contraBAND: Coming Together

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Friday / February 13, 2026 / 8:00 p.m.

Studio T401 (Boston Conservatory at Berklee)

31 Hemenway Street

Boston

02215

United States

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Boston Conservatory’s contemporary chamber ensemble contraBAND, led by Sarah Brady, performs works by Chacon, Eastman, and Rzewski, as well as a world premiere by Boston Conservatory faculty member Laura Kaminsky.

Program Information

Repertoire

Julius Eastman (1940–1990): Joy Boy (1974)

Laura Kaminsky (b. 1956): AT SEA*

Raven Chacon (b. 1977): Music for Voice (2003)

Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021): Coming Together (1974)
Dustyn Carter, narrator

* world premiere

Ensemble

FLUTE
Kellen Ko

CLARINET
Christina Calderwood

BASS CLARINET
Matt Dearie

TROMBONE
Mikayla Frank Martin

CELLO
Amanda Sanchez Sandoval

PIANO
Audrey Puschinsky
Mingyu Xie

PERCUSSION
Jin Cho
Amy Weyand

NARRATORDustyn Carter

Concert Services

Assistant Director, Concert Services – Luis Herrera
Coordinator, Concert Services – Matthew Carey
Concert Production Manager – Kendall Floyd
Performance Technology Technicians – Sara Pagiaro, Goran Daskalov

Boston Conservatory thanks audience members for viewing this program information online. This paperless program saved 200 sheets of paper, 21 gallons of water, and 18 pounds of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.