Upcoming Concerts & Performances
2 upcoming concerts and performances from Boston Festival Orchestra, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Thu Oct 15 · 7:00pm
Boston Festival Orchestra's chamber series sets two Soviet contemporaries side by side: Zara Levina, largely unknown to American audiences, whose Kanzonetta and Fantasy on Bashkir Themes draw on folk traditions and Jewish themes, and Dmitri Shostakovich, whose wartime Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor ends in a grotesque dance on Jewish themes. Violinist Alyssa Wang, cellist Samuel Boundy and pianist Jihye Chang perform.
$30 general admission
Thu Apr 22 · 7:00pm
A wind-quintet programme of Gunther Schuller’s jazz-leaning Suite for Wind Quintet, Amy Beach’s Pastorale, Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles, Valerie Coleman’s Red Clay & Mississippi Delta and the sea-inspired Cargo by Matthew Tirona, the youngest of three generations of Boston composers on the bill. Five BFO players perform, and artistic director Alyssa Wang leads discussion of the music’s historical and cultural context between pieces.