Season 19 || 2025-26

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musiConnects Performathon 2026!

What is Performathon?
Performathon is musiConnects’ annual, end-of-year performance festival, in which our students perform informal mini-concerts in Roslindale, Mattapan, and surrounding neighborhoods! 

Performathon Schedule
**Please watch this page for updates**

Betsy's studio performs on Birch Street in Roslindale
Tuesday, May 19, 4-7pm

Lizzy and Renee's studios perform at Birch Street in Roslindale
Wednesday, May 20, 5-6pm

Lizzy and Brian's studios perform, at The Square Root
(2 Corinth St., Roslindale)
Thursday, May 21, 6pm

SPRING STUDENT RECITAL, Adams Park 
Saturday, May 23, 2:00-4:45pm

musiConnects
COMMUNITY CONCERT SERIES
2025-2026
featuring The Great Hill String Quartet
All Community Concerts take place in Roslindale or Mattapan and are free and open to the public. 

FALL COMMUNITY CONCERT
Roslindale House, 1 Florence St, Roslindale 
Sunday, November 9, 2025, 7:00pm
​This program showcases American composers from diverse backgrounds who draw on folk traditions while forging innovative sound worlds that expand the horizons of classical music.​

WINTER CONCERT
GHSQ + mC2 (teen leadership ensemble)
Mattapan BPL (1350 Blue Hill Ave, Mattapan, MA 02126)
Saturday, January 24, 2026, 3:30pm
A side-by-side concert performed by mC advanced ensemble "mC2", mC alumni, and The Great Hill String Quartet featuring jazz, prayer band, and contemporary works by Charlton Singleton, Oliver Nelson, and our very own mC students!

SPRING CONCERT
Mattahunt Community Center
(100 Hebron St, Mattapan, MA 02126)
Saturday, May 2, 2026, 3:30pm

​STUDENT RECITALS 2025-2026
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FALL STUDENT RECITAL
Mattapan BPL (1350 Blue Hill Ave, Mattapan, MA 02126)
Saturday, November 15, 2025, 2:00-4:00pm

WINTER STUDENT RECITAL, Roslindale House
​(120 Poplar St. Roslindale, in the auditorium)
Saturday, February 28, 2:00-4:00pm

​PERFORMATHON 2026 (Pop-up Student Performances)
​Various Locations
Sunday May 17 - Saturday May 23

​SPRING STUDENT RECITAL, Adam's Park 
Saturday, May 23, 2:00-4:45pm
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SUMMER INTENSIVE PERFORMANCES
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INTENSIVE #1: Improvisation
Adam's Park, Roslindale
Wednesday July 1, 11:30am - 12:00pm

INTENSIVE #2: Arabic Music
Adam's Park, Roslindale
Thursday, July 9, 11:30am - 12:00pm

​INTENSIVE #3: Protest Songs
Adam's Park, Roslindale
Sunday, August 23, 11:30am - 12:00pm

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR SUMMER INTENSIVES

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​​​Season 18 || 2024-25

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SUMMER INTENSIVE #3: FIDDLE MUSIC FINALE (Student Performance), Adam's Park, Roslindale
Sunday, August 24, 2025, 11:30am-noon​

SUMMER INTENSIVE #2: ANIME MUSIC FINALE (Student Performance), Adam's Park, Roslindale
Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 11:30am-noon

SUMMER INTENSIVE #1: YIDDISH SONG FINALE (Student Performance), Adam's Park, Roslindale
Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 11:30am-noon

GREAT HILL QUARTET (FACULTY CONCERT), Roslindale House (120 Poplar St., Roslindale, in the auditorium)
Saturday, May 17, 2025, 7pm

​WINTER STUDENT RECITAL, Mattapan BPL (1350 Blue Hill Ave, Mattapan, MA 02126)
Saturday, March 22, 2025, 2-4pm

GREAT HILL QUARTET (FACULTY CONCERT), Roslindale House (120 Poplar St., Roslindale, in the auditorium)
Saturday, March 8, 2025, 7pm

"Danza del Pájaro Sagrado", from "Estampas Mexicanas" (2nd movement)

Watch the Great Hill String Quartet perform the second movement of Jose Elizondo's "Estampas Mexicanas". 
"Estampas Mexicanas: II. Danza del Pájaro Sagrado"
Music composed by: José Elizondo
Performance: The Great Hill String Quartet
Film: Daniele Sarti
Sound: Christopher Botta
Styling: Jessica Cook

FALL STUDENT RECITAL, Roslindale House (120 Poplar St., Roslindale, in the auditorium)
Saturday, December 14 2024​, 2-4:00pm

GREAT HILL QUARTET (mC Faculty Quartet) at BPL MATTAPAN
Our Fall Recital features our Resident Musician faculty performing an exciting program of work by contemporary composers including Jessie Montgomery and Sato Matsui. See you there!
Saturday, November 9 2024, 3:00pm, BPL Mattapan Branch (free)

 
"Dare We Imagine"

This video clip is from the world premiere of "Dare We Imagine" by Dina Shilleh, commissioned by musiConnects, and performed by the mC faculty quartet in May 2024.

Come hear all of this stunning piece performed by Great Hill Quartet (our newly named faculty quartet) on Saturday Nov. 9, 3pm at the Mattapan BPL.

Dina Shilleh is a Serbian-Palestinian musician, with a Bachelor and Masters Degree in piano performance (Lawrence University and University of Massachusetts - Amherst). You can learn more about her and her work at http://dinashilleh.com/. She wrote this beautiful poem to be read before performances of "Dare We Imagine":

The pendulum swings incessantly, a relentless rhythm of trauma.
The unsettling clock, anxious in its turns, ticks away moments we cannot erase.
The fire, suffocated, grows until it can no longer bear the rising heat.
It explodes in a burst of flames, consuming all in its path, leaving only…?
Sadness veiled in denial, moves forward, simply to keep on.
Covering the wounds with hope and imagination.
Hearing the voices that echo beyond the tomb.
It dances a welcome for those who can never return.
Dreaming of a day when scars fade and new life begins.