COVID-19 Policy: We encourage our audience to wear masks during our concerts but do not require it.

Convivium Musicum Season Preview:

Save the Dates for Convivium’s 2025/26 Concert Season!

FALL (2025)

Concert 1
Saturday, Nov. 22, 7pm
All Saints Parish, Brookline
Concert 2
Sunday, Nov. 23, 4pm
First Unitarian Church, Worcester

WINTER (2025/2026)
Concert 1
Saturday, Feb. 28, 7pm or Saturday, Mar. 7, 7pm
First Unitarian Church, Worcester
Concert 2
Sunday, Mar 8, 4pm
All Saints Parish, Brookline

SPRING (2026)
Concert 1
Saturday, May 30, 7pm
First Unitarian Church, Worcester
Concert 2
Sunday, May 31, 4pm
All Saints Parish, Brookline

We are pleased to be participating in the Card to Culture program by offering up to five free tickets per concert to EBT cardholders. This program is a collaboration between the Mass Cultural Council and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services’ Department of Transitional Assistance, designed to make the power of culture accessible to a wider range of Massachusetts residents. See the full list of participating organizations.

Virtual Concerts

Joy & Sorrow, The Music of William Byrd

Convivium explores Byrd’s beloved Mass for Five Voices, together with many other of his works that explore a wide range of expression from sorrow and anxiety to lively joy. 2023 marked the 400th anniversary of Byrd’s death, and we took this opportunity to celebrate his mighty body of work.

Byrd was a Catholic at a time when that religious choice was considered “treasonous” by the British government, and the anxiety and isolation that pressure created can be heard in some of his mass movements and his beautifully longing motets. At the same time, he has many glorious and joyful musical moments as well, and, was not above some lighthearted madrigal fun.

This concert was professionally live recorded on Saturday, February 25, 2023, at Harvard-Epworth Church in Cambridge, MA, by Cole Barbour, Audio and Video Engineer.

While we present this recording for free to all, we ask that you consider making a donation in support of Convivium at www.convivium.org/support. Your donation is 100% tax deductible and supports our mission to bring unique, high-quality Renaissance choral music to audiences in and around the Boston area, providing educational, cultural, and social enrichment for its members and its audience and thereby making a contribution to the community.