Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble: Rites

Friday / March 6, 2026 / 8:00 p.m. (EST)

Tsai Performance Center

685 Commonwealth Ave

Boston

02215

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Admission

FREE

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For its final performance of the academic year, the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble offers a concert of selections that explore the many ways cultural traditions both give shape to and take shape from music, with global selections by Zhou Tian, Ida Gotkovsky, Victoriano Valencia Rincón, and Jessie Montgomery.

Program Information

Repertoire

JESSIE MONTGOMERY (b. 1981): Coincident Dances (2025)

VICTORIANO VALENCIA RINCÓN (b. 1970): Suite No. 4 (2012)
I. Melxión
II. Adán
III. Obatalá
IV. Apocalypsis

—INTERMISSION—

IDA GOTKOVSKY (1933–2025): Symphony de Printemps (1989)
II. Automne Poétique
III. Hiver Irréel
IV. Final Eté

TIAN ZHOU (b. 1981): Sinfonia (2022)
I. Noir
II. Transit
III. Arioso
IV. D-O-N-E

Ensemble

CONDUCTOR
Matthew M. Marsit

PICCOLO
Sasha Blackman, BM '29
Zhanru Xiao, MM '27

FLUTE
Sabrina Clubine, MM '27
Rhea Karnick, BM '27
Teo Mondiru, BM '26
Talley Powell, MM '27
Julia Spretty, BM '27
Zhanru Xiao, MM '27

ALTO FLUTE
Rhea Karnick, BM '27

OBOE
Isabella Guevarra, BM '28
Jesse Myers, BM '26

CLARINET
Jessie Cho, BM '29
Zeyu Dai, BM '29
Yunhe Guo, MM '27
Rose Lao, MM '26
Andrew Lee, BM '26
Jacqueline Huang, BM '27
Kristina Nie, MM '27
Kevin Song, BM '28

E-FLAT CLARINET
Michael Fascetta, MM '26

BASS CLARINET
Gage Frazier, BM '29
Rachel Wilensky, BM '27

CONTRABASS CLARINET
Suning Yu, MM '26

ALTO SAXOPHONE
Xander Dawson, BM '26
Alejandro Taveras, BM '26 (Berklee College of Music)

TENOR SAXOPHONE
Brian Esparza, BM '28

BARITONE SAXOPHONE
Yuyan Huang, MM '27

BASSOON
Carson Saponaro, BM '26
Alexander Weber, BM '27

CONTRABASSOON
Kyle Sodman, GPD '26

HORN
Holly Fullerton, BM '26
Anne Howarth^
Ricardo Verde, BM '26
Zachary Watson, BM '27
Liam Worf, BM '29 (Berklee College of Music)
Felicity Zhao, BM '29

TRUMPET/CORNET
Charlotte Berube-Gray, BM '26
Emily Dillon, BM '27
Teddy Mason, MM '27
Freddie Poor, BM '27
Elliot Wlasiuk, BM '27

TROMBONE
Takumi Crary, BM '29
Collin Good, BM '28
Carter Lepuil, BM '29
Cole MacEwen, BM '28
Brooke Thomson, BM '26
Kevin Smith, MM '26

BASS TROMBONE
Collin Good, BM '28
Cole MacEwen, BM '28

EUPHONIUM/BARITONE
Lukas Johnson, BM '29
Sum Ho Tsui, BM '26

TUBA
Gabe Eib, BM '29
Lowrider James, BM '27

PERCUSSION
Logan Bass, BM '28
Yuth Canizalez, BM '28
Lily Cooper, BM '28
Yunni Fu, BM '28
Tianyu Guo, MM '26
Ryder Hendry, BM '29 (Berklee College of Music)
Jack Tarpley, BM '28
Uchyo Ono, BM '29
Ashton Pender, BM '29
Lesley Silva-Garcia, BM '26
Amy Weyand, BM '28

HARP
Claudia Moreno, MM '26

PIANO
Lizi Basiladze, BM '26

CELLO
Hailey Brasser, BM '26
Madeleine Corrigan, MM '26
Danielle Hall, MM '26
An-Chi Tsou, MM '29
Kevin Zhai, BM '29

BASS
Gabriel de los Reyes, BM '27

^ Faculty member

Concert Services Staff

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

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