Presented by BCCM, this open mic welcomes classical and acoustic musicians of all levels! We will have a Steinway grand piano. Singers and musicians for guitars, harmonium, etc are also welcome! You are welcome to come listen even if not playing.

Hear a presentation of music by composer, Andrew James Safioleas. Soprano, Yan Lian, and Tenor, Robert Bartolome, will be joining Safioleas.

Dan Pulzello takes the stage to deliver hilarious Stand Up and elements of his famous "EU vs USA" series

Join us for a celebration of all things Julia Chisholm-her essence, her impact, and her music! www.juliachisholmmusic.com/

Presented by Boston Community Chamber Music, this open mic welcomes classical musicians of all levels.
On Saturday 5/18/24, 3:00-5:30pm Performance Room at Somerville Music Spaces - 1060 Broadway C101B, Somerville, MA 02144
Bring your music and instruments. Perform solo, duet, or ensemble. There will be a grand piano and an upright piano.
Select a 10-minute slot. Please indicate your group size in the "Last Name" field when you sign up. Ex: Smith (trio).
If you would like to play but the list is full, email below to be on the waitlist. There will be limited walk-in slots available.
If you can't make it after signing up, please email the admin below so we can free up your slot.
Please consider making a contribution to the space rental cost for this open mic and future open mics by making a donation here.
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SONIC LIBERATION PLAYERS PRESENTS A 20th CONCERT CELEBRATION!

For our 20th concert, we are playing some of the most interesting and loveliest music we’ve ever programmed! Conch shells, burning pine cones, the speech of Morton Feldman, and plenty of tender, beautiful moments.

D Edward Davis – for philip von zweck
Morton Feldman – Viola in My Life 1
Night Airs – Angela Elizabeth Slater
Pynes – James Romig
Still Tension – Andrew Hannon

Inlets – John Cage

This Concert will also be livestreamed on our YouTube channel: @SomervilleMusicSpaces.

Join Boston Art Song Society as they explore the understated elegance and splendor of the English song tradition in Silent Noon: The Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Baritone Dana Whiteside, tenor Ethan DePuy, and pianist Julia Carey take us on a distinctive musical journey through the weary eyes of a wandering traveler (Songs of Travel), to the idyllic English countryside (On Wenlock Edge), and onward to the highest heights imaginable (Five Mystical Songs).

This one-night-only event is guaranteed to transport you to a time and place "when twofold silence was the song of love" as seen through the distinctive lens of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the powerhouse composer who redefined the standards for classical music in 20th Century Britain.

Don't miss out on the Piano Fundraising Concert with Juan Armando and Ana Hryb!

Come join us for a night of beautiful piano music at Somerville Music Spaces on Sat Mar 16 2024 at 7:00 PM. Juan Armando and Ana Hryb will be showcasing their incredible talent on the piano, playing a mix of classical and contemporary pieces that are sure to captivate the audience.

Juan Armando is a Piano Tech and rebuilder who worked in Europe and South America with incredible talent as a classical pianist.

Ana Hryb has been studying piano since she was 5 years old, received a Diploma as Piano Professor later and has always been devoted to music.
This event is a fundraiser to support the Muscular Dystrophy Association, so your attendance will not only treat you to an amazing musical experience but also contribute to a great cause. Bring your friends and family for a night of music and fun!

Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) is the #1 voluntary health organization in the United States for people living with muscular dystrophy, ALS, and related neuromuscular diseases. For over 70 years, MDA has led the way in accelerating research, advancing care, and advocating for the support of our families.

MDA's mission is to empower the people we serve to live longer, more independent lives.

Ana Hryb is a Neuroscientist running her 1st marathon in Boston 2024 to raise money for research, care, resources, education and advocacy to help families living with neuromuscular diseases to live longer and grow stronger!

You can also donate here: https://www.givengain.com/project/ana-raising-funds-for-muscular-dystrophy-association-70339

Villancicos que se han de cantar…

This program features early courtly villancicos by such composers as Juan del Encina, from the sixteenth century by Francisco Guerrero, and pieces from the seventeenth century by Mateo Romero and Cristóbal Galán, both important composers in Madrid. The program also includes courtly Spanish instrumental works from the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, in addition to a few other surprises.

Villancico now refers to a Christmas carol in the Spanish-speaking world. At first, it was a courtly song in the late fifteenth century, its texts often referring to the villano, or peasant, yet another moment when nobility showed interest in, or mocked, their social inferiors. During the sixteenth century, the genre gradually became devotional in nature, Spanish texts sung in matins services on Christmas, Epiphany, and other feast days. During the seventeenth century, villancicos became ubiquitous in such a role throughout the Spanish-speaking world, sung at cathedrals, major churches, monasteries, and at the Royal Chapel in Madrid. The title of our concert is the title used for most published booklets with villancico texts for a particular service, meaning Villancicos that were sung… at a particular location. 

 Cameron Dobson, countertenor

Caitlin Laird, soprano

Joy Laird, Baroque flute and recorders

Paul Laird, Baroque cello

Mary Jodice, harpsichord

Tickets: $10.00 (available at the door)

Time: Friday, March 15, 2024, 7:30 PM

Place: Somerville Music Spaces, 1060 Broadway C101B, Somerville, MA 02144

RE:duo (“Reply Duo”) engages audiences with innovative programming that blurs the lines between a variety of artistic disciplines. Consisting of saxophonist, Wilson Poffenberger, and violist, Elsie Bae Han, the duo formed following an interdisciplinary collaboration exploring the intersection between sound and movement. RE:duo has since expanded its repertory to include works that feature theater, improvisation, movement, speech, as well as other performative elements. Both duo members founded and hold executive positions with New Music Mosaic, a new music collective dedicated to the dissemination of resources to artists. Through New Music Mosaic, RE:duo curates a series of concerts across the U.S. as a part of their biennial open call for scores initiative. Recognized nationally and internationally, RE:duo has performed most recently at conferences and institutions such as the International Saxophone Symposium, the Cortona Sessions for New Music, North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference, Valdosta State University, Georgia State University, the University of North Texas, and the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. 

In preparation for the 2024 North American Saxophone Alliance National Conference in Stillwater, OK, RE: is presenting concerts in Boston and NYC consisting of music by Carrie Frey, Carolyn O'Brien, Huang Ruo, Drew Farrar, and a world premiere by NYC based composer Reinier Potgieter.

SATURDAY, MARCH 9 2024

7PM

FREE ADMISSION

Join the Saxyderms, New England's favorite big saxophone ensemble, for an leisurely hour of saxophones (and drums) showcase a wide range of works from the worlds of jazz, pop, contemporary, video game soundtracks, minimalism, and everything in between.

Reggaeton version of Barbie Girl? We got that. Soaring romantic melodies by choral composer Eric Whitacre? Check. Super Mario theme with fat jazz extensions? Yes indeed.

Concert is free, but space is limited. Doors open at 4:00pm. Concert begins at 4:30pm.

Questions? Contact us at saxyderms [at] gmail.

Alexander Crosett plays American classical piano music influenced by jazz, blues, folk, musical theater, samba, tango, techno and other contemporary styles. Works by Betty Jackson King, Dana Suesse, Fred Hersch, Gabriela Lena Frank, Karen Tanaka, Mary Ellen Childs and Samuel Barber. Made possible in part by the American Music Project.

Alexander Crosett has performed throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe and Asia. A top prize winner in the Osaka International Music Competition, he has been recognized for his work across multiple musical genres. His album project American Excursions, due to be released in March 2024 on Centaur Records, features polystylistic contemporary classical piano repertoire by composers of diverse backgrounds. He has served as a professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee since 2018.

FREE ADMISSION

Our first 2024 concert with the quintet in a new location in Somerville! Note that we’re sold out for front-row seats and as of Jan 19th, 50% of seats are sold out. Help us kick off our Artesian Astra tour to MA, NM and KS with this exciting night of global jazz and exotic chamber music at Somerville Music Spaces. 

About Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica - Quintet Formation

In the same way a chef de cuisine runs a kitchen, percussionist Brian O’Neill leads a team of five musical creators who deftly collaborate on instruments foreign and domestic to form modernist delicacies for hungry, curious listeners. From the high arts of jazz and chamber music to adaptations of mid-century exotica and pop art, the quintet version of Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica renders O’Neill’s original compositions and curious arrangements of Bach, Gershwin, Shostakovich and John Adams into cinematic, layered music for armchair travelers ready to journey off road. 

While the quintet eschews most of the musical forms, rhythms, and styles of the 1950s exotica sound that inspired O’Neill, it fully embraces the unique genre’s love of escapism, whether through deliberate, out-of-context use of global sounds or through jazz improvisation that doesn’t swing and deliberately imitates the rhythm of a skipping record. On the listener’s plate might be equal parts scratch and sniff, bongos with a fugue, and a cat fight at a piano recital. On the stage, the ensemble skillfully negotiates detailed compositions and arrangements of classical works while relying on listening and instinct to drive passionate improvisation.

“engagingly unique”—Boston Globe

“anything but straightforward”—Washington Post

Learn More about Mr. Ho's Orchestratica

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Ukranian Benefit Concert

Vladyslav Dovhan, saxophone

Lingbo Ma, piano

Boston Text and Tone Festival Concert III

Cabaret Bouquet

WHAT: Selections exploring the link between art song

and cabaret in various languages

WHERE: Somerville Music Spaces

1060 Broadway C101B, Somerville, MA 02144

WHEN: Saturday, Januaruy 20, 7:30 PM

WHO: Joanne Evans, Elias Dagher

The idea:

To create a festival of song, celebrating language as a doorway to experiencing the richness and diversity of human and musical expression.

Our friendship began while we were studying solo piano repertoire as conservatory students in Boston. As we started working more and more with singers in text-based music making, we experienced a new kind of expressive mixture, a collision of seemingly opposite worlds. The “abstract” world of music itself (open-ended, suggestive, spiritual) met the “literal” world of words (direct, structured, narrative)...Or is it the other way around?! Perhaps music is more literal and poetry more abstract! Whatever the case, there are infinite possibilities whenever these universes collide. Thanks to countless poets and composers over the past several hundred years, they have collided over and over again.

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The mixing of language and music gives us not only a rich, varied, and ever-growing repertoire to explore; it also creates community. The inherent spirit of sharing in singer-pianist duo work immediately lends itself to human connection. And this type of connection doesn’t stay locked up in a practice room! We are lucky to be part of the community of singers, pianists, poets, composers, mentors, and audience members that naturally forms around the world of song.

Our plan:

With the first edition of the Boston Text and Tone Festival, coming in January, we hope to provide time and space for this community to come together. To this end, we have invited many wonderful artists–from spoken word performers to pianists to singers to Boston-area conservatory students–to participate in four consecutive days of music making. 

 To put the “text” in Text and Tone, each event will include poetry recitation, texts and translations of all works, and discussions of selected texts. We hope that this focus on text can provide an entryway into the world of song for people without musical backgrounds.

All are welcome.

-Elias Dagher and Pierre-Nicolas Colombat

Join MassOpera and Boston Singers' Resource on Saturday, Nov 18, for our Mock Audition Day. There is no better way to practice the essential art of auditioning than with some real, hands-on experience! We will have local industry professionals there to offer you written feedback, and a pianist will be provided.

November 18 | 1 PM to 4 PM
Somerville Music Spaces
1060 Broadway Suite C101B
Somerville, MA 02144

Panelists: JJ Penna, vocal coach; Cassandra Lovering, stage director; and Dana Varga, vocal pedagogue and career coach
Pianist: Brendon Shapiro

These mock audition slots are first-come, first-serve, so please fill out the form below ASAP to reserve your spot! 50% of the slots will be prioritized for BSR members. Filling out this form is not a guarantee of a slot.

Our season opener is a fully staged double bill of two rarely performed Baroque gems,performed with chamber orchestra!

These pieces are both cantatas traditionally done in a concert setting without any staging, so our production is especially unique. Our modern day setting is in a coffee shop. Bored employees kill time with an intense game of Uno. Customers finally arrive -- a father and daughter who debate if she should stop drinking coffee. But, who could possibly give up Dunkin...?

This show offers a fun and relatable perspective on the joys and stresses of everyday life. We guarantee lots of laughs -- and da capo arias!

Il Giuoco del Quadriglio (The Card Game) by Caldara

• Clarice - Akela Franklin

• Livia - Julia Pottinger

• Camilla - Larisa Bainton

• Ottavia (Nov. 17th) - Rebecca Allen

• Ottavia (Nov. 19th) - Jeannette Lee

The Coffee Cantata, BWV 211 by Bach

• Lizzy - Jessica Bloch

• Lizzy (cover) - Rachel London

• Schlendrian - Marcus Schenck