The Bard Conservatory of Music Orchestra Performs Sunday Matinee Concert

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.— The Bard College Conservatory Orchestra performs a concert at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Sosnoff Theater on Sunday, May 13 at 3 p.m. Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director, the Conservatory Orchestra performs Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote, Op. 35, ‘Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character,’ with cello soloist Emily Munstedt, winner of the 2017 Conservatory Concerto Competition; and Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. All proceeds will benefit the Scholarship Fund of The Bard College Conservatory of Music. Suggested donations for all Conservatory Sundays programs are $20 (orchestra seating) and $15 (parterre/first balcony. In celebration of Mother’s Day, mothers can receive complimentary tickets by using code MOM online at fishercenter.bard.edu or by telephone at 845-758-7900. For additional ticket information contact the Fisher Center box office at fishercenter.bard.edu or call 845-758-7900.

For additional information about The Bard College Conservatory of Music please go to the website at bard.edu/conservatory/.
About the Artists

Cello soloist Emily Munstedt is a third-year student at the Bard College Conservatory of Music where she studies with Peter Wiley. A winner of the 2017 Bard Conservatory Concerto Competition, she holds the Conservatory’s Mischa Schneider Scholarship. Her second major is political studies. In her home state of Massachusetts, Emily began studying cello at the age of four under Andrew Mark, and graduated from the Walnut Hill School of the Arts in Boston where she studied with Mickey Katz. She has participated in many festivals including Domaine Forget, the Castleman Quartet Program, Red Rocks Chamber Music Festival, and the Virginia Tech Festival.
 
 

This event was last updated on 05-02-2018

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