The 2024 Buzzards Bay Musicfest will feature five very different programs and a new 7:30 p.m. start time for the evening concerts.

The festival will also open its doors on Wednesday, July 10 at 2 p.m. to give visitors a chance to experience an open rehearsal.

The musicians that make up the Buzzards Bay Musicfest will perform a variety of repertoire, but the orchestral concerts will have a theme: Season of “Firsts.”

The orchestra will explore first symphonies of Mozart, Schumann and Brahms as well as Beethoven‘s first Piano Concerto with Cynthia Raim as the soloist on the Wednesday concert.

On the Sunday afternoon concert, Jennifer Gunn (flute) and Rita Costanzi (harp) will be featured in the Mozart Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra.

On the same program, pianist David Allen Wehr will interpret the Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra by César Franck with its exuberant ending.

The orchestra concerts are Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, July 14 at 2 p.m.

The two chamber concerts will offer a uniquely intimate rendering of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonin Dvořák, Jean Françaix, Philippe Gaubert, Marjan Mozetich and David Popper.

From string quartets to piano quintets to wind quartets, the eclectic collections of small ensembles lead to a wonderfully tasteful programing variety that is sure to delight. The chamber concerts are Thursday, July 11 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, July 13 at 7:30 p.m.

The Buzzards Bay Musicfest SwingBand will present a program of music by three prominent jazz icons of the mid-twentieth century entitled “Miles, Monk and Mingus.”

This 10-piece jazz ensemble will venture into the possibilities of improvisation and written arrangements that these three masters have unleashed The jazz concert is
Friday, July 12 at 7:30 p.m.

All concerts are free admission and will be in the Fireman Performing Arts Center at Hoyt Hall on the campus of Tabor Academy, 245 Front St., Marion, MA 02738. Please visit https://www.buzzardsbaymusicfest.com/ for more detailed information.