2024-2025 Season at a Glance
It is our pleasure to welcome you to Chameleon Arts Ensemble’s 27th concert season. We invite you to join us for transcendent music and dazzling artistry in seven one-of-a-kind programs that spark curiosity, pull at our heartstrings, and illuminate the world around us.
Among the highlights of this year’s chamber series are Schubert’s soul-searching Cello Quintet; new and neglected gems by Bernstein, Pavel Haas, and Earl Kim; electrifying rarities by Korngold and Enescu; and a technicolor world premiere by Laura Schwendinger. Our popular Up Close recital series returns with fantasy-filled duos for violin and piano and cinematic clarinet trios by Libby Larsen, Beethoven, and Brahms. Witty, sublime, new, and beloved… we continue our unmatched legacy of the most adventurous programming in Boston. We hope you agree that we have an exciting year ahead, and we look forward to seeing you at the concerts!
When & Where
Saturday concerts begin at 7:30 PM (new time).
Sunday concerts begin at 4 PM.
All Chamber Music Series performances are at First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough Street.
The Up Close recitals take place at Goethe-Institut, Boston, 170 Beacon Street.
Join Us
Call 617-427-8200 to order tickets or for more information.
Chamber Series 1: Exercises en Route
- Saturday, October 5, 2024, 7:30 PM, First Church in Boston
- Sunday, October 6, 2024, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
- Ernest Bloch, Three Nocturnes for violin, cello & piano (1924)
- Arnold Schoenberg, Ein Stelldichein (A Rendezvous) for oboe, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
- Earl Kim, Exercises en Route for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello & 2 percussion
- Franz Schubert, String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956
Chamber Series 2: Origin Stories
- Saturday, November 23, 2024, 7:30 PM, First Church in Boston
- Sunday, November 24, 2024, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Major, WoO 36
- Leonard Bernstein, Sonata for clarinet & piano
- Chinary Ung, Child Song for flute, violin, cello & piano
- George Enescu, Octet in C Major, Op. 7 (1900)
Chamber Series 3: Between Two Worlds
- Saturday, February 22, 2025, 7:30 PM, First Church in Boston
- Sunday, February 23, 2025, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
- Darius Milhaud, La création du monde – Suite de concert pour piano et quatour à cordes, Op. 81b
- George Rochberg, Between Two Worlds (Ukiyo-e III) for flute & piano
- Pavel Haas, Wind Quintet, Op. 10
- Alban Berg, Adagio from Kammerkonzert for violin, clarinet & piano
- Erich Korngold, Suite for two violins, cello & piano left-hand, Op. 23
Up Close 1: Fragments and Fantasies
- Sunday, March 16, 2025, 4 PM, Goethe-Institut, Boston
- Johannes Brahms, Scherzo in c minor from “F-A-E” Sonata, WoO 2
- Judith Weir, Music for 247 Strings
- Franz Schubert, Fantasie in C Major for violin & piano, Op. 159, D. 934
- Robert Schumann, Sonata No. 2 in d minor for violin & piano, Op. 121
Chamber Series 4: How it ends?
- Saturday, April 5, 2025, 7:30 PM, First Church in Boston
- Sunday, April 6, 2025, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
- Maurice Ravel, Sonata No. 1 for violin & piano “Posthume”
- Richard Rodney Bennett, After Syrinx I for oboe & piano
- Laura Schwendinger, Ghost-Music for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion – world premiere
- Olivier Messiaen, Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes
- Gabriel Fauré, Piano Quintet No. 2 in c minor, Op. 115
Up Close 2: A play of light and shadow
- Sunday, April 27, 2025, 4 PM, Goethe-Institut, Boston
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11 “Gassenhauer”
- Alexander Zemlinsky, Clarinet Trio in d minor, Op. 3
- Libby Larsen, Trio Noir (2022)
- Johannes Brahms, Trio in a minor for clarinet, cello & piano, Op. 114
Chamber Series 5: Exultation is the going
- Saturday, May 17, 2025, 7:30 PM, First Church in Boston
- Sunday, May 18, 2025, 4 PM, First Church in Boston
- Arvo Pärt, Fratres for violin & piano
- York Bowen, Phantasy Quintet for bass clarinet & string quartet, Op. 93 (1932)
- Kevin Puts, Seven Seascapes for flute, French horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass & piano
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 97 “Archduke”
Free Family Concerts: 2025
- Saturday, May 31, 2025, 11 AM, Hyde Park Branch Library