Community MusicWorks

Senior Gala
2021-06-01 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | RI
Join us in honoring our nine graduating seniors in this online premiere presentation.
This year’s Gala features student performances and tributes from teachers, family, and friends. The online format gives our graduating seniors the chance to present performances that reflect their creative passions, and this year we’ll feature the voices of the seniors themselves sharing memories of their years in the CMW community.
Tuesday, June 1 at 6pm EST
Click here to join us!
CMW’s YouTube Channel

CMW Delivers
2021-09-07 17:00 - 19:30 | RI
CMW DELIVERS JAKE AND KAMYRON!
Jake Pietroniro and Kamyron Williams roll out Season 25 with a round of CMW Delivers, rocking two locations in the West End of Providence. Stroll on down and join us!
5pm / La Lupita, 1950 Westminster St. in Olneyville
6:30pm / Luongo Square Fountain, corner of Carpenter and West Fountain St. (near the Avery)
CMW Delivers kick-starts the season with a first round of free pop-up performances as we celebrate Season 25 with performances in all 25 neighborhoods of Providence.

CMW Delivers
2021-09-08 18:30 - 19:30 | RI
CMW Delivers Jesse and Ealáin to the East Side / Hope Street neighborhood of Providence!
Join us Wednesday, September 8 at 6:30pm for duos in the park across from Three Sisters, 1074 Hope Street, Providence 02906.
CMW Delivers! CMW kick-starts the season with a first round of free pop-up performances as we celebrate Season 25 with performances in all 25 neighborhoods of Providence.
CMW Delivers is sponsored by PVDFest.

CMW Delivers!
2021-09-10 15:00 - 16:30 | The Community MusicWorks Center, 1326 Westminster Street, Providence, RI, 02909, United States
CMW Delivers Jake Pietroniro, Kamyron Williams, and Ashley Frith to the West End
This week and next, we’ll kick-start the season with a first round of free pop-up performances as we celebrate Season 25 with performances in all 25 neighborhoods of Providence.
CMW Delivers to the West End this Friday, September 10 at 3pm in the lot at 1326 Westminster Street, Providence, 02909.
See you there!

CMW Delivers!
2021-09-14 17:00 - 17:30 | Aspray Boat House, 2 E View Street, Warwick, RI, 02888, United States
CMW Delivers!
Our musicians are back to kick-start the season with a first round of free pop-up events as we celebrate Season 25 with performances in all 25 neighborhoods of Providence.
Join us!
Tuesday, September 14 at 5:00 pm
Aspray Boat House
2 E View Street in Pawtuxet Village
Warwick, RI 02888

Postponed due to rain: CMW Delivers!
2021-09-16 12:00 - 13:00 | L’Artisan, 9 Wayland Avenue, Providence, RI, 02906, United States
Today’s CMW Delivers performance has been postponed due to rain. We’ll update you with any rescheduled event information!

CMW Delivers
Our musicians are back to kick-start the season with a first round of free pop-up events as we celebrate Season 25 with performances in all 25 neighborhoods of Providence.

Postponed due to rain: CMW Delivers!
2021-09-16 13:30 - 14:30 | Fearless Fish Market, 425 W. Fountain Street, Providence, RI, 02903, United States
Today’s scheduled performance has been postponed due to rain.
We’ll update you with a rescheduled date!

CMW Delivers
Our musicians are back to kick-start the season with a first round of free pop-up events as we celebrate Season 25 with performances in all 25 neighborhoods of Providence.

Canceled due to weather: CMW Delivers!
2021-09-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Kennedy Plaza, 2 Kennedy Plaza, Providence, RI, 02903, United States
Today’s event at Kennedy Plaza has been canceled due to a forecast of inclement weather!

Instead, we invite you to join us for these two upcoming events:
CMW Delivers!
Free pop-up concert featuring Jesse Holstein and Jeff Louie, and a solo performance by cellist Kamyron Williams.
Saturday, September 18 at 6 pm
Riffraff Bookstore + Bar
60 Valley St #107A, Providence, RI 02909

MusicWorks Collective Season 25 Opening Concert
Sunday, September 19 at 4:00 pm
Temple to Music
Roger Williams Park
Admission is free
Reserve seating here

CMW Delivers!
2021-09-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Riffraff Bookstore and Bar, 60 Valley Street, Providence, RI, 02909, United States
CMW Delivers!
Our musicians are back to kick-start the season with a first round of free pop-up events as we celebrate Season 25 with performances in all 25 neighborhoods of Providence.
Join us!
Saturday, September 18 at 6:00 pm
Riffraff Bookstore and Bar
60 Valley Street, Olneyville
Providence RI 02909

Season 25 Opening Concert
2021-09-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Temple to Music, Roger Williams Park, Providence, RI
Join us in the open air as we kick off Community MusicWorks’ milestone Season 25!
CMW opens our 25th season with a celebratory concert at the Temple to Music in Roger Williams Park that centers around the theme of variation, reflecting the way CMW’s work grows out of a consistent mission that takes on new forms each year.
We are revisiting highlight moments from composer commissions throughout the season, starting with the Kompa Variations by Daniel Bernard Roumain, which CMW premiered in 2008. This piece was written for our professional quartet side-by-side with a youth quartet, and this time the ensemble will include alumni, current students, fellows, and core musicians.
The Clarice Assad piece Impressions begins with a theme and moves into variations that introduce the sections of the MusicWorks Collective ensemble, and the Handel – Halvorsen Passacaglia features a whiz bang set of variations, showing off the virtuosity of the violin and cello.

MusicWorks Collective Season 25 Opening Concert
Sunday, September 19 at 4:00 pm
Temple to Music at Roger Williams Park
Admission is free
Reserve seating here
Rain location: Bell Street Chapel in Providence

Sonata Series #1
2021-10-14 19:00 - 20:00 | RI
This season the Sonata Series returns online and presents varied programs with less-often heard works along with several mainstays of the repertoire, and features illuminating conversations with the performers.
Join us on YouTube on October 14 at 7 pm EST for Sonata Event #1, where the rich and soulful sonorities of the viola are showcased in two remarkable pieces.
Twentieth-century American composer George Rochberg wrote serial music for much of his career, but took a sharp turn in style after a tragic life event left him feeling that atonal writing didn’t contain enough expressive range for his grief. His Viola Sonata demonstrates a departure that is romantic in nature with its bold expressiveness, that at times hints of his earlier style. Also featured is the majestic Viola Sonata by Rebecca Clarke, written in 1919 shortly after the composer emigrated to the United States from Britain. From its riveting opening notes, the piece draws the listener into a singular sound world and dramatic arc.

This program is presented by MusicWorks Collective musicians Jake Pietroniro and Lisa Sailer, joined by guest artist Ivan Tan on piano.
Sonata Series Event #1
Thursday, October 14 at 7 pm EST
www.youtube.com/communitymusicworks

Songs of Loss, Songs of Healing
2021-10-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell Street, Providence, RI, 02909
Community MusicWorks presents “Songs of Loss / Songs of Healing,” honoring the many we have lost through disease and violence since the beginning of the pandemic.
Join us for an evening of music, poetry, and remembrances featuring performances and readings by April Brown, Rudy Cabrera, Valerie Tutson and the MusicWorks Collective.
Saturday, October 30 at 7 pm*
Bell Street Chapel
5 Bell Street
Providence, RI 02909
Admission is free; Click here to make your reservation.
*To ensure the health and safety of all, please be prepared to show proof of full Covid-19 vaccination status or a recent (within three days) negative Covid-19 test result. Masks must be worn at all times during the event.

Bach to the Future: Bite-Size Bach!
2021-11-12 19:00 - 20:00 | RI
Bach to the Future: Bite-Size Bach
This year’s Bach marathon is a sprint!
Join us on YouTube for a short-and-sweet audio version of our traditional J. S. Bach extravaganza! This online Bach to the Future presentation packs all the tasty goodness of our annual overnight event into a one-hour wafer-thin ‘Bach in bite-size’ form.
YUM.
Featured performers Enigmatica, Chloë Kline, Eden Rayz, Joe DeGeorge, Pedro Reis, Manabu Takasawa, and a veritable richness of violas will BRING IT BACH to YouTube
Bach to the Future
Friday, November 12 at 7 pm EST
www.youtube.com/communitymusicworks

Sonata Series #2
2021-12-16 19:00 - 20:00 | RI
Join us Thursday, December 16 at 7 pm EST for the YouTube premiere of a program of rich colors and profound depths of emotion featuring violinist Sarah Kim and cellist Miguel Vásquez, and violist Sebastian Ruth joined by pianist Eliko Akahori.
Sonata Series Event #2 presents Ravel’s luminous and evocative Sonata for Violin and Cello paired with Shostakovich’s haunting and monumental Viola Sonata and includes conversations with the performers.
Thursday, December 16 at 7pm EST
https://youtube.com/communitymusicworks

Sonata Series #3
2022-01-27 19:00 - 20:00 | RI
Our final Sonata Series event of the season features works by two American composers— William Grant Still and George Walker—which may be new to some listeners.
George Walker’s Sonata for Cello and Piano is rhapsodic and complex and pushes performers to their limits in musical expression and technique. In contrast, William Grant Still’s Pastorela and Summerland are vignettes of sorts, conveying Still’s musical musings inspired by scenes of wilderness and the landscapes of the American West. Guest artist Andrei Baumann, piano, joins resident musician Minna Choi, violin, and Cello Fellow Kamyron Williams for this program.
You won’t want to miss this!
This event will be premiere online Thursday, January 27 at 7 pm EST
Link and more information tba

CMW Fellows in Concert
2022-03-05 15:00 - 17:00 | RI
Fellows Jake Pietroniro and Kamyron Williams present an afternoon of music, spoken word, and coffee.
Art and music have the capacity to reflect and shape culture. Each work tells a story. In this event, we explore stories of resilience and solidarity.
The Fellows Concert program, curated by Teaching Artist Fellows Kamyron Williams and Jake Pietroniro, reunites the Fellows Quartet featuring Lara Madden and Kimberly Fang.
Works include Paul Wiancko’s flash-piece Maniacal Swing and Daniel Bernard Roumain’s tribute to Rosa Parks String Quartet No. 5. The Fellows also team up with Resident Musicians Sarah Kim, Jesse Holstein, and Miguel Vasquez for Tchaikovsky’s tour-de-force composition Souvenir de Florence.
This in-person gathering is co-hosted by former CMW board member and local artist April Brown and features readings and music by CMW alumni AlexisMarie Nelson, Liam Hopkins, and Natasha Rosario DeChambeau.
Join us for an afternoon of music, spoken word, coffee, and the fine company of friends.
Fellows Quartet and Guests*
Saturday, March 5 at 3 pm
Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell Street, Providence, RI 02909
Admission is free.
Click here to reserve your seat.
Join us early (2 pm) for coffee and a chance to catch up!
*To ensure the health and safety of all, please be prepared to show proof of full Covid-19 vaccination status or a recent (within three days) negative Covid-19 test result. Masks must be worn at all times during the event.

Student Performance Party
2022-03-22 17:30 - 18:30 | RI
Performance Party! WOO HOO!
Join us Tuesday, March 22 at 5:30 pm for the YouTube Watch Party as CMW students (and alums!) perform solo, duo, and ensemble pieces for family and friends. Hosted by students Dayana and Yahaira, this hour-long spring edition of the Student Performance Party also features a delightful “What I like about CMW” segment and 24 stellar performances!
Don’t miss this chance to gather online and cheer on our students!
Student Performance Party
Tuesday, March 22 at 5:30 pm EST
www.YouTube.com/communitymusicworks

MusicWorks Collective and Guests: Songs of Refuge
2022-03-26 14:00 - 16:00 | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, RI, 02903, United States
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT, BUT STAY TUNED:
“Songs of Refuge” will be filmed for an online presentation.
Sign up for our Enews to receive a link to our CMW YouTube channel upload, or email Liz Cox at lcox@communitymusicworks.org for more information.

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Join us Saturday, March 26 at 2 pm for “Songs of Refuge,” a highly anticipated collaboration between Community MusicWorks and Dorcas International Institute, co-presented by Providence Public Library (PPL).
“Songs of Refuge” celebrates the joy and solidarity of community by bringing together local, resettled musicians with the MusicWorks Collective in special arrangements of traditional songs from Iraq, Syria, and Iran.
This concert, set at PPL’s beautifully restored Donald J. Farish Auditorium, features works by composer Kareem Roustom, including a world premiere that spotlights MusicWorks Collective violinist Jesse Holstein as he marks a two-decade career at CMW.
Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island and Community MusicWorks have long shared a vision anchored in community and belonging. This event gathers both organizations in celebration of the common language of music. We look forward to sharing this with you!
MusicWorks Collective and Guests: Songs of Refuge*
Saturday, March 26 at 2 pm
Providence Public Library, 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI
Admission is free
Make your reservation here
*To ensure the health and safety of all, please be prepared to show proof of full Covid-19 vaccination status or a recent (within 48 hours) negative Covid-19 test result. Tests will be available. Masks must be worn at all times during the event.

Annual Fred Kelley Scholarship Concert
2022-05-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell Street, Providence, RI, 02909
Join us for a very special collaboration. This year’s event presents Franz Schubert’s song cycle Die schöne Müllerin / Fair Maid of the Mill arranged for string quartet and voice featuring Frank Kelley, tenor, with the MusicWorks Collective musicians Sarah Kim and Minna Choi, violins; Jesse Holstein, viola; and Miguel Vásquez, cello.
Annual Fred Kelley Scholarship Concert*
Sunday, May 22 at 2 pm
Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell Street, Providence
Admission is free, but donations are gratefully accepted to support student scholarships to summer session at Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music.
Seating is limited. Please make your reservation here.
*To ensure the health and safety of all, please be prepared to show proof of full Covid-19 vaccination status or a recent (within 48 hours) negative Covid-19 test result. Rapid tests will be available. Masks must be worn at all times during the event.

End-of-Year Senior Gala
2022-05-24 18:00 - 19:00 | RI
Join us as we celebrate our graduating students! Our five seniors will each be playing a piece that they’ve been working on over the past several months, ranging from more traditional classical music to contemporary songs with newly penned lyrics and fresh arrangements. Along with these amazing presentations, you’ll enjoy some chamber music performances and a few other surprises.

End-of-Year Senior Gala
Tuesday, May 24 at 6 pm
Bell Street Chapel, Providence

Sea Songs!
2022-06-02 18:30 - 19:00 | RI
CMW Daily Orchestra Program presents “Sea Songs,” an online half-hour presentation to benefit Save the Bay.
Sea Songs!
Premieres Thursday, June 2 at 6:30 pm
www.youtube.com/communitymusicworks

Phase II Youth Salon
2022-06-03 18:00 - 19:00 | Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell Street, Providence, RI, 02909
Stop the Loop! This year’s Youth Salon, presented by CMW’s teen group Phase II, looks at the ways we fall into loops in our thinking and our actions – and how we can interrupt these patterns. With music, activities, games, and conversations based around changes during the pandemic, mental health, and history, students in Phase II will lead us through explorations into and out of different loops. Join us!
Phase II Youth Salon
Friday, June 3 at 6 pm
Bell Street Chapel, Providence

The 25th Season Reunion Concert
2022-06-11 14:00 - 16:00 | RI
Community MusicWorks closes our celebratory 25th Season with a large ensemble reunion!
CMW’s 25th Season Reunion Concert brings together current and former students and staff for a celebration that starts with a parade and ends with a musical performance at Dexter Park. The Reunion Concert program features a new work by hip-hop violinist and composer Big Lux, who is also this year’s CMW Artist-in-Residence, and a performance of a student favorite, “The Meeting Point,” which features a large, and we mean large, gathering of CMW Resident Musicians, students, and alumni.
There will be hugs and high-fives, old memories shared, and new memories forged as we celebrate 25 years of music and community. We can’t wait to see you there!
The 25th Season Reunion Concert
Saturday, June 11 at 2 pm
Dexter Training Ground Park, Providence*
Admission is free; no reservations are required
*RAIN LOCATION:
John Hope Settlement House
7 Thomas P. Whitten Way, West End, Providence

Season 26 Opening Concert
2022-09-18 16:00 - 17:30 | Temple to Music, Roger Williams Park, Providence, RI
The MusicWorks Collective Season 26 Opening Concert features selected works highlighting a range of composers’ voices that together invite the listener on a rich and moving emotional journey.
The program includes Rhiannon Giddens’ At the Purchaser’s Option, arranged for string quartet, a poignant and devastating ballad based on a historic poster advertising the sale of an enslaved mother with a newborn child offered “at the purchaser’s option.” Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Fantasiestücke for String Quartet brings us into a late 19th-century string sound world of lush textures and tender sonorities through five melodic character pieces. The concert concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, uniting the audience and performers for a spirited and warm reunion among friends.
We can’t wait to share this program with you!

MusicWorks Collective Season 26 Opening Concert
Sunday, September 18 at 4 pm
Temple to Music, Roger Williams Park
Admission is free
Click here to make your reservation
Rain location: Bell Street Chapel

Sonata Series Event #1
2022-10-20 19:00 - 20:00 | Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell Street, Providence, RI, 02909
For this season of our popular Sonata Series, Community MusicWorks is excited to offer a listener’s choice: Join us in-person at Bell Street Chapel or enjoy the concert online through our first-ever live-streaming event.
The Sonata Series spotlights our wonderful resident musicians in programs of solo and duo music presented in collaboration with fabulous guest artists. Each program is curated with works selected by the musicians in combinations that represent a thematic arc and a range of artistic voices. This season, you’ll hear some familiar favorites and some works that may be newer to your ears. We hope you’ll join us for these very special evenings!
Sonata Series Event #1 features resident musicians Chloë Kline, viola, Miguel Vasquez, cello, and guest pianist, Eliko Akahori, for a rich and moving program of Hindemith, Villa Lobos, and Beethoven.
Paul Hindemith’s Viola Sonata Op. 25, No.1 is a tour de force for the unaccompanied viola and shows the composer’s writing in a radical phase. The sonata traverses emotions from the fierce and nearly aggressive, to pleading moments, and ending with an elegiac movement.
Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Elegie for Cello and Piano from 1916 carries a nostalgic and plaintive lyricism throughout both instruments. The Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata No. 4 for cello and piano (Op. 102, No.1), sometimes called the “Free Sonata” because of its departure from conventional form, may be unexpected in structure but familiar in its musical representation of a wide range of human emotional experiences.
This is a program you won’t want to miss!
Sonata Series Event #1
Thursday, October 20 at 7 pm
Bell Street Chapel, Providence
Admission is free; masks are required during the performance.
Community MusicWorks is grateful to Melanie and Stephen Coon for their sponsorship of the live stream for the Sonata Series in Season 26.
Joining us in person?
Make your reservation here.
Joining us online?
Click here to enjoy the concert via live stream.

Community MusicWorks Center Coffee Toast
2022-11-03 10:30 - 11:00 | The Community MusicWorks Center, 1326 Westminster Street, Providence, RI, 02909, United States
We’re thrilled to announce that construction will soon begin on the Community MusicWorks Center! There’s been a lot of work leading up to this moment, with so many of you, our community members, supporting this project along the way. We’d love for you to join us for an informal “coffee toast” as we celebrate the breaking of ground for the Community MusicWorks Center.

Come on down and raise a glass (or mug, or cardboard to-go cup) to the bulldozers as they begin to dig the foundation for CMW’s new home. Hard hats all around!

Community MusicWorks Center Coffee Toast
Thursday, November 3rd at 10:30 am
1326 Westminster Street, Providence

Learn more about the Community MusicWorks Center

MusicWorks Collective: The Fun Art of Listening
2022-11-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Providence Public Library, 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, RI, 02903, United States
The Fun Art of Listening: A Family Concert for All Ages!
Join us for an interactive hour-long sonic safari through two pieces influenced by Black spirituals and Native American music and folklore.
MusicWorks Collective presents auditory activities to deepen your listening experience with 5 Fantasiestücke for String Quartet, written by the too-seldom-heard Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor when he was a teenager in London. And speaking of teens, we’re thrilled to welcome special guests CMW Youth Alliance, who will join the quartet to perform the immortal melody from Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony.
MusicWorks Collective with CMW Youth Alliance
Saturday, November 5 at 2 pm
Providence Public Library
Admission is free; make your reservations here.

Student Performance Party
2022-12-15 19:00 - 20:00 | RI
Join us online as we celebrate student solo, duo, and ensemble performances in this special winter edition of the Student Performance Party.
Student Performance Party
Thursday, December 15 at 7 pm
https://www.youtube.com/communitymusicworks

MusicWorks Collective in Concert
2023-01-21 16:00 - 18:00 | Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell Street, Providence, RI, 02909
Be transported! Join us for a moving musical exploration as the MusicWorks Collective performs three extraordinary works, including two contemporary pieces that occupy the terrain between classical Indian and western music. The program features the lyrical late Mozart G minor Quintet, a darkly heroic piece bolstered by the richness of double violas. Reena Esmail’s 2010 Piano Quintet is the composer’s first work blending sounds and motives from Hindustani music and Western composition, in what would become a theme of her career. The string quartet in Akshaya Tucker’s “In Whose Mouth the Stars” evokes an Indian classical ensemble with its drones and open strings.
Guest pianist Eliko Akahori joins MusicWorks Collective for this event.
MusicWorks Collective in Concert
Saturday, January 21 at 4 pm
Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell Street, Providence
Make Your Reservation Here

Sonata Series Event #2
2023-02-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Bell Street Chapel, 5 Bell Street, Providence, RI, 02909
Click here to join us for the live stream!
CMW Resident Musicians Kimberly Fang (violin) and Adrienne Taylor (cello) are joined by guest pianist Andrei Baumann for this very special evening of music. Join us!
Sonata Series Event #2 brings together compositional voices from opposite sides of the globe. Chinese composers Sicong Ma and Yau-Tai Hwang were schooled in the western tradition of classical music but each developed their unique compositional style. Their compositions weave together western musical forms with melodies from Chinese traditional and folk music. Samuel Barber, one of the most celebrated American composers of the 20th century, wrote his Cello Sonata early in his career. Rich with lyricism, emotional depth and dynamic interplay between the two instruments, the Sonata stands among the great works for cello and piano.
Sonata Series #2
Thursday, February 9 at 7 pm
Bell Street Chapel
Admission is free: Make your reservation here
This event is in person.
We’ll also live stream it on on ourTube channel.
Click here to join us online!
