Celebrity Series of Boston - History - Boston Debuts

Boston Debuts

Many nationally and internationally recognized artists have made their Boston debuts with the Celebrity Series. They include:

  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
  • Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
  • Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal
  • Pianist Emanuel Ax
  • Dance Theatre of Harlem
  • Wynton Marsalis Septet
  • Mitsuko Shirai
  • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
  • Hagen Quartet
  • Roby Lakatos Ensemble
  • Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
  • Baritone Thomas Hampson
  • Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (Jazz at Lincoln Center)
  • Soprano Dawn Upshaw
  • Mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli
  • Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
  • Aszure Barton and Artists
  • Circa
  • BeijingDance/LDTX
  • Violinist Joshua Bell
  • Emerson String Quartet
  • Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
  • Soprano Leontyne Price
  • Pianist Angela Hewitt
  • Pianist Ingrid Fliter
  • Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company
  • Pianist Paul Lewis

Each season from early fall to late spring, the Celebrity Series presents more than 50 multi-cultural and international artists and performing ensembles to audiences in the greater Boston area. By utilizing a number of different performance venues throughout the Boston area, each year the Celebrity Series presents programs of classical music, modern and classical dance, jazz, folk, world music, family music and multi-media performances.

The Celebrity Series has operated under a number of organizational umbrellas. In 1938, Aaron Richmond founded Aaron Richmond's Celebrity Series. In 1953, it affiliated with Boston University and took the name, the Boston University Celebrity Series. In 1984, the Celebrity Series changed affiliations and moved its operations under the auspices of the Wang Center for the Performing Arts a not-for-profit institution. Then, in 1989, the Celebrity Series incorporated as an independent, non-profit institution with its own Board of Directors and an annual budget of over $3 million (now between $6 million and $7 million). After 18 years of operating with the title sponsorship support of Bank of Boston, BankBoston, FleetBoston Financial, and Bank of America, the Celebrity Series began operating under its incorporated name, Celebrity Series of Boston, in June 2007.

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