We’re excited to welcome composer Reena Esmail to Providence for a week-long residency at CMW! Reena will work with students and the MusicWorks Collective in a series of rehearsals and workshops, and her visit culminates in a large ensemble performance at the annual End-of-Year Student Gala. Join us! The event’s musical centerpiece, Reena’s composition Concerto […]
Tune in for the premiere of the latest musical presentation from the Daily Orchestra Program! Students of the DOP have chosen to make this event a fundraiser for the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Animal Songs Tuesday, May 28 at […]
Season 27 concludes with the MusicWorks Collective joining together for the spirited Ernest Bloch Concerto Grosso No. 1 featuring pianist Ivan Tan, and reprise performances of a wonderfully lyrical string quartet by Adrienne Taylor and the evocative Estampas Mexicanas by José Elizando. Join us to celebrate summer’s arrival with a program of joyous sounds. MusicWorks […]
Season 27 concludes with the MusicWorks Collective joining together for the spirited Ernest Bloch Concerto Grosso No. 1 featuring pianist Ivan Tan, and reprise performances of a wonderfully lyrical string quartet by Adrienne Taylor and the evocative Estampas Mexicanas by José Elizando. Join us to celebrate summer’s arrival with a program of joyous sounds. MusicWorks […]
Join us for the Community MusicWorks Center Grand Opening Block Party We’re opening the doors! In September the newly-constructed Community MusicWorks Center will open to students and the public. For the first time, CMW will have a permanent home base for young musicians, a hub for community performances, and a center for artists and musicians […]
Join Community MusicWorks and FirstWorks in a Creative Conversation event as panelists share insights into their creative processes and the meaning-making involved in their artistic practices, drawing on their culturally specific histories and personal experiences. This hour-long event features artist Jake Blount, CMW Resident Musician Adrienne Taylor, and Professor Jamille Pinheiro Dias, visiting faculty at […]
MusicWorks Collective wrap up Season 28 with a program of Music That Makes You Want to Dance! with Jennifer Higson's Dance Card, Nikos Skalkottas' Greek Dances, and the Souvenir de Florence by Tchaikovsky. MusicWorks Collective Season Finale Concerts Saturday and Sunday, June 7 and 8
*This event is sold out* Join us for our first Sonata Series Event in the stunning CMW Center Performance Hall! The program features violinist Becca Kasdan performing Violin Sonata by composer Jesús García Leoz and Korngold's Marietta’s Lied from Die Tote Stadt, and cellist Miguel Vásquez performing Janáček’s Pohádka and Cello Sonata by composer Claude […]
MusicWorks Collective performs a program of works for string orchestra as part of the Brown Arts Institute’s Ignite Series, and the Brown Music Department’s 21st Century Orchestra Festival. The Sunday afternoon program features Jessie Montgomery‘s Source Code, Wang Lu’s newly commissioned Tangram, Joseph Suk’s Serenade for Strings, and a performance of Reena Esmail's Concerto for […]
And WE'RE BACH! Bach to the Future, the All-Night Bach Marathon returns for the 11th annual collaboration between Community MusicWorks and the musicians in and around Providence, Rhode Island! This unique event creates a space for musicians of all types to interpret and explore the music of J.S. Bach, using both classical and non-traditional/experimental approaches. […]