Events: Music

Boston Conservatory String Orchestra performs music from three centuries, including Mozart's Adagio and Fugue and Bartók’s Divertimento, under the direction of Bruce Hangen.

Boston Conservatory at Berklee's contemporary classical music ensemble, contraBAND, presents an innovative concert of works by living composers based on the power of two.

Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble fuses rock ’n’ roll, heavy metal, funk, and groove with the traditional harmonies and colors of the wind ensemble in an immersive concert experience featuring works by Frank Zappa, Sally Lamb McCune, John Mackey, Steven Bryant, and Katahj Copley. This performance has been selected as part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee's fall 2022 Center Stage collection.

A concert featuring new works by Boston Conservatory undergraduate and graduate composition students.

A concert featuring new works by Boston Conservatory undergraduate and graduate composition students.

Boston-based contemporary duo Transient Canvas—Amy Advocat, bass clarinet, and Boston Conservatory faculty member Matt Sharrock, marimba—opens their 2022–2023 season with a new program, Crossroads. This electroacoustic concert explores the relationships between human beings and our environment, and features music by Sydney Doemel, Teerath Majumder, Caroline Louise Miller, João Pedro Oliveira, Dan VanHassel, Kirsten Volness, and Kitty Xiao.

A recital of vocal music performed by Nina Evelyn Anderson (M.M. '23).

Boston Conservatory Percussion Ensembles performs a variety of classics and new works.

Described by the New York Times as “opera’s disrupter in residence,” Detroit Opera Artistic Director Yuval Sharon makes a guest appearance at Boston Conservatory to discuss his process and vision for the future of opera.

Boston Conservatory at Berklee Double Reed Weekend artist Barbara LaFitte leads an ensemble performance in which all Double Reed Weekend guests are invited to participate.