Music Outreach - Volunteers needed!
Share your love of Music with elementary and high school students. For more information go to Music Outreach and for more questions about this program please contact Prof. Barbara Gawlick; email: barbara.gawlick@bc.edu
Faculty Projects and Student Accomplishments
Read about the works of the Music department's faculty members and Students
Our Work
The University Chorale of Boston College Spring Break Performance in Italy
The University Chorale sang an exchange concert with a local choir in Rome, Italy at Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio for a packed audience, followed by standing ovations and encores.
The University Chorale was joint by former foreign exchange students and its current students who were abroad flying in for the Mass on Thursday, and a significant number of families met The University Chorale in Rome. Bryan Fleming and Jim Keenan from Global Engagement came to the Rome concert, and one of the trustees.
The University Chorale’s chaplain Josef was invited to serve Communion at St. Peter's Basilica. He also conducted his own composition at the opening. By the end of the trip, The University Chorale were becoming local celebrities, people on the streets were stopping them in our BC gear and kept asking if they were the choir from Boston who had been doing concerts / Mass / impromptu performances.
Photo by: Seho Lee, (’27)
Congratulations to Prof. Riikka Pietiläinen Caffery - Recipient of the Reverend John R. Trzakas, S.J. Award
The Boston College Ever to Excel Awards Committee has selected Prof. Riikka Pietiläinen Caffrey as the 2026 recipient of the Reverend John R. Trzaska, S.J. Award.
Prof. Riikka Pietiläinen Caffreey will be recognized as the recipient of this award at the 48th Annual Ever to Excel Awards Ceremony on Monday, April 27th in the Heights Room. The event will take place from 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, with the ceremony beginning at 4:30 PM. More information on the Ever to Excel Awards can be found at bc.edu/awards.
Concert Performances on March 19th and March 21th with Guest Artists in Residence
Guest artists Florian Berner (cello) and Christoph Berner (piano) are performing on March 19th at 7:00 p.m. and on March 21st at 3:00 p.m. in Gasson 100 of works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and a Julia Purgina world premiere.
Christoph and Florian Berner are visiting Boston College at the invitation by Prof. Ralf Gawlick. These two concerts are sponsored by ILA and the Music department with students of the Boston College Cello ensemble performing in the first concert on March 20 and in the second concert on March 21st with Alessia Disimino, violin (grad. student, STM '26) performing with the guest artists.
Photo by: Prof.Anna Wittstruck
Pictured are (from left to right):
Leo Eguchi, faculty, Christoph Berner, guest artist, Florian Berner, guest artist, Cherry Chi GS '26, Matthew Hur '27, Matthew McCahan, alumnus
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Prof. Michael Noone's latest CD recording
Professor Michael Noone's latest CD recording is launched at Salamanca Cathedral in Spain. The project, involving 31 musicians from 8 countries, presents a world premiere recording of a Mass and motets by the priest-composer Sebastián de Vivanco (+ 1622).
More information about the CD recording project can be found below under these links below:
Diócesis de Salamanca and Tribuna de Salamanca
Photo by Josefa Montero
Congratulations to BCSO!
Congratulations to BCSO on their outstanding performance at the College Orchestra Directors Association national conference in Rhode Island! When Prof. Anna Wittstruck, conductor of BCSO said "play your hearts out," BCSO really took that challenge, and they sounded absolutely beautiful. A special congratulations to Matthew Hur for his wonderful playing on Bohemian Rhapsody.
To view and listen to the performance, please use the following livestream link.
https://www.youtube.com/live/hZjHNz_2m44?t=268s
BCSO performs at the CODA National Conference
Next week, the Boston College Symphony Orchestra will give a performance at the University of Rhode Island on Friday, Feb. 27 at 4 pm as part of the College Orchestra Directors Association national conference. BCSO was invited to perform through a professional peer-review application process, and it's a great honor for our program and students.
BCSO will perform Florence Price's Adoration, two movements from Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony no. 5, and "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Freddie Mercury, arr. by Nicholas Hersh, featuring Matthew Hur ' 27, as our student cello soloist.
Michael Noone's research discovery is published in the national daily newspaper El Confidencial.
The Spanish daily newspaper El Confidencial reports on Professor Michael Noone's discovery that the most prolific publisher of sacred music in early modern Spain was an enterprising business woman who founded a printing dynasty at a time when the technology of print became a powerful tool in education and culture.
Here is the link to the full article, published in the Spanish national daily newspaper El Confiedencial.