Bard Vocal Arts Alum Aiden K. Feltkamp ’16 Curates Collection of Music for Transgender, Nonbinary Voices
Bard Vocal Arts alum Aiden K. Feltkamp ’16 wants to help transgender and nonbinary people have their voices heard. Anthology of New Music: Trans & Nonbinary Voices, curated by Feltkamp, is thought to be the first compiled volume of songs written for and/or by transgender and nonbinary people.
Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents Richard Strauss’s Salome, March 18 and 20
The Bard College Conservatory of Music presents Salome, an opera by Richard Strauss with libretto by Oscar Wilde. The Bard Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein, joins an exciting principal cast of singers in a performance, directed by R. B. Schlather, of Richard Strauss’s once infamous, now famous opera, Salome—a biblical story with a twist. Performances will be held on Friday, March 18 at 8 pm and Sunday, March 20 at 2pm in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater. Tickets start at $25, with free tickets for Bard students.The Tenor Chef: Barrett Radziun MM ’13 Baked and Instagrammed His Way through the Pandemic
Inspired in equal parts by the pandemic, his grandmother, and Julie and Julia, Bard conservatory alumnus Barrett Radziun MM ’13 found sweet fame on Instagram with his account @thetenorchef, writes the Star Tribune. While a graduate student at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, Radziun started baking for his fellow musicians, only to turn the passion into a side business. Now a performer and professor at Texas A&M University-Commerce, when his classes went online, he set about baking every recipe in Claire Saffitz's Dessert Person, documenting his progress on Instagram.More Conservatory News
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Professor Joan Tower’s “1920/2019” Reviewed in the New York Times
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Bard Conservatory Faculty, Alumna Receive GRAMMY Nods
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That’s Professor Little Lad to You: Bard Theater and Conservatory Faculty Member Jack Ferver Spoke with the New York Times about Their Newfound TikTok Stardom
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A Very Different Vibe: Jennifer Melick Profiles Bard Vocal Arts Alumna Julia Bullock in Opera News
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Bard Conservatory Sophomore Samuel Mutter Premieres “Incarceration,” Composition Inspired by Soviet Dissident Memoir He Read in Bard Common Course
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Interview: Conservatory Advanced Performance Studies Student Kira Shiner Talks About Producing Music in a Pandemic