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 […]
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
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 […]