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Summer is a time to relax and enjoy life, agreed. But for a company like ours, it’s also a season of intense work, preparing for the musical events to come, beginning in the fall.

Our roster of superb artists for Camerata’s 2021-22 season is now virtually complete, and we want to share their portraits with you. Individually and together, they will be there, singing and playing repertoire ranging from the European Middle Ages to the historic American spiritual tradition, providing us all with beautiful music and vital life energy during these challenging times. Please come see and hear these exceptional people! We would love to hear from you.


Top row: Anne Azéma, Luke Scott, Camila Parias, Ian Saunders, Allison Monroe
Middle row: Jordan Weatherston Pitts, Craig Juricka, Milton Wright, Mildred Walker, Christa Patton
Bottom row: Dan Hershey, Michael Barrett, Shira Kammen, Deborah Rentz Moore, Joel Cohen

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And, as a later-summer gift, here’s a lovely American spiritual, “Something New,” to announce our season full of new things, and to celebrate the renewal of life that comes with programming and casting for the coming months.

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We are not quite there, as intense post-production work for Camerata’s next CD release continues. You will be able to hear all of the glorious results in only a few weeks, but until then, here is a glimpse of our project:

Meanwhile, stay tuned and watch this space for the opening of Camerata’s 2021-2022 box office. On that note, here again is the titular earworm of the coming season, We’ll Be There!

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We are delighted to share this interview with our Music Director Emeritus, Joel Cohen, released this week as part of Early Music America’s Celebrating Trailblazers in Historical Performance series.

Along with interviewer Harvard Professor Emeritus of Music Thomas Forrest Kelly, Joel discusses the history of the Camerata and the early music movement in general, plus what’s coming up in our 2021-22 season. To illustrate his tantalizing comments on our fall production, here is the now-classic sequence Judicii signum/The Great Day, part of the CD New Britain: The Roots of American Folksong. Have a listen, and keep checking here for news concerning our up and coming 2021-2022 season. 

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If you are relaxing at the beach, we hope that unlike the forsaken woman of this troubadour song, you are happy and relaxed. 

Here is one of the great poems of distant love as performed by Anne Azéma with the Camerata Mediterranea. Please enjoy this languorous moment, and continue to live well during this warm season.  

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Here are some candids of our wonderful crew – Camila Parias, Deborah Rentz Moore, Anne Azéma, Christa Patton, and Shira Kammen – from this week’s recording sessions for our upcoming Harmonia Mundi CD Hodie Christus Natus Est, which will be released in October. And as part of our 2021-22 Boston series, you can hear this program live in December and all these wonderful musicians in Douce Dame Jolie in March – tickets will go on sale soon!

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Our long-delayed Medieval Christmas recording session is almost here! One of our most widely traveled programs in recent years, this program has inspired standing ovations everywhere it goes. Our superlative vocal trio of Camila Parias, Anne Azéma, and Deborah Rentz Moore will be joined by instrumentalists Christa Patton and Shira Kammen, and the recording will be released on the Harmonia Mundi label in time for the holiday season!


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Camerata is about to make a new recording for Harmonia Mundi, and preparations for the up and coming seasons are in full swing.

To celebrate the long days and lush vegetation, here is one of the most lovely texts from the Carmina Burana manuscript from the classic Camerata recording of the same name. Please enjoy!

Tempus adest floridum from Carmina Burana
The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen, Director

The greening season is here, and the flowers appear; the heat repairs the misfortune of the cold…Let us play, for the love of Venus.

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We welcome Juneteenth and its commemoration of emancipation from bondage, with a joyful noise: here’s the Cuba March, harmonized in 1805 by Jeremiah Ingalls, paired with The New Union, a universalist text from New Hampshire (1823). Please enjoy, and celebrate with us as our country moves a step closer to its ideals of liberty and justice for all. The music is excerpted from The Boston Camerata’s most recent CD release, Free America! (Harmonia Mundi, 2019).
Hatred and discord thus will cease,
And love and everlasting peace
Reign unenforced in every place,
And form an endless union.
The Cuba March with The New Union – The Boston Camerata
Text: John L. Peasey, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (Portsmouth, New Hamsphire, 1823)
Music: ‘Heavenly Union’ by Jeremiah Ingalls, The Christian Harmony (Exeter, New Hamsphire, 1805).