An evening where composers blur the lines between classical and jazz styles.

What does a composer do when the instruments available to him are not able to create his vision? Come to this lecture-presentation presented by LIRA, and learn about Edgard Varèse, his work, and his influence today.

Schramm - La Balena

Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major

Brodack - Chandelier Reflections

Korngold - Suite from “Viel Lärmen um nichts”

This concert is part of Middlesex Community College’s A World of Music Concert Series

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Music as a means to contemplate profound meanings of places, events, and life.

Schramm - La Balena
World Prémiere, commissioned by LCO

Mozart - Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major
Katharina Radlberger, soloist

Brodack - Chandelier Reflections

Korngold - Suite from “Viel Lärmen um nichts”

Part of the Menotomy Concert Series

Celebrate Pride Month and the contributions of LGBTQ artists! Concert is free and open to the public, as always!

Lowell Chamber Orchestra will perform Robert Levin’s completion of Mozart’s Requiem with Boston Cecilia

Lowell Chamber Orchestra will perform Robert Levin’s completion of Mozart’s Requiem with Boston Cecilia

Schreiner - Autumn Vistas (2022)

Séjourné - Concerto for marimba and strings (2005 - 2015)

Perry - Symphony for Violas and Basses

Bartók - Music for string instruments, percussion and celesta

Presented by Middlesex Community College’s A World of Music Concert Series

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Ndodana-Breen - Mayibuyé

Ives - Symphony No. 3

Rodrigo - Aria Antigua

Schönberg - Verklärte Nacht

We regret to inform that the December 8th and 9th concerts have been postponed until September, 2024

Music is alive and evolving, and when it comes to classical music, the many different trends are as varied as human imagination, and it can be hard to understand them!

Part of Lowell City of Learning 2023 Learning Festival

Nakatani - La Giclée

Benton - The Sentinel

Persichetti - The Hollow Men, Op. 25
Adam Gallant, trumpet

Schönberg - Kammersymphonie Nr. 1, Op. 9

Part of Middlesex Community College’s A World of Music Concert Series

A concert celebrating the many contributions of LGBTQ composers to classical music. Music by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, and Boston-based composer Andrew List.

This is a pay-what-you-wish event: simply show up and donate at the door!

The concert will also be live-streamed. Click here at the time of the concert. Also, click here for a virtual program.

Part of Middlesex Community College’s A World of Music Concert Series

The classical music from hispanic composers is as varied as our standard repertoire, and this program will bring you music that shows a diversity in styles, palettes, and themes.

Romero - Fuga con Pajarillo

Bayolo - Orfei Mors
Leo Eguchi, cello

De Falla - El Amor Brujo
Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano

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A concert inspired by places and tales of legendary provenance, plus the world premiere of Pasquale Tassone’s “Rhapsody for Flute and Strings”

A multimedia oratorio by composer Gabriele Vanoni, based on oral stories of Ellis Island, exploring the immigrant experience from yesterday and today.

Presented by Middlesex Community College’s A World of Music Concert Series

A lecture-presentation on one of the most influential works of music, to get you in the Halloween spirit

Perez - Paikuna Saqinku (Winner of the LCO call-for-scores )
Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 - Roi Karni, bassett clarinet
De Castro-Robinson - Cyprian’s Dance
Haydn - Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor, “Abschiedssymphonie,” Hob I:45

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Presented by Middlesex Community College’s A World of Music Concert Series

This concert will celebrate Pride Month by showcasing LGBTQ+ composers from the Lowell area and around the world. Queer people have made many signficant contributions to the classical music community, yet their identities are often concealed, or worse, their work erased from the picture. This concert is meant to embrace and celebrate these identities, which we hope can one day become the norm in classical music culture. The event will be family-friendly and free!

After the concert, we invite you to join us for light refreshments, which will be served outdoors (weather permitting). We hope to see you there!

These works showcase an orchestra’s limitless possibilities. Pianist Pei-Yeh Tsai will join us for a performance of Shostakovich’s first piano concerto.

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Dana Kaufman and Francis Poulenc look back at the Baroque for inspiration, plus music by Rameau, and Telemann’s double concerto with Aldo Abreu on recorder.

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This program is part of Middlesex Community College’s A World of Music Concert Series

A ground breaking opera, with Tona Brown and Rahzé Cheatham portraying the challenges, joys, and fears of the trans experience.

Music & concept: Laura Kaminsky - Libretto: Mark Campbell & Kimberly Reed - Film: Kimberly Reed

This program is comprised of works that offer a glimpse into the composer’s life. Vaughan Williams’ Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis indicates the composer life-long love with the music of the Tudor period. W.A. Mozart’s flute concerto is a typical example of this composer’s ability to tailor his music to his patron - for better or worse. And Dmitri Shostakovich’s arrangement of his eighth string quartet, a piece that, Shostakovich himself said, was autobiographical.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s life was not an easy one: he lived through terribly uncertain times, and he suffered in many ways under the hand of the Soviet authorities. His compositions, which made him a very famous composer, were coded messages for his audience, and in the case of the Chamber Symphony No. 8, a retelling of his life, at his lowest point.

Sponsored in part by UMass Lowell’s Learning in Retirement Association

A special event in collaboration with the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival. A panel discussion on setting Jack Kerouac texts to music, ending in a performance of three brand new works.

We open our third season with music that evoke the cosmos. Mandolinist Joseph Brent will be the soloist of Anna Clyne’s “Three Sisters.” We will also open the concert with the winning composition of our first call for scores: “Hypernovae,” by Micah Roberts. And finally, the very well known and monumental Symphony No. 41 by W. A. Mozart

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A concert celebrating another season of accomplishments, especially in pandemic times! This program features Jeremy Gill’s virtuosic work for double string orchestra, soprano Barbara Quintiliani singing selections from one of Berlioz’s most popular song cycles, and Quinn Mason with a brand new work written for LCO’s Lowell Threads project.

Presented by Middlesex Community College’s “A World of Music” Concert Series

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The Lowell Chamber Orchestra continues its second season with music for small ensemble that present a monumental musical experience. This program is comprised of works that are small in musicians but most powerful in message! The richness and power of these works are monuments in miniature forces.

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Classical music has traditionally been a white-male dominated medium, and arguably the slowest musical style to adapt to society’s ever-growing diversity.

In this panel, four luminaries of the contemporary classical music scene, will share their experiences, their ideas, and the work they do towards making classical music relevant again as a channel for racial and gender equality.

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Johann Sebastian Bach never wrote an opera. But these two cantatas definitely need to be staged and performed as such, and that’s what we’ll be doing! And they definitely show the more humorous side of one of the greatest composers of all time!

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