Upcoming Concerts & Performances
5 upcoming concerts and performances from New England Philharmonic, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 24 · 7:00pm
The New England Philharmonic opens its fiftieth season against the Revolution's 250th anniversary, pairing the Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes and Drums with Joan Tower's Violin Concerto, played by Danielle Maddon, a new commission from composer-in-residence Carlos Carrillo, and Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. The programme sets period military music beside two contemporary responses to American history.
Sun Dec 6 · 3:00pm
An afternoon of music by living American composers, pitched at families and first-time concertgoers. The programme carries several Boston premieres, the winner of the orchestra's Young Artist Competition, Call for Scores winner Aaron Levin, and the Indiana Concerto by Louis W. Ballard and Brent Michael Davids, both Native American composers. It forms part of the Philharmonic's fiftieth-anniversary season.
Sun Jan 24 · 2:00pm
Selected composers hear their orchestral scores rehearsed by a full symphony orchestra and then take feedback from composer-in-residence Carlos Carrillo, guest mentors and the players themselves. The readings are open to the public, so the audience watches new pieces being worked on rather than performed. The Philharmonic runs them annually; this one falls in its fiftieth season.
Sun Mar 7 · 3:00pm
Three world premieres and two Boston premieres, by Massachusetts composers Curt Cacioppo and Stella Gitelman Willoughby, MIT senior lecturer Charles Shadle, who is Choctaw, Pulitzer-winning Diné composer Raven Chacon, and composer-in-residence Carlos Carrillo. The Philharmonic has run this survey of living composers annually for decades, making it one of the longest-standing new-music series in the city.
Sat Apr 24 · 7:00pm
The season finale is built around the East Coast premiere of Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's American Indian Symphony, scored for orchestra, chorus and Native vocal soloists. Alongside it come the New England premiere of Danielle Jagelski's Matriarch and a world premiere by composer-in-residence Carlos Carrillo. Tate is Chickasaw and has written for orchestras across the country.
