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"Unbridled Joy," with the Chineke! Orchestra in Boston

A collage of Stewart Goodyear performing as the pianist soloist in his composition "Callaloo: A Caribbean suite for piano and orchestra," and Chineke! Orchestra's conductor Andrew Grams
Robert Torres
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Courtesy of Celebrity Series of Boston
Composer and soloist Stewart Goodyear (left) and Chineke! Orchestra conductor Andrew Grams (right)

Sunday, November 26, 2023
7:00pm

Britain’s Chineke! Orchestra comes to WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston! Founded in 2015, the orchestra “champions change and celebrates diversity through high-level professional performance opportunities and career development for Black and ethnically diverse classical performers.” At the center of the concert is Stewart Goodyear’s Callaloo: A Caribbean Suite, which draws on the composer and pianist's roots in Trinidad through crackling Calypso and Afro-Cuban rhythms. Andrew Grams also conducts works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Florence Price in a concert The Boston Globe described as one of “superb musicianship and a sense of unbridled, authentic joy.”

Chineke! Orchestra
Andrew Grams, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano

Samuel COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Othello suite, Op. 79
Stewart GOODYEAR Callaloo: A Caribbean Suite for piano and orchestra
Florence PRICE Symphony No. 1 in E minor

Recorded on March 22, 2023, at NEC's Jordan Hall

See the program notes for this concert

See upcoming Celebrity Series of Boston concerts

Learn more about the Chineke! Foundation