Bach, Beethoven, & Brahms Society

2026-2027 Season

All concerts on Sundays at 4 PM

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November 15, 2026 Bach, Beethoven, & Brahms! at United Parish in Brookline

Beethoven: Octet op. 103

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 (Steven Ansell, Cathy Basrak, violas)

Brahms: Serenade No. 2

Steven Ansell joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as principal viola in September 1996, occupying the Charles S. Dana chair. A native of Seattle, he also remains a member of the acclaimed Muir String Quartet, which he co-founded in 1979, and with which he has toured extensively throughout the world. He has appeared on PBS’s “In Performance at the White House,” has participated in the Tanglewood, Marlboro, Schleswig-Holstein, Newport, Blossom, Spoleto, and Snowbird music festivals, and premiered Ezra Laderman’s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra with the Berkshires Symphony Orchestra.

Cathy Basrak is the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s assistant principal viola and principal viola of the Boston Pops Orchestra. As a soloist with the Boston Pops, she gave the premiere of John Williams’s Concerto for Viola with the composer conducting in spring 2009. Composed especially for her, the piece includes a duet passage for Basrak and her husband, BSO timpanist Timothy Genis. She has also performed as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Chicago, Detroit, and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras, among others. As a chamber musician, she has performed regularly with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and in chamber music concerts with her BSO colleagues.

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December 13, 2026 A Brandenburg Holiday at Faneuil Hall

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2

Seasonal choral music from Apollo Club, Heritage Chorale, VOICES Boston

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March 7, 2027 Distant Light at United Parish in Brookline

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Peteris Vasks: Violin Concerto (Distant Light) (Martin Chalifour)

Bach: Violin Concerto in G minor (Martin Chalifour)

Grieg: From Holberg’s Time

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April 18, 2027 Heavenly Harp & Flute at United Parish in Brookline

Emi Ferguson, flute

Charles Overton, harp

Boccherini: Symphony No. 14 in A major

Harry Burleigh: Five Songs of Laurence Hope (Emi Ferguson, flute)

Overton: Improvisation for Harp & Orchestra (Charles Overton, harp)

Mozart: Concerto for Flute & Harp (Emi & Charles)