Upcoming Concerts & Performances
4 upcoming concerts and performances from Newton Baroque, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Oct 30, Nov 1 · 7:30pm/2pm
Fri Oct 30 · 7:30pm, Nathaniel Allen House (Newton) / Sun Nov 1 · 2pm, Emmanuel Church Parish Hall (Boston)
Violinists Susanna Ogata and Jesse Irons with Andrus Madsen play the scordatura two-violin sonatas from Johann Pachelbel's Musikalische Ergotzung — the composer behind the famous Canon in a far stranger light. Newton on Oct 30, Boston's Emmanuel Church on Nov 1.
Jan 29/31 · 7:30pm/4pm
Fri Jan 29 · 7:30pm, St Elizabeth's Church (Sudbury) / Sun Jan 31 · 4pm, First Lutheran Church (Boston)
Choral and organ music by Hans Leo Hassler, the leading organ composer in southern Germany around 1600, who began his career in Venice and was brought to Augsburg by the Fugger family. Organ works and choral pieces alternate, on the instruments of St. Elizabeth's in Sudbury and First Lutheran Church in Boston. Tenor Jason McStoots directs the singers, with Andrus Madsen at the organ.
Mar 21/26 · 7:30pm
Sun Mar 21 · 7:30pm, First Lutheran Church (Boston) / Fri Mar 26 · 7:30pm, St Elizabeth's Church (Sudbury)
Violinist Susanna Ogata plays “The Mount of Olives,” “The Carrying of the Cross” and “The Crucifixion” from Biber's Mystery Sonatas, and soprano Teresa Wakim sings music for Holy Week, including Giovanni Sances's Stabat Mater and Giovanni Paolo Colonna's Lamentations of Jeremiah, with Andrus Madsen on keyboard. The second performance, in Sudbury on March 26, is given within a Good Friday service.
Fri May 7 – Sat May 8 · 7:30pm/3pm
Fri May 7 · 7:30pm, Nathaniel Allen House (Newton) / Sat May 8 · 3pm, Goethe-Institut Boston
Oratorios, cantatas, sonatas and harpsichord music by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729), who played for Louis XIV as a child prodigy and became the first woman in France to compose an opera, Céphale et Procris (1694). Soprano Michele Kennedy, violinist Sarah Darling and harpsichordist Andrus Madsen perform; the second performance is at the Goethe-Institut in Boston.