Upcoming Concerts & Performances
8 upcoming concerts and performances from Chameleon Arts Ensemble, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 10 – Sun Oct 11 · 7:30pm/4pm
Sat Oct 10 · 7:30pm / Sun Oct 11 · 4pm
Five composers at their beginnings: Britten's Phantasy Quartet, Op. 2, Carter's Woodwind Quintet of 1948, Beethoven's Second Violin Sonata, Op. 12, Cage's Nocturne for violin and piano, and Strauss's C minor Piano Quartet, Op. 13. The ensemble frames them as early inspirations of composers who became defining voices.
Sat Nov 21 – Sun Nov 22 · 7:30pm/4pm
Sat Nov 21 · 7:30pm / Sun Nov 22 · 4pm
Ives's Sunrise for soprano, violin and piano opens, followed by Ravel's Chansons madécasses — settings whose subject matter was provocative enough to mark a break in his style — Kevin Puts's And Legions Will Rise for clarinet, violin and marimba, and Bartók's early Piano Quintet, Sz. 23.
Sat Feb 20 – Sun Feb 21 · 7:30pm/4pm
Sat Feb 20 · 7:30pm / Sun Feb 21 · 4pm
Turina's The Toreador's Prayer and Stravinsky's suite from L'Histoire du soldat sit alongside Behzad Ranjbaran's Fountains of Fin, which takes a sixteenth-century Iranian garden as its subject, Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Kol Nidre meditation for cello and piano, and Fauré's G minor Piano Quartet, Op. 45.
Sun Mar 14 · 4:00pm
Fauré taught both Ravel and Enescu, and this recital sets his A major Sonata, Op. 13 beside Ravel's posthumously published first sonata and Enescu's Third, written in Romanian folk style. Eleanor Alberga's The Wild Blue Yonder completes it. Nathan Meltzer and Mika Sasaki play.
Sat Apr 3 – Sun Apr 4 · 7:30pm/4pm
Sat Apr 3 · 7:30pm / Sun Apr 4 · 4pm
Libby Larsen's Songs From Letters sets Calamity Jane's correspondence with the daughter she gave up. Schumann's Märchenbilder and Gershwin's Short Story sit alongside it, with Paquito D'Rivera's Aires Tropicales for wind quintet and Dvořák's E-flat String Quintet, Op. 97 to close.
Sun May 2 · 4:00pm
Robert Schumann's Op. 40 songs and Clara Schumann's Sechs Lieder aus Jucunde open a programme on love and marriage that ends with Bernstein's Arias and Barcarolles for two singers and piano four hands. Robert Paterson's Extraordinary sits between. Mary Mackenzie and Nathaniel Sullivan sing.
Sat May 22 – Sun May 23 · 7:30pm
Sat May 22 / Sun May 23 · 7:30pm
Rebecca Clarke's Morpheus for cello and piano opens the ensemble's twenty-ninth season finale, followed by Richard Danielpour's Sonnets to Orpheus, Book I for soprano and chamber ensemble, and Brahms's B major Piano Trio, Op. 8 — the work he rewrote thirty-five years after first publishing it.
Sat Jun 5 · 11:00am
The free family concert is part of Chameleon Arts Ensemble's spring music education programme, which since 2004 has brought interactive concerts, instrument demonstrations and workshops to more than 6,000 Boston Public Schools students. The ensemble, led by the flutist Deborah Boldin, is in its twenty-ninth season of themed chamber programmes. No tickets are required.
