Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra presents Ensemble 2
2022-06-12 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Newton City Hall Auditorium, 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Sunday, June 12, 2022
3:00 PM War Memorial Auditorium, Newton City Hall
ERROLLYN WALLEN Photography: Movement 1 (2007)
MOZART Violin Concerto No.5 in A Major, K. 219
HAYDN Symphony No. 49 in F minor, Hob. 1:49 (“La Passione”)
Kevin Rhodes, conductor
Julia Cash, violin
In June, Pro Arte celebrates its newly appointed Concertmaster, violinist Julia Cash, for a concert of contemporary and Classical works.
Belizean-British composer Errollyn Wallen wrote Photography in 2005 as a series of snapshots inspired by musical memories. Its first movement, based on what she calls “a simple motif,” opens the program with irrepressible vibrancy.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s enchanting Fifth Violin Concerto offers a number of delightful surprises. In the otherwise spirited opening movement, the soloist makes an unconventional entrance with a slow, songlike interlude. Another interruption occurs in the finale, in which a Turkish-style march is interjected into a fluid minuet.
It is unclear whether the nickname of Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 49, “La passione”, refers to the character of its music, but it still perfectly describes this somber work. The symphony burns with intensity from beginning to end and brings the concert to an impassioned close.

Pro Arte's Ensemble Series - Ensemble 3
2022-05-01 15:00
Pro Arte’s full ensemble takes to the stage to present treasured works and brilliant contemporary compositions celebrating their forty-four year history as one of Boston’s most vibrant orchestras.
Paul Polivnik makes a return appearance in the spring to conduct Pro Arte in a powerful program of Ravel, Bernstein, and Mendelssohn. Read more about the program and purchase tickets here.

Pro Arte's Salon Series - Salon 5
2022-04-10 15:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Pro Arte’s unique cooperative is comprised of musicians equally at home as soloists and chamber musicians as they are within the chamber orchestra. The Salon Series presents an opportunity for members of the cooperative to showcase their craft in various chamber groups performing a variety of exciting works.
Pro Arte’s principal winds and principal horn come together for Salon 5 to present a colorful concert for wind quintet. Purchase tickets here.

Pro Arte's Salon Series - Salon 4
2022-03-13 15:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Pro Arte’s unique cooperative is comprised of musicians equally at home as soloists and chamber musicians as they are within the chamber orchestra. The Salon Series presents an opportunity for members of the cooperative to showcase their craft in various chamber groups performing a variety of exciting works.
Salon 4’s program will feature members of Pro Arte’s string section. Full program details to be announced soon. Purchase tickets here.

Pro Arte's Salon Series - Salon 3
2022-02-13 15:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Pro Arte’s unique cooperative is comprised of musicians equally at home as soloists and chamber musicians as they are within the chamber orchestra. The Salon Series presents an opportunity for members of the cooperative to showcase their craft in various chamber groups performing a variety of exciting works.
For Salon 3, one of Pro Arte’s regular string quartets joins forces with the Janelle Gillchrist Dance Troupe for an interdisciplinary exploration of Wynton Marsalis’s first string quartet. Purchase tickets here.

Pro Arte's Salon Series - Salon 2
2021-11-30 20:00
Pro Arte’s unique cooperative is comprised of musicians equally at home as soloists and chamber musicians as they are within the chamber orchestra. The Salon Series presents an opportunity for members of the cooperative to showcase their craft in various chamber groups performing a variety of exciting works.
Salon 2 will include a selection of holiday favorites featuring Pro Arte’s brass section. Venue announcement coming soon. Purchase tickets here.

Pro Arte's Ensemble Series - Ensemble I
2021-10-17 15:00 | Cary Hall, 1605 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA, 02420, United States
Pro Arte’s full ensemble takes to the stage to present treasured works and brilliant contemporary compositions celebrating their forty-four year history as one of Boston’s most vibrant orchestras.
Principal Conductor Kevin Rhodes kicks off the season with a dazzling and wide-ranging program of music across centuries and continents. Read more about the program and purchase tickets here.

Festival of the Arts: Pro Arte Quartet
2021-07-11 16:00 - 16:45 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
As part of the 6th Annual Newton Festival of the Arts, enjoy a concert from Pro Arte’s Quartet.
Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the United States. The quartet will share three works by African American composers, each of which has moments of dance and reflection. Wynton Marsalis’ At the Octoroon Balls is a set of scenes inspired by his early life in New Orleans. We will play three movements from this work – Creole Contradanzas, Blue Lights on the Bayou, and the Rampart Street Row House Rag. Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor weaves together her beautiful lyric writing and African American vernacular with daring chromaticism and vibrant movement. The third movement (of four) is a Juba, a dance developed by Africans brought to America against their will. Dorothy Rudd Moore’s Modes is a beautiful and compact three-movement work, which ends with an energetic, movement-inspiring finale. Lisa Goddard & Colin Davis, violins, Anne Black, viola, and Steve Laven, cello.

Pro Arte's Spring Series: Salon 3
2021-06-17 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Spring Salon Series takes place entirely online. Concerts premiere at 8pm on Thursday night and are available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Dance in Celebration and Reflection
Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the United States. We will come together in contemplation of the horrors of slavery and its lasting legacy, in celebration of emancipation, and in honor of the continuing work that must be done to eradicate white supremacy. We will share three works by African American composers, each of which has moments of dance and reflection. Florence Price’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor weaves together her beautiful lyric writing and African American vernacular with daring chromaticism and vibrant movement. The third movement (of four) is a Juba, a dance developed by Africans brought to America against their will. Dorothy Rudd Moore’s Modes is a beautiful and compact three-movement work, which ends with an energetic, movement-inspiring finale. Wynton Marsalis’ At the Octoroon Balls is a set of scenes inspired by his early life in New Orleans. We will play three movements from this work – Creole Contradanzas, Blue Lights on the Bayou, and the Rampart Street Row House Rag.
Program:
PRICE String Quartet No. 2 in A minor
DOROTHY RUDD MOORE Modes
WYNTON MARSALIS At the Octoroon Balls
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Pro Arte's Spring Series: Salon 2
2021-05-20 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Spring Salon Series takes place entirely online. Concerts premiere at 8pm on Thursday night and are available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Program:
BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B-flat Major, op. 11
BRAHMS Clarinet Trio in A minor, op. 114

Pro Arte's Spring Series: Salon 1
2021-04-08 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Spring Salon Series takes place entirely online. Concerts premiere at 8pm on Thursday night and are available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Program:
JACQUES IBERT Cinq Pièces en Trio
SIMON SARGON Haas Trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano
W.A. MOZART Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, K. 452
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Pro Arte's Winter Salon Series: Salon 4
2021-03-18 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Winter Salon Series takes place entirely online. Concerts premiere at 8pm on Thursday night and are available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Salon 4: “Mendelssohn and Golijov”
PROGRAM:
MENDELSSOHN Octet in E-flat Major, op.20
GOLIJOV Last Round for String Nonet (1996)

Pro Arte's Winter Salon Series: Salon 3
2021-02-25 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Winter Salon Series takes place entirely online. Concerts premiere at 8pm on Thursday night and are available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Salon 3: “American Vignettes”
PROGRAM:
Carter PANN Differences (1998)
Stacy GARROP Noir Vignettes (1995)
Gabriela Lena FRANK Manhattan Serenades (1995)
Kevin PUTS Air for cello and piano (2004)
Stephen PAULUS American Vignettes (1988)

MUSICIANS:
Aron Zelkowicz, cello
Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano

Pro Arte's Winter Salon Series: Salon 2
2021-02-04 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Winter Salon Series takes place entirely online. Concerts premiere at 8pm on Thursday night and are available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Thursday, February 4th: “Ravel and Dohnányi”
PROGRAM:
RAVEL Sonata for Violin and Cello
DOHNÁNY Serenade for String Trio, op.10
Coleridge-Taylor PERKINSON Movement for String Trio

MUSICIANS:
Julia Cash, violin
Aron Zelkowicz, cello

Pro Arte's Winter Salon Series: Salon 1
2021-01-14 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Winter Salon Series takes place entirely online. Concerts premiere at 8pm on Thursday night and are available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Salon 1: “Duos to Ring in the New Year”
PROGRAM:
LEONARDA Sonata No. 12, op. 16
STEIN Waltz
BUNCH Four Flashbacks
BOLOGNE Sonata for Two Violins No. 5 in B-flat Major
PROKOFIEV Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, op. 56

MUSICIANS:
Sasha Callahan, violin
Lisa Goddard,violin
Liana Zaretsky, violin/viola
Leo Eguchi, cello

Pro Arte's Fall Salon Series: Salon 6
2020-12-03 20:00 - 22:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Salon 6: Program details coming soon.

Pro Arte's Fall Salon Series: Salon 5
2020-11-19 20:00 - 22:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Salon 5: Program details coming soon.

Pro Arte's Fall Salon Series: Salon 4
2020-11-05 20:00 - 22:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Salon 4:
Cellist Aron Zelkowicz is joined by pianist Christina Wright-Ivanova for a unique chamber music program that celebrates the American spirit. Twentieth and twenty-first century music for cello and piano showcase a variety of styles via tiny snapshots or “vignettes” from the American vernacular including jazz, blues, and folksong. Zelkowicz, a cellist with the ProArte Chamber Orchestra and many other local ensembles, and Wright-Ivanova, a professor at Keene State College, offer their interpretations of music by Carter Pann, Gabriela Lena Frank, Stacey Garrop, Kevin Puts and Stephen Paulus.

MUSICIANS
Aaron Zelkowicz, cello
Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano

Pro Arte's Fall Salon Series: Salon 3
2020-10-22 20:00 - 22:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Salon 3:
Please join the principal winds of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra for a fabulous program of quintet music, all by American composers. We are so excited about this concert! We will travel through a couple of standards, the gorgeous Summer Music by Samuel Barber, the perfectly danceable Partita by Irving Fine, and also visit a couple of pieces that may be less familiar. Umoja, meaning unity, written by one of our top young American composers, Valerie Coleman, and is more timely than ever. We go back in time a bit with an arrangement of Summerland by the formidable and under performed William Grant Still, originally written for solo piano in 1936. And we couldn’t resist throwing in a nod to Paris with some Gershwin just for fun, because who doesn’t need some fun these days? We hope you’ll enjoy the journey as much as we will.

BARBER Summer Music, Op. 31
FINE Partita
Valerie COLEMAN Umoja
STILL Summerland
GERSHWIN An American in Paris

MUSICIANS
Ann Bobo, flute
Nancy Dimock, oboe
Ian Greitzer, clarinet
Ron Haroutunian, bassoon
Robert Marlatt, horn

Pro Arte's Fall Salon Series: Salon 2
2020-10-08 20:00 - 22:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.

Salon 2:

After playing an enjoyable summer salon together, Lisa Goddard, Colin Davis, Anne Black, and Steven Laven return with a new program. Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 95, known as the “Serioso” quartet, is a compact piece on the cusp of Beethoven’s late work, which pushes the boundaries of form and harmony further than ever before. William Grant Still’s Lyric Quartette is a musical portrait of three of the composer’s friends. Known as the “Dean of Afro-American Composers,” Still’s accomplishments include over 200 compositions, being the first African American to conduct a major orchestra (the L.A. Philharmonic), and collaborating with prominent literary and cultural figures in the Harlem Renaissance movement. The concert also includes James Lee III’s Abraham’s Sons (in Memoriam Trayvon Martin). Intense and dramatic, this piece is dedicated to the family of Trayvon Martin. Mr. Lee musically depicts the scope of suffering and mourning inferred by the title of this elegiac solo piece. From one of Pro Arte’s favorite living composers, Jessie Montgomery’s Rhapsody No. 1 is the first in a series of virtuosic pieces for various solo instruments, which she premiered herself on violin in 2014.

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F minor, op. 95 “Quartetto Serioso”
William Grant STILL Lyric Quartette
James LEE Abraham’s Sons (In Memoriam: Trayvon Martin)
Jessie MONTGOMERY Rhapsody No. 1

MUSICIANS
Lisa Goddard, violin
Colin Davis, violin
Anne Black, viola
Steve Laven, cello

Pro Arte's Fall Salon Series: Salon 1
2020-09-24 20:00 - 22:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.

Salon 1:
Lyrical, tender, charming, warm, majestic… These are a just a few words that apply equally to Florence Price’s String Quartet in G Major and Beethoven’s Opus 127 Quartet in E Flat Major. Though separated by a century, each groundbreaking genius overcame adversity to create these two works which express profound humanity and beauty. Beethoven struggled to compose his Op. 127 through illness and complete deafness; Price (perhaps the most notable African American women composers of the early 20th Century) composed her gorgeous G Major Quartet despite enduring systemic racial disadvantages. Through these works, both artists show us a roadmap to beauty, triumph, and our better selves.

Florence PRICE, String Quartet in G Major

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 127

MUSICIANS
Liana Zaretsky, violin
Julia Cash, violin
Emily Rome, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello

Pro Arte presents: Summer Salon Series
2020-09-10 19:00 | Facebook Live, United States
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston brings its Salon Series into the summer for the first time. These chamber music concerts will be live every other Thursday on our Facebook page at 7PM starting on July 2nd. Click here for Facebook link and donation page. (Suggested donation $25.)
On Thursday, September 10th, the program will feature:
MOZART String Duo No. 2 in B-flat Major, K. 424
MILHAUD Duo for Two Violins, op. 258

GRAINGER Arrival Platform Humlet for solo viola
OWENS Soliloquy for solo viola

MUSICIANS:
Diane Pettipaw, violin
Anne Black, viola

Pro Arte presents: Summer Salon Series
2020-08-27 19:00 | Facebook Live, United States
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston brings its Salon Series into the summer for the first time. These chamber music concerts will be live every other Thursday on our Facebook page at 7PM starting on July 2nd. Click here for Facebook link and donation page. (Suggested donation $25.)
On Thursday, August 27, the program will feature works by Mozart.
MUSICIANS:
Julia Cash, violin
Donna Jerome, viola
Jolene Kessler, cello

Pro Arte presents: Summer Salon Series
2020-08-13 19:00 | Facebook Live, United States
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston brings its Salon Series into the summer for the first time. These chamber music concerts will be live every other Thursday on our Facebook page at 7PM starting on July 2nd. Click here for Facebook link and donation page. (Suggested donation $25.)
On Thursday, August 13, the program will feature:

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, op. 18
BEETHOVEN Eyeglasses Duo
BACH Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004
BACEWICZ Polish Capriccio
MUSICIANS
Colin Davis, violin
Lisa Goddard, violin
Anne Black, viola
Steve Laven, cello

Pro Arte presents: Summer Salon Series
2020-07-30 19:00 | Facebook Live, United States
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston brings its Salon Series into the summer for the first time. These chamber music concerts will be live every other Thursday on our Facebook page at 7PM starting on July 2nd. Click here for Facebook link and donation page. (Suggested donation $25.)
On Thursday, July 30, the program will feature works by Beethoven and Vivaldi, along with arrangements of hymn tunes and ragtime duets.
MUSICIANS:
Barbara Englesberg, violin
Jodi Hagen, violin

Anne Hooper Webb, violin

Jamie Hillman, piano

Pro Arte presents: Summer Salon Series
2020-07-16 19:00 | Facebook Live, United States
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston brings its Salon Series into the summer for the first time. These chamber music concerts will be live every other Thursday on our Facebook page at 7PM starting on July 2nd. Click here for Facebook link and donation page. (Suggested donation $25.)
On Thursday, July 16, the program will feature works for string quartet by African American women composers.
MUSICIANS:
Liana Zaretsky, violin
Julia Cash, violin
Emily Rome, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello

Pro Arte Salon Stream
2020-06-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Facebook Live, United States
Pro Arte finishes our 43rd season with a socially distanced performance from the back deck of our principal flute, Ann Bobo. This event is the first time that any of Pro Arte’s musicians have been able to play together in the past three months. The concert is being provided free of charge as part of Pro Arte’s mission to bring music to our community, especially in these times when music can soothe and heal. Visit Pro Arte at https://www.facebook.com/ProArteBoston/ on June 11 at 7:00 p.m. to enjoy this performance.

Pro Arte: Salon Livestream Concert
2020-05-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Facebook Live, United States
Pro Arte was supposed to perform the third Salon concert of the season at the Scandinavian Cultural Center on May 17. The musicians are recording performances from their homes that will be live streamed on Facebook.com/ProArteBoston to share with the Pro Arte community. Music brings us together as one, especially when socially distanced. Please join us for expert performances from the comfort of home.
This performance will be streamed free of charge. Donations are welcome.

Pro Arte presents Serenades and Illuminations CANCELED
2020-03-21 20:00 - 22:00 | First Baptist Church in Newton, 848 Beacon St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
Pro Arte welcomes Guest Conductor David Angus and tenor Jesse Darden for an enchanting program of two retrospective serenades and one visionary song cycle. The Romantic serenades by Richard Strauss and Johannes Brahms stem from a Classical genre of music traditionally performed outdoors in the evening. Although Strauss’s noble Serenade in E-flat is small in proportion—a single movement for thirteen winds—it launched his career as a renowned composer and conductor. By contrast, Brahms’s robust Serenade in D rivals his symphonies in terms of length. In Les Illuminations, Benjamin Britten sets the fantastical poetry of French Romantic poet Arthur Rimbaud to equally dazzling music for voice and string orchestra.

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra
2020-03-21 19:30
Bach at 335! Looking for some wonderful Bach to celebrate his 335th birthday? Pro Arte’s Leo Eguchi and his Sheffield Chamber Players will be performing a string trio version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations live via Facebook on Saturday, March 21, at 7:30 p.m. Tune in to stream this great live show at 7:30 p.m. here!
