2023-24 Season

PopUp Boston!

Saturday, October 21, 2023

  • 11:00am - Thomas Crane Public Library, Quincy, MA

  • 1:30pm - MassArt Art Museum

  • 3:00pm - Boston Public Library, Copley Square

BCE kicks off our 2023/2024 season with another round of free pop-up concerts around Boston. The 30-minute family-friendly program resounds with joyful music from the many diverse communities that call Boston home. Pieces include “Kalinda” in Haitian Creole; “Balelaikka,” a Tamil tongue-twister from India; “Salseo,”a Venezuelan song with a salsa beat; and the stirring “Song for the People” by Melissa Dunphy.

Supported in part by an Alfred Nash Patterson Grant from Choral Arts New England.

Silent Night, Silent Light

Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 3:00pm

Old South Church (Copley Square, Boston)

BCE’s annual holiday concert in the beautiful sanctuary of Boston’s historic Old South Church is our most popular event of the season. With music both classic and modern, we experience the mystery and joy of the holiday season, bringing warmth and light to the cold and dark. The concert will feature three selections from Arvo Pärt’s “Seven Magnificat-Antiphons,” “Winter Star” by Jake Runestad, and Kim Baryluk’s “Solstice Carol” along with beloved traditional holiday carols.

Season pass holders get priority seating at our holiday concert! Learn more about Season Passes.

My Journey Yours: Immigrant Stories

Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 2:00pm and 7:00pm

Multicultural Arts Center (East Cambridge, MA)

My Journey Yours focuses on the music and stories of immigrants: the songs they bring from their homelands and their experiences of starting a new life in a new country. This multilingual program features works by immigrant composers and writers. “La Frontera'' by Judith Shatin, sets to music a poem by an undocumented immigrant youth held in an American maximum-security detention center. In “N-400 Erasure Song,” Melissa Dunphy reshapes text from the N-400, the application form to apply for US citizenship. “Finding a Home” by Sydney Guillaume blends English and Haitian Creole to express the anguish that comes from feeling out of place, while also celebrating the homes we have found and the ones we have yet to discover. The concert concludes with songs from several of the immigrant communities of Boston.

Fauré Requiem

Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 7:00pm

Grace Episcopal Church (Newton, MA)

BCE performs Gabriel Fauré’s beloved Requiem in an innovative, fully-staged production of this classic choral work in collaboration with director Patrick Chiu. This performance combines theatrical movement with exquisite choral singing, to take the audience on a journey through a world of unknowns to find glory and hope.