Events: Series

Boston Conservatory Brass Quintet members Joseph Foley, Richard Kelley, Anne Howarth, Angel Subero, and Kenneth Amis perform a captivating evening of chamber music.

This interdisciplinary performance series illuminates the art of improvisation and live time creation. The works presented celebrate experimental territories, ephemeral natures, and margins taking center, through dance, song, theater, music, poetry, and visual art.

Chamber Series kicks off its spring season with works by Johannes Brahms, Ulysses Kay, Gernot Wolfgang, and Igor Stravinsky performed by renowned Boston Conservatory faculty members Joy Arcolano (narrator), Jonathan Bass (piano), Jan Halloran (clarinet), Katie Lansdale (violin), Matthew Marsit (clarinet), Robert Sheena (english horn), Margaret Phillips (bassoon), Roberto Poli (piano), and Owen Young (cello).

Associate Professor of Flute and Contemporary Music Sarah Brady presents a flute recital.

Mezzo-soprano and Asian Opera Alliance founder Nina Yoshida Nelsen shares her personal journey and ways to foster constructive dialogue that seeks to explore culturally sensitive, inclusive, and responsive practices in the field of opera.

Arthur (AJ) Knox is delighted to announce his debut film, Edible’s Arrangements, starring Hannah Katz, Alex Leondedis, Carrigan Boynton, and Jackson Randall. This movie is not a comedy, but it’s bloody hilarious. It is the story of a high school drug dealer and her father who runs a failing Edible Arrangements business.

Daughtertrucker follows three sisters—Esther, Cristina, and Mercedes—after two losses in their family. Over the course of a week, scenes of this sisterhood unfold and reveal a damaged but generous dynamic among young women experiencing grief.

Julia and Elease grew up as best friends—that was, until their teenage years. As friends do, they grew apart, had a falling out, and have hated each other ever since. Now Julia is drowning in depression and bad ideas; Elease had a picture perfect life until she got thrown out on her own. After running into each other at a party and still being able to see through the other’s facade, they decide to try and help each other get their lives back together.‌

To Make You Love Me is a multiscreen filmic experience cetered around suicidal ideation, toxic ambition, and public perception. The story explores a relationship to death and how when the water is rising, there is no way out, only through. ‌

In His Image is a piece of documentary theater that interrogates the violent past, present, and future of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (The Mormon Church). The play utilizes historical documentation, newspapers, and verbatim interviews to craft a narrative that calls into question the subjectivity of history and which violent acts were chosen to be forgotten. Created in collaboration with Jackson Randall.