About

Jennifer Morsches and Timothy Merton, Artistic Directors

Jennifer Morsches and Timothy Merton, Artistic Directors

 

The Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble

has received critical acclaim for its "informed and impassioned music-making" and is hailed for its "great clarity" and "irresistible energy." Drawing on a pool of more than one hundred musicians from the United States and Europe, the ensemble varies in size according to the particular type of program with repertoire ranging from the 17th to the 21st centuries. 

The ensemble produces the Sarasa Chamber Series in Cambridge and Lexington, Massachusetts and has toured throughout New England performing at the Frick Collection, the Morgan Library, the 92nd Street Y, the Boston Early Music Festival Series and the University of Vermont Lane Series. In 2007, Sarasa won the 'outstanding achievement award' from Early Music America in recognition of its invaluable work with incarcerated teens in the Greater Boston area.

The name "Sarasa" is a combination of Saraswathi, the Hindu goddess of art and culture, and the Sanskrit word rasa, which means the essence of sound.

 

 

Staff

Timothy Merton
Director and Founder

Andrew Moreschi
General Manager

Jennifer Morsches
Assistant Artistic Director

 

Board MemberS

 

Timothy Merton
Founder and Cellist of Sarasa

 

Dr. Christoph Wald, Chairman
Interim Chair of the Radiology Department at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center; Professor of Radiology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Recorder Player    Nahant, MA

Helen Barrington
Owner of Sound Advice Consulting
Cambridge, MA

Barbara Kapp
Barbara Kapp and Associates, Architectural Sevices Company
Cambridge, MA

 

Thomas Vignieri
Former Music Producer of “From the Top” radio program, Composer
Devon, UK

Tina Lieu
Marketing Consultant, Basis Technology, Violinist,
Cambridge, MA

Deborah Hoover
Arts Management Consultant, 
Belmont, MA

Penelope Moore
Clinical Social Worker
Belmont, MA


…it was interesting how, with only four players and two singers, it ranged from polished miniature to operatic extra-large.
— The Boston Globe

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.