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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Monday, April 21, 2025 | 5:15 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
This performance, featuring the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, is presented as part of the second-semester program for the First-Year Seminar.
This semester, the course invites students to engage with the complexities of democratic life— its challenges, responsibilities, and possibilities. Through foundational texts in literature, philosophy, history, and political theory, students explore enduring questions of citizenship, belonging, and the meaning of community. Culture (including music) plays a vital role in shaping how we imagine and inhabit our shared world. This performance expands on that conversation, offering a powerful artistic lens through which to reflect on the human dimensions of civic life.
Attendance is mandatory for First-Year Seminar students.Contact: Julie Cerulli E-mail: fysem@bard.edu
Fisher Center presents
First-Year Seminar • Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
Monday, April 21, 2025 | 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
And the Artwork that Inspired it
This performance, featuring the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, is presented as part of the second-semester program for the First-Year Seminar.
This semester, the course invites students to engage with the complexities of democratic life—its challenges, responsibilities, and possibilities. Through foundational texts in literature, philosophy, history, and political theory, students explore enduring questions of citizenship, belonging, and the meaning of community.
Culture—including music—plays a vital role in shaping how we imagine and inhabit our shared world. This performance expands on that conversation, offering a powerful artistic lens through which to reflect on the human dimensions of civic life.
Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program presents
The Graduate Vocal Arts Program Presents: First-Year Vocal Ensembles Concert
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 | 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space The first year students of the Graduate Vocal Arts program present a short lunchtime concert of 16th and 17th century unaccompanied madrigals and airs by composers including John Dowland and Henry Purcell. Free and open to the public.
Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Recital and Masterclass: West Point Brass Quintet featuring Master Sergeant Yalin Chi
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall The West Point Brass Quintet is the primary chamber ensemble of the Army’s oldest musical organization, the West Point Band. Stationed at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Quintet provides support for West Point ceremonies as well as other outreach events throughout the Northeast.
Master Sergeant Yalin Chi joined the West Point Band in 2007. She has appeared as a piano soloist with the Green Bay Orchestra, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, among others; and has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Gardner Museum, and Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, South Korea.
Friday, April 25, 2025 | 4:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Works by Hansen, Blume, Piazzolla, Dvořák, Wolf, Beach, Poulenc, Debussy, Franck, and more!
This concert is a part of the Conservatory’s Chamber Music Program, which all instrumental and studio faculty support through their generous coaching and mentorship. Please note that there will be a break in the program from approximately 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Works by Bourgeois, Beethoven, Debussy, Bizet, Prokofiev, and Brahms.
This concert is a part of the Conservatory’s Chamber Music Program, which all instrumental and studio faculty support through their generous coaching and mentorship.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Required Recital: Christian Midy, flute
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall
Works by Mel Bonis, William Grant Still, Eugène Damaré, Philippe Gaubert and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Featuring Yi-Hsuan Hsia, piano; Jalen Mims, clarinet; Adelaide Braunhill, bassoon; Felix Johnson, horn; and Chelsea Yang, piano.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office 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.
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Works by Gliére, Strauss, Mozart, Chopin, and Hindemith.
Featuring Gabriele Zemaityte, Alberto Arias-Flores, Felix Johnson, Robert Santini, and Sabrina Schettler.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Degree Recital: Jinou (Anastasia) Dong, pipa
Sunday, April 27, 2025 | 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Works by Fang Dongqing, Li Bochan, and Tang Jianping.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Noon Concert Series
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
Bard College Conservatory of Music; US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
EXPLORATION AND RESONANCE: Chinese Music in the West
Thursday, May 1, 2025 – Saturday, May 3, 2025 | | Various Campus Locations
7th Annual International Conference of the US-China Music Institute
The seventh annual conference of the US-China Music Institute is a three-day series of scholarly, interactive, and musical events exploring intercultural exchange while drawing on the rich tapestry of Chinese musical heritage and its resonance in the West. Topics discussed will focus on the following three pivotal areas:
Leadership on Chinese music development in Western society
Expanding the approaches and perspectives on Chinese music research
Successes and challenges in Chinese music teaching in the West
The conference is presented in partnership with the Central Conservatory of Music, China, and in collaboration with China Institute of America. View the conference website for more information about specific events and participants. Registration in advance is kindly requested. Contact: Kathryn Wright Phone: 845-758-7196 E-mail: kwright@bard.edu Website: https://barduschinamusic.org/events/conference-2025
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Required Recital: Mark Kovács, trumpet
Thursday, May 1, 2025 | 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall
Works by Vladimir Peskin and Giacinto Scelsi
Featuring Yi-Hsuan Hsia, piano.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Degree Recital: Luca Sakon, violin, with Neilson Chen, piano
Friday, May 2, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Works by Debussy, Chausson, Saint-Saëns, and Respighi.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Bard Chinese Ensemble and Special Guests
Friday, May 2, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall
Shutong Li, conductor
The Bard Chinese Ensemble performs its final concert of the year as part of the US-China Music Institute’s annual conference, Exploration and Resonance: Chinese Music in the West. The ensemble will be joined by soloists Jing Xia (guzheng) and Jin Yang (pipa), both members of the Chinese instrument faculty at the Bard Conservatory of Music.
Friday, May 2, 2025 | 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Works by Bach, Stravinsky, Bazzini, and Ravel.
Featuring pianists Nomin Samdan and Neilson Chen.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Degree Recital: Ya-Yin Yu, violin, with Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano
Saturday, May 3, 2025 | 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Works by Tyzen Hsiao, Ching-Ju Shih, Beethoven, Schumann, and Saint-Saëns.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Degree Recital: Francisco Verastegui, flute
Saturday, May 3, 2025 | 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall
"Todo Tiene Su Final"
Works by Lucho Bermudez, Valerie Coleman, Greg Patillo, Mike Mower, and Chick Corea.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program presents
Degree Recital: Jacob Hunter, tenor, with Yi-Hsuan Hsia, piano
Saturday, May 3, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
"Fugitive Echoes"
Featuring Christian Midy, flute and Malena Verduga Martínez, violin. Works by Krystian Neścior, François Morel, J. S. Bach, Robert Owens, and Arnold Schoenberg.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Bard East/West Ensemble and USCMI Faculty Showcase Concert
Saturday, May 3, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Chapel of the Holy Innocents The Bard East/West Ensemble (BE/WE) and guest soloists will grace Bard’s historic chapel with a program of Chinese musical compositions specially arranged for the unique instrumentation of a Western string quintet, seven traditional Chinese instruments, and percussion. Faculty members Yazhi Guo, Jing Xia, and Jin Yang from the US-China Music Institute will showcase their unique approaches to combining Western and Chinese musical forms, along with other special guests. This concert is part of the US-China Music Institute’s annual conference, Exploration and Resonance: Chinese Music in the West.
Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program presents
Degree Recital: Nisha Patel Caiozzi, soprano, with Kyeongji Koh, piano
Saturday, May 3, 2025 | 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
"The Space Between"
Works by Ives, Walker, Webern, Wolf, Bonds, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Violeta Parra, Reena Esmail, and Jule Styne.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Degree Recital: Tori Conner, oboe
Sunday, May 4, 2025 | 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Works by Eric Ewazen, Alyssa Morris, Marina Dranishnikova, and Charles Martin Loeffler.
Featuring Alberto Arias, horn; Kuang Zhou, viola; Lara Saldanha, piano; Wan-Ling Chen, piano; and Juliette Benveniste, piano.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program presents
Degree Recital: Joseph Breslau, baritone, with Gabriele Zemaityte, piano
Sunday, May 4, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
"Yours until death: Love letters of a soldier"
A story told through the songs of Korngold, Venables, Boulanger, and many more.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office 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; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program presents
Degree Recital: Sam Warshauer, voice, with Nomin Samdan, piano
Sunday, May 4, 2025 | 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Join us for a performance of "Metamorphosis." Works by Wolf, Poulenc, Schumann, Bellini, Drew Frankenberg, and Dylan Trần.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Lecture Recital: Minghui Mia Wu, dizi
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space A recital featuring works by Zhao Songting and Danni Chen. Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
STINK HORN: A Mycological Musical Performance-Lecture by Siôn Parkinson
Thursday, May 8, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Edith C. Blum Institute
Presented by Bard Conservatory, in Partnership with the John Cage Trust
Join musician, artist, performer, and author Siôn Parkinson for an intimate performance-lecture– part talk, part live musical experiment– exploring the strange, multi-sensory world of the stinkhorn fungus. Drawing from his book Stinkhorn: How Nature’s Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen, Siôn will lead an afternoon of music and mycology. Like composer John Cage, his twin passions for music and mushrooms have shaped a radical approach to sound. Yet while Cage sought silence in his fungal forays, Siôn finds Stink, an element that links sound and smell, the real and the hallucinated, opening up new ways of listening and composing. Siôn’s performance will be accompanied by a recording of John Cage’s "Child of Tree" (1975), a work for amplified plant materials, performed by D’Arcy Philip Gray and presented courtesy of Mode Records.
The performance is open to the public with free access. A reception featuring “John Cage Cookies” will follow at the John Cage Trust (Wilson House).
Event address: Edith C. Blum Institute, Blum Hall, 60 Blithewood Avenue, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY 12504.
Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program presents
Degree Recital: Jaclyn Hopping, soprano, with Nomin Samdan, piano
Saturday, May 10, 2025 | 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
"Transfiguration… and the labor of forgetting"
Works by Samuel Barber, Katherine Balch, Emilie Mayer, and Olivier Messiaen.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
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
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.
Sunday, May 11, 2025 | 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall
Works by Hindemith, Telemann, Loeffler, and Brahms
Featuring Ji-Sian Chen, piano; Tori Conner, oboe; and Juliette Benveniste, piano.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Music Program presents
Open Concert
Sunday, May 11, 2025 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Blum Hall Join us for an open concert.
Contact: Pat Spencer E-mail: pspencer@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music; Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program presents
Degree Recital: Georgia Perdikoulias, soprano, with Lara Saldanha, piano
Sunday, May 11, 2025 | 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
"Refuge"
Featuring Schuyler Lillian, cello. Works by Kostas Rekleitis, Emilios Riadis, Manolis Kalomiris, Haydn, and Saariaho.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Student Recital: Juliette Benveniste, piano
Sunday, May 11, 2025 | 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall
Works by Bach, Chopin, Franck, and Debussy
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube Channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Degree Recital: Pamela Zhang, composition
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 | 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Featuring Jiani Dong, violin; Elizabeth Bennett, flute, Minghui Mia Wu, dizi; Yuling Nan, ruan; Dari Batsaikhan, cello; Colby Bond, clairinet; and Pei-Hsuan Shen, Nelson Chen, and Ji-Sian Chan, piano. Free and open to the public.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Required Recital: Xinri Zhang, piano
Thursday, May 15, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall
Featuring works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Prokofiev.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Student Recital: Katherine Chernyak, viola
Sunday, May 18, 2025 | 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall
Works by Joan Tower, Brahms, Roslavetz, and Walton
Featuring Joey Breslau, Neilson Chen, Leo Gurevich, and Lara Saldanha.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel.
Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office E-mail: conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu