2018 Court Hill Music Festival

Including three interdisciplinary concerts exploring music and the arts.

The Court Hill Music Festival presents a wide variety of musical experiences for the Central Mass audiences to engage a wide range of demographics.
2018 ticket proceeds are split between Worcester's Joy of Music Program and the First U Encore Music Fund.

Program Book Here Program Notes Here Pictures/Images from 2018 Concerts

In the upcoming 2018 series, three of our concerts are a part of ArtWeek Massachusetts.

Sunday May 6 CONCERT CANCELLED due to a death in the family of one of the performers.

eight concerts

Date	Description	$10 ONLINE TICKETS (single concert) (per person)
ANY/ALL	SERIES TICKET $30 (season pass)
Saturday April 14 7PM	New England Brass Band - The Music of New England from John Williams to Leroy Anderson YouTube Interview/Sample	FREE
Friday April 20 7PM	Songs of the Parlour, Stage and Silver Screen Ray Bauwens has long been thrilling audiences with music from broadway to opera across the nation. Ray and friends will be presenting a varied program of solo and ensemble favorites of the 20th Century by composers such as Noel Coward, Ivor Novello and Sigmund Romberg. YouTube sample another sample
Saturday April 21 7PM	Seele Musicale Flights of Fancy Seele Musicale Chamber Ensemble brings together the unique beauty and sound of individual instruments performing the baroque masterpieces. The ensemble will take the audience on a journey of audible splendor taking flights of fancy repertoire from Handel to Telemann for soprano, strings, oboe, flute, recorder, and continuo. YouTube Performance
Sunday April 22 10:15AM	Echoes of the Earth: Celebrating Earth Sunday A service of music and readings with the Festival Choir & soloists Music that engages the soul The Festival Choir, soloists, and instruments will present a wide array of reflective and satisfying repertoire	FREE
Friday April 27 7PM	Jazz Safari with improvisatory visual arts Jazz Safari, from Worcester’s Joy of Music, will involve the listener in how music is improvised: demystifying the process of how musicians + creativity + instruments produce a cosmic fusion of exciting music. A local visual artist will respond to the music of the moment with live visual improvisations in various art mediums. The musicians will demonstrate the elements of improvisatory creation and their instruments’ capabilities, and how by listening to each other, synergistic magic happens: an ephemeral moment of aural bliss. They will use musical styles and compositions from world jazz to enrich the diversity of the experience YouTube Sample
Sunday April 29 7PM	Medwin String Quartet with interpretive dance Strings Attached! Repertoire throughout the ages Hear the three-dimensional live sounds of the Medwin String Quartet in their international journey of masterpieces throughout the ages and nationalities: music of Borodin, Shostakovich, Haydn, and Schubert. During the performance, improvisatory interpretive dance will i visually enrich the musical experience. Joining the string ensemble will be Jeff Porzio, oboe (Haydn Oboe Concerto)
Monday April 30 7PM	Pipes Alive! Exploring the King of Instruments Young Artist Showcase: Matthew Buller, organist The audience is encouraged to enjoy an organ pipe “petting zoo” where individuals get hands-on and wind-into experience for just what a few of those thousands of organ pipes feel and sound like that make up the King of Instruments. As a bonus one of the large wooden “pedal” pipes can be played by a large hand-operated bellows, and the sheet of vibrating air can be felt and heard as the air enters the pipe’s resonating cavity. Listeners will marvel at the history of the pipe organ and its use in concert halls with orchestras, and in churches. Mr. Buller will perform classical repertoire by Buxtehude, Brahms, Reger, Duruflé, and Mulet. Just listen to how 1000s of the pipes you just tooted in the hands-on audience pipe demonstration all play together to make glorious symphonic sounds of music.
Tuesday May 1 7PM	Liana Paniyeva, concert pianist Pictures in Sound Internationally acclaimed & award-winning Liana Paniyeva will perform Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and other exciting concert works such as Rachmaninoff Corelli Variation op 42 and Medtner Sonata Tragica op 39 no 5 YouTube
Sunday May 6 3PM	CONCERT CANCELLED Coriolis Winds Showcase Trios Coriolis Winds Chamber Ensemble returns to Court Hill to present unique combinations of three instruments: clarinet(s), soprano saxophone, and bassoon. Debussy and Mozart will be contrasted with Scott Joplin and Peter Schickele (of PDQ Bach fame).	CANCELLED