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.
For further information about the programs, email conservatoryconcerts@bard.edu or scroll to the bottom of this web page to join our mailing list!
Sunday, April 6, 2025 | 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall
"Exploring Inner landscapes"
In preparation for her Carnegie Hall debut recital, pianist Alexandra Balog presents a solo piano recital featuring works by Kodály, Mozart, Noah Max, and Schubert.
Sunday, April 6, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space A program of classical musical theater selections, featuring the works of Stephen Sondheim, Frederick Loewe, Joseph Stein, Dave Malloy, Joe Masteroff, and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory website here.
Bard College Conservatory of Music; Music Program presents
Music Alive! Composer Showcase
Saturday, April 12, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Curated by Joan Tower
A showcase featuring compositions by Elena Hause, Lili M. Namazi, Rowan Robinson, Olivia Marhevka, Logan Rishard, Santiago Mieres, Artemy Muhkin, Steve Bonacci, Julian Raheb, Emily Ta, Sam Mutter, Faisal Jones, Drew Frankenberg, and Manar Hashmi. Free and open to the public.
Sunday, April 13, 2025 | 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Featuring Blanche Darr, violin; Andres Perez Rangel, cello; and Lara Saldanha, piano.
Works by Schubert, Klein, and Hindemith.
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 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
Fisher Center presents
Bard Baroque Ensemble
Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater
The Bard Baroque Ensemble, under the direction of Renée Anne Louprette, presents its debut performance in the Fisher Center, featuring works by Bach, Handel, and Mozart dedicated to the memory of Frederick Fisher Hammond (1937–2023), Professor Emeritus and the Irma Brandeis Chair of Romance Cultures and Music History.
The program celebrates the restoration of Professor Hammond’s French double-manual and Italian single-manual harpsichords—now a part of Bard College’s collection of early keyboard instruments—featuring them in the Concerto for Two Harpsichords, Strings, and Continuo in C Minor, BWV 1060 by Johann Sebastian Bach, with Sophia Cornicello and Raymond Erickson as harpsichord soloists.
One of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most popular and enduring works, Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, opens the program, interpreted by the Ensemble with a Baroque sensibility. Bard faculty member and distinguished tenor Rufus Müller presents the ravishing opening aria from Handel’s Serse: Ombra mai fu (Never was a shade).
The program concludes with Bach’s Cantata No. 1: Wie schön leuchtet Der Morgenstern (How brightly shines the Morningstar), featuring the Bard Chamber Singers, Preparatory Division Children’s Chorus, and soloists from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program. This luminous chorale-cantata—originally conceived for the Feast of the Annunciation—is presented here in the context of transition from darkness to light, on the date of Holy Saturday within the Christian Church. Valentina Grasso, Assistant Professor of History at Bard, will present a reading from Dante’s Divine Comedy—in lieu of the traditional Lutheran sermon—at the center of Bach’s 1724 masterpiece.
Sunday, April 20, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall
Featuring works by Wang Jianming, Huang Zhenyu, Zhou Wang and Zhou Zhan
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
