Upcoming Events and Performances
Conservatory Noon Concert
Monday, October 3, 2022 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceConservatory students perform works for clarinet, piano, and violin by Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Chopin, Shostakovich, and Janáček
An hour-long program of short performances by Bard Conservatory students.Free and open to vaccinated members of the public. Contact: Ann Gabler
Phone: 845-758-7196
E-mail: [email protected]
Tales From Beijing
Friday, October 7, 2022 | 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterChina Now Music Festival: East of West
The Orchestra Now
Jindong Cai conductor
Celebrate the opening of the fifth annual China Now Music Festival with a program of symphonic and operatic works that evoke the streets and alleyways of the great city of Beijing, then and now. With guest performances by tenor Yi Li and soprano Menli Deng, suona player Yazhi Guo and pianist Xiaofu Ju.
PROGRAM
Aaron Avshalomov
Hutongs of Peking
Wenjing Guo
Selections from the Opera Rickshaw Boy: Xiangzi and Huniu
Xiaogang Ye
Symphony No.2, The Great Wall
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/china-now-music-festival-east-of-west/
Tales from Beijing with The Orchestra Now 北京故事
Sunday, October 9, 2022 | 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln CenterEast of West, the Fifth Annual China Now Music Festival
The opening concert of the 2022 the China Now Music Festival takes us to the streets, alleyways, and majestic outskirts of Beijing with a program featuring selections from Guo Wenjing’s opera Rickshaw Boy, Ye Xiaogang’s powerful Great Wall Symphony, and Russian-born Jewish American composer Aaron Avshalomov’s Hutongs of Peking. Jindong Cai conducts The Orchestra Now and guest soloists.More information HERE Contact: US China Music Insitute of the Bard Conservatory
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://ticketing.jazz.org/13762/13763
Painted Skin, A Ghost Story Chamber Opera 画皮 at Hudson Hall
Thursday, October 13, 2022 | 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Hudson Hall, 327 Warren St, Hudson, NY 12534Part of the Fifth Annual China Now Music Festival - East of West
Painted Skin 画皮 is composer Hao Weiya’s modern operatic interpretation of a haunting story from Strange Tales of Liao Zhai* by Pu Songling (originally published in 1740).The opera made its debut in 2018 at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center in Shanghai. For the 2022 China Now Music Festival, director Michael Hoffman and music director Jindong Cai have created a new production that transports this supernatural ghost story to modern America, and features a cast of three singers, including acclaimed NY-based Peking opera singer Qian Yi, accompanied by a 20-piece Chinese chamber orchestra.
An all new production directed by Michael Hoffman VAP ’15 and conducted by Jindong Cai.
More information HERE Contact: US China Music Institute at the Bard COnservatory
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://hudsonhall.org/event/painted-skin-a-chamber-opera/
Lecture-Recital: "Cinderella No More," a program celebrating the viola with violist Timothy Ridout, artist-in-residence at the Birmingham Royal Conservatoire and colleagues
Saturday, October 15, 2022 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin Hall "Cinderella No More," a lecture-recital will retrace the viola’s journey from its humble beginnings in the 19th century to its flourishing with Lionel Tertis (1976-1975) in the 20th century. The recital will include works by Flackton, Coates, Bowen, Reed, and Britten, and will feature renowned violist Timothy Ridout, artist in residence at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He will be accompanied by viola student, Yujie Wang, and two Conservatoire colleagues: violist Louise Lansdown, head of strings, and pianist John Thwaites, head of keyboard.Contact: Ann Gabler
Phone: 845-758-7196
E-mail: [email protected]
PAINTED SKIN: a Ghost Story Chamber Opera 画皮 at Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Saturday, October 15, 2022 | 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln CenterPart of the 5th Annual China Now Music Festival - East of West
Painted Skin 画皮 is composer Hao Weiya’s modern operatic interpretation of a haunting story from Strange Tales of Liao Zhai* by Pu Songling (originally published in 1740).The opera made its debut in 2018 at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center in Shanghai. For the 2022 China Now Music Festival, director Michael Hoffman and music director Jindong Cai have created a new production that transports this supernatural ghost story to modern America, and features a cast of three singers, including acclaimed NY-based Peking opera singer Qian Yi, accompanied by a 20-piece Chinese chamber orchestra.
An all new production directed by Michael Hoffman VAP '15 and conducted by Jindong Cai.
more information HERE Download Event Program Contact: US China Music Institute at the Bard COnservatory
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://ticketing.jazz.org/13762/13767?_ga=2.235133569.1431828053.1662132791-961902091.1662132791
Noise Catalogue, Featuring Percussion Alumni: Daniel Matei, Jon Collazo, Petra Elek, and Friends
Saturday, October 15, 2022 | 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceRecent works by Dennis Matos, Matt Sargent, Madeline Hocking, and Daniel Matei.
ProgramDon’t be fooled by the beginning, Francis (2021) -- Dennis Matos (b.1996)
Down the long tunnels at first, then under the mortal sky (2022) -- Daniel Matei (b.1994)
Hajnali / Shift (world premiere) -- Madeline Hocking (b.1995) & Daniel Matei
More Snow to Fall (2015) -- Matt Sargent (b.1984)
Ablakomba, ablakomba… (world premiere) -- Daniel Matei Contact: Ann Gabler
Phone: 845-758-7196
E-mail: [email protected]
Journey to the East with the Orchestra of New Asia CMS 东行乐记
Saturday, October 22, 2022 | 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln CenterPart of the Fifth Annual China Now Festival
The music of Alexander Tcherepnin and the art of Xu Beihong 徐悲鸿The Fifth annual China Now Music Festival concludes with a program highlighting the aesthetic crosscurrents between East and West in the early-mid 20th century, including symphonic works in honor of the great painter Xu Beihong (1895-1953), and a rarely performed chamber opera by Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977). Jindong Cai conducts the Orchestra of the New Asia CMS, with guest soloists including pianist Xu Fangfang, the daughter of Xu Beihong.
More information HERE. Contact: US China Music Institute
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://www.lincolncenter.org/venue/alice-tully-hall/china-now-music-festival-journey-to-the-east-414
Family Weekend Concert
Saturday, October 22, 2022 | 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterThe Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Bard College Chamber Singers, Cappella Festiva, and James Bagwell, choral director
William Grant Still
Fanfare for American War Heroes
Charles Ives
Decoration Day
Three Places in New England
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9, Ode to Joy
Phone: 845-758-7900
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/family-weekend-22/
Family Weekend Concert
Sunday, October 23, 2022 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterThe Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Bard College Chamber Singers, Cappella Festiva, and James Bagwell, choral director
William Grant Still
Fanfare for American War Heroes
Charles Ives
Decoration Day
Three Places in New England
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 9, Ode to Joy
Phone: 845-758-7900
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/family-weekend-22/
Uncaged
Friday, November 4, 2022 | 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterThe Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Tan Dun, conductor
John Cage
Credo in US (1942)
Third Construction (1941), with members of the Conservatory percussion studio
4′ 33″ (1952)
Atlas Eclipticalis (1961-62)
Tan Dun
Percussion Concerto: The Tears of Nature (2012)
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/uncaged/
Degree Recital: Sarina Schwartz, violin
Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Sarina Schwartz (she/hers) is in her final year at Bard Conservatory. She completed her Written Arts Senior Project in May of 2022, a collection of poems titled A Clear Place in the Sun, which explores her home in Florida as a political, social, and environmental landscape. She has participated in a number of summer music festivals, including the Eastern Music Festival and the International Music Festival of the Adriatic in Duino, Italy. She also serves as the program assistant for the Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination, where she has worked since her sophomore year. She is incredibly grateful for her time at Bard. A special thanks to her teacher, Yi-Wen Jiang, for five years of his time, energy, and enthusiasm, as well as to Melissa Reardon, Raman Ramakrishnan, and Marka Gustavsson for an inspiring chamber music education.Contact: Ann Gabler
Phone: 845-758-7196
E-mail: [email protected]
Berlin im Licht: A German Cabaret
Saturday, November 19, 2022 | 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterWITH STEPHANIE BLYTHE AND THE BARD VOCAL ARTS PROGRAM
Join vocalist Stephanie Blythe, pianist Kayo Iwama, and the members of the Bard Vocal Arts Program and Conservatory Collaborative Piano Fellowship in an evening of German cabaret.
Phone: 845-758-7900E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/berlin-im-licht/
Faculty Recital: Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Monday, November 21, 2022 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Contact: Ann GablerPhone: 845-758-7196
E-mail: [email protected]
The Nutcracker
Saturday, December 3, 2022 | 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterA Symphonic Performance
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, music director
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/the-nutcracker/