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.”
Steven Bonacci, lili m. namazi, Manar Hashmi, Zeke Morgan, Niall Ransford, Drew Frankenberg, Samuel Mutter, Emily Ta, Magdalena Teisler, Olivia Marhevka.
Sunday, December 17, 2023
Blum Hall1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5
This is an opportunity for different “currents” in the Music Program to be in the same room for a minute and hear each other. Jazz groups, singers, violinists, oboists, cellists, flutists, pianists, musical saw artists—all are welcome and will perform.
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Acclaimed New York-based new music quintet NOW Ensemble makes a stop at Bard as part of their northeast tour, performing works by Judd Greenstein, Gabriella Smith, Mark Dancigers, Jonghee Kang, Patrick Burke, Bard composition faculty member Missy Mazzoli, and student Elena Hause. With a unique instrumentation of flute, clarinet, electric guitar, double bass, and piano, the ensemble brings a fresh sound and a new perspective to the classical tradition, infused with the musical influences that reflect the diverse backgrounds of its members. NOW Ensemble has brought some of the most exciting composers of their generation to national and international recognition, and has performed at venues including Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, as well as on NPR’s All Things Considered. Newsweek recently claimed that “NOW... imports a catchy inflection to classical forms... Striking a balance between the old and the new has rarely sounded this good.”
Thursday, December 14, 2023
Blum N211, the Jazz Room6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
senior concert Blum N211, the Jazz Room8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Singers Olin Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Mendelssohn's Magnificat & other works by siblings Fanny and Felix
Performed by:
Members of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program Bard Conservatory Instrumentalists Conservatory Piano Fellows Bard Chamber Singers and Symphonic Chorus
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.
Friday, December 8, 2023
Blum Hall4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Monday, December 4, 2023
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Sunday, December 3, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Chamber music with Ya-Yin Yu, violin Sarah Martin, cello Shao-Chu Pan, piano
Free and open to the public.
Saturday, December 2, 2023
Olin Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Join us for an evening of scenes from Into The Woods, Spring Awakening, The Fantasticks, City of Angels, and many more, including new works by students.
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Students of Erica Kiesewetter
Bard Hall8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The music of Bach, Biber, Bruch, Kreisler, Tartini and Sarasate
Saturday, November 18, 2023
Olin Hall7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
With Erica Kiesewetter Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Open to ALL MUSICIANS!!!
Wear comfortable clothes. We will do a combination of mindfulness training, creative visualization, discussion, and I hope/know we will be enriched by each others’ ideas also. (It is a good idea to come with an idea of a small excerpt of a piece you might like to work on, in your mind!!)
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Bard Hall11:30 am – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Akua Dixon - cello John Esposito - piano Gwen Laster - violin & viola Peter O'Brien - drums Pamela Pentony - voice Eric Person - saxes & flute Marcus Roberts - piano Angelica Sanchez - piano Rich Syracuse - bass Francesca Tanksley - piano
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Baroque Violinist and Pedagogue Olin Hall5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Featuring the Bard Baroque Ensemble in works by Élisabeth de la Guerre, Ignatius Sancho (arr. Nicola Canzano), and J. S. Bach.
Free admission. All are welcome.
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
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 20, 2023
Cherry Wu Tristan Geary Michael Knox Rodney Clark Jr. Arnav Shirodkar Francisco Verastegui Angel Ruiz Vigilance Brandon Steve Bonacci Ameya Natarajan
Special guests: Katherine Chernyak & Alden Szlack Blum Hall8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Featuring works by:
Baikida Carroll Vigilance Brandon Erica Lindsay Samantha Boshnack Steve Bonacci
Followed by a set from alumni band Pocket Merchant!
Friday, May 19, 2023
Bard Hall4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 This is an opportunity for different “currents” in the Music Program to be in the same room for a minute and hear each other. Jazz groups, singers, violinists, oboists, cellists, flutists, pianists, musical saw artists—all are welcome and will perform.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Blum N211, the Jazz Room 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Featuring members of: The Bard Conservatory Vocal Arts Program The Bard Chamber Singers The Bard Symphonic Chorus James Bagwell - Conductor Olin Hall7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Blum Hall7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, May 15, 2023
Bard Hall6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, May 15, 2023
BLUMEN IN BLOOM Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Arts songs about flowers in English and German by Beach, Brahms, Burleigh, Alma Mahler, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, Price, Quilter, Clara and Robert Schumann, Schubert, Smyth, Strauss, Vaughan-Williams and Wolf.
Friday, May 12, 2023
Olin Hall7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Sunday, May 7, 2023
Bard Hall6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Sunday, May 7, 2023
The Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck, NY2:30 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Bard Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Friday, May 5, 2023
Blum N211, the Jazz Room8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Chapel of the Holy Innocents6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Includes Bard Sinfonietta, Conservatory percussion ensemble students, & Tristan Kasten-Krause (NYC) Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Bard Electronic Music is proud to present a career-spanning retrospective of work by Iannis Xenakis, one of the most significant and innovative composers of the 20th century. Programmed and directed by Professor Sarah Hennies, the concert features performances by The Bard Sinfonietta, Bard College Conservatory percussion students Joao Melo and Juan Diego Mora Rubio and special guest Tristan Kasten-Krause (NYC) who will perform Xenakis’s “Theraps” for double bass solo. The concert culminates with an exceedingly rare opportunity to hear landmark 1962 electroacoustic work “Bohor” as it was originally intended, diffused in 8-channel surround sound by Professor Sarah Hennies.
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Chapel of the Holy Innocents8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Friday, April 21, 2023
Chapel of the Holy Innocents6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Olin Hall7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Weis Cinema6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Why did Indigenous peasants support but ultimately resist the Maoist Shining Path guerrilla group in highland Peruvian Quechua communities? The different ways rebels and government security forces interacted in each Andean community explain the diverse peasant responses. At first, the politics of pursuing social justice mobilized a large part of the rural population, especially the youths, who often sympathized with the Maoist revolution. The motivating factors in engaging with the insurgency in rural communities include local experiences of state neglect, social inequality, power relation, and fear and intimidation. Shining Path’s mounting authoritarianism, most notably their brutal killing of community authorities and demand that peasants withdraw from the market economy, explains the root of violent peasant uprisings against the rebels. The Indigenous struggle involved making the anti-guerrilla and pro-state coalition called the Pacto de Alianza entre Pueblos. It brought internal security and order, allowing Indigenous peasants to maintain daily life and protect their local affairs in wartime violence. The Pacto de Alianza was not limited to the counterinsurgency goals; its functions extended to the local governance, social cohesion, and post-conflict reconstruction.
Monday, April 17, 2023
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
New Works Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Eric Person- sax & flute Rosi Hertlein- violin Gwen Laster - viola Akua Dixon - cello John Esposito- piano Ira Coleman - bass Peter O’Brien - drums
Presented by Bard Jazz Studies, Bard Music Program & Bard Conservatory
Saturday, April 15, 2023
A Graduate Recital by Abagael Cheng and Nhi Huynh Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Towards Flying is a recital that combines poetry and song to reflect the lessons that I'm taking with me from my time in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College Conservatory of Music. This summation of my graduate school experience draws upon themes of rebellion, empowerment, and destiny. Join me in taking one step closer to flying.
The performance will be held in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building Performance Space on Bard College's Campus.
An Audiovisual Interactive Installation Avery Integrated Media Room8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come experience particle-wave duality and participate in the double slit experiment through interaction with our immersive installation built with projection and quadraphonic sounds. The music composition and generative visuals design incorporates mathematical functions that capture features of waves and particles, which are fundamental to quantum mechanics as well as our physical world.
Friday, April 7, 2023
An Audiovisual Interactive Installation Avery Integrated Media Room8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come experience particle-wave duality and participate in the double slit experiment through interaction with our immersive installation built with projection and quadraphonic sounds. The music composition and generative visuals design incorporates mathematical functions that capture features of waves and particles, which are fundamental to quantum mechanics as well as our physical world.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
An Audiovisual Interactive Installation Avery Integrated Media Room8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come experience particle-wave duality and participate in the double slit experiment through interaction with our immersive installation built with projection and quadraphonic sounds. The music composition and generative visuals design incorporates mathematical functions that capture features of waves and particles, which are fundamental to quantum mechanics as well as our physical world.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Fisher Center, Resnick Theater Studio7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Free and open to the public
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 James Romig is a professor of music composition at Western Illinois University, Critics have described his work as “rapturous, slow-moving beauty” (San Francisco Chronicle), "developing with the naturalness of breathing" (The New Yorker), and “profoundly meditative... haunting” (The Wire). "Still," for solo piano, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.
James Romig will give a lecture about his compositional work on Wednesday, March 29, 11:50, in Blum N119.
Monday, March 13, 2023
Blum Hall8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 This concert is the first installment of The Michael Ranta Project, an effort by Sarah Hennies to perform and document a collection of obscure, rarely heard works from the 1970s by American percussionist and composer Michael Ranta. Supported in part by the Bard Research Fund, the project will include many Bard students and faculty alongside outside musicians in documenting a unique and almost totally unknown body of work. This concert also includes performances by the Bard Conservatory Percussion Ensemble and students of Prof. Hennies’ “Percussion as Experimental Practice” class.
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The ever popular Bard Opera Workshop returns with student singers performing an eclectic selection of scenes and arias from the operatic canon. This year’s production will include ensembles, choruses and arias from operas by Handel, Mozart, Humperdinck, Puccini, Bizet, Donizetti and more, directed by Bard alum Emily Cuk, and accompanied by an orchestra comprised of Bard students.
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The ever popular Bard Opera Workshop returns with student singers performing an eclectic selection of scenes and arias from the operatic canon. This year’s production will include ensembles, choruses and arias from operas by Handel, Mozart, Humperdinck, Puccini, Bizet, Donizetti and more, directed by Bard alum Emily Cuk, and accompanied by an orchestra comprised of Bard students.
Saturday, February 4, 2023
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 The ever popular Bard Opera Workshop returns with student singers performing an eclectic selection of scenes and arias from the operatic canon. This year’s production will include ensembles, choruses and arias from operas by Handel, Mozart, Humperdinck, Puccini, Bizet, Donizetti and more, directed by Bard alum Emily Cuk, and accompanied by an orchestra comprised of Bard students.
