More than 50 years after Donald Fagen and Walter Becker first met at Bard College, the College’s elite musicians come together for a first-of-its-kind concert celebrating the music of Steely Dan. Featuring a full rhythm section, horns, and background singers, the band will perform a selection of Steely Dan’s high-fidelity hits in exacting detail. Streamed live from Olin Hall in 2023.
Music Program Events
1/31
Friday
Friday, January 31, 2025 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The popular Bard Opera Workshop returns again this year with student singers performing a selection of scenes from the operatic canon. The performance is directed by Jay Lesenger and accompanied by an orchestra of Bard students.
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
2/01
Saturday
Saturday, February 1, 2025 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The popular Bard Opera Workshop returns again this year with student singers performing a selection of scenes from the operatic canon. The performance is directed by Jay Lesenger and accompanied by an orchestra of Bard students.
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
2/02
Sunday
Sunday, February 2, 2025 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The popular Bard Opera Workshop returns again this year with student singers performing a selection of scenes from the operatic canon. The performance is directed by Jay Lesenger and accompanied by an orchestra of Bard students.
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater
5/13
Tuesday
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 Olin Hall7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Symphonic Chorus spring concert
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Olin Hall
Music Program Newsroom
Joan Tower’s Cello Concerto A New Day Featured in Times Union
A New Day, a cello concerto released in 2021 by Joan Tower, Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts at Bard College, was featured in Times Union. The work, which began as a commission by the Colorado Music Festival, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra, was written while Jeff Litfin, her late husband of 50 years, was dying.
Joan Tower’s Cello Concerto A New Day Featured in Times Union
A New Day, a cello concerto released in 2021 by Joan Tower, Asher B. Edelman Professor in the Arts at Bard College, was featured in Times Union. The work, which began as a commission by the Colorado Music Festival, Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra, was written while Jeff Litfin, her late husband of 50 years, was dying. “I was in real bad shape,” Tower said. “So I decided to write. In fact, all the music I've been writing since then is about him.” The concerto, which will be performed by Albany Symphony in Troy on November 16 and 17, contains four movements: “Daybreak,” “Working Out,” “Mostly Alone” and “Into the Night.” The titles are intentionally simple, allowing for many interpretations of a single day, she told Times Union.
Bard will receive the grant through New York State’s Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program, which supports projects at colleges and universities across the state by providing construction and renovation of laboratory and research spaces, the purchase of technologies and equipment, and other investments. It will support the purchase of pianos and equipment for Bard’s László Z. Bitó Conservatory Building.
Bard College Conservatory Receives $50,006 Grant from New York State
Bard College will receive a $50,006 grant as part of New York State’s Higher Education Capital Matching Grant Program, which supports projects at colleges and universities across the state by providing construction and renovation of laboratory and research spaces, the purchase of instructional technologies and equipment, and other significant investments. The grant will support the purchase of pianos and equipment for Bard’s László Z. Bitó Conservatory building. The equipment will be available to Bard’s community of students, faculty, and staff, as well as to the greater Hudson Valley community that participates in the opportunities Bard provides for learning, enrichment, and enjoyment. “New York’s colleges and universities are second to none, offering students unparalleled opportunities to learn, explore, and prepare to launch their careers,” Governor Hochul said. “With this funding, my administration is reaffirming our commitment to providing our students—including those at our private, not-for-profit institutions—with a top-tier, New York education with the best possible resources and facilities that will help them succeed inside and outside of the classroom.”
Jazz pianist and Bard Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music Marcus Roberts was a featured artist in the dedication and gala concert held in the newly named Marian Anderson Hall in Philadelphia to honor the legacy of internationally renowned American contralto and civil rights icon Marian Anderson (1897–1993), who was the first Black singer to perform at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, reports NPR.
Bard Music Professor Marcus Roberts Performs in Gala Concert to Inaugurate Philadelphia Orchestra’s Newly Named Marian Anderson Hall
Jazz pianist and Bard Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music Marcus Roberts was a featured artist in the dedication and gala concert held in the newly named Marian Anderson Hall in Philadelphia to honor the legacy of internationally renowned American contralto and civil rights icon Marian Anderson (1897–1993), who was the first Black singer to perform at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, reports NPR. Music and Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin said, “To have exceptional artists like Queen Latifah, Angel Blue, Audra McDonald, Latonia Moore, and Marcus Roberts—themselves trailblazers in their fields—join us for this momentous occasion will make the evening even more special, as we continue to create a more representative art form. We hope that every person feels welcome in our music and in the concert hall, and that every performance in Marian Anderson Hall serves as a reminder of her legacy and as an inspiration.”
New Muse 4tet, Led by Gwen Laster, Wins Chamber Music America 2024 Performance Plus Award
New Muse 4tet, an ensemble led by jazz faculty member Gwen Laster, was awarded a $11,300 Performance Plus grant by Chamber Music America, a national network for ensemble music professionals. The grant will enable New Muse 4tet to record new music, building off of the successes of their debut album, Blue Lotus. The grant will also enable coaching sessions from jazz pianist and composer Michele Rosewoman, helping New Muse 4tet build new works through the lenses of jazz composition and Caribbean folkloric idioms.
Bard Composer in Residence Missy Mazzoli Featured on NPR
Missy Mazzoli, composer in residence at Bard College, performed together with violinist Jennifer Koh for Tiny Desk Concerts at NPR’s headquarters. The two artists, who have collaborated on projects for 15 years, performed a set of pieces composed by Mazzoli and brought to life by Koh’s violin. “Dissolve, O my Heart, the first piece Mazzoli wrote for Koh, spirals out into an emotional journey touched with spasms of joy and grief,” writes Tom Huizenga for NPR. He continues: “Hearing this set, in all its rugged delight, feels like we're eavesdropping on something personal—a fruitful, collaborative friendship between composer and performer that has yielded amazing music.”
Bard Music Professor Sarah Hennies and Alums Adam Khalil ’11, Zack Khalil ’14, and Trisha Baga MFA ’10 Win 2024 United States Artist Fellowships
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Sarah Hennies; New Red Order, an Indigenous art collective whose core contributors are Bard alumni Adam Khalil ’11 (Ojibway) and Zack Khalil ’14 (Ojibway); and Trisha Baga MFA ’10 have received 2024 United States Artist (USA) Fellowships in the disciplines of Music and Visual Arts. Hennies, New Red Order, and Baga are among this year’s 50 awardees, encompassing artists and collectives spanning multiple generations, who are dedicated to their communities and committed to building upon shared legacies through artistic innovation, cultural stewardship, and multifaceted storytelling. USA Fellowships provide $50,000 in unrestricted money to artists across 10 creative disciplines. In addition to the award, current fellows have access to financial planning, career consulting, legal advice, and other professional services as requested.
Sarah Hennies is a composer based in Upstate NY whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer and trans identity, psychoacoustics, and the social and neurological conditions underlying creative thought.
New Red Order is a public secret society facilitated by core contributors Adam Khalil (Ojibway), Zack Khalil (Ojibway), and Jackson Polys (Tlingit) that collaborates with informants to create exhibitions, videos, and performances that question and rechannel subjective and material relationships to indigeneity.
Trisha Baga is a Filipino-American artist working in stereoscopic 3D video installation, paint, clay, consumer grade electronics, and community performance. Compelled by an interest in what they call “the stuff that makes things stick together,” Baga recombines objects and images into scenarios that address issues related to the environment, technology, and identity.
Representing a broad diversity of regions and mediums, the USA Fellows are awarded through a peer-led selection process in the disciplines of Architecture & Design, Craft, Dance, Film, Media, Music, Theater & Performance, Traditional Arts, Visual Art, and Writing.
Bard College Faculty and Alumna Win 2024 GRAMMY Awards
At the 66th annual GRAMMY Awards ceremony, the Recording Academy honored the 2024 GRAMMY winners. Among them, Bard Composer in Residence Jessie Montgomery won Best Contemporary Classical Composition, her first GRAMMY award, for her composition “Rounds.” Bard Conservatory of Music’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program alumna Julia Bullock MM ’11 also won her first GRAMMY award, winning Best Classical Solo Vocal Album for her album Walking in the Dark. Artistic Director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program Stephanie Blythe is featured on the album Blanchard: Champion, which won for Best Opera Recording.
Jessie Montgomery’s “Rounds” is a composition for piano and string orchestra inspired by the imagery and themes from T.S. Eliot’s epic poem Four Quartets, fractals (infinite patterns found in nature that are self-similar across different scales), and the interdependency of all beings.
Julia Bullock’s Walking in the Dark was recorded with her husband, conductor and pianist Christian Reif, and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. The album combines orchestral works by American composers John Adams and Samuel Barber with a traditional spiritual and songs by jazz legend Billy Taylor and singer-songwriters Oscar Brown, Jr., Connie Converse, and Sandy Denny.
The Metropolitan Opera’s recording of Terence Blanchard’s Champion, an opera about young boxer Emile Griffith who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, was conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and featured a cast including mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as Kathy Hagen.
Artistic Director of the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program Stephanie Blythe
The GRAMMYs are voted on by more than 11,000 music professionals—performers, songwriters, producers, and others with credits on recordings—who are members of the Recording Academy.
Popular Science Names Pippa Kelmenson ’17’s Bone Conductive Instrument as One of the “Most Innovative Musical Inventions of the Past Year”
“Every year since 2009, a handful of artists, engineers, musicians, and hobbyists from around the world arrive in Atlanta, Georgia, with one-of-a-kind instruments in tow,” writes Andrew Paul for Popular Science. Among them is Pippa Kelmenson ’17, inventor of the Bone Conductive Instrument, or BCI. Popular Science named the BCI, which “emits sound signals to vibrate individual body resonant frequencies to aid hard-of-hearing users,” as one of 2023’s most innovative musical inventions. According to Kelmenson, the BCI “calls for an inclusive and innovative way for users across the hearing spectrum to interact with sound.”
Whitney Biennial 2024 to Feature Bard College Faculty and Alums
Bard College faculty members and alums will be among the 71 artists and collectives selected to participate in this year’s Whitney Biennial, the 81st installment of the landmark exhibition series. Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing opens on March 20. Works by Visiting Assistant Professor of MusicSarah Hennies; Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies, Distinguished Artist in Residence in Studio Arts, and Bard MFA Faculty in Music/Sound KiteMFA ’18;andBard MFA Faculty in Sculpture Lotus Laurie Kang MFA ’15 will be featured alongside those by alums Diane Severin Nguyen MFA ’20, Carolyn Lazard ’10, and Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio ’12. The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College graduate Min Sun Jeon CCS ’22 helped to organize the exhibition.
The 2024 Whitney Biennial is organized by Chrissie Iles (Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator) and Meg Onli (Curator at Large), with Min Sun Jeon CCS ’22 and Beatriz Cifuentes. The performance program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curator Taja Cheek. The film program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curators Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.
“After finalizing the list of artists last summer, we have built a thematic Biennial that focuses on the ideas of ‘the real,’” write the curators. “Society is at an inflection point around this notion, in part brought on by artificial intelligence challenging what we consider to be real, as well as critical discussions about identity. Many of the artists presenting works—including via robust performance and film programs—explore the fluidity of identity and form, historical and current land stewardship, and concepts of embodiment, among other urgent throughlines, and we are inspired by the work they are creating and sharing.”
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 A senior concert by Mara Zaki.
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Blum N211, the jazz room6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us for a jazz class ensemble concert! Location changed from Blum Hall to the Jazz room, Blum N211
Monday, December 16, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Come and lift your spirits with a wide variety of songs by Black composers including Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Adolphus Hailstork, H. Leslie Adams, Harry Burleigh, William Grant Still, Valerie Capers and more. Admission is free.
Monday, December 16, 2024
Bard Hall6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 A short performance and demonstration of the gamelan.
Monday, December 16, 2024
The Jazz Room, Blum N2112:30 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us for a class recital.
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 On Friday, December 13th at 7:00 p.m. the MUS 108 Bard Experimental Music Ensemble directed by Prof. Sarah Hennies, dir.) presents two large ensemble works. “Growing Block” by Sarah Hennies is an open-instrumentation guided improvisation/composition based on the “growing block universe” theory followed by a 40-minute work by acclaimed Swiss composer Jürg Frey, “Ephemeral Constructions.” Frey’s work asks performers to select their own sounds from any instruments and found objects in long-form, slowly developing music that is percussive in its first half and droning in the second movement. Frey is a member of the Wandelweiser group of composers, known for their radical work with extended durations, silence, and other experiments in timbre, perception, and sound.
Free and open to the public.
Friday, December 13, 2024
The Jazz Room, Blum N2115:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us on December 13 for an ensemble concert!
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 A concert followed by light refreshments.
Works by: Kenneth Amis, John Cage Giuseppe Cambini, Gabriel Faure György Kurtág, Henry Purcell, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Performed by Bard students: Anna Fowler, Kateri Doran, Max Jackson Olga Borzenko, Kay Ellen Bell, Claire Sheffler, Phoebe Lightburn, Wren Bainbridge, Robert Holmes a Court Nico Bald, Nick Franceschi, and Artemy Mulikin.
Thursday, December 12, 2024
Blum N211, the Jazz Room6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Jazz Improvisation Workshop class concert
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us for the Sun Ra Ensemble concert.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Georgian Choir Winter concert
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Edith C. Blum Institute1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Are you a student, staff or faculty that plays guitar? Want to talk with others and build a connected guitar community here at Bard? Come join us for our first meeting! All players and styles are welcome, bring your guitar! Contact Luis Chavez or Jeremy Hall if you have questions.
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Blum Hall8:45 pm – 9:45 pm EST/GMT-5 An ensemble class concert.
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Blum Hall7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Spontaneous Composition Ensemble class concert
Monday, December 9, 2024
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us for a contemporary Jazz composers ensemble concert!
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Works performed by Bard student composers:
The concerts of the Da Capo Chamber Players are made possible in part with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts National Endowment for the Arts which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
Friday, December 6, 2024
Resnick Theater Studio7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Featuring selections by George and Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Stephen Sondheim, and Adam Guettel. There will also be new works by Bard student composers and lyricists.
Friday, December 6, 2024
Blum Hall7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 A senior concert by Steve Bonacci.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
The Jazz Room, Blum N2118:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Moderation concert for Jasmine Caperton.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Resnick Theater Studio7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Featuring selections by George and Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Stephen Sondheim, and Adam Guettel. There will also be new works by Bard student composers and lyricists.
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Blum N211, the jazz room7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 A moderation concert for James Wise.
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Blum Hall5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us for a student moderation concert.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Fall concert Olin Hall7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come enjoy an evening of stunning orchestral works written by Johann Strauss II, Niels Gade, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Antonín Dvořák. Led by music director Zachary Schwartzman. Admission is free.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Bard Baroque Ensemble Bard Chamber Singers Preparatory Division Chorus Graduate Vocal Arts Program Hudson River Brass present:
LA GUERRA DE LOS GIGANTES Spanish music from the 12th through 18th centuries Chapel of the Holy Innocents5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Works by Comtessa de Dia, Pedro Guerrero, Luys de Narváez, Gracia Baptista, Andrea Falconieri, Antonio Martín y Coll, Antonio Soler, Vicente Baset, Joan Cabanilles, Sebastián Durón, and from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
Readings by Giraut de Bornelh, San Juan de la Cruz, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Renée Anne Louprette, director Chirbee Dy and Madelin Morales, mezzo-sopranos Michael Adams and Maria Giovanetti, sopranos Ryan Michki, tenor Richard Kolb, lutenist Sophia Cornicello, harpsichord and organ Tianxiang Ni, harpsichord Enikő Samu, violin David Keringer, recorder Ethan Young, cello Sarah Martin, cello Aleksandar Vitanov, trumpet Luca Esposito, percussion Karen Sullivan, Omar Guillermo Encarnación, Miles Rodriguez, and Annabella Capaccio, guest readers
Free Admission | Open to the Public
Viewable by livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/5KzPMQ8obZ4
For more information, visit contact Renée Anne Louprette at [email protected], or visit https://www.bard.edu/conservatory/baroque-ensemble/
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Leo Belsky's senior concert.
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Featuring students of the Undergraduate Music Program, Conservatory Double Degree Program, Advanced Performance Studies Program, Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Graduate Conducting Program, and Collaborative Piano Fellowship.
Down the Road Cafe7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Ivan Tamayo's senior concert.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 A music workshop to overcome stage fright and performance anxiety.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 This is a workshop for everyone, but especially for embodied performers, to overcome stage fright and performance anxiety. All are welcome! Performers: Dress comfortably and be prepared to move. Refreshments will be served.
Led by Tatjana Myoko von Prittwitz (Buddhist Chaplain), Jubilith Moore (Artist in Residence, Theater & Performance), and Erica Kiesewetter (Professor of Orchestral Practice).
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
The Angelica Sanchez Quartet with: Angelica Sanchez, piano Adam O’Farrell, trumpet and amp, effects John Hebert, bass Rudy Royston, drums Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Composed for trumpet, electronics, piano, bass, and drums, "The Brilla Suite" is a series of compositions that utilize both traditional Western notation and graphic notation. This suite draws inspiration from the poetry and music of the Chilean poet, songwriter, singer, and activist Victor Jara.
Friday, October 25, 2024 – Sunday, November 3, 2024
by Kate Douglas, Matthew Dean Marsh, and Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez Ancram Center for the Arts Featuring: Kate Douglas, Yonatan Gebeyehu, Billy Keane, Matthew Dean Marsh, Ryan Melia, Adrien Reju, Aisha Sampson, Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez
October 25th - November 3rd Fridays at 7pm Saturday, 10/26 at 5:30pm Saturday, 11/2 at 2pm & 7pm Sundays at 3pm
Following their Summer Play Lab residency, collaborators Kate Douglas, Matthew Dean Marsh, and Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez return to Ancram Center for the Arts to stage the world premiere concert production of Centuries. This new musical storytelling experience follows a family over two generations and explores how landscapes and people change with time.
The Center is offering a student discount ticket ($15) for any Bard students who may want to come, either as a class or independently.
Friday, October 4, 2024 – Sunday, October 6, 2024
Featuring Bard faculty, students and alumni Hudson, NY Catch the next generation of jazz stars playing free pop-up performances around town. Featuring Bard College Jazz musicians and local jazz artists.
Friday, September 27, 2024
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A music workshop to overcome stage fright and performance anxiety.
Thursday, September 19, 2024
Blum N217 classroom5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 John Schneider is a Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist, director of the Partch Ensemble devoted to Harry Partch’s microtonal instruments, and author of the encyclopedic reference work The Contemporary Guitar. He will demonstrate microtonality with his amazing magnetic fretboards, and play music by Harry Partch and Lou Harrison.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Bard Hall5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A conversation about the Music Program (classical, jazz, vocal, instrumental, electronic, and experimental music), lessons, ensembles, auditions, practice rooms, storage lockers, performance venues, and much more.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Presented by ShoutOut Saugerties CMM Distillery, 31 Main Street, Saugerties7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Pamela Pentony is the jazz vocal teacher at Bard. She will perform selections from the great jazz composers and the Great American Songbook.
Accompanied by Paul Duffy, piano, Jim Curtin, bass, and Joe Corozza on drums.
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Presented by ShoutOut Saugerties CMM Distillery, 31 Main Street, Saugerties7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Alessandra Gonzalez is a vibrant singer-songwriter known for her infectious energy and unwavering passion on stage.
She collaborates with the talented Daniel Villegas Latin X (Orgullo y Dolor) and has graced stages at Latin festivals in Kingston, Hudson, Newburgh, New York, and numerous events throughout the Hudson Valley. Her composition, “Como Te Olvido,” is available on all streaming platforms. She continues to participate in festivals, events, collaborations with nonprofit organizations, and New York State county events.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Curated by Pamela Pentony and Presented by ShoutOut Saugerties CMM Distillery, 31 Main Street, Saugerties, New York7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Imani-Amie, jazz vocalist at Bard College, released her debut album Metamorphosis in 2023. Leo Belsky and Ivan Tamayo, cofounders of the collective Phat Inc, study jazz at Bard.
CMM Distillery, 31 Main Street, Saugerties, New York
Summer Concert Series CMM, 31 Market St., Saugerties, NY 124777:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Jazzed in Saugerties A shoutout program Pamela Pentony, curator First concert of the series
Darryl Brenzel, Saxophonist with Larry Ham on piano, Lou Pappas bass and Matt Garrity drums June 27, 7 pm CMM Distillery, 31 Market Street, Saugerties, New York 12477 No cover charge (donations appreciated)
Darryl Brenzel is a saxophonist, composer, arranger, and educator residing in Frederick, Maryland, and working in the greater Baltimore/DC area. He is currently teaching saxophone, jazz theory, and arranging at Shenandoah University. He has previously taught at Towson University and Gettysburg College. He also leads his own jazz trio and quartet, performs as a freelance woodwind player, and composes and arranges music for numerous professional and college bands throughout the country.
From 1988–2008, Brenzel was a member of the US Army Jazz Ambassadors, where he served as saxophone soloist, chief arranger, and eventually associate director. In 2008, Brenzel was recognized by the Maryland State Arts Council with an Individual Artist Award in solo instrumental performance. Brenzel's career as a performer have taken him around the world with performances throughout North America, India, Japan, and Europe. He has appeared at major jazz festivals to include Montreaux, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival, the Nice Jazz Festival, and the Jacksonville Jazz Festival. He has performed with such artists as The Beach Boys, Chris Isaak, Little Anthony, The Drifters, Jerry Butler, Ben E King, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, The Nelson Riddle Orchestra, and many others.
Monday, May 20, 2024
Libretto by Susan Bywaters Olin Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Music composed by students in Missy Mazzoli’s class "Am I the Drama?" Conducted by members of the Graduate Conducting Program: Timothy Morrow, Emmanuel Rojas and Sam Ross With performances by Vocal Arts Program Musicians: Amelia – Jaclyn Hopping George – Megan Maloney Brad – Jacob Hunter Lizzie – Georgia Perdikoulias Mr. Freiberg – Joey Breslau Mrs. Freiberg – Nicole Rizzo Tim – Sam Warshauer
And Post-Graduate Piano Fellows: Ahra Oh, Pei-Hsuan Shen and Gabriele Zemaityte
Free and open to the public. Watch the livestream here!
Bard Chamber Singers Bard Symphonic Chorus Olin Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 James Bagwell and Lilly Cadow lead two of Bard's vocal ensembles in an evening of choral favorites. The program includes works by Thomas Tallis, Hildegard von Bingen, J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, W.A. Mozart.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Blum Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, May 13, 2024
Blum N211, the Jazz room8:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, May 13, 2024
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, May 13, 2024
Blum Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 On Monday, May 13th at 7pm the student of Prof. Sarah Hennies’s “Sound Art” class will present a realization of “Home:Handover,” a field recording, performance, electroacoustic music project by French sound artists Éric La Casa and Jean-Luc Guionnet. “Home:Handover” explores the existential condition of everyday life through music and the voice and includes interviews, guided improvisation, musique concrete, and newly composed work. The piece asks the question, “What is it like to listen at home?”
Also on the program is a performance of "Paragraph 4" from Cornelius Cardew’s 8-hour epic masterpiece for untrained musicians, “The Great Learning.”
Monday, May 13, 2024
“Evidence of Things Not Seen” Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space6:00 pm – 7:20 pm EDT/GMT-4
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Works by Béla Bartók, Johannes Brahms Leopold Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn Arcangelo Corelli, Gaetano Donizetti Lugwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel Stevie Wonder, Vítězslava Kaprálová Bard Hall2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 This is an opportunity for different “currents” in the Music Program to share an informal concert and hear each other. Jazz groups, chamber groups, violinists, oboists, flutists, pianists, musical saw artists, and more—all are welcome.
Performed by Natasha Bashore-Walker, violin; Shao-Chu Pan, piano Santiago Mieres, violin; Ahra Oh, piano Kateri Doran, flute; Hannes Wiebe, trumpet Alexandra Percus, piano; Coulson Matto, piano Asher Longdon-Stewart, flute; Julien Franchot, cello, Olga Borzenko, flute; Kay Ellen Bell, piano Miriam Kagan-Dubroff, alto sax; Clemens Henning, flute Jamie Harte, piano and vocals; Max Meissner, guitar Kincade Avery, bass; Micah Kelleher, drums
+++ FOLLOWED BY LIGHT REFRESHMENTS +++
Friday, May 10, 2024
Blum N211, the Jazz Room7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Bard Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Blum N211, the Jazz Room6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Blum Hall7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Featuring the music of Carla Bley Blum Hall7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, May 6, 2024
The jazz room, N2119:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, May 6, 2024
Blum Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The Bard Jazz and Electronic Music Programs are thrilled to welcome New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood to campus for a presentation of her work. Student from Profs. Angelica Sanchez and Sarah Hennies’s “Quantum Listening” class on music and meditation will perform Ms. Lockwood’s improvisational piece “Bayou Borne” (dedicated to Pauline Oliveros) followed by “Jitterbug,” performed by Sanchez (piano) and Hennies (percussion) with Annea Lockwood herself live-mixing field recordings with the improvised music.
Free and open to the public, the concert begins at 7pm in Blum Hall and will last about an hour. For questions please email Sarah Hennies at [email protected]
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Friday, May 3, 2024
Olin Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Friday, May 3, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Blum Hall 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, April 29, 2024
Blum Hall7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Bard electric guitar students perform music by Bard composers Magdalena Teisler and Wiliam Halas, as well as Terry Riley's "In C."
Free and open to the public.
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Hudson Valley Youth Jazz Orchestra Olin Hall4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Director Dan Shaut with Roland Vazquez Band
Featuring Tristen Napoli (tpt), Nathan Childers (sax), Jessica Jones (sax), Dan Shaut (sax), Elliott Steele (pno), Nick Edwards (bss), Pito Castillo (cga), and Roland Vazquez (dms).
Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month! Special Thanks to Local A.F.M. 238-291, La Voz, Radio Kingston, and Bridge Arts & Education for their generous support.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Bard Hall5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Blum N211, the Jazz Room8:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Blum Hall7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Friday, April 19, 2024
Olin Hall7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto in G minor “per l’Orchestra di Dresda,” RV 577 J. S. Bach – Brandenburg Concert No. 4, BWV 1049 J. S. Bach – Sinfonia in F, BWV 1046a J. S. Bach – Hunting Cantata, BWV 208: Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd
Renée Anne Louprette, director Christopher Nelson & Joas Erasmus, violins David Keringer & Kelsey Burnham, recorders David Zoschnick & Shawn Hutchison, oboes Adelaide Braunhill & HanYi Huang, bassoons Jaclyn Hopping & Megan Maloney, sopranos Sam Warshauer, tenor Joey Breslau, baritone Tyler Duncan, guest reader
The Power of a Feeling: Black Music, Literature, and the Creation of an Aesthetic.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space1:30 pm – 2:50 pm EDT/GMT-4 • A performance by Marcus Roberts (piano) with Marty Jaffe (bass), Dave Potter (drums), Boyce Griffith (alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet). • A class by Professors Donna Ford Grover and Marcus Roberts
This performance by Bard Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music Marcus Roberts showcases the blues in its many shades and colors and will demonstrate how the blues in jazz connects with other great art forms including literature. This performance grows from the spring 2024 class entitled “The Power of a Feeling: Black Music, Literature, and the Creation of an Aesthetic”. Some of the seminal literary works from the class include Sonny's Blues (James Baldwin), The Blacker the Berry (Wallace Thurman), and Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston).
The themes in these stories involve black life and identity in America and each author expresses their unique personality through their prose. Jazz musicians do the same. From Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington, and on to the present day, each jazz musician has an individual sound and identity. The blues also appears throughout American music and has as much variety as there are people who play it. This performance showcases the enduring influence of the blues in music and American life. Please join Professors Donna Grover and Marcus Roberts who, with his fellow musicians, will explore the connection between the blues and these great American literary works.
This class/performance is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:15 pm – 8:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
Friday, April 12, 2024 – Sunday, April 14, 2024
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann Directed by Liz Peterson Music Direction by David Sytkowski Fisher Center, LUMA Theater Set in a Gotham-like city in the not-so-distant future, Urinetown is a scathing satire with a tragic love story at its heart. In it, we see how a community is torn apart by an oppressive for-profit system, how figures of liberation rise up, and the impossible choices they are left with. Featuring music inspired by so many other musicals, this is a show that both celebrates and satirizes the tradition of musical theater.
April 12 at 7:30 pm, April 13 at 2:00 pm AND 7:30 pm, April 14 at 4:00 pm Fisher Center, LUMA Theater https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/urinetown/
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Chapel of the Holy Innocents6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Olin Hall12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A performance anxiety and mindfulness workshop. For musicians, but open to everyone!
Saturday, March 9, 2024
Seven pianists perform works by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) and Fryderyk Chopin (1810-49). Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to the public.
Debussy in Paris: Poets, Politics, and the Piano Intertwined Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Pianist Catherine Kautsky presents a lecture-recital placing Debussy's piano music in the context of fin-de siècle Paris. We’ll look at fairies and clowns, writers and painters, arabesques and castanets, and along the way we’ll encounter the many issues of race, gender, colonialism, and nationalism that affected (and afflicted) Paris c. 1900.
Catherine Kautsky, Chair of Keyboard at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, has been lauded by the New York Times as “a pianist who can play Mozart and Schubert as though their sentiments and habits of speech coincided exactly with hers … The music spoke directly to the listener, with neither obfuscation nor pretense.” Her recording of the Debussy Preludes, released by Centaur in September, 2014, was said to “bring out all the power, majesty, and mystery of Debussy’s conception.“ Ms Kautsky has just released a 24 video set, “Great Works for the Piano” for Great Courses/Wondrium, and is also presenting courses on piano literature for the Juilliard Extension Division and the 92nd Street Y of New York City.
Wind quintet performs recent works by contemporary women composers. Olin Hall4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The one-hour program includes: Alyssa Morris, Dumbarton Oaks Amanda Harberg, Suite for Winds Jennifer Higdon, Autumn Music Valerie Coleman, Afro Cuban Concerto Grace Ann Lee (Heritage Winds Commission), The Woman Air Force Service Pilots
Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Olin Hall7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to the public.
The West Point Brass Quintet is the primary chamber ensemble of the Army’s oldest musical organization, the West Point Band. Stationed at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Quintet provides support for West Point ceremonies as well as other outreach events throughout the Northeast.
Monday, February 12, 2024
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Works by Beethoven, Iman Habibi, Jocelyn Morlock, and Jeffrey Ryan. Olin Hall3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 This is not your typical St. Valentine’s concert. Our partnership began with Lieder, drawing us away from our home of British Columbia, Canada, to pursue studies in Germany. Through the veil of an unfamiliar language and culture, we felt the pull of home, and a wish to express our feelings of connection to each other and our shared geography through music. These song cycles reflect the quarter century we have spent together on and off the stage. They tell a story of a complicated, messy, lasting, and wonderful collaboration, through the incredible music of Beethoven, Habibi, Morlock, and Ryan and the inspiring poetry of Zwicky, Ashton, Khayyãm, and Jeitteles.
“Home, the ache of the invisible” – Jan Zwicky.
Free and open to the public.
Sunday, February 4, 2024
Disco and Deception at the Opera Fisher Center, LUMA Theater2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The popular Bard Opera Workshop returns again this year with student singers performing a selection of scenes from the operatic canon. The performance is directed by Bard alum Emily Cuk ’11 and accompanied by an orchestra of Bard students.
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Disco and Deception at the Opera Fisher Center, LUMA Theater7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The popular Bard Opera Workshop returns again this year with student singers performing a selection of scenes from the operatic canon. The performance is directed by Bard alum Emily Cuk ’11 and accompanied by an orchestra of Bard students.
Friday, February 2, 2024
Disco and Deception at the Opera Fisher Center, LUMA Theater7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The popular Bard Opera Workshop returns again this year with student singers performing a selection of scenes from the operatic canon. The performance is directed by Bard alum Emily Cuk ’11 and accompanied by an orchestra of Bard students.
