Events

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contraBAND: Shouting Forever into the Receiver: Music of the Black Avant-Garde
Studio T401 (Boston Conservatory at Berklee)
31 Hemenway Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s contemporary music ensemble, contraBAND, presents Shouting Forever into the Receiver: Music of the Black Avant-Garde.

Admission
FREE
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New Music Festival—contraBAND
Boston Conservatory Theater
31 Hemenway Street, Floor 2
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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Boston Conservatory’s contemporary music ensemble, contraBAND, presents its first concert of the spring semester.

Admission
FREE
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New Music Festival: andPlay Plays Victoria Cheah and Others
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Guest artists andPlay (featuring Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola) present a concert of exciting contemporary music for their duo, including a major work by faculty member Victoria Cheah.

Admission
FREE
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Student Recital: Keaton Shaw, Contemporary Classical Music
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Keaton Shaw (MM '25) presents a contemporary classical music recital. 

Admission
FREE
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Composers Recital Series
Studio 106
132 Ipswich Street (Richard Ortner Studio Building), Floor 1—Studio 106
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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Boston Conservatory undergraduate and graduate composition students present a concert featuring new works.

Admission
FREE
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contraBAND: TRANSFORMATIONS
Studio T401 (Boston Conservatory at Berklee)
31 Hemenway Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Boston Conservatory’s contemporary music performance ensemble, contraBAND, presents TRANSFORMATIONS.

Admission
FREE

Past Events

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CCMP Power Concert: Animal Kingdom
Studio 106
132 Ipswich Street (Richard Ortner Studio Building), Floor 1—Studio 106
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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Animal Kingdom is a multimedia performance put together by Boston Conservatory’s Contemporary Classical Music Performance program, featuring works based on animals.

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BoCoCelli: Coming Together in a Time of Anxiety and Uncertainty
St. Leonard's Church
320 Hanover St
Boston
MA
02113
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BoCoCelli, Boston Conservatory’s cello octet, presents a stylistically diverse program featuring two Boston premieres composed by Jennifer Bewerse and Kirin McElwain, an experimental new work by Michael Begay, and selections from Pauline Oliveros’s Sonic Meditations.

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contraBAND: Ivesian Set
Studio T401 (Boston Conservatory at Berklee)
31 Hemenway Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Boston Conservatory’s contemporary music ensemble, contraBAND, presents a program of chamber music by Charles Ives, Gabriela Lena Frank, Lisa Bielawa, Erin Rogers, and Anna Clyne.

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Hemenway Strings: Music of the Past, Present, and Future
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Hemenway Strings explores Bach and his profound influence on current and future composers and engages in a critical examination of an AI-generated, Bach-inspired piece.

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Composer Recital Series
Studio 106
132 Ipswich Street (Richard Ortner Studio Building), Floor 1—Studio 106
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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A concert featuring new works by Boston Conservatory undergraduate and graduate composition students.

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Electronic Music Concert
Studio 106
132 Ipswich Street (Richard Ortner Studio Building), Floor 1—Studio 106
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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Dan VanHassel and the Electronic Music class present a concert of original works.

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Guest Artist: Sound Icon
Studio T401 (Boston Conservatory at Berklee)
31 Hemenway Street
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Sound Icon performs the world premiere of Marti Epstein’s In Praise of Broken Clocks, composed with support of the Guggenheim Foundation, along with a world premiere by Ken Ueno and other works.

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Electronic Music Concert
Studio 106
132 Ipswich Street (Richard Ortner Studio Building), Floor 1—Studio 106
Boston
MA
02115
United States
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Dan VanHassel and the Electronic Music class present a concert of original works.

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Student Recital: Yuseok Seol, Contemporary Classical Music
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Yuseok Seol (M.M. '25) presents a contemporary classical music recital.

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Student Recital: Olivia Katz, Cello, Contemporary Classical Music
Seully Hall
8 Fenway, Floor 4
Boston
MA
02215
United States
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Olivia Katz (M.M. '24) presents a contemporary classical cello recital.