Winsor Music directors, from left: Peggy Pearson (founder), Rane Moore, Gabriela Díaz. Robert Torres photograph
Winsor Music, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Oct. 28
When Rane Moore and Gabriela Díaz took over leadership of Winsor Music from founder Peggy Pearson in 2017, there was hardly a reason to change. Pearson had created a forward-thinking organization—community service, commissioning and transcribing new repertory, prioritizing diversity—“the direction we were already going was great,” Moore says.
Oboist Pearson remains part of Winsor’s foundation—a quartet, with continual guest collaborators. Moore (clarinets), Díaz (violin/viola) and Rafael Popper-Keizer (cello) round out the regular foursome, although cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws sits in for the Oct. 28th upcoming concert at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. Winsor will be joined by soprano Sonja Tengblad and pianist Yoko Hagino. The concert includes commissions from Yu-Hui Chang, Eric Chasalow (Ghost Songs), and Milad Yousufi, and selections from the Boston Six—early century composers Beach, MacDowell, Price, Foote and Parker, all with city connections.
“I think this is the way forward for music,” Moore says. “To model what you see in the world. The whole concert has Boston connections, all short pieces, beautiful and exciting.”
Winsor Music, with premieres by Yu-Hui Chang, Eric Chasalow (Ghost Songs), and Milad Yousufi, Oct. 28 in the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center.
Chamber Music Events, Oct. 27–30
Singing Joby Talbot’s choral work Path of Miracles, the hard-working Skylark Vocal Ensemble performs Oct. 27 through the 30th in Sandwich, Cambridge, Chestnut Hill and Newburyport. Countertenor Philippe Jaroussky sings early opera arias Oct. 28, at Jordan Hall as part of BEMF’s concert season. Chameleon Arts Ensemble performs on the 29th and 30th—music for Halloween—at First Church in the Back Bay. Musicians of the Old Post Road perform women composers from the time of Prussian King Frederick the Great on the 29th in Sudbury and 30th in Emmanuel Church. Harpsichordist Jean Rondeau plays Bach (Goldberg Variations) at the Gardner the afternoon of the 30th.