Hoffer MacNeil Lehrer Variations
Boston premiere
Musical Characters
December 13, 2015, 3pm
Tsai Performance Center
Annual Family Concert
John Harbison Remembering Gatsby
George Antheil Tom Sawyer Overture
Franz Liszt, Piano Concerto No. 1
Amir Siraj, 2015 Young Artist Competition Winner
Rob Kapilow Elijah’s Angel
David Kravitz, baritone
Dana Whiteside, baritone
Boston City Singers, Jane Money, Director
From the Seas to the Heavens
April 30, 2016, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center
David Hertzberg Spectre of the Spheres
2015 Call for Scores Winner
Boston premiere
Alban Berg Violin Concerto (To the Memory of an Angel)
Danielle Maddon, violin
Jean Sibelius The Oceanides
David Rakowski Symphony No. 6
World premiere, NEP commission
2014-2015 Season
Shall We Dance?
October 25, 2014, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center
György Ligeti Ramifications
Bernard Hoffer Ligeti Split
World premiere
Igor Stravinsky Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra
Randall Hodgkinson, piano
David Rakowski Dance Episodes Symphony No. 5
World premiere, NEP Commission
Maurice Ravel La Valse
Spring Awakening
March 1, 2015, 4pm
MIT’s Kresge Auditorium
John Harbison Darkbloom: Overture for an Imagined Opera
Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring
Benjamin Britten Spring Symphony
Sarah Pelletier, soprano
Krista River, mezzo-soprano
Ray Bauwens, tenor
Chorus pro Musica, Jamie Kirsch, Music Director
Boston Children’s Chorus, Anthony Trecek-King, Artistic Director
ALL ABOARD!
December 14, 2014, 3pm
Tsai Performance Center
Annual Family Concert
Michael Gandolfi Night Train to Perugia
Boston premiere
Arthur Honegger Pacific 231
Heitor Villa-Lobos Little Train of Caipira & Toccata from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2
Austin Kwoum, 2014 Young Artist Competition Winner
Rob Kapilow Chris van Allsburg’s Polar Express
David Kravitz, baritone
Newton Public Schools All City Treble Singers, Kathryn Denney, Director
Odysseys
May 2, 2015, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center
Matthew Browne How the Solar System Was Won
2014 Call for Scores Winner, Boston premiere
Gunther Schuller Meditation (Symphonic Study)
Andy Vores Drive (Violin Concerto no. 2)
World premiere, NEP commission
Danielle Maddon, violin
Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances
2013-2014 Season
Dreams & Legends
October 26, 2013, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center
Boston University Trumpet Ensemble Library Fanfare
Elliott Carter Pocahontas
John Harbison Cello Concerto
Jan Müller-Szeraws, cello
Boston University Trumpet Ensemble Dedicatory Fanfare
Carl Schimmel Woolgatherer’s Chapbook
2013 NEP Call for Scores winner
Leos Janacek Sinfonietta
With the Boston University Trumpet Ensemble
An American Anthem
March 1, 2014, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center
Michael Gandolfi Chesapeake: Summer of 1814
Simmons College and MIT Concert Choirs
Bernard Hoffer Violin Concerto
Danielle Maddon, violin
World premiere
Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony no. 1
A Distant Journey
December 15, 2013, 3pm
Tsai Performance Center
Richard Wagner Prelude to Act III, Lohengrin
John Adams Tromba lontana
Silvestre Revueltas Janitzio
Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto first movement
Sammy Andonian, 2013 Young Artist Competition Winner
Richard Cornell Umai’s Journey
Boston Children’s Chorus
Renée T. White, Dean of Simmons College, Narrator
Firsts & Fantasies
May 3, 2014, 8pm
Tsai Performance Center
Annual Family Concert
Gunther Schuller, NEP Composer Laureate Dramatic Overture
Boston premiere
David Rakowski Zephyrs from Dance Episodes Symphony no. 5
World premiere
Roy Harris Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra
Steven Drury, piano
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony no. 7
2012-2013 Season
October 27, 2012
David Rakowski Symphony no. 4, “Scare Quotes” (2012)
NEP Commission
World premiere
Richard Strauss Four Last Songs (1948)
Sarah Pelletier, soprano
Thea Musgrave Rainbow (1990)
Claude Debussy La Mer (1905)
March 2, 2013
Peter Child Jubal (2001)
Michael Gilbertson Vigil (2007)
NEP Call for Scores winner
Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony no. 6 (1944–47/1950)
December 9, 2012
Annual Family Concert
Aaron Copland “Hoedown” from Rodeo (1942)
Wallingford Riegger New Dance (1935)
Aaron Copland “Buckaroo Holiday” from Rodeo (1942)
Silvestre Revueltas Sensemayá (1938)
Pablo de Sarasate Carmen Fantasy (1883)
Ilana Zaks, Violin, 2012 Young Artist Competition winner
Aaron Copland Old American Songs (1950)
PALS Children’s Chorus
April 27, 2013
Steven Stucky Rhapsodies for Orchestra (2008)
Boston premiere
Benjamin Britten Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1938/1945)
Randall Hodgkinson, piano
Gunther Schuller Five Bagatelles for Orchestra (1964)
Jean Sibelius Symphony no. 7 (1924)