Performance Groups

Over the years, the Brattleboro Music Center’s performance groups have offered many memorable musical moments. Audiences have come to expect concerts and performances that move and inspire them.

The Brattleboro Concert Choir performs an exciting and challenging repertoire, ranging from classic choral masterpieces to rarely heard or newly commissioned works. Its far-ranging and adventurous programming involves innovative collaborations and presentations, and presents dynamic concerts to packed audiences twice yearly.

The Brattleboro Music Center EOS (Educate. Open. Strengthen.) concerts are a collaborative effort of BMC Music School faculty and other local musicians to actively seek out and intentionally perform music by composers who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as well as composers who identify as anything other than cis male. The series recognizes that as our country reckons with its history of oppression, we as individuals must work to understand our own implicit bias. In the music world, this bias can be seen in concert halls, both on stage and in the music performed. Composers of color, as well as composers who are not cis male, have historically been excluded from the musical canon.

The Brattleboro Camerata is a select chamber choir devoted to exploring the beauty and power of both Renaissance-era and Renaissance-inspired music. In collaboration with Music Director Timothy Parsons, the Brattleboro Camerata’s performances breathe new life into old music, bringing expressive intensity to innovative thematic programs that highlight canonic favorites, underperformed gems by neglected voices, and new works that allow us to see early music in a different light.

Tessitura is a chamber choir which explores music of the Baroque and modern eras. Its repertoire ranges from Monteverdi madrigals to Bach cantatas; from motets of Schütz to works by contemporary composers.

“Tessitura” is the most resonant part of one’s vocal range; the term is also the Italian word for weaving—and thus by extension suggests the interplay among disparate threads to effect modulations of texture. Under the direction of Mark Nelson, this ensemble illuminates the shifting colors and textures suffusing old and new music.