Enjoy the Bard College Community Orchestra in concert, livestreamed from Olin Hall, featuring Maeve McKaig, violin soloist, in Max Bruch’s Kol Nidrei and music of Elgar, Mendelssohn, and Mozart. Conductors: Zachary Schwartzman and Erica Kiesewetter. This concert took place on November 16, 2020.
Timothy Ridout, violaSaturday, October 15, 2022 Olin Hall11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 "Cinderella No More," a lecture-recital will retrace the viola’s journey from its humble beginnings in the 19th century to its flourishing with Lionel Tertis (1976-1975) in the 20th century. The recital will include works by Flackton, Coates, Bowen, Reed, and Britten, and will feature renowned violist Timothy Ridout, artist in residence at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He will be accompanied by viola student, Yujie Wang, and two Conservatoire colleagues: violist Louise Lansdown, head of strings, and pianist John Thwaites, head of keyboard.
11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Olin Hall
11/03
Thursday
Thursday, November 3, 2022 Bard Hall5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Sarah Kay, Professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture, NYU Christopher Preston Thompson, Tenor and Medieval Harpist
This collaborative event – part lecture, part concert – by medieval literary scholar Sarah Kay and early music ensemble Concordian Dawn, under director Christopher Preston Thompson, draws on Kay’s experimental book Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera and Thompson’s companion website of recordings. Together, Kay and Thompson find the sounds of medieval song in the least expected places: stars, the dawn light, the touch of a hand, beasts’ breath, and wild imaginings. The songs on their program range from the earliest alba to Guillaume de Machaut, but their voices sound from the outer spheres to the inner senses.
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Bard Hall
11/21
Monday
Monday, November 21, 2022 Fisher Center8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Program will include Dvorak's Symphony No. 8, conducted by the Bard College Community Orchestra Music Director Zac Schwartzman.
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Fisher Center
12/07
Wednesday
Wednesday, December 7, 2022 Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Chapel of the Holy Innocents
Music Program Newsroom
Bard Music Professor Angelica Sanchez’s New Album Previewed in New York Times
Assistant Professor of Music Angelica Sanchez’s newest acoustic-trio album Sparkle Beings will be released by Sunnyside Records on September 23 and is featured in the New York Times culture section’s fall preview. “This pianist and composer has yet to receive her full due, but at 50 she continues to churn out fabulous acoustic free jazz recordings at an unfettered clip,” writes Giovanni Russonello for the New York Times.
Bard Music Professor Angelica Sanchez’s New Album Previewed in New York Times
Assistant Professor of Music Angelica Sanchez’s newest acoustic-trio album Sparkle Beings will be released by Sunnyside Records on September 23 and is featured in the New York Times culture section’s fall preview. “This pianist and composer has yet to receive her full due, but at 50 she continues to churn out fabulous acoustic free jazz recordings at an unfettered clip,” writes Giovanni Russonello for the New York Times.
Christine Shoshannah ’06 (formerly known by her surname Dominguez), who majored in music, returned to her hometown of Newburgh, New York, to host a benefit concert and album release event. A portion of the proceeds raised from the event will be donated to Safe Harbors of the Hudson, a nonprofit supporting homeless and low-income families in Newburgh.
Grammy-Nominated Songwriter and Singer Christine Shoshannah ’06 Hosts Benefit Concert in Her Hometown of Newburgh, New York
Christine Shoshannah ’06 (formerly known by her surname Dominguez), who majored in music, returned to her hometown of Newburgh, New York, to host a benefit concert and album release event. A portion of the proceeds raised from the event will be donated to Safe Harbors of the Hudson, a nonprofit supporting homeless and low-income families in Newburgh. Shoshannah is a Grammy-nominated songwriter and award-winning singer with a new album Faithful For Free. She graduated one year early from Newburgh Free Academy to jump-start her music career before enrolling at Bard.
Four Bard College students, Asyl Almaz ’24, Nandi Woodfork-Bey ’22, Grant Venable ’24, and Azriel Almodovar ’24, have been awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the U.S. Department of State. Gilman Scholars receive up to $5,000, or up to $8,000 if also a recipient of the Gilman Critical Need Language Award, to apply toward their study abroad or internship program costs. The recipients of this cycle’s Gilman scholarships are American undergraduate students attending 536 U.S. colleges and represent 49 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, who will study or intern in 91 countries around the globe through April 2023.
Four Bard College Students Win Prestigious Gilman International Scholarships to Study Abroad
Four Bard College students have been awarded highly competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships by the U.S. Department of State. Gilman Scholars receive up to $5,000, or up to $8,000 if also a recipient of the Gilman Critical Need Language Award, to apply toward their study abroad or internship program costs. The recipients of this cycle’s Gilman scholarships are American undergraduate students attending 536 U.S. colleges and represent 49 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, who will study or intern in 91 countries around the globe through April 2023.
Computer science and Asian studies joint major Asyl Almaz ’24, from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan,has been awarded $4,000 towards her studies via Bard’s Tuition Exchange at Waseda University in Tokyo for fall 2022. “Coming from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, it has not been an easy journey immersing myself into a different culture when I moved to America for college—let alone another one. I am so incredibly grateful to receive the Gilman scholarship to be able to spend a semester in Waseda. This will ensure that I will be able to not only step foot in another country and learn so many new things about Asian history and culture, but also to be able to afford the expenses that I will have to pay there,” said Almaz.
Music and Asian studies joint major Nandi Woodfork-Bey ’22, from Sacramento, California,has been awarded $3,500 to study at the American College of Greece for fall 2022. “I’m immensely grateful to have received the Gilman Scholarship. I look forward to spending a semester abroad in Greece as I expand and diversify my studies in music and culture. Studying abroad will help me build the global and professional skills needed to succeed in my future endeavors, and I’m thankful that the Gilman program has further helped me achieve this opportunity” said Woodfork-Bey.
Theater major Grant Venable ’24, from Sherman Oaks, California, received a Gilman-DAAD scholarship andhas been awarded $5,000 to study at Bard College Berlin for fall 2022. “I am honored to be able to attend Bard College in Berlin with the help of the Gilman scholarship. This scholarship will allow me to pursue my passion for theater and challenge my work as a performance artist through my studies in Berlin,” said Venable.
Philosophy major Azriel Almodovar ’24, from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, has been awarded $3,500 to study in Taormina, Italy on Bard’s Italian Language Intensive program in summer 2022. “Thanks to the Gilman Scholarship, I am able to study abroad with no financial issues and really take advantage of all that the Italian Intensive Program has to offer. I am very grateful for being a recipient and look forward to my time abroad,” said Almodovar.
Since the program’s establishment in 2001, over 1,350 U.S. institutions have sent more than 34,000 Gilman Scholars of diverse backgrounds to 155 countries around the globe. The program has successfully broadened U.S. participation in study abroad, while emphasizing countries and regions where fewer Americans traditionally study.
As Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, “People-to-people exchanges bring our world closer together and convey the best of America to the world, especially to its young people.”
The late Congressman Gilman, for whom the scholarship is named, served in the House of Representatives for 30 years and chaired the House Foreign Relations Committee. When honored with the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Medal in 2002, he said, “Living and learning in a vastly different environment of another nation not only exposes our students to alternate views but adds an enriching social and cultural experience. It also provides our students with the opportunity to return home with a deeper understanding of their place in the world, encouraging them to be a contributor, rather than a spectator in the international community.”
The Gilman Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and is supported in its implementation by the Institute of International Education (IIE). To learn more, visit: gilmanscholarship.org
Bard College Appoints Angelica Sanchez as Assistant Professor of Music in the Division of the Arts
Bard College’s Division of the Arts is pleased to announce the appointment of Angelica Sanchez as assistant professor of music. Her tenure-track appointment begins in the 2022–23 academic year.
Pianist, composer, and educator Angelica Sanchez moved to New York from Arizona in 1995. Since moving to the East Coast Sanchez has collaborated with such notable artists as Wadada Leo Smith, Paul Motian, Richard Davis, William Parker, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Nicole Mitchell, Rob Mazurek, Tom Rainey, Tim Berne, Mario Pavone, amongst others.
Her music has been recognized in national and international publications including Jazz Times, the New York Times, Down Beat, Jazziz and Chicago Tribune amongst others. She was also the 2008 recipient of a French/American Chamber Music America grant, the 2011 Rockefeller Brothers Pocantico artist residency, the 2021 Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice Score Compilation Grant, and the 2021 Civitella Fellowship, Italy.
Sanchez’ debut solo CD “A Little House” was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition and her recording with Marilyn Crispell “How to Turn the Moon” was chosen as one of the best recordings of 2020 in the New York City Jazz Record and was voted as one of the top 50 best recordings in 2020, NPR critics poll. Sanchez leads numerous groups including her nonet that will release a new recording in 2022 on the Pyroclastic label. A new trio recording with Michael Formanek and Billy Hart will be released on Sunnyside Records in 2022. Sanchez holds a master’s degree from William Paterson University in Jazz Arranging. www.angelicasanchez.com
Bard Professor Maria Sonevytsky on the Power of Ukrainian Music to Document the Past and Imagine the Future
In an interview with Coda Story, Maria Sonevytsky, associate professor of anthropology and music, spoke to the history and future of Ukrainian music—a category which is itself under political dispute. In Sonevytsky’s work studying Ukrainian music and its relation to national identity, she has written widely about hybrid works that imagine futures, “even if just a wish for the survival of a past.” In addition to her scholarship on groups such as the Dakh Daughters and Vopli Vidopliassova, Sonevytsky is equally interested in street musicians, who even now play in the streets of Kyiv. “I’m thinking about very ordinary musicians, noncelebrities, who are playing music on the streets of Odesa or on the streets of Kyiv in defiance of this unjust war,” Sonevytsky says. “I think these ordinary acts of defiance, these people playing music on the streets as they’re surrounded by barricades and sandbags, have been incredibly moving to watch.”
Songwriter Lily Konigsberg ’16’s Lifelong Journey to Unconventional Pop Perfection
Best known as one-third of Palberta—the anarchic pop-rock group formed with fellow Bardians Ani Ivry-Block ’15 and Nina Ryser ’15—the 26-year-old songwriter steps out on her own with The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now, a solo compilation that brings together three of Konigsberg’s pop-leaning solo EPs and a handful of previously unreleased songs. “On first listen, the collection stands up as a debut album in its own right, showcasing Konigsberg’s breadth as a pop songwriter, from the rich a cappella harmonies of ‘Rock and Sin’ to the bubblegum throb of ‘It’s Just Like All the Clouds’ to the pretty, carefree-sounding folk of ‘Roses,’” writes Alex Robert Ross in Fader. “But the story of Konigsberg’s growth as a songwriter and a person is buried beneath the tracklist.”
Bard Faculty Erika Switzer and Lucy Fitz Gibbon Share $30,000 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
The National Endowment for the Arts has approved a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award for “Freedom on the Move: Songs in Flight,” a project envisioned and led by art song organization Sparks & Wiry Cries for the commission of two world premieres and a subsequent performance tour in 2023. This ambitious musical project is a direct response to Cornell University’s Freedom on the Move (FOTM) database, housing digitized, searchable fugitive slave advertisements, resulting in a co-commission by Sparks & Wiry Cries and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. The grant was written by Sparks cofounders Martha Guth, Ithaca College, and Erika Switzer, Bard artist in residence; director, Postgraduate Collaborative Piano Fellowship; and faculty in Bard’s undergraduate Music Program, Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and Conservatory of Music, with Sparks Managing Editor Lucy Fitz Gibbon, faculty in Bard College's Conservatory of Music and Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
The first commission is a song cycle by composer Shawn Okpebholo featuring four prominent classical musicians—soprano Karen Slack, countertenor Reginald Mobley, baritone Will Liverman, and pianist and Bard Conservatory faculty Howard Watkins—interlaced with material curated and performed by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. Okpebholo’s cycle sets poetry curated by Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Duke University, whose work along with that of poet Crystal Simone Smith, Duke University, contextualizes and responds to documents in the FOTM database. This interdisciplinary song cycle will be accompanied by a choral work by Joel Thompson, drawing on the Spiritual tradition as well as the FOTM database. After a New York City premiere in early 2023, the project will travel to Philadelphia, Durham, and the Finger Lakes region of New York, in performances co-presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Lincoln University, Duke University, Cornell University, Ithaca College, the Harriet Tubman Home, Inc., in partnership with Sparks & Wiry Cries.
This project is among the more than 1,100 projects across America totaling nearly $27 million that were selected during this second round of Grants for Arts Projects fiscal year 2021 funding.
“As the country and the arts sector begin to imagine returning to a post-pandemic world, the National Endowment for the Arts is proud to announce funding that will help arts organizations such as Cornell’s Music Department reengage fully with partners and audiences,” said NEA Acting Chairman Ann Eilers. “Although the arts have sustained many during the pandemic, the chance to gather with one another and share arts experiences is its own necessity and pleasure.”
For more information on the projects included in the Arts Endowment grant announcement, visit arts.gov/news.
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About Sparks & Wiry Cries Sparks & Wiry Cries curates opportunities for art song creators, performers, and scholars through innovative initiatives that capture the stories of our diverse communities. For more information, visit sparksandwirycries.org.
About Freedom on the Move Due to the breaking of family bonds and the illegality of literacy amongst enslaved people, there remains a paucity of written records to track individual lives during the period of slavery. The Freedom on the Move database notes that it compiles “thousands of stories of resistance that have never been accessible in one place. Created to control the movement of enslaved people, the ads ultimately preserved the details of individual lives—their personality, appearance, and life story. Taken collectively, the ads constitute a detailed, concise, and rare source of information about the experiences of enslaved people.” Cornell Department of History’s Dr. Ed Baptist and William Block, director of the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research (CISER), are the principal investigators for FOTM, a joint project of the Department of History, CISER and Cornell University Library. Songs in Flight seeks to bring awareness to these individuals and to the creative possibilities made possible through FOTM, building a living monument to this erased history by highlighting stories of strength rather than stories of oppression. For more information, visit freedomonthemove.org.
About Bard College Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place estate, Bard’s campus consists of nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; graduate degrees in 11 programs; eight early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 161-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu.
James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music Christopher H. Gibbs Awarded 2021–22 Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin
The American Academy in Berlin has awarded Christopher H. Gibbs, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music at Bard College, a 2021-22 Berlin Prize. The Berlin Prize is awarded annually to American or US-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition. Gibbs, who is also artistic codirector of the Bard Music Festival and a professor at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, was named a spring 2022 Berlin Prize fellow. Fellows spend a semester at the Academy’s lakeside Hans Arnhold Center, a historic nineteenth-century villa located in Berlin’s Wannsee district.
“Gibbs has long been committed to so-called public musicology, especially to forging links between music scholarship and general audiences through curated concerts and festivals,” writes the American Academy in Berlin in its award citation. “In Berlin, he will explore the past, present, and future of concert life in the city.”
“I am thrilled by the opportunity to think intensely about curation, something familiar with museums but much less so with music,” said Gibbs. “Berlin’s rich musical history and its innovative scene today provide abundant material to help reimage the future, especially in the wake of the pandemic and amid struggles for social justice.”
About the 2021-22 Berlin Prize Chosen by an independent selection committee, the 2021-22 class of Berlin Prize fellows will pursue a wide array of scholarly and artistic projects, including histories of the legalities of small wars among European empires, the Visigothic political order, competing conceptions of self-government in English and American political thought, Algerian Jewish life, and the Greek Revolution; two new novels and a graphic memoir; investigations into lithium extraction in the US, Chile, and Argentina; EU-China-US relations in the context of global supply chains; the relationship between declining coal-use and the rise of populism; European attitudes toward global democratic decline; and new works by a composer, translator, and two visual artists.
The Berlin Prize provides recipients the time and resources to advance important scholarly and artistic projects, free from the constraints of other professional obligations. Fellows work throughout the semester with Berlin peers and institutions in the Academy’s well-established network, forging meaningful connections that lead to lasting transatlantic relationships. During their stays, fellows engage German audiences through lectures, readings, and performances, which form the core of the American Academy’s public program. For more information, click here.
About Christopher H. Gibbs Christopher H. Gibbs is James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music at Bard College; faculty, Bard College Conservatory of Music; and artistic codirector, Bard Music Festival. He is the executive editor of The Musical Quarterly; editor of The Cambridge Companion to Schubert (1997); author of The Life of Schubert (2000), which has been translated into five languages; coeditor of Franz Liszt and His World (2006) and Franz Schubert and His World (2014); and coauthor of The Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition (2013; 2nd ed., 2018). He is a contributor to New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 19th-Century Music, Schubert durch die Brille, Current Musicology, Opera Quarterly, and Chronicle of Higher Education. Additionally, he has served as program annotator and musicological consultant to the Philadelphia Orchestra (2000– ); musicological director of the Schubertiade at the 92nd Street Y in New York City; musicological adviser for the Schubert Festival at Carnegie Hall (1997); and artistic codirector of the Bard Music Festival (2003– ). Among Gibbs’s previous honors were the Dissertation Prize of the Austrian Cultural Institute, ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award, and American Council of Learned Societies fellowship. He previously taught at SUNY Buffalo (1993–2003). BA, Haverford College; MA, MPhil, PhD, Columbia University. At Bard since 2002.
About Bard College Founded in 1860, Bard College is a four-year residential college of the liberal arts and sciences located 90 miles north of New York City. With the addition of the Montgomery Place estate, Bard’s campus consists of nearly 1,000 parklike acres in the Hudson River Valley. It offers bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, and bachelor of music degrees, with majors in nearly 40 academic programs; graduate degrees in 11 programs; eight early colleges; and numerous dual-degree programs nationally and internationally. Building on its 161-year history as a competitive and innovative undergraduate institution, Bard College has expanded its mission as a private institution acting in the public interest across the country and around the world to meet broader student needs and increase access to liberal arts education. The undergraduate program at our main campus in upstate New York has a reputation for scholarly excellence, a focus on the arts, and civic engagement. Bard is committed to enriching culture, public life, and democratic discourse by training tomorrow’s thought leaders. For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu.
Lake Street Dive Band Members Discuss the Impact of Singer-Songwriter Akie Bermiss ’05 on the Band’s New Album, Obviously
“Akie was one of my favorite singers, before he joined the band,” singer Rachael Price tells Variety. “I was literally starstruck when he joined. I was like, I cannot believe somebody of this caliber of voice is sitting behind me playing piano.” Bassist Bridget Kearney adds, “(Akie) has many talents that he brings to the table and contributed a lot to the writing on this record and also of course to the character of the recordings, not only with his keyboard playing, but with his singing.”
Blum Hall7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 The performance includes the premiere of a new duo performance with Bard faculty member Matt Sargent, for pedal steel and laptop.
This concert is free and open to members of the public.
Friday, August 19, 2022
Featuring Bard Professor Emeritus of Music and Integrated Arts, Benjamin Boretz Maverick Concert Hall. Woodstock, NY7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Curated by poet Dorota Czerner and composer Jon Forshee, Encounters: Music from the Time of Renewal is an evening-length concert featuring recent collaborations between Czerner and the composers Benjamin Boretz, Jon Forshee, and Augustus Arnone.
The works presented in this concert each engage state-of-the-art sound and video technologies within the modern classical stage tradition, weaving a narrative of sonic and poetic encounter, exchange and discovery. The program also includes compositions by Adam Greene and Christopher Bailey, with special guests classical guitarist Colin McAllister and pianist Joshua Charney.
Composers Augustus Arnone Augustus Arnone is an adventurous pianist and composer, who has made a home at the edge of transcendental extremes in the modern repertory. His repertoire includes the complete solo piano works of Milton Babbitt, Michael Finnissy’s complete “The History Of Photography In Sound,” as well as works by John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Roberto Sierra, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and others.
Christopher Bailey Christopher Bailey’s composition explores a variety of musical threads, including microtonality, acousmatic and concrète sounds, serialist junk sculpture, ornate musical details laid out in flat forms, and constrained improvisation. His awards include prizes from BMI, ASCAP, and the Bearns Prize.
Benjamin Boretz Ben Boretz is the founder and director of Open Space Music. He is currently working on composing a new piano piece for Augustus Arnone. His “Downtime for piano and percussion ensemble” was released on Open Space CD 48 alongside Jon Forshee’s “Apokotastasis.”
Dorota Czerner Dorota Czerner is a poet who entangled her European roots with the Hudson River light. Her live performances, created in collaboration with composers and video artists, embrace the discovery of ecosystems built around and inside the poetics of the spoken word. Her work has been exhibited and performed in North America and Europe.
Jon Forshee Composer and sonic explorer Jon Forshee creates for a diversity of musical forces and ensembles, with many current works focused on and around collaborations and new media. Recent premieres include “Vivarium – Thirteen Images of Danielle Rae Miller” (2022), and “Apokatastasis” (2021), for chamber ensemble and computer. Jon lives in Colorado, where he teaches at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Adam Greene Adam Greene is a composer and writer whose work references interests in literature, linguistics, and cognitive science in music that explores multiplicity, fragility, and instability. He has received awards from the Fromm Music Foundation, ASCAP, NACUSA and The American Composers’ Forum.
Guest Performers Colin McAllister Colin McAllister is an assistant professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His research interests include contemporary music performance and pedagogy, musical modernism, and the apocalyptic paradigm as manifested in various phenomena—literature, music, and art.
Joshua Charney Josh Charney is a pianist, composer, and musicologist based in Northern California. As a performer-composer, he is interested in contemporary music that incorporates improvisation, theatricality, and other experimental practices. He is also an active participant with the Sibarg Ensemble, a group that creates a unique blend between traditional Iranian music and jazz.
Russell Craig Richardson Russell Craig Richardson is an award-winning video and film maker who specializes in musical and poetic collaboration. His works and installations have screened in Europe and the Americas.
Paloma Kop Paloma Kop is an experimental multimedia artist and performer. In this collaboration, she will misuse 1990s television broadcast equipment to create moving images which flow in parallel with the sound and spoken word performance.
Open Space Music Association is a community for people who need to explore or expand the limits of their expressive worlds, to extend or dissolve the boundaries among their expressive-language practices, to experiment with the forms or subjects of thinking or making or performing in the context of creative phenomena.
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Bard Hall5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A conversation about the Music Program (classical, jazz, vocal, instrumental, and electronic, and experimental music), lessons, ensembles, auditions, practice rooms, storage lockers, performance venues, and much more.
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 This is an opportunity for different “currents” in the music department to share an informal concert and hear each other. Jazz groups, chamber groups, violinists, oboists, flutists, pianists, and more—all are welcome, on a first come, first served basis.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, May 19, 2022
The Jazz Room, Blum N2116:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, May 16, 2022
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Composers from three centuries include: Florence Price, Dvořák-influencer Harry Burleigh, Robert Owens, Undine Smith Moore, George Walker, Margaret Bonds, Valerie Capers, Carlos Gomes, Lena McLin, Adolphus Hailstork, Leslie Adams, Camille Nickerson, and Rosephanye Powell.
Monday, May 16, 2022
Campus Center – South Quad Lawn6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Blum Hall6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Friday, May 13, 2022
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Friday, May 13, 2022
Coached by Erika Switzer Blum Hall12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Featuring: LEO CRONAN-COUNTERTENOR GARRICK NEUNER- BASS/BARITONE LEXI LANNI-SOPRANO RYAN MICHKI- TENOR ERIKA SWITZER- PIANO
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Olin Hall8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Blum Hall7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, May 9, 2022
The Jazz Room - Blum N2118:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, May 9, 2022
Performing Music from Bali Bard Hall5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Sunday, May 8, 2022
Bard Hall6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Friday, May 6, 2022
8:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Olin Hall8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come hear the students of the Jazz Vocal Workshop perform their annual spring selection of jazz standards and new jazz sounds.
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Friday, April 29, 2022
And other works by J.S. and Johann Bernhard Bach Bard Baroque Ensemble in collaboration with Bard Chamber Singers Preparatory Chorus Graduate Vocal Arts Program Olin Hall7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Blum N211, the jazz room8:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Greg Stuart is a percussionist whose work draws upon a mixture of music from the experimental tradition, Wandelweiser, improvisation, and electronics. His performances have been described as “a ghostly, gorgeous lesson in how close, concentrated listening can alter and enhance perception” (The New York Times). Since 2006, he has collaborated extensively with the composer Michael Pisaro, producing a large body of music comprised of pieces that focus on the magnification of small sounds through recording and layering, often in combination with field recordings and/or electronic sound. Stuart holds a D.M.A. and M.A. from the University of California, San Diego, and a BMus from Northwestern University. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Music in Columbia, SC where he teaches experimental music, music history, and runs the Experimental Music Workshop.Stuart will join Professor Sarah Hennies’s students from the MUS 214 “Sound Art”class in a performance of music by Pauline Oliveros and the world premiere of “Oxbow (2)” by Greg Stuart, composed expressly for Bard students. The concert will also feature a piece of improvised music performed by Stuart and Professor Hennies.
Monday, April 25, 2022
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Featuring soloists from our annual concerto competition.
Sunday, April 24, 2022
18 musicians including a brass quintet, a string quartet, percussion duo, and more Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Live stream link: https://tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/files/99962499/117/Music%20Alive%20Concert%20Program%20Spring%2022.pdf
Program link: https://tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/files/99962499/117/Music%20Alive%20Concert%20Program%20Spring%2022.pdf
Saturday, April 23, 2022
The Bard College Community Jazz Orchestra will present a program of music by American Composers in Theatre to Hard bop to Free jazz. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Featuring the Bard College Community Jazz Orchestra, the Bard College Percussion Ensemble and Thurman Barker's ensemble performing the music of Henry Mancini, Richard Rogers, Horace Silver and Thurman Barker.
Featured guest for this concert will be pianist composer NOAH BARKER from NOISEBODY.
Program link: https://tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/files/99962499/114/Senior%20Recital%20I%20Program%20PDF%20Version.pdf
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Blum Hall7:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
Caroline Davis & Portals, featuring Caroline Davis (alto saxophone), Jonathan Finlayson (trumpet), Julian Shore (piano), Chris Tordini (bass), and Allan Mednard (drums) Blum Hall2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Mobile since her birth in Singapore, musician and composer Caroline Davis covers diverse musical styles. Recent albums include My Tree’s Where The Grace Is and Portals: Volume 1. She won Downbeat’s Critic’s Poll Rising Star Alto-Saxophonist (2018) and was listed in Downbeat’s Readers Poll (2021). Davis has played with Lee Konitz, The Femme Jam, Matt Mitchell, Terry Riley, Sara Serpa, Miles Okazaki, Angelica Sanchez, and Billy Kaye. She has been in residence at MacDowell and awarded Jerome Hill, CMA, and NYFA grants. Her compositions integrate science and music, influenced by her Ph.D. Davis is an advocate for gender equity (TIAM, The New School) and abolition (Justice for Keith Lamar).
Blum N211, the jazz room5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Salim Washington will discuss the origins and development of jazz music and the imaginary that surrounds it, with a special focus on the revolutionary potential and the ways in which it functions in our society.
Salim Washington is the inaugural International Visiting Professor of African American and African Diasporic Studies at Columbia University. Washington is also a cluster leader and head of department of Performing Arts, as well as a professor at University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (Durban, South Africa). A composer and reedsman, he performs on the flute, tenor saxophone, oboe, and bass clarinet. He also studied other instruments including mbira and hand drums. Prof Washington is a widely published scholar of Black culture and music. His interests include the Black Atlantic, afrofuturism, jazz and other vernacular musics, and diasporic film and literature. Washington is now completing the following titles: Beautiful Nightmare: John Coltrane, Jazz, and American Culture and Notes from Mzansi: The South African Jazz Imaginary. Washington performed at the Pan African Space Station in Cape Town, South Africa in 2021
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Bard Baroque Ensemble in collaboration with the Graduate Vocal Arts Program Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Blum N211, the jazz room5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Musicians have created their unique sound by building language through analysis, assimilation, and performance. There are countless strategies for this, but how do we build language and unity in an ensemble? With fewer playing opportunities, it can be challenging to get the performance time necessary to make these deep meaningful connections. This lecture examines different strategies using music parameters, like texture, rhythm, and dynamics, to create unity in an ensemble. Learn how to develop a “band sound” and gain a heightened sense of listening awareness.
Pianist/Composer/Educator Angelica Sanchez moved to New York from Arizona in 1994. Sanchez leads numerous groups, the most recent being her Nonet which features Chris Speed, Michael Attias, Thomas Heberer, Kenny Warren, Ben Goldberg, John Hebert, Omar Tamez, and Sam Ospavot. Her music has been recognized in national and international publications including Jazz Times, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune amongst others. She was also the 2008 recipient of a French/American Chamber Music America grant, the 2011 Rockefeller Brothers Pocantico artist residency and the 2021 Civitella Fellowship, Italy.
Sanchez’s debut solo CD “A Little House” was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition and her recording “Wires & Moss” featuring her Quintet was chosen as one of best Releases of 2012 in “The New York City Jazz Record (formerly AllAboutJazz-New York).” Her recording “Twine Forest” a duo with Wadada Leo Smith received Honorable Mention as one of the best releases of 2013 in "The New York City Jazz Record." Her latest trio project “Float The Edge” features Michael Formanek and Tyshawn Sorey and has garnered wide critical acclaim. Her new piano duo "How to Turn the Moon," with Marilyn Crispell was voted as one of the top 50 best recordings in 2020, NPR critics poll.
Angelica Sanchez has a Masters Degree in Arranging from William Paterson University. She is currently on faculty at The New School of Jazz and Contemporary Music and Princeton University.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Bard Hall8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Rob Cosgrove and Taylor Long (SUNY Stony Brook) with Matt Sargent (Bard College) Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Performing music by Sarah Hennies, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazi, Sarah Belle-Reid, Matt Sargent, and Samuel Carl Adams.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Lecture by Brendon M. Wilkins Blum N211, the Jazz Room5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Throughout history, jazz musicians have established a tradition of transforming existing compositions into new music by combining the intrinsic ideas in the composition with their own personal ideas. By analyzing the content found in other compositions, jazz musicians today can discover new compositional ideas that can be a source of inspiration for new pieces of music.
Brendon M. Wilkins is a multi-instrumentalist performer and educator who is involved in both classical and jazz woodwind performance. Brendon has performed in various musical mediums throughout the United States and has maintained active teaching studios in-person and online in New York, Texas, and Florida.
Brendon’s active musical career has led to performances with Jose Aponte, The Barcelona Clarinet Players, Scott Belck, Wayne Bergeron, Ron Carter, John Clayton, Carey Deadman, Rosana Eckert, Gregg Field, Quamon Fowler, Keith Ganz, Marshall Gilkes, Gordon Goodwin, Frank Greene, Stefon Harris, Jimmy Heath, Steve Houghton, Hugh Jackman, Sean Jones, Audrey Ochoa, Brad Leali, Sal Lozano, Johnny Mathis, Joe McBride, Marcus Miller, Christian McBride, Kate McGarry, Chris Potter, Rashawn Ross, Rex Richardson, Eric Scortia, Doc Severinsen, Jim Walker, Jiggs Whigham, and many others.
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The Blow is Melissa Dyne and Khaela Maricich. A shape-shifting entity, The Blow has taken various forms over time and manifests in an array of media, employing popular music as a vehicle for broader explorations. Operating between contexts and genres, the duo works with sound recording, performance, installation, writing, and physical media, aiming to address and expand the limitations encountered within each framework. Their self-titled album The Blow, released in 2013, was listed among the top-ten songs of 2013 by New York Times, and was NPR music editor Bob Boilen’s #1 album of that year. They have been curating WOMANPRODUCER.com, a multi-platform archive of female music producers, engineers and sonic innovators, since 2014. Their performances have been presented at The Kitchen, The Wexner Center, Artists Space, The Warhol Museum, On The Boards, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, as well as in traditional music venues such as The Henry Fonda Theater, Great American Music Hall, Joe’s Pub, and The Gramercy Theater. They live and work in New York City. womanproducer.com melissadyne.com khaelamaricich.com
Friday, February 25, 2022
Blum Hall7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Sunday, February 6, 2022
Companions Fisher Center, LUMA Theater3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Companions Fisher Center, LUMA Theater7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5