Formed in 1997, The Sarasa Ensemble is a collective group of more than seventy-five international instrumentalists and vocalists who perform music from the early Baroque through the Romantic eras. The Ensemble has performed throughout New England and has toured Ireland, Cuba, and India.  (Please see the slide show below.)

For the past ten years Sarasa’s outreach program has focused more on working with incarcerated teenagers. In 2010 Sarasa won an award from Early Music America for outstanding achievement in outreach. Every concert season the group plays more than eighteen outreach concerts and facilitates six residency programs in teenage correctional centers. Through these programs Sarasa seeks to address the spiritual and emotional suffering of incarcerated youth and provide them with joy, hope, and opportunities for healing through self-expression.  More …