Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble
2024-11-21 20:00 (America/New_York) | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble

The Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble will perform American Jazz standards under the direction of Mike Monaghan.

Details

November 21, 20248:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallPrior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble | Earth Songs
2024-11-24 15:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble | Earth Songs

Join the Holy Cross Wind Ensemble for a musical journey inspired by the beauty of the earth.
Experience diverse climates and locations, from the serene Alaskan snow to the sound of a gentle rain which the audience will help create. The program features Frank Ticheli’s “Earth Song,” described by the composer as “a cry and a prayer for peace,” along with additional works by Whitacre, Hall, Ives, Iannaccone, Balmages, and others.
This concert will be an exploration and celebration of our beautiful planet.

Details

November 24, 20243:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Inspired by Blue
2024-11-25 12:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Cantor Art Gallery –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery; Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance

Inspired By Blue

Join us for a performance of compositions by students in Professor Matthew Jaskot’s Composition/Songwriting course and dances from students in Professor Jimena Bermejo’s Body Stories. These works are inspired by the current gallery exhibition Blue Profundity: Contemporary Artists Revisit a Color.

Details

November 25, 202412:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art GalleryThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Laptop Ensemble Federation
2024-12-03 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Booth Media Lab –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Laptop Ensemble Federation

Designed as an experiential, hands-on learning environment, MUSC 242: Coding Music welcomes all majors interested in sound synthesis, DIY instrument design, and collaborative performance of live electronic music. The end-of-the semester concert will showcase final student projects written for the class.

Details

December 3, 20248:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Booth Media LabPrior Performing Arts Center

Advent Festival of Lessons and Carols
2024-12-05 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Advent Festival of Lessons & Carols

Please join us for the College’s Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols for Advent.
The service will take place in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel on Thursday, December 5 at 8:00 PM.

Details

December 5, 20248:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Bala Brass Quintet
2025-01-28 12:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Bala Brass Quintet

The award-winning Bala Chamber Brass presents a variety of original music for brass quintet, featuring both staples of the repertoire and lesser-known works. Pieces include Victor Ewald’s Quintet No. 3, and works by Anthony Plog, Kevin McKee, and Canadian composer Ian McDougall.

Details

January 28, 202512:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Irish Music Hour
2025-02-13 15:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Irish Music Hour

Diarmuid Ó Meachair (button accordion & melodeon) and Matt Mulqueen (piano) will perform a program featuring the music of PJ Conlon (1920s, New York) and Joe Derrane (1940s, Boston).

Peter Conlon, the king of the melodeon was Peter James “PJ” Conlon, an immigrant born in 1892 near Milltown, County Galway who recorded some fifty commercial recordings between 1917 and 1929. PJ’s eldest sister Mary Ellen also played the melodeon and recorded a 78 rpm disc of her own in 1923.
Conlon began his recording career playing a German-made instrument like that used by John Kimmel but later switched to a more powerful eight-voice accordion from Baldoni Bartoli, an Italian-American firm whose instruments became the preferred choice among Irish-American “box” players. He played at a fast pace but always in complete control, and with a penchant for ornamentation and melodic variation. The Depression put an end to his recording career, but Conlon continued to perform in bars and dance halls. A benefit concert was organized for him in 1935 at the fiddler James Morrison’s Celtic Hall in west Harlem. Though he lived until 1967, Conlon was not musically active after 1951. His influence on later Irish players was immense and it could well be said that modern traditional Irish style on the button accordion started with P.J. Conlon.

Joe Derrane electrified the world of Irish music back in the late 1940s when as a high school senior he recorded eight solo 78-rpm shellac discs for Boston’s Copley Records on the D/C# two-row button accordion. Through his recordings and performances, this native Bostonian defined the state of the art in Irish-American button accordion playing.
The Boston-born son of Irish immigrants, Joe Derrane was among the finest button accordionists in the history of Irish music. He was also a somewhat elusive legend in the genre.
After recording during the 1940s and ‘50s, he disappeared from the traditional music circuit for thirty-five years, popping up again in 1994 at the Irish Folk Festival at Wolf Trap.
In 2004 Derrane received one of the highest honors for a traditional musician: the National Endowment for the Arts’ National Heritage Fellowship.

Details

Feb 13, 20253:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series | Members of the Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
2025-02-18 19:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Members of the Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

Kristjon Imperio, Trisha Snyder and Jonathan Bezdegian
The 2025 Chapel Artist Series continues with this exciting program of works by Bach, Buxtehude and Mendelssohn performed by local organists in the St. Joseph Memorial Chapel at Holy Cross.

Details

February 18, 20257:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Lunchtime Concert Series | Selections of Light and Dark: The Evolution Of The String Quartet
2025-02-19 12:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – The Beehive –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Selections of Light and Dark: The Evolution Of The String Quartet

Lunchtime Concert Series

Emerson Lyons, violin
Emily Seiler, violin
Sergio Muñoz Leiva, viola
Julianna Stratton, cello
This program includes the first movements of Haydn’s Sunrise Quartet, Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet, and Schubert’s Death and The Maiden Quartet.
These selections trace the evolution of the string quartet, from Haydn’s radiant classical ideals to Schubert’s dramatic expressiveness, and demonstrate the development of the string quartet through the 18th and 19th centuries.

Details

February 19, 202512:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

The BeehiveThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble & Orchestra | Game On: A Celebration of Video Game Music
2025-02-26 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble & Orchestra

Game On: A Celebration of Video Game Music

Video game music often transcends its digital origins, offering timeless themes and otherworldly places.
On February 26, The Holy Cross Wind Ensemble and Orchestra will present a joint concert featuring iconic melodies from the video game industry. This program will include classics like The Legend of Zelda, Halo, and Super Mario, along with selections from lesser-known titles.
The performance will explore the deep connections between video game music and its classical and cinematic influences. Several pieces will be enhanced by multimedia displays, immersing the audience even further into the worlds of these games.

Details

Feberuary 26, 20258:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series | Matthew Luca
2025-03-11 19:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Matthew Luca, Holy Cross Organ Scholar ‘22

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

Rising star (and soon to be Dr.) Matthew Luca will perform an organ program with works by Buxtehude, Scheid, Bach and Reubke as part of the Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series at the St. Joseph Memorial Chapel.

Can’t join in person? Join a live stream of the performance via the YouTube link below:

Details

March 11, 20257:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Irish Music Hour
2025-03-25 15:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Irish Music Hour

Diarmuid Ó Meachair (button accordion & melodeon) and Nathan Gourley (guitar) perform the music of the Dwyer family from The Beara Peninsula in West Cork, Ireland.

The Dwyer brothers, John, Richard, Finbarr, and Michael, came from a musical family of nine children. Their father played the fiddle and their mother played accordion. Brothers Michael and Finbarr, who died in 1997 and 2014 respectively, were musicians and composers. Richard, also a musician and composer, now lives in Ennis, Co. Clare.

Details

Mar 25, 20253:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series | Gavin Klein, Holy Cross Organ Scholar
2025-03-25 19:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Gavin Klein, Holy Cross Organ Scholar ‘26

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

Holy Cross Organ Scholar Gavin Klein (Class of ‘26) will perform works by Buxtehude, Bach, Mendelssohn, and Reger for the Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series at the St. Joseph Memorial Chapel.

Details

March 25, 20257:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Lunchtime Concert | Two Piano Mini-Extravaganza
2025-03-26 12:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Two Piano Mini Extravaganza

Lunchtime Concert Series

This concert celebrates the two remarkable Steinway D pianos housed in Luth Concert Hall with performances by Music Department students and faculty.

Details

March 26, 202512:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Sonya Ovrutsky Fensome Piano Recital
2025-03-28 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Sonya Ovrutsky Fensome Piano Recital

In this one-hour recital, pianist Sonya Ovrutsky Fensome invites you on a captivating journey through time and sound, exploring the evolution of The Prelude.
From its origins as a simple introduction in Bach’s day, to the rich and varied forms it has taken across centuries, this intimate program weaves together history and music, illuminating the transformations of the prelude from the Baroque to the present.
Through Sonya’s insightful commentary, you will be guided to a deeper, personal connection with the genre’s remarkable journey.

Details

March 28, 20258:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross College Choir
2025-03-29 16:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross College Choir

The Holy Cross College Choir presents a program inspired by Gerald Gould’s poem “Wander-Thirst,” featuring a setting by Florence Price.
The program explores themes and images present in the poetry pertaining to a thirst for adventure, beautiful landscapes, and personal transformation through the lens of choral music by 20th-century American composers.
Celebrated selections include works by Moses Hogan, Rollo Dilworth, Margaret Bonds, and Morten Lauridsen.

Details

March 29, 20254:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Brooks & Organ Scholars Concert
2025-04-01 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Brooks Scholars Concert

The Brooks and Organ Scholarships are four-year, full tuition scholarships offered to a music major or double major in Music and another discipline. These students demonstrate outstanding accomplishment in their area of musical study as well as significant academic achievement.
The Department of Music is proud to present this concert featuring the Brooks and Organ Scholars, its most accomplished student artists.

Details

April 1, 20258:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Irish Music Concert | Diarmuid Ó Meachair & Friends
2025-04-08 14:30 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Irish Music Concert: Diarmuid Ó Meachair & Friends

Diarmuid Ó Meachair (button accordion & melodeon) performs with friends Seamus Noonan (flute), Joe de Georgeo & Ellie Egan (fiddle), and Simon Lace (guitar).

Details

Apr 8, 20252:30 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Piano Studio Recital
2025-04-08 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Piano Studio Recital

Join us for an inspiring evening of diverse repertoire performed by the talented students of the College of the Holy Cross Piano Department.

Details

Apr 8, 20258:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Holy Cross Chamber Singers
2025-04-13 17:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Chamber Singers

Chamber Singers presents a program of music centered around Holy Week.
Composers have been inspired throughout history by this most spiritually charged week in the Christian liturgical calendar. Musical selections reflect the solemnity and contemplation inspired by the biblical texts describing the events preceding the crucifixion and include settings of Miserere mei Deus, Ubi Caritas, Wondrous Love, Crucifixus, and the celebrated Easter Cantata by J.S. Bach, Christ lag in Todes Banden.

Details

April 13, 20255:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

CANCELED: Bala Brass Quartet
2025-04-14 19:30 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Bala Brass Quartet

THIS PRESENTATION HAS BEEN CANCELED.
The award-winning Bala Chamber Brass presents their second concert of the season, featuring two new works for brass quintet by Holy Cross faculty composers Chris Arrell and Matthew Jaskot. Other pieces include Morley Calvert’s Suite from the Monteregian Hills, and Robert Bradshaw’s “Right Then. Same Time Tomorrow?”

Details

April 14, 20257:30 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series | Jessica Nguyen, Holy Cross Organ Scholar
2025-04-15 19:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Jessica Nguyen, Holy Cross Organ Scholar ‘28

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

Holy Cross Organ Scholar Jessica Nguyen (Class of 2028) will perform her first recital at Holy Cross featuring works by Da Grigny, Mendelssohn, Bohm, and Bach.

Details

April 15, 20257:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Lunchtime Concert Series | The Late 20th Century Piano Music of Japan: Contrasts in Modern
2025-04-16 12:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – The Beehive –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

The Late 20th Century Piano Music of Japan: Contrasts in Modern

Lunchtime Concert Series

Ulysses Loken, piano
The Messiaen-influenced harmonic and gestural language of Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) is set against the elegant modal counterpoint of Takashi Yoshimatsu (b. 1953), with influences of Bach, Satie, jazz, and progressive rock.
Takemitsu’s Rain Tree Sketch (1982) and Rain Tree Sketch II – In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen (1992), written in his mature compositional language, melds western classical music with Japanese aesthetics and traditions. The concept of ma, of empty space, influences the structure and sound of these pieces.
Yoshimatsu describes the Pleiades Dances IV (1992) as “a new form of preludes for the modern piano.” This set is a study of pedal points, the subtle counterpoint dancing around the fixed notes.

Details

April 16, 202512:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

The BeehiveThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series | Loreto Aramendi
2025-04-22 19:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Loreto Aramendi

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

Organist | Santa Maria del Coro, San Sebastian, Spain
Internationally renowned organist Maestra Loreto Aramendi will perform her first recital on the Taylor and Boody organ at Holy Cross.

Details

April 22, 20257:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Holy Cross Orchestra & College Choir | Academic Conference Concert
2025-04-23 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Orchestra & College Choir

Acadmic Conference Concert

The Holy Cross Orchestra & College Choir join forces for their annual Academic Conference Concert in the Luth Concert Hall at The Prior.

Details

April 23, 20258:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center

End of Semester Student Recitals
2025-04-25 16:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

End of Semester Student Recitals

Music students who participated in the College’s private lesson program perform the works they have studied during the semester.

Details

April 25, 20254:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series | David Jonies
2025-04-29 12:40 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – St. Joseph Memorial Chapel –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

David Jonies

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

Organist & Director of Music | Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago, IL
German organist David Jonies will present a program that includes works of Bach, Cabanilles and Widor.

Details

April 29, 202512:40 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble
2025-04-29 20:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble

The Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble will perform American Jazz standards under the direction of Mike Monaghan.

Details

April 29, 20258:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Chamber Music Recital
2025-05-01 18:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Chamber Music Recital

This recital features the students who participate in the College’s Chamber Music course, who will perform the works they have studied during the semester.

Details

May 1, 20256:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Rhiannon Hurst ’25 | Fenwick Scholar Recital
2025-05-03 14:00 | DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Rhiannon Hurst ’25

Fenwick Scholar

Rhiannon’s Fenwick Project, “Vanguard for a New Age: Artivism through Jazz,” aims to uplift the voices of women and nonbinary individuals throughout Jazz history. This recital will function as an actualization of her research, featuring jazz selections from the project album and will include reflections and songs performed during her musical journey here at HC. The concert aims to bring together a multigenerational, broad community through music.
This performance will include her students from OpporTUNEiety (Lincoln Street Elementary), professionals from the Boston area, Holy Cross students, and Holy Cross faculty.

Details

May 3, 20252:00 PM

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center
