Choral Calendar

06/06/2025 in Manchester NH, 06/08/2025 in Manchester NH: Craig Hella Johnson: Considering Matthew Shepard (an oratorio composed as a response to the murder of Matthew Shepard, a young, gay college student at the University of Wyoming who in October 1998 was kidnapped, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in a lonely field under a blanket of stars). CONTACT: info@mcsnh.org, 603-472-6627.

06/01/2025 in Keene NH: Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine; Messe Basse; Requiem. CONTACT: keenechoralesingers@gmail.com.

05/25/2025 in New London NH: An uplifting collection of contemporary and sacred choral works with hopeful themes. With Joe Henderson, piano; Nicole Densmore, flute. Tickets: $20, $15 in advance, $5 for students. CONTACT: kearsargechorale@gmail.com, 603-526-4391.

05/06/2025 in Hanover NH: Tickets: $20 CONTACT: hop.box@dartmouth.edu, 603-646-2422.

05/17/2025 in Dover NH: Sandra M. Thomas, director. Free admission. CONTACT: gschoral@gmail.com.

05/31/2025 in Norwich VT, 06/01/2025 in Lebanon NH: Featuring music of Canada. Ticketless admission, with an optional donation ($15 suggested). CONTACT: info@cantabilewomen.org.

06/05/2025 in Brookline MA: CONTACT: info@koleinu.org, 617-433-7464.

03/30/2025 in Boston MA: G.F. Handel: Judas Maccabeus. Heinrich Christensen, director. With orchestra. Tickets: $25 ($20 advance), students/seniors $20 ($15 advance). CONTACT: hchristensen@kings-chapel.org, 617-227-2155.

04/06/2025 in Wellesley MA: A selection of pieces resonating with Passover’s themes of liberation, faith, and hope, that reminds us of our shared journey from the narrow to the expansive, from darkness to light. With Cantor Shanna Zell and other community singers. Available in person and via live stream. CONTACT: manager@zamir.org, 617-244-6333.

06/10/2025 in Auburndale MA: A unique “surround-sound” concert event: Listeners will be placed inside a circle of singers for music by Gershwin, Rossi, Bernstein, Lewandowski, Schiller, Shemer, and others. Singers in rotating positions and arrangements will treat the audience to a range of polyphonic and, at times, interactive music from many traditions—from meditative to rousing, whimsical to mystical, jazzy to prayerful. CONTACT: manager@zamir.org, 617-244-6333.

05/04/2025 in Boston MA: An interfaith concert that celebrates music from Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions. CONTACT: manager@zamir.org, 617-244-6333.

05/03/2025 in Lebanon NH: Dan Forrest: “The Sun Never Says”; "i thank You God for most this amazing day”; songs including “Choose Something Like a Star”, “How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place”, “Beauty is Life”, “Shenandoah”, "Beautiful City” and “Lunar Lullaby”; and other music for choir, piano, strings and percussion on the beauty of nature and of the spirit, ranging from Classical to Contemporary to African American Spirituals, Folk and Shape Note, with compositions by J.F. Haydn, Brahms, Jake Runestad, Alice Parker, Jacob Narverud, and more. Texts include the poetry of Michelangelo, E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, Daniel Ladinsky, Kahlil Gibran. Admission by Donation ($15 suggested). CONTACT: belcantochambersingers@gmail.com, 603-448-1889.

05/17/2025 in Portland ME, 05/17/2025 in Portland ME, 05/18/2025 in Brunswick ME: What is home? Featuring the music of composer Judd Greenstein and the words of your fourth- and fifth-grade neighbors from Portland’s Reiche Community School, this multimedia work is a musical portrait of our state, told by the children who are transforming it. Pre-concert lecture 45 minutes before start. Tickets: $35 in advance, $40 at the door; students are $15 in advance, $20 at the door. CONTACT: music@classicaluprising.org, 207-200-7933.

05/03/2025 in North Yarmouth ME, 05/04/2025 in Brunswick ME: CONTACT: gfccsings@gmail.com, 207-751-6301.

05/03/2025 in Ellsworth ME, 05/04/2025 in Bar Harbor ME: Inspired by Tiny Love Stories written by chorus members. Tickets: $20, or $45 family tickets are for 3 or more members of the same family. CONTACT: info@acadiachoralsociety.org, 207-288-4884.

04/02/2025 in Portsmouth NH: JS Bach: Jesu Meine Freude; Heinrich Schütz: vocal duets from Symphoniae Sacrae II; madrigals and part songs; Antonio Vivaldi: La Primavera (Spring) from The Four Seasons. Catherine Beller-McKenna, conductor (her farewell concert). Tickets: $18. CONTACT: info@amarecantare.org, 603-365-6727.

03/28/2025 in Exeter NH, 03/30/2025 in Durham NH, 04/02/2025 in Portsmouth NH: JS Bach: Jesu Meine Freude; Heinrich Schütz: vocal duets from Symphoniae Sacrae II; madrigals and part songs; Antonio Vivaldi: La Primavera (Spring) from The Four Seasons. Catherine Beller-McKenna, conductor (her farewell concert). Tickets: $18. CONTACT: info@amarecantare.org, 603-365-6727.

05/10/2025 in Reading MA: John Rutter: For the beauty of the earth; What Sweeter Music; Randall Thompson: Alleluia; Thomas Morley: "My bonny lass she smileth"; P.D.Q. Bach: "My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth"; Josef Zawinul: Birdland; Burton Lane: "On A Clear Day"; Kirby Shaw (arr): "Broadway Blast"; Len Thomas (arr): "Blowin' In the Wind/America"; Mark Hayes (arr): "Wade in the Water"; Roger Emerson (arr): "Forever Motown". Elijah Botkin, Music Director; Joe Beninati, accompanist. CONTACT: info@readingcommunitysingers.org.

04/06/2025 in Marlborough MA: An eclectic selection of choral works, including Renaissance madrigals that explore the lighter side of romance, traditional American folk songs arranged by Aaron Copland, settings of poetry by James Agee, Rudyard Kipling, and Mother Teresa, and vocal jazz selections. Robert Eaton, director. The Assabet Valley Chambersingers is a 20-voice ensemble drawn from the Assabet Valley Mastersingers that specializes in performing a diverse repertoire such as unaccompanied and accompanied madrigals, motets, Broadway show tunes, and vocal Jazz standards from various eras. Admission is “Pay What You Wish”. CONTACT: manager@avmsingers.org.

03/28/2025 in Boston MA, 03/29/2025 in Boston MA: W.A. Mozart: Requiem; Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa. Erin Morley, soprano; Avery Amereau, mezzo-soprano; Jack Swanson, tenor; Morris Robinson, bass; Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor. CONTACT: customerservice@bso.org, 617-266-1492.