Season 2024-25

Eight Sunday matinees at 3 p.m. at Sanders Theatre
Free parking available at the Broadway Garage / Map and directions

• Enjoy pieces by beloved classical masters such as Beethoven and Brahms. 
• Marvel at Charles Ives’s Piano Trio on his 150th birthday, and relish popular works by Arnold Schoenberg, Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Ravel whose anniversaries fall during this season. 
• In October, we gather a larger ensemble to perform Mendelssohn’s Sextet for Piano and Strings as well as the string septet arrangement of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante.
• In November, we observe the Veteran’s Day weekend with our first performances of Kevin Puts’s 2001 And Legions Will Rise for the unusual combination of clarinet, violin, and marimba.
• In the cold of January, we honor winter with works by three Russian composers: Prokofiev, Arensky, and Glazunov. 
• We continue the project of programming and recording our commissioned works and issuing these to the public in three volumes.
  • Scheduled for April, our 2024 commission by Boston composer Peter Child is scored for oboe, viola, and piano.
  • We reprise our 2021 commission, Lowell Liebermann’s Clarinet Sonata, in our season opener in September. In March, we bring back Tyranny of Coordinates for piano quintet (2022) by Michi Wiancko.
• For the season finale on Mother’s Day, we will perform Three Romances by Clara Schumann, herself a great pianist, composer, and mother of eight, along with Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor (“Werther”). 

Subscription Packages

Subscribe to the full season, pick four or more concerts to create your own package, or sign up for the Virtual Encore series of three on-demand concert videos.

Subscriber Benefits

• Discounts on your subscription and on additional tickets / Subscribe to at least 4 performances and save up to 17% off single ticket prices. Enjoy the same saving on additional tickets purchased for your friends and family.
• Guaranteed/priority seating / Gain access to purchase tickets to all concerts before single tickets go on sale. Renewing subscribers may sign up by July 31 to keep the same seats or have early choice of new seats.
• Free parking at the Broadway Garage / All ticket holders, including your guests, can park for free at the nearby Broadway Garage.
• Flexibility to switch performances / Contact the BCMS office up to two days before a concert and we will be glad to exchange your tickets to a different performance (or to reprint your lost tickets).
• Brahms Circle member benefits / Patrons who have subscribed for more than five consecutive years automatically become members of the Brahms Circle. Each member is entitled to receive a complimentary ticket during the season and is invited to special gatherings.

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