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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIFM_DB5rV8 Join us for the world premiere of Jeff Louie’s forceful and complex String Quintet. Also featured: collaborative “side-by-side” performances between MusicWorks Collective musicians and CMW students with works by Antonín Dvořák, Dmitri Shostakovich, and David Stone, Bill Withers, and R. Anne Svendsen. RESERVE YOUR SEAT HERE. Join us for a wonderful afternoon of music! The Annual […]