Nov
5
4:00pm 4:00pm

Sunday, Nov 5th - NEC on Norway Pond - Night Tree

“One of the most exciting roots-based music groups to emerge from the New England Conservatory in many years.  Their individual chops and adventurous approach make Night Tree a band to watch for.”

- Brian O'Donovan, WGBH

4 pm at the Hancock Meeting House.  Tickets are $20 at the door (students free), or purchase a ticket here.

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Apr
23
4:00pm 4:00pm

April 23rd - NEC on Norway Pond - The Omer Quartet

The Omer Quartet

The Omer Quartet

Critically praised for playing with a "sense of discovery and adventure" as they perform and compete across North America and Europe, the Omer Quartet is currently the Resident Ensemble of the New England Conservatory's Professional Quartet Training Program. 

4 pm at the Hancock Meeting House.  Tickets are $20 at the door (students free), or purchase a season ticket here.

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Jan
22
4:00pm 4:00pm

January 22nd - The Concert Series - Angel Spirits: Music of World War I

David McFerrin

David McFerrin

Deborah Selig

Deborah Selig

Beautiful, poignant, haunting, and lighthearted songs of the era, presented by baritone David McFerrin (last year's John P. Wintergreen) and soprano Deborah Selig, with Clifton J. Noble, piano.  

4 pm at the Hancock Meeting House.  Tickets are $20 at the door (students free), or purchase a season ticket here.

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Nov
15
4:00pm 4:00pm

Nov 15th - NEC on Norway Pond - Alexi Kenney and Dina Vainshtein

Alexi Kenney, violinist

Alexi Kenney, violinist

Dina Vainshstein, pianist

Dina Vainshstein, pianist

 

NEC emerging artist Alexi Kenney was reviewed by the New York Times as "immediately drawing listeners in…"

Dina Vainshtein has been reviewed by Donald Weilerstein as “an extraordinary collaborator.  She is an extremely fine musician and one of the most empathetic, dynamic and supportive chamber players I know.”

$20 at the door (students free), or purchase a season ticket.

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NEC on Norway Pond - The Huntington Quartet.
Mar
8
4:00pm 4:00pm

NEC on Norway Pond - The Huntington Quartet.

Schubert's "Rosamunde" Quartet and portions of Bartok's Fourth String Quartet.

$15 at the door (students free), or purchase a season ticket.

"Absolutely Marvelous" were the words of Benjamin Zander after listening to the Huntington Quartet's debut in Jordan Hall. Named after the street in Boston that brought these 4 musicians together, the Huntington Quartet is comprised of graduate students at the New England Conservatory who are passionately eager to share their music and give back to the community. Whether it be classical, baroque, and romantic masterpieces or new music by student composers, the quartet members hope their strong personal chemistry will enable them to explore and present this repertoire through bold, honest, and uninhibited interpretations.

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NPFS Winter Concert - The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace
Feb
15
4:00pm 4:00pm

NPFS Winter Concert - The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

THE ARMED MAN; A MASS FOR PEACE by Karl Jenkins. Sure to rival the impact of last year's performance of Carmina Burana, this performance features 70 singers including 18 members of Conval's elite choral ensemble, 50 members of the Norway Pond Festival Singers, a boy treble soloist, contralto Lynn Torgove, Dunya founder and Grammy nominee Mehmet Sanlikol, and an incomparable group of instrumentalists from Boston, many of whom joined us for Carmina Burana.

$15 at the door (students free), or purchase a ticket here. 

The snow is over!  The concert is on.  The orchestra spent the night in Hancock and is eager to perform.  Please be safe and careful, and if you are attending, carpool if possible as parking spaces are precious.

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Second Annual Bistro Dinner
Jan
10
5:00pm 5:00pm

Second Annual Bistro Dinner

Join us for a Bistro Dinner immediately following the performance of Signor Deluso.  This will be a multi-course dinner featuring Italian cuisine cooked by Chef Mike Petrovick of Francestown.  

This event will kick off with wine and hors d'oeuvres at the Simpsons'.

This event is sold out.  

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The Concert Series - Signor Deluso
Jan
10
4:00pm 4:00pm

The Concert Series - Signor Deluso

      Joseph Holmes

      Joseph Holmes

A hilarious one-act opera composed by Thomas Pasatieri, an exuberant, over-the-top farce, filled with overly emotional lovers constantly leaping to the wrong conclusions. Signor Deluso, accompanied by piano, has a cast of four singers, all from the Boston area. Soprano Rachele Schmiege and tenor Joseph Holmes play the young lovers and mezzo Christina English and baritone Jarvis Wyche are Signor and Signora Deluso.  Catherine Stornetta is music director and Patricia Maria Weinmann returns to Hancock as stage manager.

“..a comedy of layer upon layer of misunderstanding”

$15 at the door (students free), or purchase a season ticket.

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Norway Pond Festival Singers Spring Concert
Jun
8
4:00pm 4:00pm

Norway Pond Festival Singers Spring Concert

The Norway Pond Festival Singers will sing (hum!) their final concert of the year at the Harris Center. Conducted by Jody Hill Simpson, with Mary Ann Fleming at the piano and Jim Sharrock on oboe, the singers will present the world premiere of Dublin composer Elise Grant’s newly-arranged Owl and the Pussycat.  Also on the program will be selections from Massachusetts composer Ron Pererra’s charmng A Star in the Pail, settings of Cambridge poet David McCord’s impossible-to-resist poems about starfish, fossils, slow waiters, animal truisms and matters of the earth. Bret Silverman’s The Big Swing Tree is Green Again will also be featured along with Francis Poulenc’s elegantly evocative Petites Voix.

There is no admission fee but donations are gratefully accepted.

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NEC on Norway Pond - Choro Bastardo
Apr
6
4:00pm 4:00pm

NEC on Norway Pond - Choro Bastardo

NEC honors ensemble “Choro Bastardo” will perform a mix of traditional Brazilian choro music as well as original arrangements and compositions. Choro is an instrumental music based on improvisation that grew out of the cafés of Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century. It combines African rhythms mixed with Portuguese melodies and other worldly influences. "Choro Bastardo" will feature Henrique Eisenmann on piano, Ben Andrews on violin, Ilya Portnov on harmonica and a guest pandeiro (Brazillian hand frame drum) player. 

$15 at the door, or purchase a season ticket.  

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