The vocalist Cristina Evans. Photo courtesy Taylor Rossi Photography
Dorchester’s Cristina Evans will perform with the Eudaimonia, A Purposeful Period Band, on Sunday, Jan. 25, at First Parish in Cambridge at 7 p.m. The orchestra uses musical performance to support the social and humanitarian work of their partner organizations.
Evans, a mezzo-soprano vocalist, is an advocate of new music and champions works by BIPOC, women, and gender non-conforming artists. She has performed the roles of La Ciesca (“Gianni Schicci”), The Mistress of the Novices (“Suor Angelica”), The Dragonfly (“L’enfant et les sortilèges”), and alto soloist in Purcell’s “O sing unto the Lord, Z44.”
She is a vocal instructor in Boston with a bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Vocal Performance from Randolph College and a Master of Music degree in Historical Performance from the Longy School of Music of Bard College.
The concert, titled “Thin Places and Narrow Passages: Musical Pathways to the Unbound Spirit”, will center on Benjamin Britten’s “Hymn to St. Cecilia,” and will span 400 years, from 16th-century William Byrd (“Turn Our Captivity”)through Baroque master John Blow (“I Was In The Spirit”), and America’s first choral composer William Billings (“I Am Come Into My Garden”), to contemporary arrangements of Elton John’s “Skyline Pigeon” and Woody Guthrie’s “Holy Ground.”
For more information visit eudaimonia-music.org.
