July

Duxbury Music Festival: Opening Concert, featuring the Evenings Under the Stars Festival Orchestra, Nicholas Palmer conducting, with Shijun Wang, 2007 Duxbury Music Festival Solo Competition winner, performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No, 1 in B-flat Minor, op 23. Orchestra selections will include Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Overture and 1812 Overture, Music from the Movies and John Philip Sousa’s Stars & Stripes Forever.

Duxbury

Performing

Arts Center

Evenings Under the Stars: Evenings Under the Stars Festival Orchestra POPS Concert, featuring the Evenings Under the Stars Festival Orchestra, Nicholas Palmer conducting, with Shijun Wang, 2007 Duxbury Music Festival Solo Competition winner, performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No, 1 in B-flat Minor, op 23. Orchestra selections will include Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Overture and 1812 Overture, Music from the Movies and John Philip Sousa’s Stars & Stripes Forever.

Hingham

Jane Carr

Amphitheater

Evenings Under the Stars: Children's concert. Are You My Instrument Family? A baby violin searches for its family among a sea of instruments. Based on the P. D. Eastman classic, Are You My Mother?

Hingham

Jane Carr

Amphitheater

Duxbury Music Festival: Student Recital.

Free!

Duxbury

Ellison Center

Duxbury Music Festival: Faculty Chamber Concert, featuring the works of Fauré, Barber, Pinkham, Hundley and Turina.

Duxbury

First Parish

Church

Duxbury Music Festival: Student Recital.

Free!

Duxbury

Ellison Center

Duxbury Music Festival: Student Recital.

Free!

Duxbury

Ellison Center

Summer Music Festival’s Jazz Ensemble and All-Star Band in Concert
South Shore Conservatory’s Summer Music Festival presents a combined concert of All-Star Band and Summer Music Festival Jazz Ensemble students. Each group performs individually, giving the audience an evening of fine music and outstanding jazz.

Free!

Hingham

Jane Carr

Amphitheater

Duxbury Music Festival: Red, White & Blue on the Green, featuring a performance by popular recording artist Maggie Scott, jazz pianist and vocalist, and Duxbury Music Festival and South Shore Conservatory faculty performing works by Bernstein, Arlen and Gershwin. Reception at 7 pm concert at 8 pm.

Duxbury

Town Green

Summer Music Festival in Concert
South Shore Conservatory’s Summer Music Festival presents a combined concert of Summer Wind Ensemble and Festival Wind Ensemble students featuring a wide variety of traditional and contemporary musical literature.

Free!

Hingham

Jane Carr

Amphitheater

Duxbury Music Festival: Vocal/Piano Master Class, featuring performance pairings between Duxbury Music Festival students. Maggie Scott, jazz pianist and vocalist will coach the performances. This will be a wonderful opportunity to witness how the creative process works. Class begins at 10 am with a 1-hour lunch break and concludes at approximately 2:30 pm.

10:00

Duxbury

Ellison Center

Evenings Under the Stars: Ball In The House. One of the best known and loved a capella acts in the country. Enjoy classic pop and R&B as you've never heard it before!

Hingham

Jane Carr

Amphitheater

Duxbury Music Festival: Sunday in the Park. Solo and ensemble performances by Duxbury Music Festival faculty and students.                                                                               

Free!

Duxbury

Town Green

Duxbury Music Festival: Student Solo competition.

Free!

Duxbury

Ellison Center

Duxbury Music Festival: Faculty Chamber Concert featuring Duxbury Music Festival faculty performing works by W. Presser, Mozart, A. Beach and Ravel. The performance will take place at a private home in Duxbury, with a reception following the concert.

SOLD OUT!

Duxbury Music Festival: Opera Scenes Program Student Recital.                                                                                

Free!

Duxbury

Ellison Center

Duxbury Music Festival: Student Chamber Competition.

Free!

Duxbury

Ellison Center

Duxbury Music Festival: Solo and Chamber Competition Winners Concert.

Duxbury

Ellison Center

Duxbury Music Festival: Festival closing performance of Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss’s comic operetta, featuring members of Opera by the Bay, guest artists, students and faculty of the Duxbury Music Festival, led by guest conductor Steven Karidoyanes of the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra.

Duxbury

Performing

Arts Center

Evenings Under the Stars: Die Fledermaus. Johann Strauss’s comic operetta, featuring members of Opera by the Bay, guest artists, students and faculty of the Duxbury Music Festival, led by guest conductor Steven Karidoyanes of the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra.

Hingham

Jane Carr

Amphitheater

Evenings Under the Stars: Peter & the Wolf and Friends.Children's concert. Characters come to life through the instruments of Conservatory musicians in Prokofiev's classic musical tale.

Hingham

Jane Carr

Amphitheater

Flute Symphony Performance
South Shore Conservatory Flute Symphony celebrates its 19th season with nearly 100 flutists performing a variety of music styles, from baroque to classical, jazz to pop, music of present-day composers.

Free!

Hingham

Jane Carr

Amphitheater

August

Summer Chamber Music Academy
South Shore Conservatory piano, string, woodwind and vocal musicians put into practice all they have learned in their intensive two-week study of chamber music, in a very special performance. Learn more about Summer Chamber Music Academy.

Free!

Evenings Under the Stars: Livingston Taylor. Livingston Taylor is the ultimate crowd pleaser, whose exhuberant personality and world-class talent as a songwriter, musician and performer promise a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Hingham

Jane Carr

Amphitheater

Summer Vocal Institute Performance
South Shore Conservatory young classical singers, ages 13 - 20, present their personal best as they present a concert of excerpts from opera and other vocal literature.

Free!