Messiah Sings
2025 Messiah Sings
Friday, December 19, 8:00 PM
Saturday, December 20, 3:00 PM
Cary Hall, Lexington
Featuring Jodie-Marie Fernandes, soprano; Laura Beth Couch, mezzo-soprano; Kartik Ayysola, tenor; Henrique Donato Neves, baritone
Bigger, Better, and Back in Cary Hall!
Join Masterworks Chorale for our 64th Messiah Sings, the longest-running annual Messiah Sings in the country! This year, we are excited to return to Cary Hall as our venue location.
As a community, we sing selections from Handel’s choral masterpiece with professional soloists and a volunteer orchestra led by Music Director Kevin Leong.
Bring your score (or borrow one of ours), your voice, and a suggested donation of $15.
Sing the Messiah like never before
This year’s Messiah Sings features 36 movements, including 16 choruses. Continuing Masterwork's tradition of introducing the more seldom-sung choruses, we are adding Let us break their bonds and But thanks be to God to this year's program.
Can’t wait to sing with us? Listen to our specially curated Spotify playlist. Better yet, download a free copy of the musical score and sing along to the Messiah!
Featured artists
Jodie-Marie Fernandes, soprano
Soprano Jodie-Marie Fernandes is a devoted learner and performer of music. She recently featured as soloist with Cappella Clausura in Chiara Margarita Cozzolani’s Vespers and Ethyl Smyth’s Mass in D and is a cantor at St. Leonard’s Church in Boston. Ms. Fernandes has performed as soloist with the renowned Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart and with the MIT Concert Choir. Her solo repertoire includes Vaughan Williams’s Dona nobis pacem; Johann Sebastian Bach’s Jesu, meine Freude; Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem; Handel’s Messiah, Poulenc’s Stabat Mater; Mozart’s Requiem; and Beethoven’s Mass in C, among others. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Graduate Performance Diploma in Vocal Performance from Longy School of Music.
Laura Beth Couch, mezzo-soprano
Laura Beth Couch, lauded by The Boston Musical Intelligencer for singing with “deep pathos” and “radiant affection,” is a mezzo-soprano living in Boston. Laura is thrilled to return as a soloist for another year of Messiah Sings with Masterworks Chorale. She earned her Performance Diploma from Boston University, where she performed as Julia Child in Bon Appétit, Dorothée in Cendrillon, Alice 2 in Alice Tierney, and Friedrich Bhaer in Little Women. Other favorite roles include Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Opera51), Bradamante in Alcina (MassOpera), Mrs. Phagan in Parade (Lowell House Opera), Tisbe in La Cenerentola, La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, and Babette in Beauty and the Beast (Bay View Music Festival). Laura has been a soloist for Bach’s Magnificat, Bononcini’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Mozart’s Coronation Mass, and Marianna Martines’s Dixit Dominus. A dedicated music teacher for over ten years, she earned her MM in Voice Performance from Shenandoah University and her BM in Music Education from Rutgers University. Coming up next, Laura will be performing as Strega in the world premiere of Beth Wiemann and Cecelia Raker’s Bog Hag Wine Night with Boston Opera Collaborative.
Kartik Ayysola, tenor
Indian-American tenor Kartik Ayysola performs frequently in Greater Boston and throughout New England. This season, he appeared in Norma with Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and Tosca with Opera Vermont. He has also performed in Madame Butterfly and Aida with the Boston Lyric Opera. Kartik is a seasoned concert performer, appearing as a soloist in such works as Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, Mozart’s Requiem, and Bach’s Magnificat. A native of Dover, Pennsylvania, Kartik studied under Joseph Baunoch at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and then under Jerrold Pope at Boston University, and he is currently a student of Bradley Williams.
Henrique Donato Neves, baritone
Baritone Henrique Donato Neves is an experienced opera and oratorio singer. He is an alumnus of Juilliard Pre-College (2018), Harvard College (2022), and Harvard Law School (2025). He studied with Lorraine Nubar, faculty member at New England Conservatory and head of the Juilliard Pre-College Voice Department. In 2017, he won first place at the William E. Schmidt Youth Vocal Competition in New York. Mr. Neves was a Ferris Choral Fellow of the Harvard University Choir, which provides music at Harvard University’s Memorial Church. His operatic roles include Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), and Guglielmo (Così fan tutte).
Cary Hall
1605 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA 02420
Parking and directions
Cary Hall is accessible via the MBTA bus route 62.
Parking is available in nearby municipal lots and at on-street metered spaces. There are spaces for those with handicapped placards in the driveway in front of the venue.
Support our Messiah Sings
We ask participants to make a suggested donation of $15.
If you want to donate before the event, you can make a secure donation online by clicking the button below.