Sunday, November 24, 2024 | 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Bard College Conservatory of Music presents
Bard Chinese Ensemble Winter Concert 2024
Sunday, November 24, 2024 | 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm EST/GMT-5 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Shutong Li, conductor
The Bard Chinese Ensemble and Music Director Shutong Li return for their annual winter concert featuring vibrant contemporary works that celebrate cultural heritage and artistic innovation. The ensemble is very pleased to collaborate with Jingyi Mao and Gjon Rezaj from the Bard Dance Program for the final piece, The Charm of the Long Braid. Join us for an afternoon of passionate performances, storytelling, and musical exploration!
New works by 10 student composers, performed by the Bard Sinfonietta. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Works by Drew Frankenberg, Manar Hashmi, Elena Hause, Zeke Morgan, Fynn Hoffmann, Artemy Mukhin, Samuel Mutter, Logan Rishard, Emily Ta, and Faisal Jones. Free and open to the public.
Steven Bonacci, lili m. namazi, Manar Hashmi, Zeke Morgan, Niall Ransford, Drew Frankenberg, Samuel Mutter, Emily Ta, Magdalena Teisler, Olivia Marhevka.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space8:30 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to the public.
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE (TBD).
Voice, piano, and conducting students of the Music Program and Conservatory of Music will gather with conviviality to present a mélange of songs by Francis Poulenc.
Free and open to the public.
Friday, December 15, 2023
Recent works by Temkin, Messiaen, and Nicholas Vines Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5 PROGRAM Dreamed Landscapes (2017-18) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Daniel Temkin (b. 1986) I. Starfield II. Glaciers crumbling, assembling III. Echoes of the Horizon
La Rousserolle Effarvatte, from Catalogue d’oiseaux (1956-58) . . . . . . . . . . . .Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) Midnight: Music of the Ponds, Frog Chorus, Bittern— 3am: Reed Warbler (grand solo), Solemnity of the Night, Frogs, Noises in the Swamp— 6am: Pink and Mauve Sunrise (over the lily pond), Blackbird/Red-backed Shrike, Redstart— 8am: Yellow Iris, Pheasant, Reed Bunting, Green Woodpecker, Starling, Great Tit, White Wagtail— Noon: Grasshopper Warbler— 5pm: Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Foxglove, Great Reed Warbler, Coot, Waterlily, duet of Reed Warblers— 6pm: Yellow Iris, Grasshopper Warbler, Coot, Sky Lark, Frogs, Water Rail— 9pm: Red and Violet Sunset (over the iris pond), Bittern, Nightengale— Midnight: Solemnity of the Night, Nightengale, Bittern, Noises in the Swamp, Frogs— 3am: Reed Warbler (grand solo), Frog Chorus, Music of the Ponds, Bittern.
AntipodEntoMenagerie (2017-19) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nicholas Vines (b. 1978) Vitrine 1 I. Neon Cuckoo II. Topless Cannibal Vitrine 2 III. Cherrynose IV. Gippsland Giant V. Mud Dauber Vitrine 3 VI. Milkweed VII. Macrotona VIII. Black Vine IX. Kimberley Longlegs Vitrine 4 X. Common Spittle XI. Boisduval’s Autumn Vitrine 5 XII. Harlequin
Free and open to the public.
Friday, December 15, 2023
Vocal Arts Program and Chamber Singers sing chorales by J. S. Bach, Berlioz, and Praetorius. Bard Hall7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Singers from the Vocal Arts Program and Chamber Singers perform chorales by J. S. Bach, Berlioz, and Praetorius.
Friday, December 15, 2023
With Katherine Chernyak, violin, Rowan Swain, viola, Raman Ramakrishnan, cello, Adelaide Braunhill, bassoon, and pianists Yi-Hsuan Hsia and Gabriele Zemaityte Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space1:00 pm – 1:45 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to the public.
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.”
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Six pianists and a chamber group perform works by Beethoven, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Ravel, and Schubert Olin Hall12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Program includes movements from the following:
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Pour le Piano (1894–1901) Ivy Jiayun Chen, piano
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) Etudes, Opus 42 (1903) Juliette Benveniste, piano
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Estampes (1903) Georgi Chikolov, piano
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) Sonatine (1903-1905) Juliette Benveniste, piano
Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Impromptus, D. 935, Op. 142 (1827) Tianxiang Ni, piano
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) Preludes and Fugues, Opus 35 (1832–1837) Francis Chung-Yang Huang, piano --intermission-- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major, Opus 31, No. 3 Georgi Chikolov, piano
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Opus 110 (1821) Tianxiang Ni, piano
Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor, Opus 1, No. 3 Isabel Chin Garita, violin William Pilgrim, cello Francis Chung-Yang Huang, piano
Works by Bach, Bottesini, Rossini, and Tartaglia. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to the public.
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Joas Erasmus, violin, at 1 pm; Jing Yi Sutherland, cello, at 2 pm; Ulysse Derrien, trumpet, at 3 pm; Klara Zaykova, violin, at 4 pm; Stan Legan, double bass, at 5pm Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space1:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Each recital lasts about 45 minutes. Free and open to the public.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Bard Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, Music Director Renée Anne Louprette GCP ’19, Organ Soloist
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Program inspired Epochs by Emma Lazrus with works by Bártok, Penderecki, Vieuxtemps, and more. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to the public. Live-streaming at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yLTaiqYfb0
Songs by Bard Student Composers Performed by Graduate Vocal Arts Program Singers and Collaborative Piano Fellows Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Ten new songs will receive their world premieres, performed by singers in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and undergraduate vocal students in the college. As part of Follow the Lieder, a weekly seminar by faculty composer Missy Mazzoli, the Bard student composers worked with the singers to create songs specifically for their voices over the course of the semester. These new songs include settings of whaling ship logs, texts by Michelangelo and Virginia Woolf, poems by T.S. Eliot, and much more.
Shutong Li, conductor Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Bard Chinese Ensemble performs a festive concert for the year’s end spotlighting diverse Chinese instruments. The program includes a guzheng trio, three concertos for pipa, guanzi, and guqin, plus large-scale Chinese orchestral masterworks performed by a mixed ensemble of Eastern and Western instruments.
Friday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023
Marathon includes works by Bach, Bátok, Beethoven, Brahms, Donizetti, Ewald, Ibert, Piazzolla, Rossini, Rota, Schubert, Sperger, Tartaglia, Tchaikovsky, and premieres of Bard student compositions. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Thirty-five Student and Faculty Chamber Ensembles perform throughout Friday evening beginning at 7 pm, and on Saturday afternoon beginning at noon.
All six Bartók String Quartets featured in a performance with Conservatory viola faculty and member of the Borromeo Quartet, Melissa Reardon. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space2:00 pm – 5:15 pm EST/GMT-5 Each visionary performance of the award-winning Borromeo String Quartet strengthens and deepens its reputation as one of the most important ensembles of our time. Admired and sought after for both its fresh interpretations of the classical music canon and its championing of works by 20th and 21st century composers, the ensemble has been hailed for its “edge-of-the- seat performances,” by the Boston Globe, which called it “simply the best.” The BSQ’s presentation of the cycle of Bartók String Quartets gives audiences a once-in-a-lifetime chance to hear a set of rediscovered alternate movements that Béla Bartók drafted for his six quartets. ----- Please note that this performance includes two intermissions and lasts 3 hours. Free and open to the public. No tickets required, seating first come, first served.
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
Friday, November 17, 2023
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5
BARD BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Renée Anne Louprette, director Rufus Müller, tenor Hailey McAvoy, mezzo-soprano Mary Douglas, organ Bard Opera Workshop Chorus
BACH Cantata 35: Geist und Seele wird verwirret SANCHO Minuets & Country Dances JACQUET DE LA GUERRE Céphale et Procris Suite
Free and open to the public.
Friday, November 17, 2023 – Saturday, November 18, 2023
Voice, tuba, violin, viola, cello, flute, bassoon, guqin, and piano. Bitó Conservatory Building3:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Third-year students present short midpoint recitals on Friday and Saturday: Friday, November 17 Schedule: Ryan Michki, tenor - 3 pm, with pianist Sawyer Dahlen Andrew Altrock, piano - 4 pm Andrés Perez, cello - 5 pm, with pianist Gabriele Zemaityte Eliza Karpiak, flute - 6:15 pm, with pianist Shao-Chu Pan Danni Chen, guqin - 7 pm, with pianist Viktoria Sarkadi Eric Kehan Wang, guqin - 8 pm Livestreaming at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez0f6OXKIeo
Saturday, November 18 Schedule Adelaide Braunhill, bassoon - 12 pm, with pianist Ahra Oh Tess von Brachel, cello - 1 pm, with pianist Pei-Hsuan Shen Ethan Young, cello - 2 pm, with pianist Bat-Erdene Batbileg Zander Grier, tuba - 3 pm, with pianist Ahra Oh Isabel Chin Garita, violin - 6 pm, with pianist Gabriele Zemaityte Jessica Ward, viola - 7 pm, with pianist Nomin Samdan
Selections from works of Bartók, Dvorák, Ichiyanagi, Laufey, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Sarasate, and Schumann Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to the public.
7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 This event has been cancelled. There's an alternative VAP event 'French Opera Scenes' on Nov 9, 6:30pm, Olin Hall. Free and open to the public.
Friday, November 10, 2023
12 percussionists perform recent works by Shodekeh, Caccese, Farrin, Matei, Seo, Snowden, and Treuting. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Dominic “Shodekeh” Talifero is a groundbreaking beatboxer, vocal percussionist, and breath artist who pushes the boundaries of the human voice within and outside the context of hip hop music and culture. He was the first vocal percussionist to serve as a dance technique musician and composer-in-residence for the Towson University (TU) Department of Dance. He is the founding director of Embody, A Festival Series of the Vocal Arts, which strives for artistic and cultural convergence through a variety of vocal art traditions including opera and Tuvan throat singing, as well as the many forms of vocal percussion. Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion born within the world of Hip Hop, and one the most highly advanced vocal art forms. Imitating and often replacing a drum set, drum machine, or drum loop through a series of vocal effects or percussive sounds primarily produced by the larynx, nasal, oral and chest cavities, Beatboxing exemplifies the Hip Hop philosophy of creating meaningful artistic expressions with limited resources at their most extreme; it replaces the source of the timeless break beat with the human voice, and is a ubiquitous and indigenous feature of the African American city experience and soundscape.
Free and open to the public. Live-streaming at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0AZAx7wVAg
Olin Hall2:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Violinist Yida An, MM candidate in the Instrumental Arts Program, will perform works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky. He will be joined by collaborative piano fellow Gabriele Zemaityte.
An Evening of Opera Scenes—as Never Seen Before! Olin Hall6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Graduate Vocal Arts Program and Collaborative Piano Fellows present an evening of opera scenes you have never seen.
Spanning multiple styles, languages, and genres, each artist presents their chosen French opera aria with a companion song that reveals the inner life of each character.
Free and open to the public. Live-streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVoKM6B3N-4.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space4:30 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Free and open to the public. Student pianists and a piano/cello duo will play works by Beethoven, Chopin, and Schumann during the class.
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Beethoven 12 Variations on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes', WoO 45Brahms Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 Mendelssohn Song without words, Op.109 and Sonata No.2 in D major, Op.58
Final Round Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Bard Conservatory finalists compete for the opportunity to perform with the Conservatory Orchestra and The Orchestra Now (TŌN). Free and open to the public.Please note that this is a competition and at times pieces will not be performed in full.Photo: Yangxin Song, one of the four winners of the 2022 Conservatory Concerto Competition
Monday, October 30, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Free and open to the public. Live-streamed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RyK9y4du1k
Joan Tower • Aaron Copland • Béla Bartók • Duke Ellington Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater2:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A concert by the Bard Conservatory Orchestra with maestro Leon Botstein celebrating faculty members Joan Tower and Marcus Roberts. The program includes Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman #6 and Duke Ellington’s New World A-Comin’ featuring jazz pianist Marcus Roberts with members of his jazz ensemble, and Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring to round out the program.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Joan Tower • Aaron Copland • Béla Bartók • Duke Ellington Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 A concert by the Bard Conservatory Orchestra with maestro Leon Botstein celebrating faculty members Joan Tower and Marcus Roberts. The program includes Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman #6 and Duke Ellington’s New World A-Comin’ featuring jazz pianist Marcus Roberts with members of his jazz ensemble, and Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring to round out the program.
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Shutong Li, conductor Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Let the Bard Chinese Ensemble transport you to the heart of China, offering a sonic voyage through its diverse regions, landscapes, and emotions.
The program features large scale Chinese orchestral works performed by a mixed ensemble of Eastern and Western instruments, each possessing its own unique voice, and together weaving a vibrant tapestry of sound.
Four Conservatory pianists perform works by Beethoven, Mozart, Ravel, and Schumann. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Michael Stephen Brown has been hailed by the New York Times as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers.” His artistry is shaped by his creative voice as a pianist and composer, praised for his “fearless performances” (New York Times) and “exceptionally beautiful” compositions (Washington Post).
Winner of the 2018 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center and a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Brown has recently performed as soloist with the Seattle Symphony, the National Philharmonic, and the Grand Rapids, North Carolina, Wichita, New Haven, and Albany Symphonies; and recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and Lincoln Center. Brown is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performing frequently at Alice Tully Hall and on tour.
Free and open to the public.
Monday, October 16, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Free and open to the public.
Works for viola and violin by Martinů, Prokofiev, Saariaho, and Takemitsu. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Violinist and violist Luosha Fang ’11 brings her adventurous spirit to music ranging from canonical repertoire to world premieres. She was a member of the Bard Conservatory's very first entering class in 2005, and after graduating in 2011 with a double degree in violin performance and Russian Studies, she went on to study violin and viola at the Curtis Institute and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. Luosha joined the Bard Conservatory violin/viola faculty in 2019.
As a violinist, she has performed as soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Atlantic Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, the West Virginia Symphony, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra, with whom she gave the US premiere of the Grażyna Bacewicz Violin Concerto No. 5. With the Albany Symphony Orchestra, she recorded George Tsontakis’s double violin concerto "Unforgettable" for release on NAXOS Records. She performed Kurtag Concertantes with The Orchestra Now at Carnegie Hall in the spring of 2023. As violist she has performed as soloist with the New Japan Philharmonic, the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, the TOHO-Gakuen Orchestra, the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.
Old Dutch Church, Kingston3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Bard Conservatory of Music Ensemble
Preconcert Talk by Classical Music Master Leslie Gerber
Program: Joseph Bologne ‘Chevalier Saint Georges’ (1745–1799): String Quartet Opus 1 Number 3 in G Minor Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): String Quartet Opus 76 Number 3 in C Major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata
Saturday, October 14, 2023
With Rebecca Hass, mezzo-soprano, Robert Mealy, violin, and Avi Stein, harpsichord, and students and faculty of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program. Olin Hall2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Performance in conjunction with the Rethinking Place Conference. Free and open to the public.
Sunday, October 8, 2023
China Now Music Festival – The Bridge of Music Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, New York, NY3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The sixth annual China Now Music Festival closes with a symphonic concert in honor of the 70th year of two extraordinary Chinese American composers, Chen Yi and Zhou Long.
The Orchestra Now and conductor Jindong Cai perform major works by the legendary couple, along with pieces by their mentor and teacher Chou Wen-chung and two of their acclaimed students, Zhou Juan and Li Shaosheng.
Violin and piano duo performs Bach, Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Free and open to the public. Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKB8WVo7D4
Violinist and violist Luosha Fang ’11 brings her adventurous spirit to music ranging from canonical repertoire to world premieres. She was a member of the Bard Conservatory's very first entering class in 2005, and after graduating in 2011 with a double degree in violin performance and Russian Studies, she went on to study violin and viola at the Curtis Institute and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. Luosha joined the Bard Conservatory violin/viola faculty in 2019.
As a violinist, she has performed as soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Atlantic Symphony, the Louisville Orchestra, the West Virginia Symphony, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra, with whom she gave the US premiere of the Grażyna Bacewicz Violin Concerto No. 5. With the Albany Symphony Orchestra, she recorded George Tsontakis’s double violin concerto "Unforgettable" for release on NAXOS Records. She performed Kurtag Concertantes with The Orchestra Now at Carnegie Hall in the spring of 2023. As violist she has performed as soloist with the New Japan Philharmonic, the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, the TOHO-Gakuen Orchestra, the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.
Zhenni Li-Cohen’s riveting presence and passionate performances have brought audiences to their feet around the world. Hailed for her “torrents of voluptuous sound...Li impresses as an artist of tremendous conviction, who fascinates even as she provokes“ by Gramophone Magazine, “a thrillingly good pianist” by The New Yorker and for her "...big, gorgeous tone and a mesmerizing touch" by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ms. Li-Cohen has performed in such notable venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and WQXR’s Greene Space in New York, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Performing Arts Center, Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian Museum, San Jose’s California Theater, the Helsinki Music Center in Finland, the Grieghallen in Norway and the Berliner Philharmonie in Germany. After studies at Julliard, Yale University, and McGill University, she began concertizing in earnest, earning worldwide recognition as the winner of the 2017 New York Concert Artists Worldwide Debut Audition, Astral Artist’s 2016 National Auditions, the Grieg International Competition in Norway, and the unanimous 1st Prize at the Concours Musical de France.
China Now Music Festival – The Bridge of Music Asia Society of New York, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 100213:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Enjoy an afternoon of engaging discussion and live music as Asia Society of New York and the US-China Music Institute at Bard College present a panel of experts from diverse perspectives to look towards the future of US-China relations in music.
Over the past 50 years, classical music exchange between the US and China has brought many benefits to both nations and remains one of the bright spots in an otherwise complex relationship. Speakers will share their thoughts, experiences, and vision as to how we can best continue developing this relationship going forward, despite the strained political relationship and other obstacles.
Tickets: $25 ($10 for Asia Society Members and students)
MODERATOR Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society
SPEAKERS Jindong Cai, Director, US-China Music Institute, Bard College Conservatory of Music Chen Yi, Lorena Searcy Cravens/ Millsap/ Missouri Distinguished Professor of Composition, University of Missouri, Kansas City Gary Ginstling, President and CEO, New York Philharmonic Yu Hongmei, erhu virtuoso and Dean, Central Conservatory of Music, China
Others to be announced.
PERFORMERS Liu Xiaojing, pipa virtuoso and Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music, China Members of the Bard Chinese Ensemble, US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music
Friday, October 6, 2023
CHINA NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL: The Bridge of Music Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Pre-concert talk with composers at 6 pm The Orchestra Now Jindong Cai conductorThe China Now Music Festival returns to the Sosnoff stage for its sixth season with a concert honoring two of the most influential composers from China working in the US today, Zhou Long and Chen Yi. Led by maestro Jindong Cai, The Orchestra Now (TŌN) will perform US premieres of major symphonic works by this legendary couple and their renowned teacher at Columbia University, Chou Wenchung. With the addition of two pieces by their young protégées Zhou Juan and Li Shaosheng, who now have major careers in China, the program links three generations of composers to highlight the generational bridge that Chen Yi and Zhou Long have built between the country of their birth and the one they now call home — a musical bridge between China and the US that is both strong and enduring.This concert is presented by the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, in collaboration with the Central Conservatory of Music, China, as part of the 6th annual China Now Music Festival: The Bridge of Music. More information about the program and this year’s festival at www.barduschinamusic.org/the-bridge-of-music.
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
China Now Music Festival – The Bridge of Music Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, New York, NY 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 The sixth annual China Now Music Festival returns to the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center for the NY debut of the Bard East/West Ensemble, an innovative music group combining Chinese and Western instruments to create a new model of cross-cultural performance.
The program features new arrangements of music by Tan Dun, Zhou Long, and Aaron Copland, as well as several new works by outstanding young composers from China, including members of the legendary faculty of the Central Conservatory of Music. Internationally renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man will join the ensemble to perform a new arrangement of Zhou Long’s popular pipa concerto, ‘King Chu Doff’s His Armor’.
CHINA NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL - THE BRIDGE OF MUSIC Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space8:00 pm – 9:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 The opening concert of the sixth annual China Now Music Festival features the NY debut of the Bard East/West Ensemble, an innovative music group combining Chinese and Western instruments to create a new model of cross-cultural performance.
The program features new arrangements of music by Tan Dun, Zhou Long, and Aaron Copland, as well as several new works by outstanding young composers from China, including members of the legendary faculty of the Central Conservatory of Music. Internationally renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man will join the ensemble to perform a new arrangement of Zhou Long’s popular pipa concerto, ‘King Chu Doff’s His Armor’.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Sunday, October 1, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 PROGRAM Franz Schubert: Violin Sonata in A minor, D.385 (Op.137, No.2) Maurice Ravel: Sonata No.2 in G Major Niccolò Paganini: “La Campanella” Franz von Vecsey: Caprice No.2, “Cascade” Moritz Moszkowski: Guitarre, Op.45, No.2 Jean Sibelius: Waltz, Op.81, No.3 Isaac Albéniz: “Sevilla” from Suite Española No.1, Op.47 Franz Waxman: Carmen Fantasie
Free and open to the public. Livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9q3BpTlTYs
Performed live by the Bard Conservatory Orchestra Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Experience a recently re-mastered version of one of the most beloved films of all time, The Wizard of Oz. The Bard Conservatory Orchestra conducted by James Bagwell will perform the treasured songs by composer Harold Arlen and the Academy Award-winning score by Herbert Stothart. Judy Garland’s original 1939 studio recordings, backed by live orchestration, will thrill children and adults alike.
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Performed live by the Bard Conservatory Orchestra Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Experience a recently re-mastered version of one of the most beloved films of all time, The Wizard of Oz. The Bard Conservatory Orchestra conducted by James Bagwell will perform the treasured songs by composer Harold Arlen and the Academy Award-winning score by Herbert Stothart. Judy Garland’s original 1939 studio recordings, backed by live orchestration, will thrill children and adults alike.
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Johannes Brahms’ song cycle 15 Romanzen aus L. Tiecks Magelone, Op. 33 with English language narration. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 An evening of song and storytelling based on Ludwig Tiek's epic tale, "The Love Story of Beautiful Magelone and Count Peter of Provence.'' Free and open to the public. Livestream link
21st Century Works by Robyn Jacob, Alexis Lamb, Missy Mazzoli, Emmanuel Sejourne, and Shodekeh Talifero Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Percussionists perform contemporary compositions on marimba, vibraphone, drums, and a wide variety of other instruments.
Saturday, May 20, 2023
Works by Bach, Brahms, Kurbatov, Scriabin, Silvestrov, and Vasks Bitó Conservatory Building8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bitó Conservatory Building3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Felix Johnson is a horn player at the Bard Conservatory from New York studying under the instruction of Barbara Jöstlein Currie, Hugo Valverde, and Julia Pilant. He is also a philosophy major with a particular interest in 20th-century political theory. His senior project, Decentralized Perfectionism: a Critique of Contractarianism and Bureaucracy through the Inspiration of Nietzsche, received the William E. Lensing Prize and was nominated for the Irma Brandeis Award. As a horn player, Felix has been a member of the Empire State Youth Orchestra and participant in various summer festivals including Domaine Forget in Saint-Irénée, Quebec and the Curtis Summerfest in Philadelphia, PA.
Olin Hall8:30 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Students of the Conservatory, Graduate Vocal Arts, and Conducting Programs will perform two masterpieces of the baroque era: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, featuring soprano Sarah Nalty and alto Montana Smith, and Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3.
Friday, May 19, 2023
Bard Hall8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Featuring pieces by Manar Hasmi (world premiere), Jean Sibelius, Jessie Montgomery, Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Mutter (world premiere).
Free and open to the public.
Friday, May 19, 2023
Blum Hall6:30 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Free and open to the public.
Friday, May 19, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 All Conservatory undergraduate students perform a recital in their third year as partial fulfillment of their bachelor of music requirements. Repertoire details are announced at each recital.
Olin Hall1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Come join us on this musical journey across time and space through the Spanish language. A program that travels from the early days of Spain as a nation in the 15th century to the music of the Americas featuring 15 composers from eight different countries, all united by the same language and presented by the wonderful singers and pianists of Bard’s Vocal Arts Program.
The annual spring concert of the Bard Chinese Ensemble will be a special occasion in 2023, celebrating five years of the US-China Music Institute and the graduation of the first class of Chinese instrument majors in the Bard Conservatory. The concert program will feature a number of chamber works for mixed Chinese and Western instruments, plus a new selection of traditional pieces especially arranged by Ensemble Director Chen Tao.
Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the concert in the lobby of Olin Hall.
From River to Ocean Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 “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 DunDean 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. His compositions often feature water as a musical instrument.In this program, he conducts five works by Czech, French, Romanian, Japanese, and British composers who were inspired by the sounds of oceans, rivers, and flowing waters.
The sonic dimensions of Chinese noise art represented through the traditional Chinese musical instrument pipa. Bitó Conservatory Building6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Free and open to the public.
A graduate degree recital discussing how we live with and through difficulty—with themes of heritage, community, and identity. Bitó Conservatory Building4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Including works by Pauline Oliveros, H. Leslie Adams, Francis Poulenc, Hugo Wolf, William Bolcom, the Rahbani Brothers, and the world premiere of a piece by John Paul Labno.
Michael Alexander Aoun is a Lebanese-American bass-baritone whose passion for interdisciplinary and collaborative art inspires their professional work. An all-or-nothing person, Michael views music as a means of exploring one’s whole self and creating something entirely unique. They feel strongly that their art reflect their personal values of authenticity and human connection.
Bitó Conservatory Building7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Chinese tenor Zihao Liu is an artist of exceptional vocal agility and communicative musicianship. Mr. Liu’s recent solo appearances include Lord Tolloller in Gilbert and Sulliavan’s Iolanthe, led by James Bagwell; tenor soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra; the Schoolmaster in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, a production of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard Conservatory, directed by Doug Fitch; tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah with The Orchestra Now, conducted by Leon Botstein; and the Nurse in Monteverdi’s opera L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Manhattan School of Music. In addition Mr. Liu has performed several solo recitals in the United States and China.
Works by Bach, Rachmaninoff, Golijov, and Piazzolla. Bitó Conservatory Building4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Alexander Levinson, who studies with Peter Wiley, has been immersing his cello playing into many genres of music including classical, the Broadway musical, improvisatory klezmer and jazz, modern, and traditional Chinese. He will graduate in May 2023 with two degrees from Bard, a BA in cello performance, and a BS in computer science.
Bitó Conservatory Building7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Soprano Montana Smith is a young artist with a mission to cultivate community through song. Her repertoire within the classical genre spans from antiquity to the present day, with her focus in each context being on generous and inclusive communication.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Free and open to the public.
Monday, May 1, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 All Conservatory undergraduate students perform a recital in their third year as partial fulfillment of their bachelor of music requirements. Repertoire details are announced at each recital.
Bitó Conservatory Building8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 All Conservatory undergraduate students perform a recital in their third year as partial fulfillment of their bachelor of music requirements. Repertoire details are announced at each recital.
Bitó Conservatory Building6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet, Curtis Macomber, violin, andChris Gross, cello, and guest musicians Chris Oldfather, piano, Jillian Reed ’21, flute, Renée Louprette, harpsichord, and Marka Gustavsson, viola.
Composers: Solomon Bagge Steven Bonacci Manar Hashmi Faisal Jones Santiago Mieres Zeke Morgan Artemy Mukhin Samuel Mutter Niall Ransford Wyland Stephenson Emily Ta Magdalena Teisler
Olin Hall8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 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.
FREE and Open to the Public
This is a nonticketed, general admission concert—arrive early! sites.google.com/view/steelydanbard/home Musicians include:Anthony D’Amore – Lead Vocals Marika Brungs – Backing Vocals Mara Zaki – Backing Vocals CLAC – Backing Vocals Vigilance Brandon – Trumpet Eric Zheng – Alto/Tenor Saxophone Steve Bonacci – Tenor Saxophone Ameya Natarajan - Trombone Cherry Wu – Keyboards Chris Mackin – Lead Guitar Matt Macari – Rhythm Guitar Ben Halle – Bass Rodney Clark – Percussion Brian Reynolds – Drums
Saturday, April 29, 2023
With Bat-Erdene Batbileg, piano, and Teryn Kuzma, bandura Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Works by Caroline Shaw, Irma Urteaga, Sarah Hutchings, Barbara Strozzi, Josephine Lang, and Lori Laitman. Bitó Conservatory Building2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Bitó Conservatory Building7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 All Conservatory undergraduate students perform a recital in their third year as partial fulfillment of their bachelor of music requirements. Repertoire details are announced at each recital.
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.
Monday, April 24, 2023
With Yangxin Song and Ya-Yin Yu, violin; Nathan Francisco and Raman Ramakrishnon, cello Bitó Conservatory Building8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Works by Clara Schumann, John Ireland, Paul Schoenfield, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Ukrainian-American soprano Teryn Kuzma is a versatile performer of classical, contemporary, musical theater, and folk repertoires. She has a deep passion for performing folk repertoire, Eastern European opera, and contemporary music. Most recently, she workshopped the lead role in Layale Chaker’s new opera, Ruinous Gods, which will premiere next summer at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. This summer, she will sing with the Bard SummerScape Chorus in a new production of Henry VII by Camille Saint-Saëns, under the direction of Maestros James Bagwell and Leon Botstein.She sang the role of “Celia” in Iolanthe at Bard this year, and also won first place in MIOpera’s International Vocal Competition in the University Division.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Sadie Spivey has been recognized for her diverse performance abilities as a vocal artist and as an actor. Whether it is creating new work or giving a unique voice to established repertoire, Sadie believes that stories help us feel seen and heard, fulfilling our innate desire to connect. In March, Sadie was named a semifinalist in the International Lotte Lenya Competition. She will return to the Ohio Light Opera this summer, appearing in Camelot and in No, No, Nanette. On the concert stage, Sadie will be featured this May as the soprano soloist in Schubert's Mass in G with the Bard Chamber Singers and Community Chorus led by James Bagwell. During the 2022 season, Sadie performed as the Vixen in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen with the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Program begins with Debussy's Piano Trio in G minor at 7:30pm on Friday and ends on Saturday evening with Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time). Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space A two-day program of chamber music performances by Conservatory students and faculty from 7:30–9:30 pm on Friday; and on Saturday from 11 am-9 pm.
Free and open to vaccinated members of the public.
Live-streamed on Friday at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3G2xRFKRAE and on Saturday at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE5qi8wEHEM
Guaranteed to be a great night of jazz! Olin Hall8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Free entrance (first come, first serve). Suggested donation. Doors at 7:30 pm.
The Bard College Conservatory of Music presents Marcus Roberts’ Modern Jazz Generation and the Bard Jazz Innovators, a concert led by award-winning pianist and composer Marcus Roberts. Roberts, who is also a professor of music at Bard, will perform with his eight-piece professional ensemble, Modern Jazz Generation, in a variety of player combinations throughout the evening with the Bard Jazz Innovators, a nine-piece student ensemble.
Pianist Marcus Roberts has been hailed as a “genius of the modern piano.” He is known throughout the world for his many contributions to jazz music, as well as his commitment to integrating the jazz and classical idioms to create something wholly new. Roberts’ rhythmic and melodic group improvisational style is the hallmark of his modern approach to the jazz trio.
“Mr. Roberts has dedicated himself to learning not only the jazz tradition but also the lilting music of the 19th century, and he brings an astonishing richness to his playing,” wrote Peter Watrous for the New York Times.
About Marcus Roberts Roberts grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, where his mother's gospel singing and the music of the local church left a lasting impact on his music. He began teaching himself to play piano at age five after losing his sight, but did not have his first formal lesson until age 12 while attending the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. At age 18, he went on to study classical piano at Florida State University with Leonidas Lipovetsky, the world-renowned classical concert pianist.
Currently, Roberts is a Professor of Music at the Florida State University College of Music, where he received his B.A degree and a Professor of Music at Bard College. He also holds honorary doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School, Brigham Young University, and Bard College, and has won numerous awards and competitions over the years, including the Helen Keller Award for Personal Achievement. Roberts is known for his generosity, providing support and mentoring to a large network of younger musicians, and he continues to strive to find ways to serve the blind and other disabled communities. In 2021, he served as the Artistic Director for the centennial gala, The Art of Inclusion, for the American Foundation for the Blind. He was also a featured speaker/performer at the 2021 Disability:IN annual conference.
His critically-acclaimed legacy of recorded music reflects his tremendous artistic versatility, as well as his unique approach to jazz performance, and his recordings include solo piano, duets, and trio arrangements of jazz standards along with original suites of music for trio, large ensembles, and symphony orchestra. In addition to his renown as a performer, Roberts is also an accomplished composer. He has been commissioned by Chamber Music America, Jazz at Lincoln Center, ASCAP, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Savannah Music Festival.
Monday, April 17, 2023
An hour-long program of works by Massenet, Sibelius, Mendelssohn, Bach, Verdi, a set of William Bolcom's cabaret songs, and more. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 For the final Noon Concert of the Spring semester, students perform works for piano, violin, winds, and voice. Live-streaming at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K9ABLBG9TE Freee and open to the public.
With William Pilgrim, cello Bitó Conservatory Building7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Program: Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) Piano Sonata/Divertimento in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:46
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Rondo in A Minor, K. 511
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) 7 Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” from Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte”, WoO 46 with William Pilgrim, cello
Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Piano Sonata No. 18 in G Major, D. 894, Opus 78
With collaborative pianist Nhi Huynh Bitó Conservatory Building3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Abagael Cheng and Nhi Huynh will be performing a graduate recital, titled Towards Flying. This summation of Abagael's graduate school experience draws upon themes of rebellion, empowerment, and destiny. You can attend in-person or watch the livestream online. Join us in taking one step closer to flying! East Asian American soprano Abagael Cheng is a singing artist who strives to break the boundaries of traditional performance art and bring social activism to the forefront of her work. This past season, she was featured in the world premiere of The Final Veil (Cabaret Soloist) by JL Marlor at the cell theatre, as well as Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (Chocholka) at The Fisher Center at Bard. Ms. Cheng holds a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin Conservatory, and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard College Conservatory of Music. For more information, visit www.abagaelcheng.com. EVENT PAGE LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/towards-flying-tickets-600854370597
Renée Anne Louprette, director, with the Bard Chamber Singers, Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and Preparatory Division Chorus Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 This program will also be performed onSunday, April 16, 3:30 pm | Old Dutch Church, KingstonProgram:Bach - Cantata 106: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit ('Actus Tragicus')Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 5Vivaldi - Flautino Concerto in CExcerpts from medieval manuscript Add MS 29987Soloists:Monika Dziubelski, fluteFrancis Huang, harpsichordEnikő Samu, violin* (Bard performance)Nandor Burai, violin* (Kingston performance)David Keringer, sopranino recorderTaylor Adams, soprano Montana Smith, sopranoAbbegael Greene, mezzo-sopranoJun Mo Yang, tenorJonathan Lawlor, baritoneMichael Aoun, bass
Friday, April 14, 2023
With Sarina Schwartz, violin, and Neilson Chen, piano Bitó Conservatory Building7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Works for violin and piano by Ethel Barns, Amy Beach, Beethoven, Aleksey Igudesman, Sarasate, and Erwin Schulhoff.
Works for viola and piano by Bach, Beach, Brahms, Bridge, Hindemith, Schumann, and more Bitó Conservatory Building7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Livestreamed here. Featuring the students of Marka Gustavsson, Brian Hong, and Melissa Reardon
With collaborative pianists Diana Borshcheva, Neilson Chen, Nhi Huynh and Nomin Samdan
PROGRAM Frank Bridge, Lament for Two Violas (1912) Brian Hong; Melissa Reardon, violas
Robert Schumann, Märchenbilder (Fairy Tale Pictures) for Viola and Piano, Op.113 Elizabeth Chernyak, viola, ; Nomin Samdan, piano
J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 4 in Eb major, BWV 1009 transcribed for viola Samantha Rehorst, viola
Béla Bartók, Viola Concerto in A minor Mikhal Terentiev, viola & Nhi Huynh, piano
J. S. Bach, Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 transcribed for viola Gabo Cassell-Ramirez, viola
Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 2 for Viola and Piano in Eb major, Op. 120 Liam Brosh, viola,Neilson Chen, piano
J.S. Bach, Partita II in D minor, BWV 1004 (1720) arranged for solo viola Jessica Ward, viola
Amy Beach, Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 34 (1896) Guy Levy, viola, & Neilson Chen, piano
Paul Hindemith, “Der Schwanendreher” - Concerto for Viola and Small Orchestra (1935) Rowan Swain, viola and Diana Borshcheva piano
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Works by Lili Boulanger, John Cage, George Crumb, Gyorgy Ligeti, Pauline Oliveros, and Arvo Pärt performed by 22 student, alumni/ae, and faculty musicians. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Free and open to the public. Livestream at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQvrKXbXm5Y Musicians include: Jillian Reed '21 Rodney Clark Juan Mora Rubio Jaelyn Quilizapa Yida An Joan Tower Joao Melo Rea Abel Nathaniel Sanchez Viktor Toth Alberto Arias Flores HanYi Huang Taylor Adams Abbegael GreeneColton Cook Sungyeun Kim Jonathan Lawlor Michael AounBat-Erdene Batbileg Jonathan Collazo Esteban Ganem Arnav Shirodkar
Bitó Conservatory Building6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Beitong Liu is in her final year of the five-year, double-degree program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, where she is majoring in erhu performance and global and international studies. Beitong is in the first class to graduate from Bard with a degree in Chinese instrument performance offered through the US-China Music Institute. Through Bard’s partnership with the Central Conservatory of Music, she studies with CCOM Professor Yu Hongmei. In 2021 she won the Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition. In 2023, under the baton of Jindong Cai, she performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center as a soloist with TŌN.
Saturday, April 8, 2023
Part of the 5th Annual Conference of the US-China Music Institute, Ancient Echoes and New Sounds: Guqin in the 21st Century Bard Hall12:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The Yaji is a very special annual event, now in its second year, which is based on an ancient Chinese tradition combining literature, music, and calligraphy in a casual social setting. Enjoy musical performances, poetry recitals, and calligraphy demonstrations from students of the college, Bard professors Mingmei Yip, Huiwen Li, and Shuangting Xiong, and special guests the Trio of Three Continents (Gao Hong, pipa; Leonard Jacome, Venezueland harp; Issam Rafea, oud).
The event will begin with a dedication in poetry and song to the memory of Bard professor of Chinese Li-hua Ying.
Free and open to the public. Bard community members are welcome to attend. Audience members can come and go at any time. Refreshments will be served.
Improvisation and Ensemble Performance Techniques Chapel of the Holy Innocents9:00 am – 11:00 am EDT/GMT-4 Pipa virtuoso, composer, and master teacher Gao Hong returns to Bard after her amazing performance in the annual Chinese New Year concert at the Fisher Center in January, to offer a master class for the pipa students of the Bard Conservatory of Music. Members of the Bard community are welcome to attend this event, which will focus on improvisational ensemble performance. Music or Conservatory students interested in unique improvisational styles and Chinese performing techniques will be especially interested.
Gao Hong is a world renowned Chinese pipa artist, composer, educator, and improviser. She graduated from Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music where she studied with Lin Shicheng. Gao has performed worldwide in solo concerts, with symphony orchestras, and with musicians from other cultures and musical genres. Her awards include fellowships from the Bush and McKnight Foundations, a Sorel Medallion in Recording, a Sally Award, 6 gold medals from the Global Music Awards, grants from Mid Atlantic Arts and the Minnesota State Arts Board, and numerous commissions from orchestras, chamber groups, dance troupes, media outlets and other organizations. She teaches at Carleton College and directs the Chinese Music Ensemble, she also is Guest Professor at the Central, China, and Tianjin conservatories.
Friday, April 7, 2023
Ancient Echoes and New Sounds - Guqin in the 21st Century Olin Hall7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 As a part of the US-China Music Institute’s annual spring conference, Bard presents Chinese guqin virtuoso Zhao Xiaoxia for an on-stage collaboration with Gao Hong’s cross-cultural music trio, Trio of Three Continents. This unique concert celebrates the heritage of traditional string instruments from around the world, while showcasing these four artists' interpretive and improvisational mastery.
Zhao Xiaoxia is renowned in China as a master performer of traditional and contemporary guqin music. She serves on the faculty of the prestigious Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She will perform several solo pieces during the first half of the concert, and will join the Trio during part of the second half.
Trio of Three Continents is a US-based ensemble and this version of the ensemble features master musicians from China, Venezuela and Syria: Gao Hong (Chinese pipa), Leonard Jacome (Venezuelan harp) and Issam Rafea (Oud), presenting a new form of collaborative world music that melds styles and sensibilities.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Part of the US-China Music Institute Annual Conference Ancient Echoes and New Sounds: Guqin in the 21st Century Bard Hall7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Performed by students of the Bard Conservatory, this concert opens the 5th annual US-China Music Institute conference, Ancient Echoes and New Sounds: Guqin in the 21st Century. The program focuses on guqin performance in various combinations, and the musical revival of this ancient instrument. This concert is coordinated by the guqin students of the US-China Music Institute and Zhao Jiazhen, Professor of Guqin, Central Conservatory of Music, China. The event will begin with a welcome message from Professor Jindong Cai, director of the US-China Music Institute, and a keynote speech by visiting scholar Joseph Lam, Professor of Musicology, University of Michigan.
Works for unaccompanied voice by John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, Pauline Oliveros, and Matthew Schickele. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 And a 6 pm prelude concert: Fixed media compositions by the Instrumental Arts Program.
5th Annual Conference of the US-China Music Institute Bitó CPS, Bard Hall, Olin Hall, Fisher Center The fifth annual conference of the US-China Music Institute, Ancient Echoes and New Sounds: Guqin in the 21st Century, is a three-day series of scholarly, interactive, and musical events looking at how this ancient instrument has been revived and reimagined for today.
The guqin is a 7-stringed wooden instrument associated with the spiritual and intellectual culture of the literati class in ancient China. The conference will bring together renowned guqin scholars and performers from China and the US to consider and demonstrate how the guqin has found new life in contemporary musical culture. All events are open to the Bard community and the general public.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, APRIL 6TH Bard Hall 7:30PM to 9:30PM Keynote Address and Student Concert
FRIDAY, APRIL 7TH László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building 10AM to 12PM Graduate Student lecture recitals 1PM to 5PM Guqin Scholar Talks & Panel Discussion 7:30PM to 9:30PM Zhao Xiaoxia and the Trio of Three Continents — a concert of Guqin and mixed ensemble music
SATURDAY, APRIL 8TH 12PM to 3PM Bard Hall Annual Yaji 雅集 ‘Elegant Gathering’ — calligraphy, poetry, painting, music, and tea
7PM to 9:30PM Fisher Center Naomi Woo Conducts THE ORCHESTRA NOW — with Zhao Xiaoxia, guqin, and Stella Chen, violin
Monday, April 3, 2023
Acoustic and electronic pieces for solo flute and small ensembles by Steve Reich, Joan Tower, Jacob TV, Sergei Prokofiev, Rea Abel, and more. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Monday, April 3, 2023
An hour-long program of works for piano, marimba, violin, and cello by Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Shostakovich, and Chopin, performed by Conservatory students. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Free and open to the public.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Jesse Mills, violin, Ole Akahoshi, cello, Rieko Aizawa, piano Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Giving performances that are “lithe, persuasive” (The New York Times), “eloquent and enthralling” (The Boston Globe), and described as “the most compelling American group to come on the scene” (The New Yorker), the Horszowski Trio has quickly become a vital force in the international chamber music world since their formation in 2011. In 2023, the “Horszowski Trio Prize” was created by the prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, to award piano trio winners.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Esteban Ganem is a percussionist and graduate of Baylor University from Houston, Texas, who studies at the Bard College Conservatory of Music in the new Graduate Instrumental Arts Program with teachers Jason Treuting, Eric Cha-Beach, and Jason Haaheim. Free and open to the public. Live-streaming at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoh8oHL8SIc
Formerly chair of the piano department at the Moscow Conservatory, now in exile in New York in protest of the invasion of Ukraine. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Mikhail Voskresensky has an international reputation as a pianist in the great Romantic tradition. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under Ilia Klyachko, Boris Zemliansky, Yakob Milstein, Lev Oborin (piano) and Leonid Roizman (organ). He was prize-winner at the Schumann International Competition in Berlin, the International Competition in Rio de Janeiro, the George Enescu International Competition, and the Van Cliburn Competition. In 1957 he took part in the Prague Spring Festival where he performed European premiere of Shostakovich Second Piano concerto in the presence of Shostakovich himself. In 1966 he was honored with the Merited Artist of Russia award and in 1989 the People's Artist of Russia. Since then Mikhail Voskresensky has performed with more than 150 conductors in almost all countries of Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, USA, Mexico, Cuba, Kenia, Zimbabwe and Peru. He was a distinguished professor at the Moscow Conservatory, and the chair of the professorship of piano faculty, until he left Russia in 2022 in protest against the invasion of Ukraine.
An recent article in The Atlantic describes his current life in exile: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/defection-mikhail-voskresensky/671866/
Sunday, March 19, 2023
WITH THE ORCHESTRA NOW Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 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 on this concert.Led by Conducting Students Gordon Cheung Yu Liu Andrés Peltier-Salazar Brian Reynolds Colin Roshak
Works for piano, violin, viola, guzheng, and percussion performed by students in an hour-long program Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
With collaborative pianists Nhi Huynh and Leonard Gurevich, violinist Laura Perez Rangel, percussionists Juan Mora and Rodney Clark, and Vigilance Brandon, trumpet. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Michael Knox is in his final year at the Bard College Conservatory of Music where he is studying double-bass performance with Jeremy McCoy. His other teachers include Leigh Mesh, Bradley Aikman, and Ira Coleman. Michael is currently writing his senior project for his second major in anthropology. Throughout his five years at Bard College, Michael has been a member of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Chinese Ensemble, Contemporary Jazz Composers Ensemble, The Latin Ensemble, and The Collective, a group of musicians from both the Conservatory and the College who perform both on and off campus.
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Performing works by Verracini, Brahms, Kriesler, Debussy, Ravel, and more Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space3:30 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Program: Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768) Largo for Violin and Piano in F Sharp Minor
Johannes Brahms (1822-1897) Scherzo in C Minor, WoO 2 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta
Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908) from Spanish Dances, Op.26, No.1, Vito
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges" (transcribed by Joseph Achron)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) "Clair de Lune" (transcribed by A. Roelens)
Frédéric Chopin 91810-1849) Nocturne in E minor, Op.posth.72, No.1 (transcribed by Leopold Auer)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Lensky's Aria from Eugene Onegin (arr. by Leopold Auer)
Carl Engel (1883-1944) The Sea-shell (arr. Efrem Zimbalist)
Marice Ravel (1875-1937) Tzigane
Violinist Yi-Wen Jiang was born into a musical family in Beijing where both parents were professional musicians – his father a concertmaster for over 35 years and his mother a soprano soloist. After hearing Beethoven's violin concerto at the age of three, Jiang understood his life’s path: to become a professional violinist. He made his concerto debut at the age of 17 in Beijing and studied at the Central Conservatory of Music, before enrolling at the St. Louis Conservatory in 1985 to study with Taras Gabora and Michael Tree. Later he studied at Rugers University with Arnold Steinhardt. In 1994 Jiang joined the Shanghai Quartet, and over the next 26 years performed more than 3000 concerts in 37 countries. Jiang is Artist-in-Residence at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University and a faculty member at The Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Frank Corliss is the director of the Bard College Conservatory of Music. For many years he was a staff pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and the director of music at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. He frequently performed on the Boston Symphony Prelude Concert series and throughout the United States as a chamber musician and collaborative pianist. A graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he received his MM from SUNY at Stony Brook, where he studied with Gilbert Kalish. .
Concert free and open to vaccinated members of the public.
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Bard Conservatory Orchestra Leon Botstein, music directorRobert Schumann Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra with Erik Ralske, Javier Gándara, Hugo Valverde, and Barbara Jöstlein Currie, hornsRichard Strauss Death and TransfigurationRalph Vaughan Williams A London Symphony
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Vocal Arts Program singers and collaborative pianists present new works by Bard composers Manar Hashmi, Faisal Jones, Josh Krienke, Oga Li, Santiago Mieres, Zeke Morgan, and Artemy Mukhin Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to vaccinated members of the public.
Program includes: MANAR HASHMI Sadie Spivey, soprano Viktoria Sarkadi, piano
FAISAL JONES: Francesca Lionetta, soprano Bat-Erdene (Baghi) Batbileg, piano
JOSH KRIENKE Jun Mo Yang, tenor Neilson Chen, piano
OGA LI Jonathan Lawlor, baritone Nomin Samdan, piano
ZEKE MORGAN Katie Lerner Lee, soprano Nomin Samdan, piano
ARTEMY MUKHIN Montana Smith, soprano Bat-Erdene (Baghi) Batbileg, piano
SANTIAGO MIERES RAUSSEO Teryn Kuzma, soprano Abbagael Greene, mezzo Neilson Chen, piano
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Sébastien Cornut holds a doctorate in musical arts in piano performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music – University of Rochester, a master’s degree in music and musicology from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne, and is a graduate of the Paris Conservatory. He studied with Aldo Ciccolini and Barry Snyder, and has performed solo recitals, chamber music, and concerts with orchestras in France, the US, Lebanon, and Ukraine. He specializes in French repertoire and believes deeply in making classical music more accessible. He teaches piano and chamber music at New Jersey City University and privately in NYC. He also provides lecture recitals introducing musical works and their creators for a broader public.
Monday, March 6, 2023
Bach's GOLDBERG VARIATIONS (arranged for string trio) and the world premiere of Dustin Carlson's ABSURD PRACTICES Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to vaccinated members of the public. Faculty Recital with Melissa Reardon, viola Raman Ramakrishnan, cello and guest musicians Dustin Carlson, guitar/composer Siwoo Kim, violin Program: Absurd Practices for viola and cello (2022) Dustin Carlson (b. 1985) (world premiere - commissioned by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music)
Improvisations for Voice/Guitar (2022) Carlson
Goldberg Variations J.S. Bach (1685-1750) (transcription for string trio by Dmitry Sitkovetsky)
Livestreaming at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9owU3gvL0A
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Edward Carroll's Brass Studio Ensembles with collaborative piano fellow Bat-erdene Batbileg Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Conservatory students perform short works and selected movements for guqin, horn, clarinet, violin, percussion, and piano in an hour-long program.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space12:00 pm – 1:10 pm EST/GMT-5 Free and open to vaccinated members of the public. Live-streamed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K68yOFs2paI Program includes: Ancient Dance (2011) Jianmin Wang (b. 1956)
The Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47, in A major Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) I. Adagio sostenuto – Presto
Asventuras (2011) Alexej Gerassimez (b.1934)
Clarinet Concerto in A major, K.622 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) Six Études pour Hautbois (1997) Gilles Silvestrini, (b. 1961) Etude No. III, Boulevard des Capucines
Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, K.417 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) I. Allegro II. Andante
Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Minor, Op.75 Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) III. Allegretto moderato IV. Allegro molto
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 With Kayo Iwama, piano; Francesca Lionetta '23, Katherine Lerner Lee '23, Abagael Cheng '23, sopranos; Bard Contemporary Ensemble, conducted by Benjamin Hochman, and guest musicians on cimbalom and mandolin.
PROGRAM SCHUMANN Frauenliebe- und leben Op. 42 (A Woman's Love and Life) Francesca Lionetta '23, soprano Kayo Iwama, piano
KURTÁG The Messages of the Late Miss R.V. Troussova Op. 17 (1981) Bard Contemporary Ensemble with three soprano soloists Benjamin Hochman, conductor
This program contrasts two song cycles about women: Schumann’s Frauenliebe- und Leben and Kurtág’s Messages of the Late Miss R.V. Troussova, performed by pianist Kayo Iwama, three sopranos in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and the Bard Contemporary Ensemble, conducted by Benjamin Hochman.
Schumann’s piece is based on a male-written text that reflects outdated views on women of the time, while Kurtág's cycle is set to 15 poems by Rimma Dalos that are far more current in their sensibility. Heard side by side, the contrasting cycles explore both how the fragmentation in Schumann's music greatly influenced Kurtág's work, and how male-created art has perceived and portrayed a woman’s experiences through time.
Bard Contemporary Ensemble Benjamin Hochman, conductor Yuchen Yao, violin Marka Gustavsson, viola John Woodward, double bass William Anderson, mandolin Nathaniel Sanchez, oboe David Keringer, clarinet Liri Ronen, horn Tammam Odeh, harp Chester Englander, cimbalom Shao-Chu Pan, Yi-Fen Cheng, piano/celeste Jonathan Collazo, Esteban Ganem, percussion
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 This concert centers on spirituality, juxtaposing Kurtág’s quartet Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky with Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15, both works which confront the reality of death and the possibility of renewed life. Performers on this program include Conservatory student string quartet, and a faculty string quartet with musicians from the Orion, Guarneri, and Borromeo quartets — violinists Daniel Phillips and Carmit Zori, violist Melissa Reardon, and cellist Peter Wiley —coming together for special performance of the Beethoven String Quartet.
PROGRAM KURTÁG Officium Breve in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky Op. 28 Bard Conservatory String Quartet: Christopher Nelson, Blanche Darr, violins; Rowan Swain, viola; Nathan Francisco, cello
BEETHOVEN String Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Faculty String Quartet: Daniel Phillips, violin Carmit Zori, violin Melissa Reardon, viola Peter Wiley, cello Free and open to the public; limited seating.
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Second day of musical explorations inspired by György Kurtág. Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST/GMT-5 This concert revolves around Bartók's Mikrokosmos (which inspired Kurtag's Games), performed by Bard Preparatory Division students, interspersed with other related 'game'-like pieces including Bizet’s Jeux d'enfants, Chick Corea’s Children’s Songs, Ravel’s Ma mère l'Oye, and selections by Bach, Chopin, Fauré, and Beethoven, performed by faculty pianists including Frank Corliss, Kayo Iwama, Blair McMillen, Vica Schwartzman, Susanne Son, Terrence Wilson, and Shai Wosner.
PROGRAM BARTÓK Selections from Mikrokosmos BACH selections CHOPIN selections BIZET Jeux d'enfants, Op. 22 FAURÉ selections COREA Children’s Songs RAVEL Ma mère l'Oye BEETHOVEN selection of bagatelles
Free and open to the public.
Signs, Games, and Messages is an annual new music festival celebrating the compositions and musical legacy of the great Hungarian composer György Kurtág. Kurtag’s compositions speak with a radically new voice, and yet they draw deeply and broadly on the standard musical repertoire. Similarly, Signs, Games, and Messages celebrates both the new and the old. It aims to revitalize the connections between the standard repertoire and the innovative compositions of our own time, with Kurtág’s music as the focal point.
This festival has been permanently endowed through the generous support of the László Z. Bitó and Olivia Cariño Foundation.
Friday, February 24, 2023
Concert One: KURTÁG and SCHUBERT Guest artists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano, and Tony Arnold, soprano Olin Hall8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Curated by pianist Shai Wosner, this annual three-day, four-concert festival explores the music of Hungarian composer György Kurtág (b. 1926), as well as that of composers who influenced or were influenced by him. Using Kurtág as a point of departure into music regardless of century or style, the Festival places different pieces and composers in a dialogue outside of time.
PROGRAM Short solo piano works by Schubert and Kurtág, including US premieres of Kurtág works written during the pandemic Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano --- KURTÁG The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza Op. 7: Concerto for Soprano and Piano (1963-1968) Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano Tony Arnold, soprano
Free and open to the public.
Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard is widely acclaimed as a key figure in the music of our time and a close collaborator with many leading composers including Ligeti, Stockhausen, George Benjamin, and Pierre Boulez. Praised by The Guardian as “one of the best Messiaen interpreters around“, Aimard has had a close association to the composer himself and with Yvonne Loriod, with whom he studied at the Paris Conservatoire. Recent seasons included the release of the Messiaen’s opus magnum Catalogue d’oiseaux on Pentatone, which was honored with multiple awards including the prestigious German music critic’s award “Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.” Aimard has performed the world premieres of piano works by Kurtág at Teatro alla Scala; Carter’s last piece Epigrams, which was written for Aimard, Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s works Responses; Sweet disorder and the carefully careless and Keyboard Engine. An innovative curator and uniquely significant interpreter of piano repertoire from every age, Aimard has directed and performed in ground-breaking projects at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Konzerthaus Vienna, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Brussels’ Palais des Beaux Arts, Lucerne Festival, Mozarteum Salzburg, Cité de la Musique in Paris, Tanglewood Festival, and Edinburgh Festival. He performs throughout the world each season with major orchestras under conductors including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Peter Eötvös, Sir Simon Rattle and Vladimir Jurowski.
Tony Arnold is internationally acclaimed as a leading proponent of contemporary music in concert and recording. Arnold’s extensive chamber music repertory includes major works written for her voice by Georges Aperghis, George Crumb, Brett Dean, Jason Eckardt, Gabriela Lena Frank, Josh Levine, George Lewis, Philippe Manoury, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Christopher Theofanidis, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, John Zorn, and numerous others. She is a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble and enjoys regular guest appearances with leading ensembles, presenters, and festivals worldwide. With more than 30 discs to her credit, Arnold has recorded a broad segment of the modern vocal repertory with esteemed chamber music colleagues.
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Denis Savelyev TŌN ’20, flute, and Radoslawa Jasik, piano Olin Hall7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Works by Chopin, Lysenko, Kolodub, Skoryk, Kilar, Hayvoronsky, Lyatoshinsky, and others.
TŌN alum Denis Savelyev, flute, performs a concert of music by Polish and Ukrainian composers with pianist Radoslawa Jasik. This concert previews an upcoming album release on Sheva Collection.
While the concert is free, donations to Razom for Ukraine are encouraged.
A Chinese New Year Concert with The Orchestra Now, Presented by the US-China Music Institute Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, The Shops at Columbus Circle, NYC3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 The Sound of Spring returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City for an authentic Chinese New Year concert to welcome in the year ot the Rabbit.
Jindong Cai conducts The Orchestra Now in a program featuring the beloved Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto and other works of Chinese symphonic music.
with The Orchestra Now Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Celebrate Chinese New Year with The Orchestra Now, conducted by Jindong Cai, offering a symphonic program featuring the beloved Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, along with other festive works to welcome in the year of the Rabbit.Chinese New Year is of one of the most important holidays in the lunar calendar—a time for enjoying friends and family and looking ahead to the coming of Spring. Now in its fourth year, The Sound of Spring is a truly authentic Chinese New Year concert showcasing the wonderful diversity and artistry of Chinese symphonic music.
