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For selected performances, Vivo Performing Arts offers special student discounts that may be purchased online through the links below, or from the venue box office prior to a performance.
Prices for Advance Student Tickets will vary by show, and price 1 tickets are not available for Advance Student pricing.
Please bring your ID to pick up your advance student tickets or purchase day-of tickets
Elementary, middle, and high school students do not need to present an ID card to purchase or pick up their tickets. Guardians may purchase up to two tickets per child. The second ticket may be used for a parent or guardian, and all children must be accompanied by an adult.
Student Rush tickets are also available for select performances. These tickets can only be purchased from the venue box office on the day of the performance.
Prices and ticket availability are subject to change and are first come, first served. College and other post-secondary students require a valid student ID. Sales are cash-only. Please see specific venue instructions for Student Rush tickets below.
See Instructions on Student Rush tickets below
Award winner LaChanze—originator of the role of Celie in The Color Purple—possesses one of the most commanding and deeply felt voices on the American stage. An evening with LaChanze is an encounter with an artist at the fullest expression of her powers.
SUN NOV 01 2026 5PM BERKLEE PERFORMANCE CENTER
Student rush tickets may be available on the day of the performance.
Pianist Igor Levit makes his Symphony Hall recital debut with an all-Beethoven program that reveals an icon's humanity. From Beethoven’s early-career swagger to the luminous "Waldstein" sonata, Levit offers a statement of faith in the power of art.
SUN NOV 08 2026 3PM AT SYMPHONY HALL
In their most recent appearance at Jordan Hall, the Dover Quartet won the hearts and souls of audiences for their refined, luminous playing. Their program pairs Brahms' final string quartet and Dvořák's Czech-rooted masterwork with a new orchestration of Indigenous singer-songwriter Pura Fé's Rattle Songs.
SUN NOV 15 2026 3PM AT NEC'S JORDAN HALL
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Serbian-born, Paris-based violinist Nemanja Radulović and his Double Sens Chamber Orchestra make their U.S. debut—moving seamlessly between classical masterworks, folk traditions, and beyond, with striking charisma, agility, and emotional depth.
FRI NOV 13 2026 8PM NEC'S JORDAN HALL
Vancouver's Ballet BC arrives with a program that moves through tenderness, ecstasy, and raw human longing—20 dancers under artistic director Medhi Walerski bringing precision and a rare openness that will be a highlight of the season.
SAT NOV 21–SUN NOV 22 2026 AT CUTLER MAJESTIC THEATRE AT EMERSON COLLEGE
Host Rob Kapilow, Boston's A Far Cry chamber orchestra, and clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois unlock the secrets of the most celebrated clarinet concerto ever written, blending in-depth analysis with storytelling and good humor.
SUN NOV 22 2026 3PM AT NEC'S JORDAN HALL
With his well-considered, wide-ranging programs and unsentimental, revelatory interpretations, Jeremy Denk is a must-hear artist. His program offers Beethoven's last two piano sonatas in conversation with Bach, Unsuk Chin, and the long-neglected Hélène de Montgeroult.
FRI DEC 11 2026 8PM AT NEC'S JORDAN HALL
One of the great recital partnerships of our time, violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Akira Eguchi bring musical intelligence and irresistible chemistry to every performance—making extraordinary technical mastery appear effortless.
THU JAN 14 2027 8PM AT CONCERT HALL AT GROTON HILL MUSIC CENTER
Berklee Honorary Doctorate recipient Michel Camilo is a musical firestorm of heart, joy, and liveliness. He makes a Vivo Performing Arts debut with bassist Ricky Rodríguez and drummer Mark Walker in a performance you experience with your whole body.
SAT JAN 30 2027 8PM AT BERKLEE PERFORMANCE CENTER
Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall have been making music together for 20 years. Joined by George Meyer, this trio brings the informal, joyful spirit of bluegrass festival picking to the concert stage: casually virtuosic, played at the highest possible level.
SUN JAN 31 2027 3PM AT SANDERS THEATRE
Next-generation standouts the Isidore Quartet team with pianist Jeremy Denk for Brahms' Piano Quintet—the Isidores' emotional directness in electric stylistic interplay with Denk's searching restraint, preceded by Britten and Mendelssohn.
SUN FEB 7 2027 3PM AT NEC'S JORDAN HALL
Pianist Emmet Cohen has a gift—rare in any era—for making a concert ticket feel like a party invitation. His widely beloved Live from Emmet's Place webcasts, filmed in his Harlem apartment, welcomed millions to jazz with music that's alive, joyful, and utterly irresistible. Joining Cohen's trio is vocalist Georgia Heers—featured in Broadway's Good Night, and Good Luck—whose velvety, luminous voice is steeped in jazz tradition yet entirely her own.
FRI FEB 12 2027 8PM AT BERKLEE PERFORMANCE CENTER
Violinist Stefan Jackiw, cellist Jay Campbell, and pianist Conrad Tao are three of today's most compelling soloists, and the Junction Trio is what happens when all three are in the same room. Beethoven's Ghost Trio opens the evening; a new work commissioned for the Trio by Andrew Norman follows; and Shostakovich's Second Piano Trio closes it.
SAT FEB 13 2027 8PM AT NEC'S JORDAN HALL
Zlata Chochieva returns to Vivo Performing Arts following her triumphant debut in 2025. For her much-anticipated return, she shares music of overwhelming emotional intensity, from the volcanic fury of Beethoven to the supernatural terror of Ravel.
SAT FEB 20 2027 8PM AT NEC'S JORDAN HALL