Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble
14 High St
Cambridge, MA 02138
October 20, 2025
Sarasa Ensemble continues its 2025-26 Concert Season with gentle works from Dowland, Arne, and more in Sweet Sleep
Sarasa Chamber Music Ensemble presents the second concert-set of its 2025-26 Concert Series, Sweet Sleep the weekend of November 14-16, 2025. Inspired by the many states of slumber and repose, the program includes gorgeous vocal and instrumental works by John Dowland, Thomas Arne, Antonia Bembo, Georg Muffat, J.B. Bach & J.S. Bach, as well as a traditional Nordic folk song arranged for string quartet. Sarasa will present Sweet Sleep at three public performances, as well as to incarcerated teens at Massachusetts’ Department of Youth Services facilities, as part of Sarasa’s award-winning ‘Music Unlocked’ program.
Concert Information:
With Kristen Watson, soprano, Elizabeth Blumenstock, Rebecca Nelson, violins; Jenny Stirling, viola; Jennifer Morsches, Timothy Merton, piccolo cello/cellos; Michael Leopold, lute/theorbo; Michael Beattie, organ
- Friday, November 14, 2025 at 7pm – Brattleboro Music Center, VT (tickets at bmcvt.org)
- Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 7pm – Church of the Good Shepherd, Watertown
- Sunday, November 16, 2025 at 3:30pm – Follen Church, Lexington
Tickets:
$25 when purchased ahead, $30 at the door: student and senior discounts available, and children under 18 are free! Tickets to Cambridge & Lexington performances available here, Brattleboro tickets here.
More info at www.sarasamusic.org, admin@sarasamusic.org, or (978) 766-9408
All concerts will be available to stream free 10 days later on the Sarasa website.
About the Sarasa Ensemble:
For over 28 years, Sarasa Ensemble has shared wide-ranging, inspiring musical repertoire with the greater Boston community, while simultaneously spearheading an award-winning outreach program for incarcerated teens in conjunction with the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services.
The Sarasa Ensemble is a collective group of international singers and instrumentalists who perform classical music of outstanding quality for diverse communities, with distinctive programming spanning the 17th to the 21st centuries on both period and modern instruments. It has received critical acclaim for its “informed and impassioned music-making” and is hailed for its “great clarity” and “irresistible energy.” Drawing on a pool of more than 125 world-class musicians from the United States, Europe, Canada, Brazil and Japan, the ensemble varies in size according to the particular program of each of its concerts. Sarasa has toured throughout New England performing on many renowned music series, including the Frick Collection, the Morgan Library, the 92nd Street Y, the Boston Early Music Festival Series, and the University of Vermont Lane Series.
Sarasa’s unique and award-winning outreach program has encompassed over 175 free presentation concerts and 65 residencies at teen detention centers in the Boston metropolitan region. Sarasa was unanimously awarded the Department of Youth Services Commissioner’s Community Partner Award for service to the community in September 2018, was featured on WBUR’s The Artery in 2019, and was granted an Early Music America Engagement Award in 2022, and again in 2025. Outreach presentations and residencies in the 2024-25 Concert Season were supported by a Challenge America grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2025-26, Sarasa is supported by the Boston Foundation, the Otto & Marianne Wolman Foundation, and the McKenzie Family Charitable Trust.
