Bard Conservatory of Music News Archive

Sō Percussion and the Bard College Conservatory of Music Percussion Program present their second annual spring concert at the Fisher Center on April 12. Works include music by Steve Reich, Lou Harrison, Paul Lansky, and other recent percussion masterworks.

The celebration on April 14 will include an open house with chamber music performances, followed by a celebration in the performance hall at 4 p.m., with Conservatory director Robert Martin; musical performances by students of the Conservatory and Bard’s Music Program; a reading by acclaimed poet Robert Kelly, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature; and remarks by László Z. Bitó ’60 and Bard College president Leon Botstein.

Dávid discusses the Conservatory's Central European Tour, playing with Contemporaneous, and "Bard’s well-known aptitude for making dreams come true."

Bard College first-year percussion student Chris Gunnell was featured in the annual report of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Chris is pursuing a five-year dual degree at Bard, studying music at the Conservatory as well as philosophy and social policy at the College.

Joan Tower, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Music, will receive an honorary degree from Smith College at their commencement in May. Professor Tower has taught at Bard College since 1972. She is regarded as one of the most important living American composers, and has made lasting contributions as composer, performer, conductor, and educator in a career spanning more than 50 years.

President Botstein conducted the American Symphony Orchestra in a clarinet concerto by Bard Conservatory faculty member Harold Farberman, as well as Anton Bruckner’s rarely-performed Eighth Symphony.

Violinist Sabrina Tabby is in her fourth year in the Bard Conservatory's dual-degree program. She performs with student music ensemble Contemporaneous and recently returned from the Conservatory's tour of central Europe.

The Almanac looks at this historic piece and previews the performance, featuring members of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra and singers from the Bard Chamber Singers and the Graduate Vocal Arts Program.