Music & More Summer Concert Series: Chara Percussion Ensemble
Sunday, July 20, 2025, from 3:30 - 4:30 pm.
Member $18 / Non-Member $24
Season Pass: Member $160 / Non-Member $195
Join Chara Percussion Ensemble as they perform their summer concert featuring works by James Tenney, Philip Glass, Michael Burritt, Alejandro Viñao, and featuring movements from Saint-Saën’s Carnival of the Animals. This innovative ensemble from Orleans, MA, seeks to bring hope and inspire joy in audiences young and old through the vehicle of percussion ensemble, offering a fresh voice to classical music ranging from early polyphony to classical, impressionist, and contemporary works.
Chara Percussion Ensemble from Orleans, Massachusetts, seeks to bring hope and inspire joy in audiences young and old through the vehicle of percussion ensemble. Chara offers a fresh voice to classical music ranging from early polyphony to classical, impressionist, and contemporary works, as well as performing pieces written for percussion ensemble. Repertoire includes works by J. S. Bach, Bartok, Burritt, Bruckner, Byrd, Deane, Debussy, Dvořák, Eben, Gjelo, Hale, Handel, Keck, Krasa, Leontovych, Merulo, Mozart, Pergolesi, Piazzolla, Rachmaninov, Reich, Shostakovich, Trevino, Vivaldi, and Westlake.
Members of Chara hold over 100 years of combined percussion ensemble experience, andare all alumni members or associated with Spirit Winter Percussion, the world-renownedcompetitive indoor percussion ensemble recognized for bringing subtlety and complexity to the art of keyboard percussion. Members have performed in countries including Australia, Canada, Italy, S. Korea, S. Africa, and across the United States, at venues including opera houses, stadiums, cathedrals, and school auditoriums. Performance venue highlights include Seoul Opera House (South Korea); Johannesburg Opera House (South Africa); Siena and Pisa Cathedrals (Italy); Church of the Transfiguration (Orleans, MA); University of Dayton Arena (Dayton, OH); Stadiums including Gillette, AT&T and Lucas Oil. Members of Chara performed John Luther Adam’s Inuksuit with over ninety other percussionists at The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in 2018. They have taught percussion to middle, high school, and college-age students, as well as independent percussion ensembles, marching bands, and drum corps in the United States and Canada, as well as workshops in South Africa.
Chara Percussion is a premiere performing ensemble of Arts Empowering Life.
Cancellation policy: CCMoA must be notified 1 week prior for refund.
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