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Juventas New Music Ensemble Offers World Premiere September 26
Juventas New Music Ensemble’s upcoming concert, “All We Are,” includes a world premiere Saturday, September 26, at 7 p.m. at the BMC.

This concert spans generations and continents, and asks what it means to endure, to hold multiple identities, and to cherish what is most fragile and fleeting. “All We Are” honors moments, both ordinary and remarkable, whose significance is often only understood in hindsight.

Soprano Kelley Hollis, clarinetist Celine Ferro, violinist Grant Houston, cellist Nicholas Johnson, and pianist Julia Scott Carey will premiere “Wherever You Think There is Nothing” by Oliver Caplan. The program will include Kian Ravaei’s Unstoppable, Reena Esmail’s Piano Trio and David Biedenbender’s All We Are Given We Cannot Hold.

A dynamic contemporary chamber group with a special focus on emerging voices, Juventas New Music Ensemble reimagines classical music as a vibrant living art form, bringing audiences music from a diverse array of rising composers that live in today’s world and respond to our time.

Singing Strong!
Join longtime choral directors and friends Susan Dedell and Becky Graber for an hour of singing some of the best music from the jazz and swing era on through the 60’s and 70’s. We’ll also explore great songs from musicals, folk songs, spirituals, and rounds.

While the emphasis is on pure enjoyment, Singing Strong also encourages healthy singing with tips for range extension, more comfortable breathing, and more. No prior singing experience or music reading is necessary. Starts September 29th!

Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30, September 29 – December 15th, 2026
Brattleboro Music Center Recital Hall

BMC Presents Hundreds of Voices with “A Passion for the Planet” October 3
The Brattleboro Concert Choir joins CONCORA and our Children’s Chorus in a performance of Geoffrey Hudson’s sweeping oratorio, “A Passion for the Planet,” Saturday, October 3. The concert is set for 7:00 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre, in downtown Brattleboro.

The Brattleboro Concert Choir, directed by Jonathan Harvey, is proud to perform with CONCORA’s acclaimed professional choir and orchestra under the direction of Chris Shepard, along with the BMC Children’s Chorus, directed by Stefan Amidon.

“A Passion for the Planet” is an hour-long oratorio on climate change. Its lyrics blend together scientific prose, poetry and sacred texts from many faiths. The piece traces an emotional arc praising the Earth for being plentiful and providing for all people, followed by middle movements exploring the dark realities of climate change, and finally ending with movements expressing the sentiment that civilizations were thriving for a relatively short period of time, and at the expense of the planet’s health.

This concert is supported in part by an Irving Forbes Centennial Grant from the Alfred Nash Patterson Fund of Choral Arts New England

J.J. Beck is in Concert October 8
J.J. Beck invites his audience to “Choose Your Own Adventure” Thursday, October 8, at the BMC. Beck’s 7 p.m. concert will showcase his original solo piano compositions dating 20 years ago to today, and will also include an arrangement of “Peace Piece” by Bill Evans.

For over two decades, Beck has cultivated his own sound on the acoustic piano. Heavily influenced by the music and time of his father, legendary jazz guitarist Joe Beck, J.J. has carved his own path. Beck has composed music for piano chamber music, solo piano, guitar, and played drums professionally for a handful of bands out of Brooklyn, NY in the mid- to late-2000s. His music blends a recognizable jazz ideology with harmonic and melodic influences from classical romantics and modern composers.

Please note seating is limited for this event.

BMC Hosts Vermont Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quartet October 17
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quartet presents “Winds in Motion,” at the BMC Saturday, October 17.

The 7 p.m. concert will feature principal players of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra in a program showcasing the wide range of repertoire for woodwinds. Travel to Europe and back through the music of Charles Gounod to George Gershwin.

The VSO Woodwind Quartet includes Melissa Mielens, flute; Kelli O’Connor, clarinet; Nancy Dimock, oboe; and Janet Polk, bassoon.

The program will include Gounod’s Funeral March for a Marionette, Edward McDowell & Christopher Kies’ Three Pieces, Alyssa Morris’ In Motion, Richard Rodney Bennett’s Travel Notes, and Gershwin’s Rialto Ripples.