Our annual Bach Marathon takes to the airwaves in a glorious 12-hour electromagnetic tribute to J.S. Bach transmitted to your radio! WELH 88.1 FM Rhode Island Public Radio Can't listen local? Click on the icons in our Bach Marathon Listening Guide to find embedded audio of Bach-to-Bach bliss!
Join us for an hour-long presentation that includes musical performances, jokes, and joy. CMW students and teachers have been working hard despite the challenges of online learning. Tonight, students perform for family and friends in a virtual community event where you can cheer on our young musicians and enjoy the […]
This season's popular Sonata Series event goes virtual with YouTube premieres showcasing solo and duo performances. December’s Sonata Event brings you the distinctive sounds of 20th-century French Romantic music. Violin Fellow Kimberly Fang shares Eugène Ysaÿe’s indomitable and soulful Sonata No. 4 for Unaccompanied Violin. Resident Musician Lisa Barksdale and guest pianist Jeff Louie present […]
Songs of Refuge features a musical collaboration with Dorcas International Institute of RI and composer Kareem Roustom.
*This event has been postponed. We'll update the calendar when rescheduling information is available.
This season's popular Sonata Series event goes virtual with YouTube premieres showcasing solo and duo performances. Sonata Event #3 brings you works by fresh contemporary voices from around the globe. Violin fellow Lara Madden shares George Benjamin’s spare yet evocative "Three Miniatures for Solo Violin" and Mario Carro’s luminous "About Escher” written for Violin and […]
This mid-winter presentation of CMW’s Performance Party will warm your heart as students present musical performances and sweet cameo appearances by their companion pets: dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs, and stuffed toys will be introduced by their loving owners. Grab your feline or pup and join us on YouTube!
The final Sonata Series Event of the season shares music of hope and despair in a mélange of styles. Ashley Frith, violist and CMW’s Director of Racial Equity and Belonging, shares Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson's Lamentations: A Black/Folk Song Suite (originally written for cello) and her rendition of Rhiannon Giddens’ sorrowful and defiant At the Purchaser’s Option.
The second half of the program features Resident Musician cellist Adrienne Taylor joined by pianist Andrei Baumann. This dynamic duo shares their rendition of the popular spiritual Deep River and for a finale, Claude Debussy’s fantastical and whimsical Cello Sonata.
Live! From our living room to yours. Join us for a series of live virtual music-sharing events as MusicWorks Collective musicians share solo, duo, and quartet performances in an intimate house concert setting. Sessions include poetry, music, and conversation, all live-streamed to a small group of participants. We look forward to seeing you and sharing some musical gems! […]
Annual Phase II Youth Salon : The Cave This deep-dive into a topic chosen by CMW's teen group, Phase II, centers around Plato's allegory The Cave, with conversation and an exploration of ways in which we can find ourselves looking at shadows and confusing them for the truth. CMW's Annual Youth Salon on Zoom! Saturday, […]
Tune in Friday for the premiere of the CMW Daily Orchestra Program’s new visual album: Animal Songs! You’ll meet pets, watch a puppet show, learn to make a balloon animal, and more. This album was created to raise funds for the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which the students selected […]