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Milton Community Concerts A concert series designed for the enjoyment and benefit of the town of Milton and neighboring communities on the South Shore

Milton Community Concerts at First Parish Church in Milton, MA, is a concert series designed for the enjoyment and benefit of the town of Milton and neighboring communities on the South Shore. Located at 535 Canton Avenue on the Milton Town Green, historic First Parish Church provides a beautiful, intimate setting for these events. All of these are informal “come as you are” concerts and feature talented musicians from the Boston area, often with
significant national and even international reputations. Ample free parking is available and students 18 and under are always free. This series is organized by Timothy Steele, First Parish music director.

A fabulous evening of music-making and fundraising for the Milton Community Food Pantry and Milton Residents Fund! Thank...
10/08/2026

A fabulous evening of music-making and fundraising for the Milton Community Food Pantry and Milton Residents Fund! Thanks to all singers and audience members for their generosity, as more than $1,100 was raised for these two charities.

TODAY IS THE DAY! Milton Community Concerts will present the thirteenth annual “Sing For Their Supper” free benefit conc...
10/03/2026

TODAY IS THE DAY!

Milton Community Concerts will present the thirteenth annual “Sing For Their Supper” free benefit concert in the historic Meetinghouse at First Parish of Milton-UU, 535 Canton Avenue at 7pm. This event will feature ten opera singers from around New England in a popular program of opera and musical theater favorites to support the Milton Food Pantry and Milton Residents Fund.

This year’s concert features a completely new lineup of singers: sopranos Sohyun Cho, Yelena Doduchkin, Mary Johnston Letellier, Ziruo Li, Kira Lim, and March Steiger, mezzo-sopranos Felicia Gavilanes and Arielle Rogers-Wilkey, countertenor Lucas Ludwig Coura, and baritone Mitch Fitzdaniel. They will be assisted by pianist Timothy Steele.

The singers for this concert have not only come to Boston from various parts of the US, but from around the world, including South Korea, China, Singapore, and Russia. They have appeared with many local performing organizations, including the Boston Symphony, Boston Lyric Opera, Castle of Our Skins, White Snake Projects, and Odyssey Opera. They have performed all over the world, from Carnegie Hall to Budapest and Vienna. They have won awards in international vocal competitions, and one was recently a featured soloist with tenor Placido Domingo in an orchestral concert in Europe.

This is a free concert (no tickets needed), with all net proceeds collected from a free-will offering to benefit the Milton Food Pantry and Milton Residents Fund. All performers are donating their time and talents to support these two charities.

Arrive early for best seating. There is ample free parking available, and the venue is accessible.

We are just one day away from our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season! ...
10/02/2026

We are just one day away from our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season! Tomorrow evening at 7pm, our talented group of musicians will be sharing opera arias, art songs, musical theatre songs, and more!

Meet March! Born on a small farm in rural Maine, March Steiger has found their passion performing works by underrepresented composers, such as J. Rosemond Johnson, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, Cécile Chaminade, Josephine Lang, among many others. They also enjoying diving into the intricacies of bel canto and classical repertoire, particularly the works of Donizetti and Mozart.

In 2026, they made their role debut with Opera in the Pines as Oscar in the Masked Ball. Previously in 2025, they joined Opera in the Pines for Barber of the Cape covering the role of Rosie, as well as joining Vigorous Tenderness as an artist for their Summer and Winter Solstice concerts.

In 2024, they performed with Hogfish Maine in their production of The Breasts of Thérèsias as Elegant Person as well as covering Thérèse. In the spring, March performed the role of Valencienne in Portland State University’s production of The Merry Widow. In 2023, they starred in the academic premier of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant, as well as reprising the role of the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, both with Portland State University.

March has also been chosen as an Emerging Outreach Artist from 2022-2025 for Opera Maine’s outreach program, dedicated to bringing opera to schools across Maine.

March holds a Bachelor of Music Degree in Voice Performance from the Osher School of Music at the University of Southern Maine and a Master of Music in Voice Performance from Portland State University.

Come join us for a great evening of music!

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season comin...
10/02/2026

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season coming up on Saturday at 7pm! We have some incredible performers lined up for this years event.

Meet Arielle! American mezzo-soprano Arielle Rogers-Wilkey is a New England based Performing Artist. Ms. Rogers was seen as Maurya in Riders to the Sea, Almera in Dark Sisters, and La zia Principessa in Suor Angelica; Opera Institute, BU. She has done extensive work with Boston Lyric Opera as Mary, Omar; Gertrude, Romeo et Juliette; and Ensemble, Madama Butterfly, Champion, La bohème, Norma, Daughter of the Regiment, Macbeth, Pagliacci, William Tell and A Handmaid’s Tale. Ms. Rogers-Wilkey took part in Odyssey Opera’s production and album recording of X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, which received a Grammy Award nomination. Other credits include Kate, The Pirates of Penzance and Katisha, The Mikado, Opera Providence; La Ciesca, Gianni Schicchi and Ensemble, Madama Butterfly, Don Pasquale, and Le Nozze di Figaro, Salt Marsh Opera. With OperaHub in Boston, she was honored to portray Sissieretta Jones in the world premiere of DIVAS, an operatic play with an all-female cast. Oratorio and orchestral credits include Handel’s Messiah, Schubert’s Magnificat, and Vivaldi’s Gloria; WCO, as well as Mahler No. 3 with Budapest Symph. Orch. Operatic Highlights; Juneteenth & Phyllis Wheatley concert work with Castle of Our Skins; Arias Aloft! with Opera Untapped and the educational concerts Link Up! with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra. A fan of collaborative work, Arielle was proud to be a part of two recent workshops for new works in the operatic & theater cannons; Faces in the Flames as well as Adia & Clora Sn**ch Joy.

Come join us for a great evening of music!

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season comin...
10/01/2026

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season coming up on Saturday at 7pm! We have some incredible performers lined up for this years event.

Meet Kira! Kira Lim is a second year Masters of Music (Voice), under the tutelage of Ms Carole Haber at the New England Conservatory. She graduated from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, where she earned her Bachelor of Music (Voice) with highest honours under Professor Alan Bennett. She was awarded the NUSS Medal for Outstanding Achievement. Previously she also received a Diploma in Performance from LASALLE College of the Arts (2019). In 2018, she won First Place in all three categories of the American Protégé Vocal Competition under the guidance of Ms Khor Ai Ming.

Kira has performed widely both locally and internationally, including as a soloist at Carnegie Hall for New York Sounds of Summer (2016) and the Los Angeles International Music Festival (2018).

Recently, she has performed in Gianni Schicchi as Lauretta in Berlin Opera Academy (2026), the soprano solo in Orff’s Carmina Burana with Symphonia Choralis (2026), the soprano solo in Jenkins’ The Armed Man with Vocal Associates (2026), Rusalka : The Littlest Mermaid (NEC children's opera touring show) as Rusalka (2025), covered Adina in L'Elisir D'Amore (2026), sang in concerts like In Our Manner of Speaking (2022-2026), Come, Ye Sons of Art, Away! with Red Dot Baroque and YST, CabaRED with New Opera Singapore (2023), She debuted the lead role of Klara in The Opera People’s newly commissioned opera Beacon composed by Dr Jonathan Shin (2024), and performed as Créuse in Charpentier’s Médée with The Opera People, Red Dot Baroque, and Les Épopées under Maestro Stéphane Fuget.

Come join us for a great evening of music!

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season comin...
10/01/2026

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season coming up on Saturday at 7pm! We have some incredible performers lined up for this years event.

Meet Zirou! Soprano Ziruo Li is currently pursuing her Master of Music at the New England Conservatory of Music under the guidance of Carole Haber. In the 2026–2027 season, she performed as the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at the New England Conservatory. A prize-winning artist, she received Second Prize at the Macao International Vocal Competition in 2026. At the 61st Concorso Internazionale Voci Verdiane Città di Busseto she was awarded First Prize in the Professional Category.

Come join us for a great evening of music!

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season comin...
10/01/2026

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season coming up on Saturday at 7pm! We have a whole new group of singers this year and they are fantastic!

Meet Mary! Dramatic coloratura soprano Mary Johnston Letellier (she/her/hers) brings her warm, expressive voice and strong artistic instincts to a wide variety of repertoire.

​This past spring, Ms. Letellier enjoyed the role debut of Amelia in Opera in the Pines’ production of A Masked Ball. Last summer, Ms. Letellier debuted the role of Milica in Hogfish’s production of SVADBA. Other roles include Musetta with Opera in the Pines Bar Crawl Bohème, Musetta (cover) with Opera Maine’s La Bohème, Harpy (workshop) for Mark Adamo’s Sarah in the Theater for New England Conservatory and Odyssey Opera, the Queen of the Night in NEC’s production of Die Zauberflöte, Violetta in Mass Opera’s unique production of La Traviata, and covering the role of First Lady in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Maine.

Ms. Letellier is earning her three-year diploma with the Complete Vocal Institute. She recently received a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance with a Minor in Musicology at New England Conservatory. She received her Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Opera Performance from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She was a member of the Young Artist Program at Seagle Music Colony and has also studied at Flagstaff in Fidenza (Italy). She is currently on faculty at the University of Southern Maine, and New England Conservatory, in addition to maintaining a busy private vocal studio. She serves as the Governor of the New England NATS Region, and as Maine NATS President.

Come join us for a great evening of music!

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season comin...
09/30/2026

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season coming up on Saturday at 7pm! We have a whole new group of singers this year and they are fantastic!

Meet Felicia! Called “sensitive and impassioned” by Opera News and praised for her “luscious” sound by Opera Magazine, mezzo-soprano Felicia Gavilanes has performed with companies such as Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera, Santa Barbara Symphony, Teatro Lírico Nacional de Cuba, the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfónica del Conservatorio Nacional of the Dominican Republic. A dual citizen of the U.S. and Italy, Felicia completed her Bachelor of Arts in Italian Literature and Music from Dartmouth College, her Master of Music with Honors from the New England Conservatory, and earned her Doctorate from Florida State University. Recent studio recordings include a solo vocal album of Italian art songs entitled La Sera and the role of Ino in Corigliano’s Lord of Cries for Pentatone Records with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording 2024. Upcoming engagements include Sing Out Strong (SOS) with activist opera company White Snake Projects.

Come join us for a great evening of music!

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season comin...
09/30/2026

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season coming up on Saturday at 7pm! We have some incredible performers lined up for this years event.

Meet Mitch! Mitch FitzDaniel, baritone, is a Boston-based singer originally from California. Highlights from past seasons include performing Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro (Boston Opera Collaborative), Prince Extraordinary/The Wind in the stage premiere of Mister Rogers’ Operas (Pittsburgh Festival Opera), and Charlie in Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers (FRINGEPVD). A passionate advocate for contemporary American song, Mr. FitzDaniel has also sung for the New Music on the Point Festival, Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, and the Boston Art Song Society ('18). Recent engagements include the American Wagner Festival as Wotan (selected scenes from Die Walküre) and as a regular featured soloist with St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Milton.

Come join us for a great evening of music!

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season comin...
09/29/2026

We are looking forward to our 13th Annual "Sing For Their Supper" concert and the kick off to our 2026-2027 season coming up on Saturday at 7pm! We have some incredible performers lined up for this years event.

Meet Lucas Coura! Lucas Ludwig Coura is a Boston-Based countertenor and voice teacher Lucas has performed a number of opera roles with companies including WhiteSnake Projects, Boston Opera Collaborative, Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, Promenade Opera Project, and Boston Summer Opera, among others. Recent roles include Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Endimione in La Calisto, and The Pirate King in a reimagined production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance.

Lucas is frequently called upon to perform in immersive and innovative projects —he portrayed Virgil in Boston Opera Collaborative’s Opera Inferno, an immersive operatic experience that used a combination of standard operatic arias and spoken excerpts of literature to drew audiences through the hellish scenes described in Dante’s Inferno. As a choral musician, Lucas frequently sings with Boston’s own Nightingale Vocal Ensemble. Most recently, he was featured in A Cask of Amontillado, where he was praised for his “liquid countertenor” (Boston Musical Intelligencer).

Lucas is deeply passionate about creating new work. In August, Lucas will be traveling to New York City to participate in final workshops for Judith, a new opera by Paul Vasile and Karin Coonrod. In Fall of 2027, he will return to WhiteSnake Projects to create the role of Baby Doll in Spitting Sand. Lucas is most drawn to projects that elevate marginalized voices–especially those that share his immigrant identity.

Coura holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music from Stetson University.

Come join us for a great evening of music!

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535 Canton Avenue
Milton, MA
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