The Kalliope Reed Quintet presents Música de México y Memorias, a program featuring works by Mexican composers Nubia Jaime Donjuan, Arturo Marquez, and Diana Syrse, while exploring the topics of memory and remembrance. The concert also includes Kalliope’s most recent commission “Suite No. 1 for Reed Quintet” by award-winning Mexican composer and clarinetist Ábraham Gomez. In celebration of this theme, the concert will also include selected arranged movements of Maurice Ravel’s famous Le Tombeau de Couperin—a piece Ravel wrote in a joie de vivre remembrance of friends who passed during WWI in the French Baroque style of renowned composer, Couperin– which the Quintet has programmed to honor both Ravel’s 150th anniversary and the Newton Free Library’s 150th year of service in 2025.

The Kalliope Reed Quintet is the first professional reed quintet in New England. Celebrating music from the Americas, their commissions have created cultural connections with composers from Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and the United States, and their performances include national appearances and a tour to Mazatlán, Mexico. Dedicated to expanding local arts access, they perform free concerts across Greater Boston at museums, libraries, churches and other community venues.

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Newton Cultural Council, a local council that is supported by the Mass Cultural Council and the City of Newton.