Bard Composer in Residence Missy Mazzoli Named Winner of Marc Blitzstein Memorial Award
This January, the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the winners of the 2023 Charles Ives Opera Prize and the Marc Blitzstein Memorial Awards. Bard Composer in Residence Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek will each receive a Marc Blitzstein Memorial Award of $10,000, which are given in the memory of Marc Blitzstein to composers, lyricists, or librettists to encourage the creation of works of merit for musical theater and opera.
Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program Alumna Sun-Ly Pierce VAP ’19 Featured in Opera News
Mezzo-soprano, and Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program Alumna, Sun-Ly Pierce VAP ’19, whose upcoming roles include Laurene Powell Jobs in Calgary Opera’s production of “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs” and Arsamene in Handel’s “Xerxes” at Detroit Opera, is featured as this month's Sound Bite in Opera News. “I love Handel. I love early music. I really love contemporary opera,” says Pierce. “I love the challenge of making a new work as immediate as possible for people who've never heard it before. I love the idea of being able to put my fingerprint on it.”Graduate Vocal Arts Program Alumna Julia Bullock’s Debut Solo Album Named One of the “10 Best Classical Albums of 2022” by NPR
American classical singer Julia Bullock VAP ’11 released Walking in the Dark, her debut solo album, on December 9, 2022, on Nonesuch Records. NPR named the album one of the “10 Best Classical Albums of 2022" and listed it as number 14 on the “Top 50 Albums of 2022.” “Soprano Julia Bullock's affecting solo debut, with its breathtaking spin on a deep cut by the enigmatic Connie Converse and a sublime rendition of Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915, traces the tenuous connections individuals share with one another and their own senses of purpose on earth,” writes NPR Music producer Tom Huizenga.More Conservatory News
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Pianist Shai Wosner Curates Signs, Games & Messages, a Three-Day Festival Inspired by the Musical Explorations of György Kurtág at Bard Conservatory, February 24–26
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Renowned Composer, Conductor, and Bard Conservatory Dean Tan Dun Is Appointed Cultural Ambassador for Hong Kong
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The Fisher Center at Bard Presents New Interpretations of Two Holiday Classics
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Bard Conservatory of Music Presents Uncaged with World-Renowned Conductor and Composer Tan Dun on November 4
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Bard Conservatory Faculty Member Renée Anne Louprette in Romania on Fulbright Award for Research on Historic Pipe Organs
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Bard Composer in Residence Jessie Montgomery Named 2023 Musical America Composer of the Year
Upcoming Events and Performances
Feb
11
Etude Extravaganza:
A Survey of Piano Etudes of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Saturday, February 11, 2023
A Survey of Piano Etudes of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Feb
22
Benefit Concert for Ukraine: Music by Polish and Ukrainian Composers
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Feb
24
Signs, Games & Messages
A three-day festival inspired by the musical explorations of György Kurtág.
Friday, February 24, 2023
A three-day festival inspired by the musical explorations of György Kurtág.
Friday, February 24, 2023
Feb
25
Signs, Games & Messages Concert Two: Piano Mini-Marathon – Bartók, Ravel, Bizet, and More
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Saturday, February 25, 2023