CONSERVATORY SUNDAYS
Dawn Upshaw and Friends present
 
A WINTER SONGFEST
A festive holiday benefit concert for the
Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
 
Tickets $15, 25, 50 and 100*
 
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16    |    3 PM    |    SOSNOFF THEATER
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts

Acclaimed soprano Dawn Upshaw and singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program, pianist Kayo Iwama, Bard Conservatory Piano Fellows, and brass quintet Monstrare present a program of festive holiday-themed songs and ensembles to benefit the Scholarship Fund of the Bard College Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.

A family-friendly matinee concert, A Winter Songfest will include Grammy Award-winner Upshaw performing two works that she has previously recorded: Vaughan Williams's This Is the Truth Sent from Above and Rodgers and Hart's Sing for Your Supper. The program also includes holiday classics such as Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Walter Kent's I'll be Home for Christmas, Simple Gifts arranged by Aaron Copland, and Argento's "Winter" from Six Elizabethan Songs. Monstrare, a new brass quintet of advanced musicians from The Bard College Conservatory of Music, will perform excerpts from Monteverdi's Madrigals in addition to other pieces.

*Our guests at the $100 level are invited to join Dawn Upshaw onstage
 for a post-concert reception of champagne and sweets immediately following the performance. Limited tickets are available
for this exclusive opportunity so please reserve early.
For these tickets, please call 845-758-7928
 
www.bard.edu/conservatory
fishercenter.bard.edu