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Ashmont Hill Chamber Music is a community-based organization founded in 1985 to provide an accessible and affordable concert series for the residents of Dorchester and the surrounding area, to create new audiences for chamber music, and to strengthen the sense of community among the audience, volunteers, and musicians who come together at these concerts.

The Series features a core group of Boston area musicians who collaborate with guest performers from throughout New England, the nation, and Europe. Ashmont Hill 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 Musicians have performed at Boston’s First Night celebrations, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The Goethe Institute, and on WGBH and WCRB radio.

Among those who currently perform in the Ashmont Hill Chamber Music Series are:

Ashmont Hill Chamber Players: Nancy Bracken, violin: Boston Symphony Orchestra; Michelle LaCourse, viola: chair, Boston University String Department; Brian Snow ‘cello: MM from Yale School of Music, Doctoral candidate State University of New York Stony Brook, former member of Diabelli String Quartet; Rachel Goodwin, piano: Aspen, Sarasota Music Festivals, City of Boston 2002 Artist/Humanist Fellow.

The West End Trio: Masako Yanagita, violin: Fulbright Scholar, faculty, Mannes College of Music; Matthias Naegele, ‘cello: Marlboro, Jerusalem Music Festivals, ensemble member of Prometheus Piano Quartet, Sergio Luca’s Context, Mobius; Henry Shapiro, piano: Marlboro, Aspen Music Festival, faculty, The New School University.

Robert Honeysucker, baritone: “Artist of the Year,” Richard Dyer (Boston Globe); National Opera Association’s Artist’s Award.

D’Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano: “Best Record of the Year,” New York Magazine; “…superb mezzo-soprano.” New York Times; faculty, New England Conservatory.