Bradford Chin: Distinguished Visiting Practitioner Residency
2026-03-23 - 2026-03-27 | Alden Trust Performance Studio (3rd Floor, Prior Performing Arts Center), 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Theatre & Dance

Bradford Chin

Distinguished Visiting Practitioner Residency

Presented by Jimena Bermejo, Director of the Dance ProgramSponsored by the Office of the Provost

Bradford Chin is a disabled dance artist and educator whose work focuses on disability justice, accessibility in the arts, and critically inclusive pedagogy. During this residency, Chin will engage with students, faculty, and staff through classes, conversations and public events.

Join us for these public presentations during Chin’s residency:

Public LectureDance and Disability Narratives
March 26 @ 4 p.m.4th Floor Suite A, Hogan Campus CenterFree entry, open to all.

Moderated PanelDisability and the Arts
March 27 @ 1:30 p.m.Room 320, Prior Performing Arts CenterFree entry, open to all.

Details

March 23-27, 2026

Price

Free entry, open to all.

Venue

4th Floor Suite A, Hogan Campus CenterRoom 320, Prior Performing Arts Center

The Mediated Surface: Cristi Rinklin & Matthew Gamber
2026-03-24 11:45 (America/New_York) | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Cantor Art Gallery

The Mediated Surface

Cristi Rinklin & Matthew Gamber

Exhibiting artists Cristi Rinklin and Matthew Gamber discuss the relationship between painting and photography in their respective practices.
They explore how their chosen materials speak to the way they consider the natural environment, mimetic representation, and the cycle of perception and memory.

Details

March 24, 202611:45 a.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Cantor Art Gallery
3rd Floor, Prior 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

Reframing Identity Through Our Histories: Hilary Doyle, Colleen Fitzgerald & Leslie Schomp
2026-03-25 12:30 | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Cantor Art Gallery

Reframing Identity Through Our Histories

Hilary Doyle, Colleen Fitzgerald & Leslie Schomp

Hilary Doyle, Colleen Fitzgerald, and Leslie Schomp discuss their work currently on view at the Cantor Art Gallery. Each artist uniquely foregrounds the role of history in examining contemporary society, whether through familial history, historic figures, or cultural heritage traditions. Each mines personal or public archives to consider how we deal with the past to speak to contemporary issues around gender equality, social issues, memory, and the self.
Doyle explores the life and work of German scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) to highlight the persistent need for women to push against societal norms. Fitzgerald reimagines family portraiture and self-portraiture by examining how we hold on to memories and construct personal histories. Schomp uses the history of lace and needlework to address issues such as political polarization, gun violence, and women’s sexuality.

Details

March 25, 2026
12:30 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Cantor Art Gallery
3rd Floor, Prior Performing Arts Center

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

Working Writers Series: Diannely Antigua & Philip Metres
2026-03-26 19:30 | Alden Trust Performance Studio (3rd Floor, Prior Performing Arts Center), 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Creative Writing Program

Working Writers Series

Diannely Antigua & Philip Metres

Poets Diannely Antigua and Philip Metres will read from and discuss their work as part of the Working Writers Series sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet, educator, and community organizer born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of the poetry collections Ugly Music, which was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award, and Good Monster.
Philip Metres is the author of thirteen books, including Dispatches from the Land of Erasure (2025), Fugitive/Refuge, and Sand Opera. His work has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan Foundation, the NEA, and the Ohio Arts Council. He has received the William Carlos Williams Award, the Hunt Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Lyric Poetry Prize, the Pushcart Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize.

Details

March 26, 20267:30 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

“The Alden” Performance Studio3rd Floor, Prior Performing Arts Center

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

yMusic
2026-03-29 18:00 | PRIOR PRESENTS – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Prior Presents 2025–26

yMusic

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yMusic is a genre-leading and award-winning American chamber ensemble representing the vanguard of American and contemporary music.
Now in its seventeenth season, the group is renowned for its innovative and collaborative spirit. Since their inception, yMusic has had a unique mission: to work on both sides of the divide between classical and popular music without sacrificing rigor, virtuosity, charisma or style. NPR Music calls them “…Deeply, profoundly skilled,” adding that the group has “formed a language all their own.” Named for “Generation Y,” yMusic has been tapped to lend their orchestral sound and instantly-recognizable style to recordings and concert projects by a dizzying array of popular artists from John Legend to Paul Simon.
Recent projects include their acclaimed first album of self-composed (2023’s yMusic) and Stories x yMusic, a series of filmed performances featuring prominent artists such as Bruno Major, Amy Allen and Rufus Wainwright. The ensemble was also enlisted by the Park Avenue Armory to compose an original score for renowned choreographer Kyle Abraham’s production Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful.
Finally, yMusic has released four full-length albums of commissioned music, 2020’s Ecstatic Science, 2017’s First, 2014’s Balance Problems, and 2011’s Beautiful Mechanical, which earned Time Out New York’s “#1 Classical Record of the Year.” Additionally, they can be found performing around the world at such venues as the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and Madison Square Garden.

Details

Mar 29, 20266 p.m.

Price

$35 | $45 | $55

Venue

Luth Concert Hall
The Prior Performing Arts Center

“A sextet notable for blurring the lines between classical-minded indie rockers and accessible bouts of 21st-century composition.”
Christopher R. Weingarten
Contributor, Rolling Stone Magazine

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Sustainability, Environment and the Arts: Anna McNeary & Victor Pacheco
2026-03-31 12:00 | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Cantor Art Gallery

Sustainability, Environment and the Arts

Anna McNeary & Victor Pacheco

Carly Thibodeau, Director of the Office of Sustainability and Jordan Lovejoy, Assistant Professor in Environmental Sciences, join exhibiting artists Anna McNeary and Victor Pacheco, whose works explore the impact of human action on the natural environment.
Through sculptures made of recycled materials and prints that consider the life cycle of consumer goods, McNeary and Pacheco offer space for reflecting upon our relationship with the natural world.

Details

March 31, 202612 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

Cantor Art Gallery
3rd Floor, Prior 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

Curiouser & Curiouser
2026-04-16 - 2026-04-26 | DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE – Boroughs Theatre –, 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Department of Theatre & Dance

Curiouser & Curiouser

Directed by Lynn Kremer
Inspired by Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

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In Curiouser & Curiouser, adapted and directed by Lynn Kremer and featuring original music composed by Karl Hinze ’10, an elderly Alice recalls her childhood memories of hearing fantastic stories from Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. Images and text from Carroll’s beloved books swirl on stage in this original dance/drama that asks the question, “Who am I in this world?” Music, puppets, projections, and dance are integrated into a devised piece in collaboration with artists I Nyoman Catra, Kevin Fulton, Kurt Hultgren, Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed, Qingan Zhang, BOOM! (Leah Smith and Michael Townsend), and Dramaturg Christian Krenek ’12.
This production from the Holy Cross Department of Theatre & Dance is sure to charm lovers of Carroll and audiences of all ages.

EVENING PRESENTATIONS

April 16 @ 7:30 p.m.April 17 @ 7:30 p.m.April 18 @ 7:30 p.m.April 23 @ 7:30 p.m.April 24 @ 7:30 p.m.April 25 @ 7:30 p.m.

MATINEE PRESENTATIONS

April 19 @ 2 p.m.April 26 @ 2 p.m.

Details

April 16-18, 23-25 @ 7:30 p.m. April 19 & 26 @ 2 p.m.

Price

$15 Public | $10 Holy Cross Community

Venue

Boroughs TheatreThe Prior Performing Arts Center

Working Writers Series: Morris Collins
2026-04-16 19:30 | Alden Trust Performance Studio (3rd Floor, Prior Performing Arts Center), 1 College St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Creative Writing Program

Working Writers Series

Morris Collins

Novelist Morris Collins will read from and discuss his work as part of the Working Writers Series sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Morris Collins is the author of the novels The Tavern at the End of History (2026) and Horse Latitudes (2019). His fiction has been awarded an O. Henry Award for 2024 and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in 2020. He teaches creative writing and literature at the College of the Holy Cross.

Details

April 16, 20267:30 p.m.

Price

Free Entry

Venue

“The Alden” Performance Studio3rd Floor, Prior 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

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

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

Spring Dance Concert
2026-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE – Luth Concert Hall –, 1 College St, Worcester, 01610, United States
Department of Theatre & Dance

Spring Dance Concert

Two Showings: 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.
In recent years our annual dance concert has grown more varied and exciting with the addition of hip-hop, breaking, Afro-Haitian dance and Broadway dance to a repertoire that also includes contemporary dance and ballet.
The students of Jimena Bermejo, Audra Carabetta, Joanne Caidor, Ellen Oliver, and Taylor Travassos-Lomba perform during an evening that is always a highlight of our season.

Details

April 30, 20267 p.m. & 9 p.m.

Price

Free entry

Venue

Luth Concert HallPrior Performing Arts Center

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
