Sat Feb 6 – Sun Feb 7
Concert II: Rhapsody & Romance
Sat Feb 6 · The Allen Center (Newton) / Sun Feb 7 · First Church in Jamaica Plain (Boston)
Pianist Kyra Xuerong Zhao, whom New York Concert Review called “a born performer,” joins Boston Annex Players for Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, paired with Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. The ensemble, founded in 2024 as the orchestral partner of Boston Opera Collaborative, is a one-on-a-part sinfonietta of fifteen musicians that performs outside the traditional concert hall; Ken Yanagisawa is its conductor.