ADAM JACOB SIMON, COMPOSER
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Upcoming Performances

Tiny Glass Tavern
There Shall Be No More Sea

Friday May 19th 2023 at 7.30pm, All Saints' Episcopal Church, South Hadley MA
Saturday May 20th 2023 at 3pm, Swedenborg Chapel, Cambridge MA

With Kai-Ching Chang (piano)
Sophie Michaux (voice)
Adam Simon (voice+guitar+bass)
Chris Voss (voice+narration)
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Recent Performance Highlights

Nature's Cook
With ​Sophie Michaux (voice+accordion)
Paul Holmes Morton (voice+theorbo+guitar)
Benjamin Katz (harpsichord)
Adam Simon (voice+bass+mandolin)

Nature’s Cook is a musical reflection on the juxtaposition of life and death and a celebration of rebirth and freedom in our world, all this just in time for Passover and Easter. We’ll share an eclectic selection of music from the 17th century to our days, with Folk, Art and Pop songs by Claudio Monteverdi, Barbara Strozzi, Tarquinio Merula, Adam Simon, Björk, Klezmer tunes and more. This concert will include a World Premiere by Adam Simon, setting 17th century poet Margaret Cavendish's "Nature's Cook".

Previously performed on April 7th and 8th 2023 at the APE Gallery in Northampton MA, and the Lilypad in Cambridge MA

Tiny Glass Tavern 
Falling Asleep of Reason 
with Fiona Gillespie (voice+ fipple flute)
Paul Holmes Morton (voice+banjo+theorbo+guitar)​
Sophie Michaux (voice+accordion)
Adam Simon (voice+mandolin+bass+guitar)

For Tiny Glass Tavern's VERY FIRST program, we will offer an eclectic selection of music by Claudio Monteverdi, Connie Converse, Paul Holmes Morton, Fiona Gillespie, Adam Simon, Barbara Strozzi, and more. It will include some sing along elements, so get ready to sing with us! 

Previously performed on January 20th and 21st 2023 at the Haydenville Congregational Church in Haydenville MA, and Christ Church in Cambridge MA
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December 2022 Christmas with Cantus
Into the Light draws inspiration from Lessons and Carols, offering a contemporary take on a beloved British tradition elevated by the Choir of King’s College at the University of Cambridge. Cantus updates the format of the Nine Lessons and Carols to center on nine themes both intimate and universal, using poetry that speaks to a modern audience and repertoire that reflects a range of contexts and cultures. In a program that echoes the ensemble’s newest Christmas album (Fall 2022), Cantus offers a thoughtful, intricately crafted holiday program that honors tradition and speaks to the moment.
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Ruckus Easy Music Ensemble
"Holy Manna" 
​April 30, 2022 Dumbarton Concerts, Washington DC

Holy Manna is a big, participatory singing that celebrates the vast history of the early American hymn and reflects on this repertoire's enduring legacy.  Beginning with a brief “singing school” based on the practice of early music educators – Ruckus leads all present in a communitarian feast of song and history.
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December 2021 Christmas with Cantus
  • When/where: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 17 at the Ordway, 345 Washington St., St. Paul; 3 p.m. Dec. 19 at Hamline United Methodist Church, 1514 Englewood Ave., #1299, St. Paul; 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21 at Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul
  • Tickets: $40-$42 at cantussings.org.
  • Capsule: Cantus weaves holiday carols into three stories: “The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree,” “The Grinch who Stole Christmas,” and the world premiere, “Phoenix and the Snow Phoenix.”
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Saturday, January 23, 2021, 7:30pm

A collaboration with Chase Young Gallery and artist, Kathryn Frund whose work centers on the theme of climate change, including a world premiere of Adam Simon's "Spring".

Livestream through Sparrow Live

Christina Wright-Ivanova, piano
Evangelia Leontis, soprano
Megan Roth, mezzo-soprano
Sonja Tengblad, soprano
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Monday, Dec. 21st at 2 pm EST (7pm in England, 20h en France)
Sophie et Adam - presented by Music Mondays - Holiday live concert from the cabin via zoom

Monday, Dec. 21st at 7 pm EST
 Sophie et Adam - Holiday live concert from the Cabin  (available with or without a Facebook account)
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
CELEBRATE THIS FESTIVAL​MARCH 21, 2020  | 7:30PM | CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT PAUL, BOSTON, MA $60 / $40 GENERAL, $25 STUDENTS AND SENIORS
buy tickets here
Taking  celebratory odes from two occasions: The birthday of Purcell's favorite  monarch, Queen Mary and the patron saint of music, Cecilia, the HPSOB  will present “Celebrate this Festival.” by Henry Purcell and a contemporary setting of “Ode to St. Cecilia” by composer Adam Jacob Simon.Repertoire (1693)Funeral Sentences and Music for Queen Mary z. 27, and z. 860 (1695)
Song for St. Cecilia's Day, Adam Jacob Simon (2019) 
Celebrate This Festival! z.321 Henry Purcell (1693)
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Featuring:
Ian Watson, harpsichord
Guy Fishman, cello
Susanna Ogata violin
Susannah Foster, violin
Emily Dahl Irons, viola
Jesse Levine, Paul Perfetti, trumpets

Teresa Wakim, Sarah Yanovitch, MaryRuth Lown, Jessica Cooper, sopranos
Douglas Dodson, Cody Bowers, Sophie Micheaux, alto/ mezzo-soprano
Charles Blandy, tenor
Luke Scott, Jacob Cooper, bass
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Three Tales of Christmas
Touching stories of difficult Decembers drive one of the group’s best holiday concerts.
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Santa Fe Desert Chorale
Vocal Chamber Concert 2 August 9 @ 2:00 pm
Whether German lieder, French chanson, or the American Songbook, the voices of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale vocalists shine in this most intimate of musical forms — the vocal recital. Los Alamos treasure Nathan Salazar is the collaborative pianist in a program of repertoire ranging from three James Joyce settings in Samuel Barber’s Three Songs, Op. 10 to Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations, Op. 18.
A FAR CRY & LORELEI ENSEMBLE
Friday May 17th 8PM at Jordan Hall

TICKETS HERE
We couldn’t be more thrilled to be collaborating with the
Lorelei Ensemble. Their sound is unique, virtuosic, powerfully varied, and fiercely exciting. This program will include the world premiere of a new work by Kareem Roustom, that tells the stories of the women of the Odyssey - from the sorceress Circe to the deadly Sirens, from the ghost Of Odysseus’ mother to the resourceful Penelope. We’re also honored to be presenting a first look at Jessica Meyer’s “I long and seek after.” Plus brand new versions of two American classics, "Wayfaring Stranger" and "Sinner Man" - brought to life by Jonathan Woody and Adam Jacob Simon. PLUS Crier orchestrations of Lili Boulanger's "Les Sirènes" and Caroline Shaw's "I'll Fly Away."

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The Cherry Street Singers present
O Lead Me 
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Art and Folk Songs sung and led
Music by Purcell, Rossini, Poulenc, Simon and others
Sunday March 17th 2019
Plainfield Opera House, Plainfield VT

​Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Kai Ching Chang, Piano

Join mezzo Sophie Michaux and pianist Kai Ching Chang in a riveting program of songs and arias of choice from the baroque to the current day, including world premieres by Boston Composer Adam Simon, and audience-participatory singing! Music from Italy, France, England and the United-States. ​
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​La Mappa Mundi
With Palaver Strings​
Saturday March 23rd 2019 at 8pm 
Portland, (ME)

Sunday March 24th 2019 at 7pm 
St John's Episcopal Church, Boston (MA)
Sophie Michaux, Alto solo
La Mappa Mundi draws a map of Europe, both real and imagined, through song and story. Palaver will be joined by prolific vocalists Sophie Michaux and Adam Jacob Simon for a uniquely collaborative program that travels the British Isles, Transylvania, and the Mediterranean, which have long captured the imaginations of composers and performers alike. Our program runs the gamut of baroque opera, madrigals, drinking songs, dance tunes, and a new commission by Simon, blurring the lines between “popular” music and “high art,” old and new, tradition and innovation. We will also perform lullabies with participants from the Lullaby Project, a songwriting partnership between Palaver musicians and expecting mothers.
PROGRAM
PURCELL excerpts from Dido & Aeneas
SPANISH Renaissance Songs, "Ayo visto la mappamundi" & “El Sarao de la Chacona"
ROSSINI “Tanti affeti” from “La Donna del Lago”
BARTOK “Ne hagyi itt” 
BARTOK Romanian Dances 
TRADITIONAL Transylvanian dance set, Corsican Paghiella, English Pub Songs
SIMON "Suite for String Orchestra"

Tickets and more information: here
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​​WordSong 10th Anniversary 
“Circus of Tygers” 

Celebration Concert at  First Church Boston

Apr 26 @ 8:00 pm
The Tyger
Krista River, mezzo-soprano
Keith Phares, baritone
Linda Osborn, piano
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Tufts Composers: Berio Folk Songs
and New Student Compositions

Monday, March 11 @ 8:00 pm
Tufts University, Granoff Music Center, Distler Hall
20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155

The Tufts University Composers concert series presents Ensemble/Parallax performing Luciano Berio’s imaginative settings of well-known folk songs alongside 11 new responses to each Berio song, composed for the occasion by Tufts students, faculty, and guest composers. Featuring Peyman Farzinpour, Ensemble/Parallax music director and conductor, and guest soloists Julia Cavallaro and Sophie Michaux, mezzo sopranos.
Free; no tickets required.

Soprano Sarah Moyer + Nathan Salazar
​Celestial Sprites
​Feb. 2nd + 3rd

Join soprano Sarah Moyer and pianist Nathan Salazar in a cozy house concert in Central Square Cambridge, as they explore unique celestial characters in compositions by Jonathan Dove, Adam Jacob Simon, and other modern composers, as well as a world premiere by composer Benjamin Montgomery.

Reserve ticket here



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Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 3pm 
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University.
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 Work And Life
 A Recital celebrating and musing on office work, the lives of painters, common fears, the work proteins do to keep you alive, “liedership,” and more.
 Featuring Music by Julia Cavallaro, John McDonald, Francis Poulenc, Joaquin Nin, Franz Schubert, and Adam Simon.
 With Julia Cavallaro, mezzo soprano; Philipp Stäudlin, saxophone; John McDonald, piano.
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CANTUS & LORELEI
Thursday, September 20, 2018, 7:30pm
Ordway Concert Hall in St. Paul MN

info and tickets
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For the past two seasons, Cantus has showcased the very best in vocal chamber music in a one-night-only concert in the Twin Cities. Past collaborators have included Chanticleer and Sweet Honey in the Rock, and this year Cantus joins forces with the nine women of Lorelei for an unforgettable evening that choral lovers won’t want to miss. Join us as the voices of Cantus and Lorelei come together for the first time!
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The Cherry Street Singers present
O LEAD ME!
​Art and Folk Songs sung and led
Music by Purcell, Rossini, Strozzi, Poulenc, Simon and others
Sunday June 3rd 2018 at 4pm
St Paul's Episcopal Church in Brookline (MA)

​Sophie Michaux, Mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Katz, Harpsichord
Kai Ching Chang, Piano

Join mezzo Sophie Michaux, harpsichordist Benjamin Katz, and pianist Kai Ching Chang, in a riveting program of songs and arias of choice from the baroque to the current day, including world premieres by Boston Composer Adam Simon, and audience-participatory singing! Music from Italy, France, England and the United States. 

Tickets: https://oleadme.brownpapertickets.com
$20 General Admission, $10 Students, Seniors, and Starving Artists
Sweetest in the Gale: "Then is Now"
April 21 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Falmouth ME April 22 at 4:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brunswick ME

Sweetest in the Gale (SinG), the 30-voice women’s choir of the Oratorio Chorale, directed by Emily Isaacson, will present a concert of music by living composers who imaginatively repurpose traditional or folk tunes.
info:

https://oratoriochorale.org/sweetest-in-the-gale-then-is-now/
tickets:
https://oratoriochorale.org/tickets/

Vice and Virtue
Saturday April 22nd 2PM
Trinity Church Boston St. Andrew's Hall
206 Clarendon st. Boston MA
$20 admission

Join staff singers Janet Stone, soprano and Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano, as they perform works exploring the topics of vice, virtue, and the grey area in between. Come experience the mistakes and successes that make us truly human through florid arias and duets by Rossini, Debussy, Poulenc, Handel, Fauré, Delibes, Wolf, Bizet, and two premieres by Trinity staff singer Adam Simon. 

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Lorelei Ensemble
New England Tour 2018

FIRST CHURCH WENHAM, MA
Tuesday, April 10, 7:00pm - First Church Wenham

KEENE STATE COLLEGE, NH
Thursday, April 12, 7:30pm - Redfern Arts Center

FIRST CHURCH CAMBRIDGE, MA
Friday, April 13, 8pm - First Church Cambridge

Concert with the Rhode Island Children's Chorus Chamber Choir
Sunday, April 15, 3pm - Central Congregational Church 



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Lorelei Ensemble
Friday, February 9, 7:30pm - 
5 BOROUGHS MUSIC FESTIVAL, NYC
The Church of St. Luke in the Fields
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE


Sunday, February 11, 4pm - YALE UNIVERSITY, CT
Marquand Chapel, Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
This event is FREE and open to the public


Thursday, February 15, 7pm - HILLSDALE COLLEGE, MI
College Baptist Church
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE
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Saturday, February 17, 2pm - CHAMBER MUSIC COLUMBUS, OH
Southern Theatre
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE

Thursday, March 1, 7:30pm - BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY, PA
Weis Center for the Performing Arts
INFORMATION AND TICKETS HERE


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Schola Cantorum of Boston
Music Old and New
Friday February 16th at 8PM
Providence Athenaeum
251 Benefit St, Providence, RI 02903

Saturday February 17th at 8PM
First Lutheran Church, Boston
299 Berkeley St, Boston, MA 02116
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J.S. Bach, "Komm, Jesu, komm,", excerpts from the Frank Martin "Mass for double choir", and new works by Eric Nathan, Adam Jacob Simon and Megan Henderson

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Modern Dickinson

February 22nd 8PM
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
Event page


February 23rd at 7PM
St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
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Three Grammy award-winning artists explore Emily Dickinson’s poetry through the works of today’s best living composers of vocal music. This 85-minute, non-stop program shatters the 4th wall and invites you right into Emily's living room, into a conversation through her enlightened and truth-seeking words.
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SONJA TENGBLAD soprano
ERIC NEUVILLE tenor
MICHELLE SCHUMANN pianist
www.moderndickinson.com
BeatSong
Saturday January 27th at 7PM
​Distler Hall, Tufts University
Medford MA, 02155

BeatSong is dedicated to commissioning and performing works that explore the first instruments of humankind: percussion and voice. In addition to recreating early works by Dowland and Purcell and performing today's most established contemporary composers, world premieres include works by Matthew Peterson (ASCAP Nissim Prize winner, 2013), Adam Jacob Simon, and Emmy award-winning composer Kareem Roustom.
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Sonja Tengblad, soprano
Jonathan Hess, percussion
Seraphic Fire
American Hymns Rediscovered
Beth Willer, conductor

Rich tradition and fearless innovation define American music. In this program, Seraphic Fire delivers American hymnody alongside contemporary works of musical poetry that call for wisdom, peace, and action.

Wed, Nov 8, 7:30pm | Miami
Thu, Nov 9, 7:30pm | Miami Beach
Fri, Nov 10, 7:30pm | Coral Gables
Sat, Nov 11, 7:30pm | Ft. Lauderdale
Sun, Nov 12, 4:00pm | Boca Raton

http://www.seraphicfire.org/performances/tickets/
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Lorelei Ensemble 
Witness
Saturday June 10th 2017 8:00pm
Sunday June 11th 2017 4:00pm
Marsh Chapel, Boston MA


And June 23, 2017 at 8pm 
at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, in Rockport, MA
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Heralded for its “warm, lithe, and beautifully blended” sound (New York Times) “impeccable musicality” (Boston Globe) and unfailing display of the “elegance, power, grace, and beauty of the human voice” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) Boston’s Lorelei Ensemble is quickly becoming recognized as a source of some of the most innovative and inventive programming in Boston and beyond. The ensemble performs works by Guillaume Du Fay and William Billings as well as commissions from today’s finest young contemporary composers like Joshua Bornfield, Peter Gilbert and Adam Jacob Simon.           ​
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Cherry Street Singers
Come Slowly, Eden!

New songs, Hymns and Madrigals by Adam Simon
setting poetry of Emily Dickinson, Kathleen Raine, E. E. Cummings and others

Friday May 26th 2017, at 7.30pm St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 15 St. Paul Street, Brookline, MA 02446 

Sonja Tengblad, Soprano
Sophie Michaux, Alto
Alex Nishiban, Tenor
Adam Simon, Baritone
Lawson Daves, Bass
Christopher Staknys, Piano
Jeremy Harman, Cello
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$20 Admission
$10 Student/Senior
Tickets available at http://comeslowlyeden.brownpapertickets.com/
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Lorelei Ensemble
​OF SUCH VIRTUE
Friday, December 18, 2015 8pm Marsh Chapel 735 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA Saturday,
December 19, 2015 8pm Marsh Chapel 735 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA
​Purchase Tickets at: www.loreleiensemble.com $30 General Admission/$15 Students

Four World Premieres by Bryan Christian (Of a Rose Sing We), Carson Cooman (Nowel: Owt of your slepe aryse), Adam Jacob Simon (Lullaby), and Timothy Takach (There is No Rose of Such Virtue) stand as contemporary pillars within a program of Medieval and Renaissance carols and plainsong. The diverse compositional language of these works ranges from dense microtonal clusters to neo-Americana hymnody, shedding new light on Middle English verse. Also on the program are early carols, motets, and plainsong on Latin and Middle English texts draw from a variety of 13-15th century sources, including the Selden Carol Book, Arundel Manuscript, the Worcester Antiphoner, and Notre Dame’s Magnus Liber. Additional contemporary works by Paul Chihara, Sungji Hong, and Andrew Smith complete the program. Weaving together texts of both the early and new repertoires, the program creates a narrative that centers on the perspective and experience of the mother, the virgin—Mary—a Rose “Of Such Virtue.”
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Lorelei Ensemble
Thursday, Deceember 21, 6:30 pm (Members only)* & 8:30 pm, Medieval Sculpture Hall

The enduringly elegant and inventive Lorelei Ensemble returns to The Met with a program of a cappellaholiday treasures spanning the Medieval, Baroque, and modern eras. "Serenely pure, sweetly distant, and ineluctably graceful" (The Boston Globe).

Tickets start at $65.

*The 6:30 pm performance is for Members only. Please call 212-570-3753 for details on becoming a Member.
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Conspirare
The Poet Sings: Emily Dickinson
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09.10.15 (7:30pm), ThursdayHughes Recital Hall, University of Mary-Hardin Baylor
904 King St., Belton, TX
FREE and open to all!

09.13.15 (4pm), Sunday
Jessen Auditorium, Homer Rainey Hall, University of Texas
201 W. 21st St., Austin TX

POST-CONCERT TALK-BACK, SUNDAY
With Craig Hella Johnson and artists
Jessen Auditorium

Conspirare presents a recital exploring the expressive power and range of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Featuring Conspirare soloists Sonja DuToit Tengblad (soprano) and Eric Neuville (tenor) with Michelle Schumann on piano. The selection of contemporary works, curated by Ms. Tengblad and Mr. Neuville, will feature two world premieres by Emily Lau and Adam Jacob Simon.
Additional composers will be selected from the following: Tom Cipullo, Ricky Ian Gordon, Daron Aric Hagen, Jocelyn Hagen, Jake Heggie, André Previn, Joshua Shank, and Larry Alan Smith. 
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Some Thoughts on Good and Evil 
Violinist Gabriela Diaz, cellist Rafael Popper Keizer 
and pianist Elizabeth Schumann perform

Adam Jacob Simon: Piano trio no. 1 in B major [WORLD PREMIERE]
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano trio no. 2 in C Minor op. 66
Howard Frazin: Some Thoughts on Good and Evil

Friday June 27th at 8PM
The Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon St, Boston
http://wordsongfridayconcert.brownpapertickets.com/

Sunday June 29th at 7PM
St Paul's Church, Brookline
15 St Paul St, Brookline 
http://wordsongsundayconcert.brownpapertickets.com/

$15 online / $20 at the door

During the last weekend in June WordSong will present "Some Thoughts on Good and Evil", an exclusive concert engagement featuring three of Boston's most acclaimed chamber musicians and soloists, violinist Gabriela Diaz, cellist Rafael Popper Keizer and pianist Elizabeth Schumann. The program will include one of the great piano trios of the 19th century by Felix Mendelssohn, Opus 66 in C minor as well as two 21st century trios of American Expressionism, Howard Frazin's "Some Thought on Good and Evil" and the World Premiere of Adam Jacob Simon's "Piano trio #1 in B Major".  Unlike your traditional chamber music museum exhibition, or typical new music zoo, this is gonna be really good.  To paraphrase Benjamin Britten, with this concert series we aspire to present pleasing music as intelligently as we can.
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Ashes of Roses, Ashes of Angels
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September 22nd 2011, 5.30pm, Voltage Coffee & Art, 295 Third St, Cambridge (MA)

When Notes Fly... Free Concert Series at Voltage Coffee & Art is presenting music by Adam Jacob Simon. Program included world premiere piece " They have hung the sky with arrows" with mezzo soprano Sophie Michaux. Emerging Artist Award winning string quartet piece from the St. Botolph Club Foundation.

Kai-Ching Chang,piano 
Judson Deitrich, viola 
Guan-Ting Liao,violin 
Olga Patramanskaya,violin 
Ben Shute,violin 
Caleb van der Swaagh,cello 
Sophie Michaux, Mezzo Soprano 
Adam Jacob Simon, voice
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