Du Bois Orchestra

07/15/2025

We are excited to announce our new Director of Development Tyler Michael James!

Tyler is currently the Associate Artistic Director of Cape Cod’s Red Door Chamber Music. Tyler is an MBA candidate at the College of William & Mary. He has had the honor of performing with several noteworthy ensembles including A Far Cry, Castle of Our Skins, and is the current cellist of the Tristan Trio. He has performed on series including the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, the Naumberg Concert Series, Date Night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lyrica Boston, Cherry Street Music, the Fermata Chamber Soloists, and the Bar Harbor Music Festival. He is currently on the faculty of Project Step, the Boston String Academy, and the Attacca School of Music.

06/07/2025

Our friends at Analog By Choice are having their season finale concert tomorrow at 7:30 pm at the Arlington Street Church in Boston! Some of our talented string players will be playing in this concert, which will feature works by Odaline de la Martinez, Jessie Montgomery, and Felix Mendelssohn.

Check out the Facebook event page to learn more, you won't want to miss it! https://www.facebook.com/share/1FPnEs5nEZ/

04/03/2025

Our friends at the Horizon Ensemble are excited to announce there season finale: Massachusetts Voices! On Sunday, April 6 at 3 PM at the Church of the Covenant on 67 Newbury Street, they will celebrate the voices of our beautiful Bay State with revolutionary music old and new.

You can register and find out more info on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1276553809809/
If you can't make it in person, there will be a YouTube livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75vLgCZrLV4

02/19/2024

Thrilled to receive such a glowing review from The Arts Fuse

The performance conveyed the essence of the Du Bois Orchestra’s mission: when played with exuberance, long-neglected and little-played works can generate as much excitement as they do wonder that they were ever overlooked.

02/11/2024

"Music of the slaves," (Afro-American Symphony) - processing last night and what this music means to so many people, is more than we can quantify in one post. The evening was unforgettable.

📸Hilary Scott

02/07/2024

MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT:
We asked Du Bois core member, violist Isaiah Chapman, a few questions - check it out!

-Who is your favorite underrepresented composer?

“My favorite underrepresented composers are between R. Nathaniel Dett and Ulysses Kay. When I was studying at Eastman, I was beginning to compose more, and when I came across Dett and Kay’s music in the library, I really took to their compositional styles. I was tremendously surprised they had not been played more! It was, also, surprising to me that they both studied at Eastman for their Master’s.”

-Why did you choose the viola?

“Well, the viola sort of chose me. I originally wanted to play double bass, but, I was “too short” in 5th grade to play bass. After contemplating not wanting to sit all the time for cello, and not wanting to play violin like everyone else, I chose viola. The past 20 years I’ve been playing has been such a delight!”

Composer, modern/baroque violist, and Pan-Africanist Isaiah Chapman is a records manager and freelancer based in the Greater Boston area. In his second season with the Du Bois Orchestra, Isaiah, also, plays in local and D.C.-based early music and modern ensembles. His intersectional interests in music and GLAMs—galleries, libraries, archives, and museums—has undergirded his activism for the corrective action and presentation of African diaspora collections as well as championing underrepresented composers.

02/06/2024

A heartfelt congratulations to Jessie Montgomery for her GRAMMY win in Best Contemproary Classical Composition!

Our concert this Saturday features her work, Starburst, for string orchestra.

Click "Read More" to watch Montgomery's acceptance speech and learn more about her GRAMMY®-Winning composition.

02/05/2024

Want to learn more about Joseph Bologne Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges?

Our soloist, Thomas Lee Cooper, wrote a piece published by the Boston Musical Intelligencer two year ago, about Bologne’s life and music - and specifically about the A major violin concerto, to be performed this Saturday!

Check it out!
https://www.classical-scene.com/2022/04/30/pen-sword

Fermata Chamber Soloists will present Carl Stamitz’s Viola Concerto and the Boston premier of Le Chevalier de St. Georges’s Violin Concerto Op. 5 No. 2 in A Major. at the Somerville Armory, 191 Highland Ave. on Sunday May 8 at 3pm. One can read a review of a recent local performance of the overt...