Upcoming Events and Performances
Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Saturday, March 15, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterA concert by the Bard Conservatory Orchestra with maestro Leon Botstein, featuring works by Brahms, Franck, Perle, and pianist Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni, performing Mozart’s Concerto No. 24.
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Johannes Brahms
Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni, piano
George Perle
Six Bagatelles
César Franck
Symphony in D minor
Artwork: Hilma af Klint, Primordial Chaos, No. 16, The WU/ROSEN Series. Grupp 1, 1906-07
Phone: 845-758-7900E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bcom-3-25/
Third Year Recital: Christina Ng-Leyba, trombone
Friday, March 28, 2025 | 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Olin HallWorks by Galliard, Stojowski, and Guilmant.
Free and open to the public.Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel. Download Event Program Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office
E-mail: [email protected]
Non-Required Recital: Ethan Young, cello, with Neilson Chen, piano
Friday, March 28, 2025 | 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceFeaturing works by Beethoven, Barber, and Myaskovsky.
Free and open to the public. Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel. Download Event Program Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert OfficeE-mail: [email protected]
Kendra Colton, soprano, and Kayo Iwama, piano
Saturday, March 29, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceWorks by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Fauré, Finzi, Andy Vores, Warlock, Quilter and Peter Childs.
Free and open to the public. Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert OfficePhone: 845-758-7196
E-mail: [email protected]
Non-Required Recital: Jing Yi Sutherland, cello, with Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano
Saturday, March 29, 2025 | 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceFeaturing works by Schumann and Beethoven.
Free and open to the public.Livestreaming on the Conservatory YouTube channel. Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office
E-mail: [email protected]
Paths to Enlightenment: Beethoven’s Opp. 95, 96, and 97
Sunday, March 30, 2025 | 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Spacefeaturing Joseph Lin and Claire Bourg, violins; Natalie Loughran, viola; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello*; and Helen Huang, piano
*Bard Conservatory Faculty MemberFree and open to the public. Download Event Program Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office
Phone: 845-758-7196
E-mail: [email protected]
Violin Masterclass: Joseph Lin
Sunday, March 30, 2025 | 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceA renowned performer and teacher, Joseph Lin appears regularly throughout the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He was first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet from 2011 to 2018, and he continues to teach violin and chamber music at the Juilliard School. Lin’s recent projects include a collaboration with Robert Levin featuring Beethoven and Schubert on period instruments, performances of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, Beethoven’s late string quartets, and the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Helen Huang at Juilliard. Marking the 300th year of Bach’s Violin Sonatas and Partitas in 2020, Lin presented complete cycles in Boston and Philadelphia. Recent seasons have included baroque and classical period instrument performances on both viola and violin. In 2025, Joseph Lin presents a special Beethoven program (Op. 95 “Serioso” Quartet, Op. 96 Sonata, and Op. 97 “Archduke” Trio) in numerous cities around the U.S.
From 2007 to 2011, Lin was a professor at Cornell University, where his projects included the inaugural Chinese Musicians Residency, as well as a collaboration with Cornell composers to study Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas and create new works inspired by Bach.
Lin was a founding member of the Formosa Quartet, which won the 2006 London String Quartet Competition. In 1996, he won first prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. In 1999, he was selected for the Pro Musicis Award and, in 2001, he won first prize at the inaugural Michael Hill Violin Competition in New Zealand. His recordings include the music of Korngold and Busoni with pianist Benjamin Loeb; an album of Debussy, Franck, and Milhaud with pianist Orion Weiss; and the complete unaccompanied works of Bach and Ysaÿe. His recording of Mozart’s A Major Violin Concerto with original cadenzas was released in 2017. With the Juilliard Quartet, he recorded Schubert’s Death and the Maiden and Elliot Carter’s Fifth Quartet, as well as the Quartet’s recent album of Beethoven, Davidovsky, and Bartók. During the summer season, he is a regular artist at the Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Marlboro festivals.
Joseph Lin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2000. In 2002, he began an extended exploration of China, where he studied Chinese music, including the guqin, as a Fulbright scholar.
This masterclass is free and open to the public. Contact: Bard Conservatory Concert Office
E-mail: [email protected]
Rowan Bauman Swain, viola
Sunday, April 13, 2025 | 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceFeaturing 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: [email protected]
Noon Concert Series
Monday, April 14, 2025 | 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceAn 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: [email protected]
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 TheaterA 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.
Artwork: Robert Hubert, The Dance (1777–79)
Phone: 845-758-7900E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/gcdr-25/
Noon Concert Series
Monday, April 28, 2025 | 12:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceAn 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: [email protected]
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
Tan Dun conducts the Conservatory Orchestra; program to be announced.
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.
Phone: 845-758-7900E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bcom-tan-dun-25/