Past Projects

Celestial Fantasies:

Music of the Armenian Highlands and the Diaspora

A multidisciplinary celebration of Armenia’s musical heritage in Watertown, home of New England’s largest Armenian community and a new statue of the Armenian musician Komitas!

Learn more here.

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor:

Celebrating Immigrant Voices

A choral concert featuring international array of choral works, as well as poetry and readings from local immigrant communities. 50% of the proceeds earned from ticket sales went to the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition.

An orchestra performing on stage with musicians playing violins, a cello, double bass, piano, and drums, under a red curtain.

Orchestra Without Borders and Communities Without Borders Benefit 2025

Featuring Terry Carter, Jonathan Fagan, and CreationDance

Performers in traditional costumes dancing in front of a seated orchestra playing violins and other instruments; audience watching.
Black and white photo of an orchestral performance featuring musicians playing violins, a cellist, a double bassist, a pianists, and a drummer rehearsing on stage in a concert hall.
Musicians and dancers performing on stage during a concert, with audience watching.
Event poster for Orchestra Without Borders Boston concert titled "Borderlines East-West" with Hannah Shanefield and Jonathan Fagan, scheduled for May 18, 2024, at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton, featuring chamber music from around the world and Zambian art exhibit supported by the Mass Cultural Council.

Our benefit for Communities Without Borders supported by Mass Cultural Council and Newton Cultural Council featuring the Orchestra Without Borders in music by Hailstork, Fahim, de Martinez, and others

with Jonathan Fagan, Michael Rosen, and Hannah Shanefield

Audience seated in a concert hall, listening to the Orchestra Without Borders.
Orchestra Without Borders performs in a concert hall with an audience watching, led by conductor Luca Antonucci.
A large concert with a diverse audience seated facing a stage. The room has high ceilings, hanging lights, and a red curtain backdrop.
People gathered in a room, some standing and some sitting at tables, with a table of food and drinks on the left side, including pies and baked goods, and decorated with string lights.
Audience gathered in a large hall watching performance on stage. Musical instruments including a piano, double bass, and cello are on stage. The hall has a high arched ceiling, hanging light fixtures, and dark wood paneling. There are balloons and a
Event poster for Boston Summer Singers titled "Songs of Nature." It features floral and butterfly illustrations, with details about a concert on Thursday, July 27 at 7:30 pm at United Parish Brookline, 201 Harvard Street, Brookline. Suggested donation is $20 at the door for Women's Lunch Place. Music director Luca Antonucci.

Boston Summer Singers concert from 2023 featuring all music by female composers from the Renaissance to the present day, with guest instrumentalists Grace Helmke, flute, and Lois Shapiro, piano. Selections included a new edition of “The Little Brown Bee” by Amy Beach and music by Maddalena Casulana and Reena Esmail.

The concert raised over $1,000 for the Women’s Lunch Place and was presented a second time at Lasell Village.

A choir performing at a concert with an audience watching, directed by Luca Antonucci.
Group of 22 singers standing around a grand piano smiling for a group photo.
A choir of men and women singing in a church, standing behind a grand piano.
Group of people standing together in a room with wooden flooring, some holding papers, behind a whiteboard.
A woman in a turquoise dress standing in the open doorway of United Parish church, which has a sign above the door. Two lit outdoor wall lamps hang on each side of the entrance. There are potted plants with flowers on each side of the door, and poste
A woman playing the flute in a small room with an audience seated in chairs, some wearing masks.
Event poster titled 'Songs of Peace and Love' scheduled for Friday, July 8 at 7:30 pm, featuring live music by Amy Beach, Maddalena Casulana, Reena Esmail, Shireen Abu Khader, and others. The concert is performed by the Boston Summer Singers, directed by Luca Antonucci, at the Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St, Boston. Suggested donation of $20 benefits the Women's Lunch Place. The poster is decorated with various flowers and green leaves.

Our benefit for the Women’s Lunch Place from 2022 featuring Dave McLellan, guitar.

Our Orchestra Without Borders benefit for the Women’s Lunch Place from 2022, featuring music for strings including Fela Sowande’s magnificent African Suite. With Julie Haring and Jake Pietroniro, violin/viola duo

Concert poster featuring Indian architecture with domed temples in golden sunlight, promoting 'Trade Winds: Music for Strings with Global Roots' event at United Parish Brookline, March 19, 7:30 pm, 210 Harvard Street.
Poster advertising a folk tales and miniatures music concert by Orchestra Without Borders Boston, conducted by Luca Antonucci, featuring works by Jessie Montgomery, William Grant Still, Caroline Shaw, Salamone Rossi, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, scheduled for June 4 at 7:30 PM at Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston, with a suggested donation of $15 to benefit the Women's Lunch Place.

Our Orchestra Without Borders benefit for the Women’s Lunch Place from 2020, featuring six centuries of music for strings, including Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s dynamic Noveletten.

Produced in partnership with the Cambridge Community Center and the Church of the Covenant

Event poster for a concert titled "Music from the Margins: Rare Works for String Ensemble" Featuring works by Still, Hailstork, and Komitas, with photos of three composers. The concert is a Juneteenth Benefit for the Women's Lunch Place, scheduled for June 19th at 7:30 p.m., streaming details forthcoming. Background shows a lake, mountains, a church with a steeple, pink and blue sky.

Our second concert: Music from the Margins, presented virtually because of the pandemic. It featured the stirring Armenian Miniatures by V. Komitas, as well as works by William Grant Still and Adolphus Hailstork’s breathtaking Sonata da Chiesa.

Listen to the stream here