Upcoming Concerts & Performances
5 upcoming concerts and performances from Lowell Chamber Orchestra, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Sun Nov 22 · 3:00pm
Carmen Rodríguez-Peralta, who chairs Middlesex Community College’s music department, is the soloist in Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056, and violinist Krista Buckland Reisner plays Lansing McLoskey’s I Heard the Children Singing, winner of the orchestra’s 2026 call for scores. Guitarist-composer Apostolos Paraskevas and flutist Wei Zhao feature in his A Night with the Aristocrats, alongside Respighi’s third suite of Antiche arie e danze.
Sun Jan 31 · 3:00pm
Three Armenian and Armenian-American works: Alan Hovhaness’s Symphony No. 6, Celestial Gate (1972); Tigran Mansurian’s Romance, with Sargis Karapetyan as violin soloist; and Edvard Mirzoyan’s Symphony for Strings and Timpani (1962), a staple of the Armenian string-orchestra repertoire. Karapetyan trained at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan, where he later lectured, and has taught at the Boston Conservatory and Clark University.
Thu Feb 4 · 8:00pm
The Lowell Chamber Orchestra and Berklee College of Music collaborate on a programme that runs from spirituals to soul and hip-hop: Julia Perry’s Four Spirituals, Moses Hogan’s Elijah Rock, songs associated with Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Muddy Waters and Tina Turner, a Herbie Hancock medley, Patrice Rushen’s Remind Me, Luther Vandross’s Never Too Much and Kendrick Lamar’s Alright.
Sun Apr 25 · 3:00pm
Ryan Suleiman’s The Wanderer, commissioned by Orlando Cela and the orchestra, builds its first part from a 16-note melody before opening into a dreamlike second. David Bernat, winner of the 2026 LCO Young Artist Competition, is soloist in Bernstein’s Serenade, after Plato’s “Symposium”, a violin concerto in all but name, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony closes. The concert belongs to Middlesex Community College’s “A World of Music” series.
Sun Jun 6 · 3:00pm
The Lowell Chamber Orchestra closes its season with a Pride concert, a program of repertoire chosen to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
