Announcing New Artist Series Lineup for 2024/2025 Season!

After ten years of NEMPAC’s Winter Concert Series, which presented chamber music programs thoughtfully curated around cultural themes and traditions, we are excited to transition to a new phase in our Performing Arts Center with our new Artist Series. This series retains the intimacy and the beautiful locations that were an integral part of our former concerts, while opening our platform to artists across Boston to elevate the voices and musical cultures of our city’s diverse performers. Artists were chosen through a public Request for Proposals process, which introduced us to many talented local professionals. We selected our inaugural season lineup to represent a diverse range of perspectives, genres, and program design. To enhance cultural dialogue, our Artist Series programs will also include interaction with the performers to learn more about their repertoire and artistic experiences.

The purpose of the series is a collaboration between NEMPAC and each artist, fostering meaningful connections between our local communities in Boston and the arts, while promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion, and providing space for dialogue and reflection.

We will be returning to two of our favorite venues for the new Artist Series this season with our first two concerts at the stunning Bijou de la Vida Gallery in the North End and capping the series at City Winery Boston next spring.

RFP for NEMPAC Artist Series for the 2024/25 Season!

After 10 years of the Winter Concert Series under the brilliant leadership of former Artistic Director, Christina Wright-Ivanova, we chose to transition this concert program to be inclusive of all genres of music, and to give the chance for individual artists, groups, and ensembles to curate concerts from their own voices and perspectives.  We welcomed all professional artists to apply to this new concert program.  Thus the new Artist Series will happen between October 2024 and May 2025.

You can read the Artist Series RFP linked here. 

Key features of the Artist Series program and application are below:

• Open to individual artists, groups, and ensembles
• Open to all genres of music
• The chance to perform in unique, intimate performance spaces in the North End, Charlestown, and surrounding neighborhoods
• A conversation component to create dialogue with our audiences
• Potential collaboration with NEMPAC educational team to incorporate an educational component

Commitment to Access

NEMPAC is working towards ensuring all members of our communities are included and have equal access. We pledge to ensure all have access to our facilities and programs. The Bijou de la Vida gallery at 390 Commercial Street, home of our Winter Concert Series this season, is ADA-compliant. Please note that the March 23rd concert will take place at 50 Tileston Street (NEMPAC’s Headquarters) in the North End.

History of the NEMPAC Concert Series

The NEMPAC Winter Concert Series (formerly known as Professional Musicians Series) began in 2015 with a special Italian Heritage Month concert featuring Italian cellist Francesco Mastromatteo and Pianist, Dr. Christina Wright-Ivanova that was hosted at St. Stephen’s Church in the North End. After receiving a strong feedback and interest from the community and Ms. Ivanova’s expertise in classical music, this first concert sprung into a regular music series featuring some of Boston’s most highly prestigious classical musicians. With a goal to eliminate barriers between audience members and the artists, and to make classical music more approachable, the programs were brought to comfortable, intimate venues seating between 30 to 60 guests. These venue locations in Boston have included Bijou de la Vida private art gallery; North Bennet Street School, Steinert Hall on the Steinway Building; Tresca; Lucia Ristorante; La Galleria 33 Ristorante.