The Bard College Conservatory of Music presents performances and master classes featuring students, faculty, and guest artists from September through May each year. Venues include the Bitó Conservatory Building Performance Space at 60 Blithewood Avenue, as well as the Fisher Center, Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Olin Hall and other Bard College campus locations. Most events are free and all are open to fully vaccinated members of the public.
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Sunday, March 9, 2025 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Shutong Li, conductor
The Spring concert of the Bard Chinese Ensemble's 24-25 season features a new selection of captivating works for our large ensemble comprised of Bard Conservatory's Chinese instrument students along with Western instrument players eager to explore this distinctive repertoire. Join us to experience four unique pieces arranged by conductor Shutong Li especially for this concert:
A stunning double concerto for dizi and flute, seamlessly blending Eastern and Western musical traditions with a deeply moving narrative.
Two movements from the sheng concerto Peacock, evoking the elegance of Baroque music.
The Blasting of Master Handan with explosive, dramatic passages reminiscent of The Rite of Spring.
The Four Seasons Garden by the esteemed composer Wang Danhong, delivering emotional depth that goes straight to the heart.
Sunday, March 9, 2025 | 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Presenting a recital of works by Steven Bonacci, Bohuslav Martinů, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel here. Download Event Program
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Noon Concert Series
Monday, March 10, 2025 | 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students.
Saturday, March 15, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
A concert by the Bard Conservatory Orchestra with maestro Leon Botstein, featuring works by Brahms, Franck, Perle, and pianist Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni, performing Mozart’s Concerto No. 24.
Sunday, March 30, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
A renowned performer and teacher, Joseph Lin appears regularly throughout the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He was first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet from 2011 to 2018, and he continues to teach violin and chamber music at the Juilliard School. Lin’s recent projects include a collaboration with Robert Levin featuring Beethoven and Schubert on period instruments, performances of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, Beethoven’s late string quartets, and the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Helen Huang at Juilliard. Marking the 300th year of Bach’s Violin Sonatas and Partitas in 2020, Lin presented complete cycles in Boston and Philadelphia. Recent seasons have included baroque and classical period instrument performances on both viola and violin. In 2025, Joseph Lin presents a special Beethoven program (Op. 95 “Serioso” Quartet, Op. 96 Sonata, and Op. 97 “Archduke” Trio) in numerous cities around the U.S.
From 2007 to 2011, Lin was a professor at Cornell University, where his projects included the inaugural Chinese Musicians Residency, as well as a collaboration with Cornell composers to study Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas and create new works inspired by Bach.
Lin was a founding member of the Formosa Quartet, which won the 2006 London String Quartet Competition. In 1996, he won first prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. In 1999, he was selected for the Pro Musicis Award and, in 2001, he won first prize at the inaugural Michael Hill Violin Competition in New Zealand. His recordings include the music of Korngold and Busoni with pianist Benjamin Loeb; an album of Debussy, Franck, and Milhaud with pianist Orion Weiss; and the complete unaccompanied works of Bach and Ysaÿe. His recording of Mozart’s A Major Violin Concerto with original cadenzas was released in 2017. With the Juilliard Quartet, he recorded Schubert’s Death and the Maiden and Elliot Carter’s Fifth Quartet, as well as the Quartet’s recent album of Beethoven, Davidovsky, and Bartók. During the summer season, he is a regular artist at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Marlboro festivals.
Joseph Lin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2000. In 2002, he began an extended exploration of China, where he studied Chinese music, including the guqin, as a Fulbright scholar.
This masterclass is free and open to the public.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Noon Concert Series
Monday, April 14, 2025 | 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office Phone: 845-758-7196 E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard Conservatory Graduate Conducting Program presents
Heaven in a Wild Flower: The Earthly and the Divine
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
A Graduate Conducting Degree Recital with The Orchestra Now
The Degree Recital is the culminating project of the Graduate Conducting Program. Given during the second year of study, students have the opportunity to conduct the repertoire of their choice in this concert.
Join The Orchestra Now and the Graduate Conducting Program’s class of 2025 on a journey through the spiritual and the mundane, and their essential roles in the human experience. Featuring works from Mozart to Ginastera, this program explores the joy of life, the solemnity of death, and the hope for renewal.
Monday, April 28, 2025 | 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office Phone: 845-758-7196 E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Music Program presents
Da Capo Student Composers concert
Sunday, May 4, 2025 | 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building Join us for Bard's annual student composers concert.
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Bard Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Tan Dun
Saturday, May 10, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
“I have two goals in my heart: I don’t just want to establish a musical idea…I want to develop a cross-cultural idea that brings nature and classical music, ancient and modern, together.”—Tan Dun
Tan Dun conducts the Conservatory Orchestra; program to be announced.
Dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and UNESCO Global Goodwill Ambassador, Tan Dun, has made an indelible mark on the world’s music scene with a repertoire that spans the boundaries of classical music, multimedia performance, and Eastern and Western traditions.
