Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble Concert
Join us for an evening of live jazz featuring the Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos, performing a vibrant mix of swing, Latin, bebop and funk.
Join us for an evening of live jazz featuring the Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos, performing a vibrant mix of swing, Latin, bebop and funk.
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!
The Gregorian Chant class of 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.
At the end of each semester, the students in I Nyoman Catra’s Balinese dance and gamelan classes display what they have learned in a delightful evening showcasing the Balinese performing arts.
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.
An immersive, interactive work featuring pipa player Jie Ma (traditional Chinese lute), percussionist and electronic musician Brian Foreman, and sound designer Professor Brian Saia, Memory is a concert curated for Polytope Music's 2026 residency program with the Holy Cross Department of Music. Funded by The Patrick E. Moriarty, M.D. '57 Visiting Scholars Program.
Brooks Scholar Sophie Rose Riopel ‘29 (saxophone & voice) performs a set of jazz standards inspired by the musical partnership between Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley, whose 1962 album collaboration brought together Wilson’s rising stardom and Adderley’s famously celebrated quintet.
Acclaimed Worcester-based soprano Mary Mackenzie and Matthew Jaskot present Wild & Tended, a program of art song for soprano & piano. Funded by The Patrick E. Moriarty, M.D. '57 Visiting Scholars Program.
Accordion player Diarmuid Ó Meachair and Galway fiddle player Ellie Egan will perform a program of music from legendary east Galway figures such as Paddy Fahey, Paddy Kelly, Conor Tully, Paddy Carty and Joe Burke, accompanied by Simon Lace (Guitar) and Brooks Scholar John Hannigan '28 (Accordion & Fiddle).
Spanning nearly a century of musical styles, this program from Holy Cross Department of Music Faculty reveals how composers with remarkably different musical languages all found compelling ways to transform conversation into sound.