AMOC returns for its second annual Run AMOC! Festival at the American Repertory Theater with four brand-new, vibrant, and intensely intimate programs that show off the latest work of our formidable artists.

With two opportunities to attend each of the festival offerings (and a special preview performance at the Peabody Essex Museum on December 13), this is an unmissable chance to get up close and personal with the whole AMOC gang. Stop by for one event, or come join us for the whole day.

Experience an all-new chamber music version of contemporary master John Adams's Christmas oratorio, El Niño, arranged for the forces of AMOC and adapted for the intimate setting of The Met Cloisters.

AMOC’s performances as part of Julia Bullock's season as Artist-in-Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art are generously supported by Ellen Marcus and The James S. Marcus Foundation

Hans Werner Henze's El Cimarrón (The Runaway Slave) is a tour-de-force sonic onslaught based on the oral autobiography of Esteban Montejo, an Afro-Cuban slave who escaped bondage on a sugar plantation, survived in the jungle, fought for Cuban independence from Spain, and lived to tell about it all before dying at the age of 113. Henze's visceral score is a cry for freedom that transcends time and place—and a linchpin in Julia Bullock's vision for her season as Artist-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

AMOC’s performances as part of Julia Bullock's season as Artist-in-Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art are generously supported by Ellen Marcus & The James S. Marcus Foundation.