Upcoming Concerts & Performances
7 upcoming concerts and performances from Gordon College, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 24 · 7pm
The Gordon Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra of Gordon College’s Adams School of Music and the Arts, gives its fall concert, the first of two this season, followed by a joint orchestra and choral concert in April. Like the school’s other ensemble concerts it is not ticketed, and Gordon streams its concerts live online.
Sun Oct 25 · 3pm
Gordon College’s choirs give their annual fall concert, Community of Song, which is free and open to the public and streamed live on the college’s website. It falls the afternoon after the Gordon Symphony Orchestra’s fall concert, and the choirs join the orchestra again in April for a combined spring concert.
Sun Nov 8 · 3pm
Sarita Kwok, violinist and dean of Gordon’s Adams School of Music and the Arts, and pianist Alina Polyakov play two Beethoven violin sonatas: No. 8 in G major, Op. 30 No. 3, and No. 9, Op. 47, the “Kreutzer.” The recital belongs to a Bynum Series season marking the bicentenary of Beethoven’s death. Kwok was founding first violinist of the Alianza Quartet; Polyakov, who studied with Emil Gilels, teaches piano at Gordon.
Mon Nov 9 · 7pm
Melissa Mack, a poet and essayist who brings social and natural history into lyric and hybrid-lyric poems, reads from her work for the Princemere Writers Series. Her full-length collection The Next Crystal Text won the Timeless, Infinite Light first-manuscript award; she has received a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award, sits on the board of Small Press Traffic and is completing a PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz.
Fri Dec 4 – Sat Dec 5 · 7:30pm
Fri Dec 4 / Sat Dec 5 · 7:30pm
The 36th annual Christmas Gala brings together the Adams School of Music and the Arts' choral and instrumental ensembles for an evening of Christmas music and readings that ends in a carol sing. The performance runs about 75 minutes without an intermission, and both nights are livestreamed free. Every patron needs a ticket; a December 2 dress rehearsal is recommended for families with young children.
Mon Dec 7 · 7pm
Music majors and minors in Gordon's chamber music program perform in small ensembles, coached by the violinist Dr. Sarita Kwok, dean of the Adams School of Music and the Arts, and the performance faculty. The concert is the department's annual fall showcase for its chamber groups; admission is free, and the evening is also livestreamed.
Sat Jan 30 · 7:30pm
The Verona Quartet, whose members come from four countries, plays the Alton C. Bynum Recital Series. The New York Times called it an “outstanding ensemble… cohesive yet full of temperament.” The quartet received Chamber Music America's Cleveland Quartet Award in 2020, and its recordings include Mendelssohn's String Quartets Op. 12 and 13. The series honours Alton C. Bynum, who chaired Gordon's music department from 1964 to 1999.
