Upcoming Performances

Most of our hosted concerts have a limited number of spaces open for additional guests. If you're interested in a hosted concert listed below, click "learn more" to find out how you can attend.

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A Holiday Toast
Thu, Dec 19
Lyman Estate
Dec 19, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Lyman Estate, 185 Lyman St, Waltham, MA 02452, USA
Dec 19, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Lyman Estate, 185 Lyman St, Waltham, MA 02452, USA
Ring in the festive season with our return to the historic Lyman Estate ballroom!
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Common Ground
Sat, May 03
Pao Arts Center
May 03, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Pao Arts Center, 99 Albany St, Boston, MA 02111, USA
May 03, 2025, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Pao Arts Center, 99 Albany St, Boston, MA 02111, USA
A Concert to Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month
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Recent Performances

Sun, Nov 24
Hosted Concert: Tributes and Confessions
private home
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Nov 24, 2024, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
private home, Newton, MA, USA
We continue our bold exploration of the complete Beethoven and Shostakovich string quartets by pairing one of Beethoven’s earliest and one of Shostakovich’s latest works in the genre, setting the stage with a short piece by Kevin Day.
Sun, Nov 03
Hosted Concert: Open arms, open hearts
private home
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Nov 03, 2024, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
private home, Newton, MA, USA
We open Season 11 with two works—written almost 200 years apart and on different continents— that tap the deepest corners of your soul while also lifting you out of the everyday and into the sublime.
Sun, Jun 16
Hosted Concert: Event Horizon
private home
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Jun 16, 2024, 2:30 PM – 5:00 PM
private home, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA
Diabaté, Dvořák, and Silvestrov
Sat, Jun 15
Public Concert: Event Horizon
Allen Center for the Arts
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Jun 15, 2024, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Allen Center for the Arts, 35 Webster St, West Newton, MA 02465, USA
Diabaté, Dvořák, and Silvestrov
Thu, Jun 13
Community Partnership: Event Horizon
senior living community private event
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Jun 13, 2024, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
senior living community private event, Dedham, MA, USA
Diabaté, Dvořák, and Silvestrov
Sun, Mar 24
Hosted Concert: Greetings and Salutations
private home
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Mar 24, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
private home, Methuen, MA 01844, USA
Becenti, Britten, and Shaw
Fri, Dec 15
A Holiday Toast
Lyman Estate
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Dec 15, 2023, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Lyman Estate, 185 Lyman St, Waltham, MA 02452, USA
Tue, Nov 21
Community Partnership: Nine for Ten
Senior living community private event
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Nov 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Senior living community private event, Dedham, MA, USA
music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Aftab Darvishi, and Dmitri Shostakovich
Sat, Oct 21
House Concert: A View From Above
private home
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Oct 21, 2023, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
private home, Medford, MA
music by Kevin Day, Joseph Haydn, and Christine Southworth
Thu, Jun 15
Historic New England Presents "...a small, makeshift place."
Lyman Estate
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Jun 15, 2023, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Lyman Estate, 185 Lyman St, Waltham, MA 02452, USA
Historic New England welcomes Sheffield Chamber Players back to the Lyman Estate with our season finale, “…a small, makeshift place.”
Fri, Jun 09
Windhover Center for Performing Arts presents ...a small, makeshift place.
Windhover Center for Performing Arts
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Jun 09, 2023, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Windhover Center for Performing Arts, 257R Granite St, Rockport, MA 01966, USA
Windhover Center for the Performing Arts welcomes Sheffield Chamber Players for our season finale program.
Sat, May 13
Music in Modern Houses with Friends of Modern Architecture Lincoln
1937 Murphy House
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May 13, 2023, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
1937 Murphy House, Lincoln, MA, USA
Architectural lecture and concert featuring Ralf Gawlick's "Berlin Suite" Op. 16, and W.A. Mozart's String Quartet No. 23 in F major, K.590.
Sun, Apr 30
Shared Spaces
Cambridge
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Apr 30, 2023, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Cambridge, 41 Second St, East Cambridge, MA 02141, USA
An evening of music and spoken word reflecting on the Japanese-American experience. Internment survivor David Sakura shares the stage with the premiere performance of Kenji Bunch’s new “String Quartet No. 5, Songs for a Shared Space,” commissioned by Sheffield Chamber Players.
Sun, Mar 12
Dancing on the Edges of Time
Eustis Estate
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Mar 12, 2023, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Eustis Estate, 1424 Canton Ave, Milton, MA 02186, USA
Celebrate the long-awaited return of Spring with string quartets by seminal Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko, accomplished Indian-American composer Reena Esmail, and W.A. Mozart.
Sun, Mar 05
Lysenko and Shostakovich at Wellesley College
Wellesley College - Pendleton West 101
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Mar 05, 2023, 7:00 PM
Wellesley College - Pendleton West 101 , Wellesley College Rd, Wellesley, MA, USA
Sheffield Chamber Players returns to Wellesley College with a program juxtaposing a string trio by the grandfather of the 19th century Ukrainian compositional school, Mykola Lysenko, and a string quartet by one of the most important Russian composers of the 20th century, Dmitry Shostakovich.
Sun, Feb 19
WordSong: The Second Coming
Private home
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Feb 19, 2023, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Private home, Newton, MA, USA
Discover how a single, familiar text can inspire a variety of thoughts and feelings, as we explore four new musical settings for string quartet and mezzo-soprano of Yeats' "The Second Coming," by composers Edmar Colón, Howard Frazin, Elena Ruehr, and Tom Schnauber. RSVP to request an invitation.