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
11/24
Sunday
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/
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Chapel of the Holy Innocents
12/03
Tuesday
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Blum Hall5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us for a student moderation concert.
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Blum Hall
12/05
Thursday
Thursday, December 5, 2024 Blum N211, the jazz room7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 A moderation concert for James Wise.
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Blum N211, the jazz room
12/05
Thursday
Thursday, December 5, 2024 The Jazz Room, Blum N2118:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Moderation concert for Jasmine Caperton.
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Jazz Room, Blum N211
12/06
Friday
Friday, December 6, 2024 Blum Hall7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 A senior concert by Steve Bonacci.
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Blum 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.”
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 This is an opportunity for the different “currents” in the music program to be in the same room and to hear each other. Jazz groups, singers, violinists, oboists, cellists, flutists, pianists, musical saw artists – all are welcome, on a first-come first served basis.
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Blum Hall4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Women Composers ensemble highlights works by composers that often have been overlooked and underrepresented. The Women Composers ensemble will be exploring compositions by Mary Lou Williams, Geri Allen, Carla Bley, Esperanza Spalding, and Nicole Mitchell.
Monday, December 12, 2022
Bard Hall6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Performing traditional works for the Balinese Gong Kebyar ensemble and featuring a hands-on demonstration for audience members.
Senior Projects in Dance 2022 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathe Rose Xu
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Manor House Cafe7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Senior Projects in Dance 2022 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathe Rose Xu
Friday, December 9, 2022
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Friday, December 9, 2022
Senior Projects in Dance 2022 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathe Rose Xu
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Memorial Hall (Old Gym)8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Thursday, December 8, 2022
James Bagwell, conductor Olin Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Works will include the Mozart Solemn Vespers and excerpts from some of Mozart’s most iconic operas.
Bard College Chamber Singers Bard College Symphonic Chorus Members of the Vocal Arts Program Members of the Conservatory Piano Fellowship Program
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Senior Projects in Dance 2022 Fisher Center, LUMA Theater7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Choreographed and performed by seniors in the Bard dance program, this concert of Senior Projects represents the culmination of four years of intensive choreographic inquiry. Their ideas are supported by a professional staff of designers.Choreography by Itzel Herrera Garcia Antonia Salathe Rose Xu
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Blum N211, the jazz room8:30 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
An eight-member group led by Prof. Matt Sargent, premieres a new piece by Annie Dodson ('23), along with ensemble works by Julius Eastman, Eve Beglarian, and Terry Riley. Blum Hall7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to the public
Monday, December 5, 2022
Blum Hall7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The Spontaneous Composition Ensemble explores alternate ways of composing other than using standard western notation. Through improvisation they have developed their intuition and musical language that is unique to the group.
Saturday, December 3, 2022
Blum Hall6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Saturday, December 3, 2022
Performance of Poetry and Song from Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Students (Free) Henry A. Wallace Visitor Center, Hyde Park6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Inspired by Wahtola Trommer's poem “Belonging,” alone.is.together.is is a curated concert exploring the complexities of loneliness and belonging. Through American poetry and song, this project demonstrates how we discover our true selves when we’re in caring community with each other. On Saturday, December 3rd, at 6:00pm, this curated concert will be held in the lobby of the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Educational Center located at the Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site in Hyde Park, NY. alone.is.together.is features bass-baritone Michael A. M. Aoun, soprano Abagael Cheng, soprano Maria Giovanetti, soprano Sadie Spivey, and pianist Nhi Huynh.
This program features music by Gilda Lyons, Joseph N. Rubinstein, Lori Laitman, Steven Mark Kohn, Ricky Ian Gordon, Michael Djupstrom, Pauline Oliveros and more. The performers will guide the audience through a musical journey from isolation to connection, exploring how a community forged from mutual love and acceptance can teach us all how to find a sense of home.
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.
Monday, November 21, 2022
Blum Hall7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Come join us for an electrifying evening of singing and storytelling, showcasing the work of students with Amy Justman (Company 2006 revival, Fosse/Verdon, Of Thee I Sing at Bard Summerscape).
Come join us for an electrifying evening of singing and storytelling, showcasing the work of students with Amy Justman (Company 2006 revival, Fosse/Verdon, Of Thee I Sing at Bard Summerscape).
Tango Dance Party, All Welcome Campus Center, Multipurpose Room8:30 pm – 11:55 pm EST/GMT-5 The Bard Tango Program is pleased to welcome Los Ocampo: Mónica Romero and Omar Ocampo's 30-year partnership of performing, teaching, and sharing Argentine tango and folklore around the world. Los Ocampo are masters of Argentine tango and Argentine folkloric dances, such as chacarera, zamba and malambo, and are official adjudicators at the international Tango Championships in Argentina. The Bard Tango Program pursues a space for freedom of expression, creativity, and human dignity within this art.
Come and dance with us!
Saturday, November 12, 2022
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room2:00 pm – 5:15 pm EST/GMT-5 The Bard Tango Program is pleased to welcome Los Ocampo: Mónica Romero and Omar Ocampo's 30-year partnership of performing, teaching, and sharing Argentine tango and folklore around the world. Los Ocampo are masters of Argentine tango and Argentine folkloric dances, such as chacarera, zamba and malambo, and are official adjudicators at the international Tango Championships in Argentina. The Bard Tango Program pursues a space for freedom of expression, creativity, and human dignity within this art.
Blum N211, the jazz room3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Saturday, 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.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Lecture Demonstration by Pandit Indranil Mallick Olin Hall5:45 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Pandit or maestro Indranil Mallick is one of the finest contemporary exponents of the tabla, a treble and bass hand drum combination, originating in the Indian subcontinent that is perhaps the primary form of percussion in contemporary Hindustani classical music. The Global and International Studies Program at Bard is honored to present an interactive lecture demonstration by the maestro where he will introduce the main taals or rhythm cycles in the Hindustani classical tradition, the variants possible, and the implementation of these taals on the tabla.
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.
https://youtu.be/rYwoRr8q7tI
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
