About the Series
The Brandeis Department of Music hosts an exceptional series of professional concerts each year featuring faculty and visiting artists of the highest caliber.
Unless otherwise noted, all Marquee concerts take place in the Slosberg Recital Hall and tickets are $20 (general admission), $15 (seniors and Brandeis community), $5 (non-Brandeis students) and FREE (with Brandeis Student ID).
Advance sales will begin at least two weeks before performances online. Pending availability, tickets will also be available at the door for purchase starting 30 minutes before the concert.
Current Lineup
7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22
Contemporary music stars Quattro Mani play masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries, including a premiere by Eric Chasalow. The concert will also be live streamed.
Admission is free, but please reserve your ticket online.
3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1
Collage New Music performs works by Davy Rakowski and his colleagues and students in celebration of his 65th birthday! The concert will also be live-streamed.
Admission is free, but please reserve your ticket online.
7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27
Violinist and faculty Julia Glenn and pianist Mika Sasaki reunite for an evening of powerful story-telling crossing centuries and musical cultures. The program includes Irving G. Fine Professor of Music Eric Chasalow's "The Wings That Bear The Night Away" for violin and fixed media (2022), three of Lera Auerbach's "24 Preludes for Violin and Piano," Edvard Grieg's "Violin Sonata No. 2," a new work for solo violin written for Ms. Glenn by Lydia Winsor Brindamour, a movement from Olivier Messiaen's "Quatuor pour la fin du temps," George Enescu's "Violin Sonata No. 3" and the second of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's "Four African Dances." The concert will also be live-streamed.
Brandeis students: FREE; students: $5; seniors and Brandeis community: $15; general public: $20. Purchase your tickets today!
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11
The Lydian Quartet begin by evoking the mesmerizing sound world of the traditional Chinese seven-stringed, plucked zither in Zhou Long's colorful "Song of the Ch’in." >This program also continues the Lydian's ongoing exploration of the string quartets of Henri Lazarof (MFA, 1959), presenting his final quartet (no. 11), titled "Remembrances." Closing the concert in celebratory fashion, guest artist Steven Ansell, principal violist of the Boston Symphony, joins the Lydians for Brahms's majestic String Quintet in G major, one of the crown jewels of the entire chamber music repertoire. The concert will also be live-streamed.
Brandeis students: FREE; students: $5; seniors and Brandeis community: $15; general public: $20. Purchase your tickets today!
Don't miss the Music at Mandel Sneak Preview concert on Wednesday, November 8th at noon!