Upcoming Events and Performances
Bard East/West Ensemble with special guest Wu Man
Monday, October 2, 2023 | 8:00 pm – 9:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceCHINA NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL - THE BRIDGE OF MUSIC
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. Contact: Kathryn Wright
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://www.barduschinamusic.org/events/east-west-bard
Bard East/West Ensemble with special guest Wu Man – NYC
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | 7:00 pm – 8:45 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, New York, NYChina Now Music Festival – The Bridge of Music
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’.
For tickets please go to: https://ticketing.jazz.org/15697/15698
Contact: Kathryn Wright
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://www.barduschinamusic.org/events/east-west-nyc
The Orchestra Now Celebrates the Music of Chen Yi and Zhou Long
Friday, October 6, 2023 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterCHINA NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL: The Bridge of Music
Pre-concert talk with composers at 6 pm
The Orchestra Now
Jindong Cai conductor
The 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.
Phone: 845-758-7900
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/china-now-music-festival-23/
Asia Society – Panel Discussion / Music Forum: Cultural Diplomacy in the U.S.-China Relationship
Saturday, October 7, 2023 | 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Asia Society of New York, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10021China Now Music Festival – The Bridge of Music
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)
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE Contact: Kathryn Wright
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://www.barduschinamusic.org/events/music-forum-2023
Faculty Recital: Luosha Fang ’11, violin, with Zhenni Li-Cohen, piano
Saturday, October 7, 2023 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceViolin and piano duo performs Bach, Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky
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. Download Event Program Contact: Ann Gabler
Phone: 845-758-7196
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://bard.edu/conservatory
The Orchestra Now Celebrates the Music of Chen Yi and Zhou Long – NYC
Sunday, October 8, 2023 | 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center, Columbus Circle, New York, NYChina Now Music Festival – The Bridge of Music
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.
For tickets please go to: https://ticketing.jazz.org/15697/15700
Contact: Kathryn Wright
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://https://www.barduschinamusic.org/events/gen-crossings-nyc
Part II - Faculty Recital: Luosha Fang ’11, viola, with Shannon Lee, violin
Sunday, October 15, 2023 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceWorks for viola and violin by Martinů, Prokofiev, Saariaho, and Takemitsu
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. Contact: Ann Gabler
Phone: 845-758-7196
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://bard.edu/conservatory
Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform an Hour-Long Program of Short Works
Monday, October 16, 2023 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Contact: ConservatoryWebsite: https://bard.edu/conservatory
Uncommon Connections
Saturday, October 28, 2023 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterJoan Tower • Aaron Copland • Béla Bartók • Duke Ellington
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 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.
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Joan Tower
Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
Duke Ellington
New World A-Comin’
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/uncommon-connections/
Uncommon Connections
Sunday, October 29, 2023 | 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterJoan Tower • Aaron Copland • Béla Bartók • Duke Ellington
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 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.
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Joan Tower
Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
Duke Ellington
New World A-Comin’
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/uncommon-connections/
Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform an Hour-Long Program of Short Works
Monday, October 30, 2023 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. Contact: ConservatoryE-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://bard.edu/conservatory
Faculty Recital: Peter Wiley, cello, and Anna Polonsky, piano, perform Beethoven, Brahms, and Mendelssohn
Sunday, November 5, 2023 | 2:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceBeethoven
12 Variations on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes', WoO 45
Brahms 12 Variations on 'See the conqu'ring hero comes', WoO 45
Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38
Mendelssohn
Song without words, Op.109
and
Sonata No.2 in D major, Op.58
Contact: Ann Gabler
Phone: 845-758-7196
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://bard.edu/conservatory
VAP Cabaret Night: English Music Hall
Saturday, November 11, 2023 | 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5 | Olin Hall The Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program presents their annual Cabaret Night featuring young artists from the Vocal Arts Program. Curated by Stephanie Blythe.This is event is free and open to the public. Contact: Concert Office
E-mail: [email protected]
Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform an Hour-Long Program of Short Works
Monday, November 13, 2023 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Free and open to the public. E-mail: [email protected]Website: https://bard.edu/conservatory
Bard Baroque Ensemble with Renée Louprette, director
Friday, November 17, 2023 | 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm EST/GMT-5 | Chapel of the Holy Innocents Program includes works by Élisabeth de la Guerre, Ignatius Sancho, J. S. Bach, and excerpts from Codex Caioni (a 17th-century Romanian manuscript). Free and open to the public. Contact: Renée LoupretteE-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://bard.edu/conservatory
Borromeo String Quartet performs a Cycle of Bartók Quartets
Sunday, November 19, 2023 | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance SpaceAll six Bartók String Quartets featured in a performance with Conservatory viola faculty and member of the Borromeo Quartet, Melissa Reardon.
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. Describing a Bartók concert at the Curtis Institute, the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that the quartet “performed at a high standard that brought you so deeply into the music's inner workings that you wondered if your brain could take it all in ... The music's mystery, violence, and sorrow become absolutely inescapable.”
Free and open to the public. Contact: Ann Gabler
Phone: 845-758-7196
E-mail: [email protected]
Chamber Music Marathon: Part I and II
Friday, December 1, 2023 – Saturday, December 2, 2023 | | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space Student and Faculty Chamber Ensembles perform throughout Friday evening and Saturday. Free and open to the public. E-mail: [email protected]Website: https://bard.edu/conservatory
Noon Concert: Conservatory Students Perform an Hour-Long Program of Short Works
Monday, December 4, 2023 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5 | Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space E-mail: [email protected]Website: https://bard.edu/conservatory
Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony) and Ethel Smyth Mass in D
Saturday, December 9, 2023 | 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5 | Fisher Center, Sosnoff TheaterThe Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Renée Anne Louprette, Organ Soloist
Ethel Smyth
Mass in D
Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony)
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/saint-saens-symphony-no-3-organ-symphony-and-ethel-smyth-mass-in-d/