Student Performance Party

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 […]

MusicWorks Collective and Guests: Songs of Refuge

Providence Public Library 150 Empire Street, Providence, RI, RI, 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. **** Join us Saturday, March 26 […]

Annual Fred Kelley Scholarship Concert

Bell Street Chapel 5 Bell Street, Providence, RI

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, […]

End-of-Year Senior Gala

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 […]

Sea Songs!

  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

Bell Street Chapel 5 Bell Street, Providence, RI

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 […]

The 25th Season Reunion Concert

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 […]

Season 26 Opening Concert

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 […]

Sonata Series Event #1

Bell Street Chapel 5 Bell Street, Providence, RI

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 […]

Community MusicWorks Center Coffee Toast

The Community MusicWorks Center 1326 Westminster Street, Providence, RI, 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 […]