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About
Ashmont Hill Chamber Music is a community-based organization founded to provide an accessible and affordable concert series for the residents of Dorchester and its surrounding communities.
Ashmont Hill Chamber Music features a core group of Boston area musicians who collaborate with guest performers from throughout New England, the nation, and Europe. AHCM musicians and guest artists also are affiliated with organizations such as the Boston Symphony, Cantata Singers, COLLAGE contemporary Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, Emmanuel Music, New England Conservatory, and Boston University. In addition to its Dorchester performances, Ashmont Hill Chamber Music has performed at Boston's First Night celebrations, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Goethe Institute, and on the WGBH and WCRB radio stations.
Review of the Boromeo String Quartet, and Peabody Hall
"I had thought it was strange to open with this hour-long masterwork, but the Borromeo Quartet emerged from intermission with a new and different sound for Franz Schubert's final completed string quartet. The enormous sonata form first movement has always struck me as a preparatory study for orchestral writing, with much of the accompanying parts written as full measures of repeated thirty-second-notes. In many performances, this comes off as unending streams of tremolos, reminiscent of Schubert's Great C-Major Symphony. But the Borromeo Quartet plays with such rhythmic fastidiousness that you can make out three instruments playing fast triplets with breathtaking clarity...the Borromeos aren't afraid to play with multiple layers of dynamic shading, offering chamber music intimacy alongside the bigger, louder public statements."
"A word about the venue. Ashmont Hill Chamber Music frequently performs at Peabody Hall in Ashmont's Parish of All Saints. Its programming has been irregular while the hall was being renovated as part of a major restoration of Ralph Adams Cram's first church (1892), but this year's inaugural program was worth the wait. ....the hall has ravishingly beautiful acoustics. Given the location within a stone's throw of a Red Line stop, reasonably easy parking, and great acoustics, Peabody Hall and Ashmont Hill Chamber Music deserve repeat visits."
Read the full review on the Boston Musical Intelligencer website.
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Mary Beth Alger
Artistic Director
Mary Beth Alger brings to Ashmont Hill Chamber Music Series a wealth of experience in developing exceptional programs of chamber music with world renowned artists. The series also garnered her praise for the personal connection she established with her audiences and the greater community. Previously, she was artistic director of the very successful Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival, which she founded and ran for fifteen years.
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