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Recent and Upcoming Events

Friday, October 13, 2023 @ 7:00 PM
Scenic and Spiritual Soundscapes (piano recital)
Jay Performing Arts Center, St John's High School, Shrewsbury, MA 
works by Erica Ball, Tania León, Matthew Jaskot, Brad MehldauOscar Peterson and Florence Price

Friday, October 6, 2023 @ 5:00 PM
performance of Rejuvenated (Variations on a Youthful Theme)
Central Washington University, Ellensburg WA

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 @ 12:00 PM
Celebrating Florence Price
Prior Performing Arts Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
a lunchtime concert featuring a performance of Price's Sonata in E Minor

Tuesday, September 12, 2023 @ 7:00 PM
Close and Apart (premiere)
Luth Concert Hall, Prior Performing Arts Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
for more information on the premiere, and to purchase tickets, click here

Jennifer Ashe - soprano, Brian Church - baritone, Kevin Nolan - guitar, Matt Nolan - percussion
Chuck Furlong - clarinet, Andy Kozar - trumpet, David Rubin - violin, Zan Berry - cello
Pete Walsh - bass, Yoko Hagino - piano, Matt Sharrock - conductor
texts by Susan Elizabeth Sweeney


Tuesday, March 14, 2023 @ 12:30 PM
Dichterliebe
with Ari Kiirikki (flute) and Joe Cracolici (cello)
Prior Performing Arts Center Beehive, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA


Tuesday, February 28, 2023 @ 12:30 PM
Rhapsody in Blue
with Robert Gardner, piano (soloist)
Luth Con
cert Hall, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA


Thursday, February 16, 2023 @ 12:30 PM
performance of Nebal Maysaud's Decolonized Arabesques
with Scott Chamberlain (saxophone) Sergio
Muñoz Leiva (viola) and Pete Walsh (double bass)

Prior Performing Arts Center Beehive,  College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Wednesday, November 16, 2022 @ 8:00 PM
performance of Florence Price's Piano Concerto in One Movement
with the Holy Cross orchestra

Luth Concert Hall, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA


Friday, November 11, 2022 @ 7:00 PM
Centennial Concert (piano recital)
St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury, MA
works by Beethoven, Bonds, Corea, Gershwin, Jaskot, Kouyoumdjian, Piazzolla, Ravel
with Tracy Jaskot, oboe


Saturday, November 5, 2022 @ 2:30 PM
2022 Society of Composers, Inc. Region 2 Conference
Setnor Auditorium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Anne Kunkle, saxophone
Blaire Koerner, bassoon
performance of Reinvention


Friday, October 28, 2022 @ 8:00 PM
Autumn Landscapes
with the Holy Cross College Choir
including a solo performance of Margaret Bonds' Troubled Water
Luth Concert Hall, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA


Tuesday, September 20, 2022 @ 8 PM
Through the Rear View
with Jennifer Ashe (soprano), Brian Church (baritone), and Jonathan Hess (percussion)
and poetry read by Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Brooks Concert Hall, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

performance of It Still Resounds and premiere performances of excerpts from Close and Apart


Friday, March 4, 2022 @ 6 PM
2022 Festival of Contemporary Art Music 
Washington State University, Pullman, WA

performance of The Streets Were Running—Time Stood Still
watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p51s6jBBJck&t=3374s&ab_channel=WSUPullmanMusic @46'

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 @ 1 PM
Nostalgic and Eternal Visions
works by Kouyoumdjian, McCartney/Mehldau, and Still
Brooks Concert Hall, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

live stream available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3C8CciOCRk&ab_channel=HolyCrossMusicDepartment

Thursday, November 11, 2021 @ 8 PM
Points of Intersection - Music for Pianos and Percussion
with Yoko Hagino (piano), Jonathan Hess (percussion) and Matt Sharrock (percussion)
works by Bartók, Berio, Jaskot and Singleton
Brooks Concert Hall, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

live stream available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Cp0ByfGQE&ab_channel=HolyCrossMusicDepartment

Friday, April 23, 2021 @ 7 PM
Holy Cross College Choir and Chamber Singers
Dr. Allegra Martin, director
Michelle Sacco and Matthew Luca, organ
Natasha Rollo, Meghan O'Keefe, Riley Flint, and Ryan Clouse, narrators

Sunday, March 21, 2021 @ 3 PM

Sugar Hill Salon Live Stream Concert 

Galo Morales, alto saxophone

Alex Davis, bassoon

Includes a performance of Reinvention and works by Valerie Coleman, Gala Flagello, Alice Jones, Christopher Kaminski, and Sunny Knable

WATCH ON FACEBOOK LIVE

https://www.facebook.com/events/245579427308525

 

Thursday, March 18, 2021 @ 7 PM

Reinventions: A Concert of Genre Busting New Music

Galo Morales, alto saxophone

Alex Davis, bassoon

This exciting virtual concert includes a collection of modern works for saxophone and bassoon that synthesize a variety of musical genres. Morales and Davis are equally at home interpreting complex musical scores and improvising, both of which will be featured in the program. Works by Valerie Coleman, Gala Flagello, Alice Jones, Christopher Kaminski, Sunny Knable, and Holy Cross faculty member Matthew Jaskot will be performed.

WATCH HERE:

https://linktr.ee/hcmusic

 

Thursday, January 21, 2021 @ 4 PM

The Spirit of Jazz

This concert is a celebratory event, capping off the winter term course entitled Jazz, Civil Rights, and Hip Hop, which was team-taught by Shirish Korde and Matthew Jaskot. The course examined the inter-relationship of music and race in America, with a particular focus of the development of Jazz through the lens of segregation and the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. The intersection of Jazz and Hip-Hop in the work of Kendrick Lamar was additionally considered, as well as various artistic responses to recent events, including the death of Geoge Floyd and the ensuing demonstrations led by the Black Lives Matter Movement. This program will feature the sounds of ragtime, early Jazz, Jazz standards as played by Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Bill Evans, and Jaskot's improvisations on works by Lamar and Stevie Wonder.

WATCH HERE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBbgvVw17Ig&t=2689s

 

Thursday, November 12, 2020 @ 7 PM
Order and Chaos

Matthew Jaskot performs György Ligeti's first book of piano études. These groundbreaking compositions composed in the 1980s continue the rich tradition of concert études (Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, etc.) while also drawing on a variety of inspirations such as Central African polyphony, the player piano music of Conlon Nancarrow, jazz, and fractal geometry among others. The program will be presented in a lecture-recital format, including commentary on each of the six virtuosic works.

WATCH HERE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slwqM1KMsfI&feature=youtu.be

 

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