2025-2026
South Coast
Chamber Music Series
“We welcome our indefatigable audience to a new season replete with beloved chestnuts, coruscating contemporary works, and unexpected delights from celebrated creators. Programs feature piano quintets by Louise Farrenc and Franz Schubert; Rachmaninoff’s huge cello sonata and the “Dissonance” quartet of Mozart; Christopor Najarian’s searing Tale for Two Violins; seldom heard quartets of Stravinsky and Prokofiev; and much more to intrigue and delight our growing circle of ardent music lovers. Thank you for joining us on a new adventure!”
—Janice Weber, Artistic Director
South Coast Chamber Music Series
2025-2026
Starting August 19, concert tickets are available by using the links below or by calling the NBSO office (508-999-6276 ext 222).
Individual Concert Tickets $35
Tickets must be purchased in advance and will not be available at the door.
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Saturdays, 3 PM
St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church
124 Front Street
Marion, MA
Sundays, 3 PM
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
351 Elm Street
South Dartmouth, MA
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RACH ‘N SOUL
October 4 & 5, 3 PM
Many thanks to Patty Plum Wylde, whose generous Gift of Music has made this concert possible. She dedicates her gift to all teachers of music for their devotion to the art of making music eternal.
Begin in breath, end in brilliance—music that rocks your soul.
Reena Esmail: Saans (Breath) (2017)
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata for Piano and Cello in G Minor, Op. 19
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 “Dissonance”
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin
Theo Ramsey, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello
Janice Weber, piano
Indian-American composer Reena Esmail’s soulful piano trio Saans (Breath) opens the program with her charismatic fusion of eastern and western traditions. In brilliant contrast, Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for Cello and Piano, written over a century earlier, is testament to the untrammeled passion and virtuosity for which he is celebrated. What better musical capstone than the elegant “Dissonance” quartet of Mozart, showing a master at the height of his creative powers.
Tickets are not available at the door.
If you click on the purchase tickets link and it states that tickets are not available and you do not see a blue “BUY” box, that means the concert is sold out.
If concerts sell out, you may request to be added to a waitlist by emailing asmith@nbsymphony.org by noon on the Friday prior to the concert.
Please note that our office hours are Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm.
QUINTESSENTIALS
November 22 & 23, 2025, 3 PM
Warmth, grace, and joy—experience music at its most perfect.
Jessie Montgomery: Duo for Violin and Cello (2015)
Louise Farrenc: Piano Quintet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 30
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 “Trout”
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin
Emma Powell, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Peter Zay, cello
Janice Weber, piano
Peter Walsh, bass
Born in 1804, Louise Farrenc was a true French Romantic whose works are earning – again – a huge following. Her unique Piano Quintet (1839), utilizing string bass, reflects and complements Schubert’s immortal “Trout” Quintet, a work employing the same musical forces. Firebrand American composer Jessie Montgomery proves that less is more with her delightful ode to friendship, Duo for Violin and Cello.
Tickets are not available at the door.
If you click on the purchase tickets link and it states that tickets are not available and you do not see a blue “BUY” box, that means the concert is sold out.
If concerts sell out, you may request to be added to a waitlist by emailing asmith@nbsymphony.org by noon on the Friday prior to the concert.
Please note that our office hours are Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm.
WINTER FIRE
January 31 & February 1, 2026, 3 PM
Spark your spirit. Melt the midwinter chill.
Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Sergei Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 92
Kevin Day: Variation V (Miniature for String Quartet)
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin
Emma Powell, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello
Janice Weber, piano
Beat midwinter chill with warming string quartets by Stravinsky and Prokofiev, the effervescent Piano Trio No. 2 of Felix Mendelssohn, and a devilish Variation V by American Kevin Day, who based this miniature on a variation from Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 5. Keep the bonfires burning!
Tickets are not available at the door.
If you click on the purchase tickets link and it states that tickets are not available and you do not see a blue “BUY” box, that means the concert is sold out.
If concerts sell out, you may request to be added to a waitlist by emailing asmith@nbsymphony.org by noon on the Friday prior to the concert.
Please note that our office hours are Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm.
STORY TIME
March 28 & 29, 2026, 3 PM
Every note tells a tale. Let these stories stir your heart.
Kenji Bunch: Hard Winter/Holler and Stomp
Cristopor Najarian: A Tale for Two Violins
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor , Op. 15
Billy Mayerl: Marigold
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin
Emma Powell, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello
Janice Weber, piano
Kenji Bunch’s intriguing Hard Winter/Holler and Stomp takes a fresh look at Appalachian fiddling and string band traditions while Cristopor Najarian’s Tale for 2 Violins revisits Turkish, Armenian, and middle eastern folk melodies to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Fauré’s sublime Piano Quartet No. 1 and Billy Mayerl’s jazzy Marigold close the program with ineffable joie de vivre.
Tickets are not available at the door.
If you click on the purchase tickets link and it states that tickets are not available and you do not see a blue “BUY” box, that means the concert is sold out.
If concerts sell out, you may request to be added to a waitlist by emailing asmith@nbsymphony.org by noon on the Friday prior to the concert.
Please note that our office hours are Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm.
FOURSOMES
May 2 & 3, 2026, 3 PM
Four voices. Infinite emotion. A season’s end that leaves you transformed.
Akshaya Tucker: Hollow Flame
Lei Liang: Gobi Gloria
Kareem Roustom: Syrian Folk Songs
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin
Theo Ramsey, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello
Janice Weber, piano
String quartets by Akshaya Tucker (Hollow Flame), Lei Liang (Gobi Gloria) and Kareem Roustom (Syrian Folk Songs), each only ten minutes, demonstrate the amazing depth of this genre centuries after its first appearance around 1760. Brahms’s tempestuous Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, gigantic in all ways, represents the pinnacle of romantic emotion.
Tickets are not available at the door.
If you click on the purchase tickets link and it states that tickets are not available and you do not see a blue “BUY” box, that means the concert is sold out.
If concerts sell out, you may request to be added to a waitlist by emailing asmith@nbsymphony.org by noon on the Friday prior to the concert.
Please note that our office hours are Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm.
The South Coast Chamber Music Series (SCCMS) was formed to present superior chamber music for the communities of Southeastern Massachusetts. SCCMS held its first subscription series concert on October 20, 2001. Since then, we have performed composers from Bach, Brahms, and Ravel to present-day masters Takemitsu and Piston. Each program presents an engaging array of styles, timbres, and artists in lively acoustic environments in Marion and South Dartmouth. We joined forces with the NBSO in 2014, giving both organizations an opportunity to expand in all directions—more concerts, more musicians, and more music—and are thrilled to connect with our loyal and growing audience.
SING TO ME
October 12 &13, 2024, 3 PM
Special Additional Performance: Friday, October 11, 7 PM, New Bedford Whaling Museum
On October 11, join us in the Harbor View Gallery and stay for an after-concert reception to mingle with guests and musicians while enjoying hors D'oeuvres and spirits.
A dazzling vocal journey
Featuring Philip Lima, baritone
Many thanks to Patty Plum Wylde, whose generous Gift of Music has made this concert possible. She dedicates her gift to all teachers of music for their devotion to the art of making music eternal.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Selections from Songs of Travel (arr. John Greer)
The Vagabond
Youth and Love
Whither Must I Wander?
Bright is the Ring of Words
I have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
Samuel Barber: Dover Beach, Op. 3
Charles Ives: Songs
The Children's Hour
Tom Sails Away
The Circus Band
Three Spirituals
Wade in the Water (arr. Anthony Green)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (arr. H. T. Burleigh/Green)
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho (arr. Cynthia Jackson/Green)
Joly Braga Santos: Piano Quartet in D Major, Op. 26
Joaquín Turina: The Toreador's Prayer, Op. 34
Jesse Holstein, violin
EmmaLee Holmes-Hicks, violin
Anna Griffis, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello
Janice Weber, piano
Lustrous baritone Philip Lima joins NBSO core musicians in an eclectic potpourri ranging from Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel and Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach to the earthy songs of Charles Ives and three spirituals. A piano quartet by Portuguese master Joly Braga Santos and The Toreador’s Prayer by Joaquín Turina offer interludes of instrumental poetry and brilliance.
Tickets are not available at the door.
If you click on the purchase tickets link and it states that tickets are not available and you do not see a blue "BUY" box, that means the concert is sold out.
If concerts sell out, you may request to be added to a waitlist by emailing asmith@nbsymphony.org by noon on the Friday prior to the concert.
Please note that our office hours are Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm.