Mission Statement

Sarasa Ensemble is a performing arts collective with a dual mission. It presents classical music concert series to local audiences at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church in Cambridge and Follen Community Church in Lexington, MA. The repertoire spans from the 17th-21st centuries, is performed on both historical and modern instruments, and draws from a pool of highly acclaimed singers and instrumentalists from the Boston area, USA, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Of equal importance, the group also facilitates an award-winning outreach program with incarcerated teenagers in the Boston Metro, Central and Northeast regions in collaboration with the Department of Youth Services, for which it was unanimously voted to receive the Commissioner’s Community Partner Award in 2018. Sarasa strives to bring their highly creative musical programming to these marginalized youth, and provide them with a format in which to exhibit their own innate artistic passions.