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Violinist Elita Kang, among other BSO musicians will perform in this upcoming concert in Hingham.
Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert in Hingham next week as part of their outreach to the local community.
Every year, the BSO performs Community Chamber Concerts for thousands of children and adults throughout New England in an effort to encourage music education as well as strengthen ties with the surrounding communities, both key components to the orchestra’s mission.
According to the BOS press offices, the sold-out community concerts are also one of the key reasons BSO is so successful.
“The BSO's primary purpose in providing free community concerts is to provide access to the BSO by sharing the concert experience with families in the Greater Boston area,” they said in an email. “The concerts build community goodwill towards the orchestra while creating an entry point into the BSO. Our hope is that our community chamber concert audience will become part of the larger BSO community and attend many concerts in the future. The BSO's outreach events in general help us to build future audiences.”
The concerts all occur on a Sunday, and feature a few members from the BSO performing chamber music for all attentive ears.
Featured bass, violin, cello, trombone, trumpet, and viola players come out to area churches and community spaces for the free event, which is suitable for all ages.
“Each year, we have a concert in the north shore, in metro west, in Somerville, Cambridge, and in other communities in and on the outskirts of Boston. We want to be in communities where we feel like there is a significant population of folks who are not regularly at Symphony Hall for various reasons,” the press offices said.
The company switches up the venues every year, and typically seek out spaces that seat around 300 people.
This year, the traveling began in Lynn and Roxbury in October, where the Boston Cello Quartet, featuring Blaise Déjardin, Adam Esbensen, Alexandre Lecarme, and Mihail Jojatu, performed works by Bach, Cborak, Rimsky-Korsakov, Part, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Hoshii, Sciortino, and Dejardin.
This November, Elita Kang, Jason Horowitz, violins; Rebecca Gitter, viola; and Owen Young, cello will perform in both Hingham’s Congregational Church as well as St. John’s Episcopal Church in Beverly Farms.
The group will come to Hingham on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 3 p.m. and Beverly Farms on Nov. 20 at 3 p.m., performing Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 3 in D, Op. 18, No 3 as well as Shumann’s String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1.