Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble

Dedicated to making music accessible to wider audiences

The Sarasa Ensemble is "... a mix of Boston's best and finest with prominent English players and American musicians based in Europe."
— The Boston Globe

Next Concert: Fortepiano Trios

Program: Trios of Stephen Storace, Haydn, and Beethoven Op. 1 No. 2 in G major

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8pm Saturday, May 19, 2012 Friends Meeting House (Cambridge, MA)- accessible via T Red Line (Harvard Sta.) and wheelchair accessible.
7pm Sunday, May 20, 2012 Parish Hall, First Parish Church (Concord, MA) - ample free parking and wheelchair accessible.

Sarasa in concert with Les Sirènes in September 2011. (Photo by Christopher Greenleaf)

Letter from the Director

After a one-year sabbatical, we are delighted to welcome you back to the 12th season of the Sarasa Chamber Music Series. As always, it will be a season filled with a variety of exciting programs, but this year we are pleased to feature a greater number of young musicians who will take part alongside seasoned Sarasa regulars.

Even though Sarasa has taken a break from public performances last season, we have been busier than ever with our Outreach Program in teenage detention facilities in the Greater Boston area where we partner with the Department of Youth Services. In 2011, our residency group—made up of two singers, cello and piano—has facilitated six residencies, and Sarasa musicians and guests have performed eleven concerts. Our deep commitment to these programs has proved truly rewarding.

The support we continue to receive from the Kalliopeia Foundation and the Otto and Marianne Wolman Foundation and individuals like you have really made it possible to continue this extremely valuable work with the teens. But we are always looking for new support for this vital side of Sarasa.

We look forward to connecting with our audience once again this year, and we hope to see you at as many concerts as possible

"Radiating elegance and eloquence" —Boston Globe

"...informed and impassioned musicmaking..." —The St. Petersburg Times

Sarasa's guiding mission is to bring professional-quality classical music to enrich the lives of the broadest possible community, especially those who do not have easy access to live chamber music.

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Letters written by audience members of our outreach concerts and residencies show that your contribution does make a difference in their lives.

Sarasa News:

We've just updated our list of outreach concerts for those completed in 2011 so far.

From our last set of concerts in September featuring the sopranos of Les Sirènes we received this very nice review by the Boston Musical Intelligencer.

Sarasa CDs

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"A Baroque Mosaic

Bach Cantatas

"Labelle and Sylvan . . . both perform with their customary beautiful tone, scrupulous musicianship, and verbal communicativeness."
— Boston Globe on the Sarasa Bach Cantata CD.

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