Kalaf Epalanga Residency: Keynote
2026-03-13 19:00 (America/New_York) | Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Kalaf Epalanga Residency

Keynote

This March, Angolan musician and writer Kalaf Epalanga joins the Music Department as a 2026 Patrick E. Moriarty Visiting Scholar.
As a musician, Kalaf co-founded the record label Enchufada and is a member of the music collective Buraka Som Sistema. He co-curated the 2023 Africa Writes Book Festival in London (UK) and curated the 2021 Berlin African Book Festival (Germany). “Whites Can Dance Too” is his debut novel, translated to English by Daniel Hahn and published by Faber.
During his two-day residency, Kalaf will host public events and meet with students during in-class visits.

Details

March 13, 20267 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Lunchtime Concert: Enrique Quezada Llanes, Sergio Muñoz Leiva and Mia Beviglia
2026-03-18 12:00 | The Beehive in The Prior, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Enrique Quezada Llanes, Sergio Muñoz Leiva and Mia Beviglia

Lunchtime Concert Series

Three different instrument families. Three different countries. Three different Holy Cross departments and offices. One common goal.
This lunchtime concert showcases the musical talents of members of the Holy Cross community from across campus. Enrique Quezada Llanes (Political Science), Sergio Muñoz Leiva (Music), and Mia Beviglia (’23, J.D. Power Center for Liberal Arts in the World) come together to present some of the pioneering works for clarinet, viola, and piano trio by Bruch and Mozart, because our diversity is our strength!
Max BruchAndante and Andante con moto from Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, op. 83
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartKegelstatt Trio, K. 498
Enrique Quezada Llanes, clarinetSergio Muñoz Leiva, violaMia Beviglia, piano

Details

March 18, 202612 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

The BeehivePrior Performing Arts Center

Faculty Recital: Rhythms of Spring
2026-03-21 19:00 | Luth Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance

Rhythms of Spring

The Music and Dance Departments at Holy Cross are joining forces for an unforgettable evening of two pianos and dance. Faculty pianists Sonya Ovrutsky Fensome, Matthew Jaskot, and Ulysses Loken share the stage with The Diamonds, a faculty dance group featuring some of the most beloved people on campus.
This performance features André Isaacs (yes, that André Isaacs, Professor of Chemistry who also loves to dance), Carmen Jarrin (Chair of Sociology), Karen Guth (Professor of Religious Studie), and Mary Ebbott (Professor of Classics), plus the Registrar, a medievalist, a psychologist, a mathematician, a biologist and more!
The program features Darius Milhaud’s Scaramouche, Chen Yi’s China West Suite, and Igor Stravinsky’s iconic Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring), all pieces that abound with folk melodies, complex textures, and energetic rhythms.
Come and join us for this exciting program! Free entry, open to all.

Details

March 21, 20267 p.m.

Price

Free entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallPrior Performing Arts Center

Traditional Irish Music Pop-Up Concert
2026-03-25 12:00 | Dinand Library, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Traditional Irish Music Pop-Up Concert

Come as you are and drop by Dinand Library for a pop-up concert of fun traditional Irish music featuring Diarmuid Ó Meachair, accordion and Peadar Giles, Uilleann Pipes.

Details

March 25, 202612 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Dinand Library

Traditional Irish Music Pop-Up Concert
2026-03-25 14:00 | Fenwick Music Library, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Traditional Irish Music Pop-Up Concert

Come as you are and drop by the Fenwick Music Library for a pop-up concert of traditional Irish music featuring Diarmuid Ó Meachair, accordion and Peadar Giles, Uilleann Pipes.

Details

March 25, 20262 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Fenwick Music Library

Holy Cross College Choir: Hymns of Earth and Angels
2026-03-27 19:30 | Luth Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross College Choir

Hymns of Earth and Angels

Live Stream the Performance

This program from the Holy Cross College Choir features the vibrant Baroque classic Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi for chorus, orchestra and soloists as well as arrangements of celebrated hymn settings by American composers including Alice Parker, Margaret Bonds, Moses Hogan and William L. Dawson. Audiences will also be delighted to hear a beloved Irish hymn on the program.
Join us at The Prior Performing Arts Center for this can’t-miss performance!

Details

March 27, 20267:30 p.m.

Price

Free entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallPrior Performing Arts Center

Student Piano Recital
2026-04-09 19:00 | Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Student Piano 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

April 9, 20267 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Lunchtime Concert: Two Piano Mini-Extravagana
2026-04-15 12:00 | Luth Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Lunchtime Concert: Two Piano Mini-Extravaganza

This concert celebrates the two remarkable Steinway pianos housed in The Prior’s Luth Concert Hall with performances by students and faculty of the Holy Cross Music Department.

Details

April 15, 202612 p.m.

Price

Free entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallPrior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series: Reverend Pedro Sanchez
2026-04-19 12:30 | St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Reverend Pedro Sanchez

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

Father Pedro Sánchez, a renowned Spanish organist, composer, and scholar of Gregorian Chant, will deliver this Chapel Artist Series performance during his first-ever visit to Holy Cross.
Padre Pedro serves as the Director of Music of the Monasterio del Escorial (King’s Chapel) near Madrid, Spain.

Details

April 19, 202612:30 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Holy Cross Orchestra & College Choir: Academic Conference Concert
2026-04-22 20:00 | Luth Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Academic Conference Concert

Timeless Musical Masterpieces for Orchestra and Chorus: Music from Beethoven to the Present

Holy Cross Orchestra & College Choir

Live Stream The Performance

The Holy Cross Orchestra and College Choir will perform together at this year’s Academic Conference concert, a can’t-miss highlight of the semester!

Details

April 22, 20268 p.m.

Price

Free entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallPrior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series: Gavin Klein ’26, Organ Scholar Senior Recital
2026-04-24 19:00 | All Saints Episcopal Church, 10 Irving St, Worcester, MA, 01609, United States
Department of Music

Gavin Klein ’26, Organ Scholar

Senior Recital

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

Holy Cross Organ Scholar Gavin Klein ’26 will present his Degree Recital on Friday, April 24, 2026.
A unique opportunity to hear Maestro Klein perform music of exceptional virtuosity and technical brilliance, this program will feature works by Bach, Brahms, Duruflé and Max Reger.
This concert will take place at All Saints Episcopal Church, located at 10 Irving Street in Worcester, MA.

Details

April 24, 20267 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

All Saints Episcopal Church10 Irving St, Worcester, MA

Chamber Singers Concert: You are the Love of my Soul
2026-04-25 15:00 | Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Chamber Singers

You are the Love of my Soul

Chamber Singers presents a program of music that features poetry about the experience of being in love.
Selected works by Debussy, Barber, Monteverdi, Whitacre, Strozzi and others depict various perspectives on and stages of love, from new passion awakening, to love unrequited; to frivolous fickle love, to the finding “the love of your soul.” Through the musical settings of poetry by Neruda, d’Orléans, Garcilaso de la Vega and Stevens, we explore the joys and follies of this most fundamental of human emotions.

Details

April 25, 20263 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble: Musical Treasures from the British Wind Band Tradition
2026-04-26 19:00 | Luth Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Musical Treasures from the British Wind Band Tradition

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble

Join us at The Prior for a program of works by Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Elgar and Walton from the Holy Cross Wind Ensemble.

Details

Apr 26, 20267 p.m.

Price

Free entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallPrior Performing Arts Center

Chamber Music Recital
2026-04-27 19:30 | Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Chamber Music Recital

Chamber music is played by small ensembles of two or more players such as duos, trios and quartets, where every part is played by a single performer. Its intimate setting creates a process that is democratic, participative, and that across history has been compared to a conversation among friends.
This recital features the students who participate in the Chamber Music course as they perform the works they have studied during the semester.

Details

April 27, 20267:30 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble Concert
2026-04-28 19:30 | Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble

Join us for an evening of live jazz as the Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos take the stage for a dynamic night of music.
Enjoy an energetic program showcasing the sounds of swing, Latin rhythms, bebop and funk performed by talented student musicians. From classic jazz standards to contemporary grooves, this concert promises an engaging and lively experience for all.

Details

April 28, 20267:30 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

End of Semester Student Recital
2026-04-29 17:00 | Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

End of Semester Student Recital

Students who participated in the Holy Cross Department of Music’s private lesson program will perform the works they have studied during the semester.
Please join us in celebrating their work!

Details

Apr 29, 20265 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

The Eighth Annual Gregorian Vespers
2026-04-30 18:00 | St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

The Eighth Annual Gregorian Vespers

Live Stream The Performance

Described as “Holy Cross’ (Unexpected) Hottest Course” by Holy Cross Magazine, the Gregorian Chant class led by Professors Daniel DiCenso and Laurence Rosania will deliver their Eighth Annual Gregorian Vespers performance in the majestic acoustics of the St. Joseph Memorial Chapel during its 102nd year.
Featuring over 30 student singers and lasting approximately 40 minutes, all are warmly invited to share in this evocative experience of sound and spirit.

Details

April 30, 20266 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Gamelan Gita Sari Concert
2026-05-03 19:30 | DEPARTMENTS OF MUSIC AND THEATRE & DANCE – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, 01610, United States
Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance

Gamelan Gita Sari Concert

Join us for this end-of-semester performance from the students in I Nyoman Catra’s Balinese dance and gamelan classes, in which they will display what they have learned in a delightful evening showcasing the Balinese performing arts.

Details

May 3, 2026
7:30 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert Hall
Prior Performing Arts Center

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series: James O’Donnell | Yale University
2026-09-01 19:00 | St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

James O'Donnell

Yale University

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

The former Organist and Director of Music of London’s Westminster Abbey will present a distinguished program devoted entirely to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in this Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series presentation from the Department of Music.

Details

September 1, 20267 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Polytope | Memory
2026-09-10 19:30 | Boroughs Theatre – Prior Performing Arts Center, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Polytope

Memory

Funded by The Patrick E. Moriarty, M.D. ’57 Visiting Scholars Program

Memory is a concert curated for Polytope Music’s 2026 residency program at Holy Cross. An immersive, interactive work featuring Jie Ma, pipa player (traditional Chinese lute), Brian Foreman, percussionist and electronic musician, and Professor Brian Saia, sound designer.
Where thousands of years of eastern tradition meet music technology, it’s an evening that asks the question: what does it mean to remember through sound?
The performance is the culmination of a residency that brings Polytope Music into the classroom, where students work alongside the artists to explore how tradition and technology can be woven into living sound. As the past speaks to the present, Memory does what music has always done best — it draws us toward connection across generations and cultures, time and space.

Details

September 10, 20267:30 p.m.

Price

Free Entry, Reservation Required.

Venue

Boroughs TheatrePrior Performing Arts Center

Wild & Tended | Mary Mackenzie, soprano & Matthew Jaskot, piano
2026-09-24 19:30 | Brooks Concert Hall, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble

Funded by The Patrick E. Moriarty, M.D. ’57 Visiting Scholars Program

Acclaimed Worcester-based soprano Mary Mackenzie and Matthew Jaskot present Wild & Tended, a program of art song for soprano & piano.
The art song is a cultivated form — it emerged in the early 19th century, as composers began to set poetry to music in a more deliberate and expressive way, using melody, harmony, and rhythm, to convey the emotional and psychological depth of the text. The 20th century saw significant changes in the genre, with the influence of atonality, serialism, folk music, and popular music.
Art song was born as an intimate genre, written to be performed in people’s homes — music for a room, for a gathered circle of friends, for a voice close enough to hear every detail. It continues to be a vibrant and diverse genre, and this program lives in that tension — between the wild and the tended — tracing the art song from its Romantic roots to music written in our own time.
Program to include works by Clara Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Arnold Schoenberg, Francis Poulenc, John Frantzen and more.

Details

September 24, 20267:30 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Brooks Concert Hall

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series: Johann Vexo | Cathedral of Nancy, France
2026-10-27 19:00 | St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, 1 College St., Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Johann Vexo

Cathedral of Nancy, France

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

The internationally celebrated organist and former Organist of Notre-Dame de Paris will present a diverse and captivating concert program at the St. Joseph Memorial Chapel at College of the Holy Cross.

Details

October 27, 2026
7 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble Concert
2026-11-19 19:30 | Luth Concert Hall – Prior Performing Arts Center, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Music

Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble

Join us for an evening of live jazz as the Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos take the stage for a dynamic night of music.
This celebration of legendary jazz artists and composers from across the decades features an eclectic program showcasing the sounds of swing, Latin rhythms, bebop, and funk.
Performed by talented Holy Cross student musicians, the concert spans classic jazz standards and contemporary grooves, promising an engaging experience.

Details

November 19, 20267:30 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallPrior Performing Arts Center

Gamelan Gita Sari Concert
2026-12-05 19:30 | Boroughs Theatre – Prior Performing Arts Center, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance

Gamelan Gita Sari Concert

Under the direction of Nyoman Catra, one of Bali’s most renowned master artists of traditional dance & theatre, our Balinese Dance and Gamelan students collaborate with guest artists for this fall concerts.
Always a highlight of our season and a treat for all ages, the Balinese Dance concert provides an opportunity for the community to experience the awe and wonder of the sacred art of Bali.

Details

December 5, 2026
7:30 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Boroughs Theatre
Prior Performing Arts Center
