US-China Music Institute

  Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/jZzB3AMqBeM

  With pianists Diana Borshcheva and Francis Huang, violinists Shaunessy Renker and Yiran Yao, cellist Verity Scheel
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/DV7qF4-999Y

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Students and codirectors of the Bard Conservatory Percussion Program join Juliana Maitenaz ’22 for a final recital.

Please bring proof of vaccination and a mask to attend in person.

View the livestream at https://youtu.be/JACLXhQuiOs.

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
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Keyan (Ivy) Wu began her studies at the music middle school of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Currently a fifth-year student in the double degree program at the Bard College Conservatory, she studies with Shai Wosner. Ivy was also a pupil in Peter Serkin’s studio. Her second major is psychology. She has often participated in piano master classes and piano seminars in China, Germany, and the United States. In January 2017, she won first prize in the Spainish Husca International Piano Competition in group B.

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  6:00 pm – 7:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and the Conservatory Piano Fellows present self-staged arias from the iconic Italian operas of Handel and Mozart.

"Dreams and Reveries"
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Works by Francis Poulenc, Carl Frühling, Astor Piazzolla, Johannes Brahms                                                           

with-
Laura Perez-Rangel & Sarina Schwartz, violins
Liam Brosh, viola
Lily Moerschel, cello
Yun Chen, piano  

This event will also be live-streamed HERE

 

With violinists Zongheng Zhang and Eniko Samu, and cellist Nathan Francisco
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Advanced Studies Program Final Recital.


Download: Yun Chen APS Recital Program.pdf Recital Program

Face to Face with the Sky: a program of vocal chamber music exploring themes of fragmentation and unity, distance and closeness, and the unknown both within and outside of ourselves.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  4:30 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Program featuring works by Leaha Maria Villarreal, Maurice Ravel, Luke Haaksma (premiere), Flannery Cunningham, Caroline Shaw, Ernest Chausson, Peter Lieberson, Erich Korngold, and Alexander von Zemlinsky.
Performed by Micah Gleason, mezzo-soprano, in collaboration with:
Sabrina Parry, violin 
Zongheng Zhang, violin 
Leonardo Vásquez, viola
 Sara Page, cello 
Monika Dziubelski, flute 
Jillian Paige, flute 
Olivia Hamilton, clarinet 
Colin Roshak, clarinet 
Frank Tao, clarinet
Petra Elek, percussion


This event will also be live-streamed HERE

 

Spring Concert
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
The Bard Chinese Ensemble presents a selection of traditional and new music for Chinese and Western instruments, with original compositions and arrangements by Chinese Ensemble director Chen Tao.PROGRAMThe Long Tune (Mongolian Suite No. 1)    
Chen Tao

Mongolian (Mongolian Suite No. 2)            
Tengger
Arr. Chen Tao

Toast Song & Chopstick Dance (Mongolian Suite No. 3) 
Chen Tao

Moon Reflecting in the Er-Quan Pond
A Bing
Arr. by Pen Xiu-Wen
Re-arr. by Chen Tao

Melody of Raiment of Rainbows
Jiang-Nan Silk & Bamboo music
Arr. by Chen Tao

Arkansas Traveler
Arr. by Chen Tao

At the Frontier 
Classical music 
Arr. by Zhang Da-Sen
Re-arr. by Chen Tao

Dance of Yun Nan 
Chen Tao
Livestream link: https://youtu.be/GpEQg2ypE9A

Bard Conservatory events are now open to fully vaccinated members of the community.
All visitors must demonstrate proof of vaccination to attend in person. 
 
ABOUT THE ENSEMBLE

The Bard Chinese Ensemble is composed of the Conservatory’s Chinese instrument majors and various students of Western instruments joining each semester, depending on the repertoire. Chinese Ensemble is an essential component of the double-degree program in Chinese instruments offered through the US-China Music Institute at Bard, in partnership with the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

The director and conductor of the Chinese Ensemble is Chen Tao, a dizi (bamboo flute) master and the artistic director of Melody of Dragon, an educational and performing arts organization in New York City focusing on traditional Chinese music. Chen Tao studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and has been teaching and performing in the New York area for nearly 30 years.

 

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater  8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Leon Botstein, music director, presents their final concert of the academic year.  All proceeds benefit the Bard College Conservatory of Music Scholarship Fund.Franz Liszt Mazeppa – Symphonic Tone Poem No. 6, with Andres Rivas, conductorMaurice Ravel Schéhérezade with James Bagwell, conductor, Hailey McAvoy, mezzo soprano (VAP Concerto Competition winner)Mykola Lysenko Overture to Taras Bulba with Leon Botstein, conductorBrahms Symphony No. 2 with Leon Botstein, conductorThis performance is given in support of the Ulster Immigrant Defense Network and all of the work that they do for immigrants in our community.

Coached by Erika Switzer
Blum Hall  12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Featuring:
LEO CRONAN-COUNTERTENOR
GARRICK NEUNER- BASS/BARITONE
LEXI LANNI-SOPRANO
RYAN MICHKI- TENOR
ERIKA SWITZER- PIANO

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Singers and Pianists of the Graduate Conservatory Programs present songs, arias, and ensembles in support of Unbeaten Path, an organization based in Lviv that has been operating in the field of culture, education and inclusion since 2001.

Nepoptana Stezhyna (Unbeaten Path) is an aid organization in Lviv in Western Ukraine. They are an umbrella organization that runs the annual Lviv Bandurfest bandura festival and an arts service organization. Their space has been transformed to now also shelter and assist refugees from the eastern oblasts.
English language site detailing their work since war broke out: HOME | Unbeaten Path (stezhyna.org.ua)
Ukrainian language site that reflects pre-war programming, and some of what has continued since Feb 24th:  Unbeaten Path (stezhyna.com)

To donate to our efforts to support them, please venmo @Teryn-Kuzma 
This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/6NMWfdoChWA
 

  With pianists Elias Dagher and Sindy Yang, and Juan Diego Mora, cuatro and pian
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Works by Bach, Guastavino, Price, Bor, Valderrama, and Lopez To attend in person, bring proof of vaccination and a mask!

Livestream at https://youtu.be/xzZbP3Idtq4


Download: Program - Laura's Recital.pdf Recital Program

“A Box Full of Darkness”
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

“A Box Full of Darkness” is a program exploring the experience of loss, and its transformation into the beauty of hope and connection. Taking inspiration from Mary Oliver’s poem “The Uses of Sorrow”, mezzo-soprano Sarah Rauch and pianist Elias Dagher curated this musical journey for the audience to reflect on their own emotional experiences amidst a world suffering profound losses and grief. The program includes music by composers Jake Heggie, Viktor Ullman, Enrique Truán, Joaquin Rodrigo, and Ruth Schonthal, among others; and features cellist Lily Moerschel and harpist Taylor Fleshman.

Mezzo-soprano Sarah Rauch (she/they) is a wholehearted and versatile performer whose musical explorations center on creating meaningfully connective performances. Sarah is a strong advocate for contemporary and under-performed repertoire, as well as the re-examination of narratives found within the traditional canon. 
Recent projects have included the curation and performance of the digital-release concert “I Bear Your Colors” - a program celebrating the unique relationships between queer women though American art song and chamber music - as well as performance of excerpts from György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragmente in collaboration with musicians from The Orchestra Now. Sarah was a featured recitalist in 2021 with ENY-NATS as the winner of their collegiate division art song competition, and is currently engaged as a teaching artist with ROK (Reimagining Opera for Kids), bringing opera to schools and community spaces. Other operatic credits include the Frog and Woodpecker in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts; Anna 1 in Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins and Toby in Giancarlo Menotti’s The Medium with Bard’s Vocal Arts Program; Zweite Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Bloomington Chamber Opera; and Isolier in Rossini’s Le Comte Ory with Chicago Summer Opera. 
A native of southeastern Ohio, Sarah holds a Bachelor’s degree in voice from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and is completing her second year in Bard’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program. For more information, please visit sarahcrauch.com.

This event will also be live-streamed HERE
 

Femme Fatale
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
“God should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men.” - Elisabeth Hewer 

A femme fatale (literally "fatal woman"), sometimes called a man-eater or vamp, is a mystic character that is a beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms trap her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly circumstances. An archetype of literature and art. Her ability to enchant, entice and hypnotize her victim with a spell was in the earliest stories seen as verging on supernatural; hence, the femme fatale today is still often described as having a power akin to an enchantress, seductress, witch, having power over men. Femmes fatales are typically villainous, or at least morally ambiguous, and always associated with a sense of mystification, and unease. 
This projects tracks the course of the making of a femme fatale through a non-linear fashion: Innocence, Growing Up, Vulnerability, Betrayal, Revenge and the process of Healing.

Soprano Alexis Seminario is a second year student in the Graduate VAP. Operatic roles include Forester’s Wife (The Cunning Little Vixen), Monica (The Medium), Atalanta (Xerxes), Lusya (Moscow Cheryomushki), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). In 2021, Alexis was an Apprentice at Bard SummerScape and was a featured soloist in the Bard Music Festival. In summer 2022, Alexis will be an Apprentice Artist with Des Moines Metro Opera covering the role of Rose in the premiere of A Thousand Acres. Alexis is an alum of Houston Grand Opera: YAVA. In April, Alexis appeared as the Soprano Soloist in Brahms Requiem with The Orchestra Now (TŌN.)

This event will also be live-streamed HERE

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
This event will also be live-streamed -https://youtu.be/DaZOKADGryw

with Elias Dagher, piano
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Samantha Martin is a second year in Bard College Conservatory’s Graduate Vocal Arts Program, where she studies with Edith Bers and Lucy Fitz Gibbon. An avid supporter of new music, Samantha has premiered and performed works by numerous contemporary composers, including Sheila Silver, Clarice Assad, Michael Csányi-Wills, Daron Hagen, Julianna Hall, John Musto, Györgi Kurtág, Libby Larsen, James Mobberly, and George Crumb. She has also work-shopped and performed in the world premiere of Tom Cipullo’s opera, Mayo, as Miss Goodrich and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. She will be performing works by Lanie Fefferman and Daniel Schlosberg in the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Festival Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong Today. This summer, Samantha will be interning with the chorus of Bard Summerscape’s 2022 Die Schweigsame Frau. Additional opera credits include Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Buoso’s Ghost by Michael Ching and Laurie in Copland’s The Tender Land. She was also a featured recitalist at the 2021 Bard Music Festival’s Nadia Boulanger and her World. Named a winner in the Bard Conservatory’s 2020 Concerto Competition, she will appear with The Orchestra Now in September 2022 performing George Walker’s Lilacs. During her time at Bard, she also appeared in the Bard Vocal Arts Program’s production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Medium as Monica and Leoš Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen as Kohout. Samantha received her Bachelor of Music majoring in Voice Performance and Music Business from the State University of New York at Potsdam. In her downtime, Samantha enjoys playing the viola and trying new pescatarian recipes with all of the fresh vegetables that the Hudson Valley has to offer.

This event will also be live-streamed HERE

With Collaborative Pianist Neilson Chen
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/-XocKe4f6XM

With Collorative Pianist Gwyyon Sin
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  4:00 pm – 5:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/nniunQNP3Fk
 

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Hailed as “a singer to watch” (Classical Voice America), London-born mezzo soprano Joanne Evans prides herself on her versatility in spanning various musical genres - and on her comedic timing. 
 Of Joanne’s performance as Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaf at Berkshire Opera Festival, Opera News wrote that her “striking personal timbre and refined artistry... made [for] a memorable Meg—not always an easy feat.” Joanne is excited to make her role debut as Olga in Eugene Onegin with Music Academy of the West this Summer, after which she will perform the roles of Maddalena in Rigoletto, and on tour as Stéphano in Romeo et Juliette as part of her role as Resident Artist with Opera Colorado. 
  Joanne was recently named a winner of the Met Opera Competition Boston District, and was a finalist in the 2019 Harlem Opera Theatre competition. 
  Elsewhere Joanne is credited as co-writer and vocalist of the theme song for the BBC show Pitch Battle (2017). 
www.joanne-evans.com

This event will also be live-streamed HERE

Chamber groups perform throughout the afternoon and evening.
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  12:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
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Download: April 30, 2022 Program for Chamber Musis Marathon

  Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
This event will also be live streamed - https://youtu.be/jUnJCaTyS3I

And other works by J.S. and Johann Bernhard Bach
Bard Baroque Ensemble
in collaboration with
Bard Chamber Singers
Preparatory Chorus
Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Olin Hall  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

  Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
This event will also be live-streamed - https://youtu.be/RkUYEkDxQv0

18 musicians including a brass quintet, a string quartet, percussion duo, and more
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Live stream link:
https://tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/files/99962499/117/Music%20Alive%20Concert%20Program%20Spring%2022.pdf

Program link:
https://tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/files/99962499/117/Music%20Alive%20Concert%20Program%20Spring%2022.pdf

Works by Syzmanowski, Schubert, and Prokofiev
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Acclaimed by the Baltimore Sun as “one of the biggest pianistic talents to have emerged in this country in the last 25 years” pianist Terrence Wilson has appeared as soloist with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Washington, DC (National Symphony), San Francisco, St. Louis, and with the orchestras of Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philadelphia and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has worked include Christoph Eschenbach, Alan Gilbert, Neeme Järvi, Jesús López-Cobos, Lawrence Renes, Robert Spano, Yuri Temirkanov, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Gunther Herbig and Michael Morgan.
Abroad, Terrence Wilson has played concerti with such ensembles as the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland, the Malaysian Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He has toured with orchestras in the US and abroad, including a tour of the US with the Sofia Festival Orchestra (Bulgaria) and in Europe with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yuri Temirkanov.
An active recitalist, Terrence Wilson made his New York City recital debut at the 92nd Street Y, and his Washington, DC recital debut at the Kennedy Center. In Europe he has given recitals at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Lourvre in Paris, and countless other major venues. In the US he has given recitals at Lincoln Center in New York City (both Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall), the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, and for the La Jolla Chamber Music Society. An avid chamber musician, he performs regularly with the Ritz Chamber Players. Festival appearances include the Blossom Festival, Tanglewood, Wolf Trap, with the San Francisco Symphony at Stern Grove Park, and an appearance with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra on July 4, 2015 before an audience of over fifteen thousand.
In the 2019-2020 season, Wilson made his Boston (MA) recital debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to critical acclaim. In March, 2020, Wilson substituted for Andre Watts on short notice, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Detroit Symphony. 
During the 2020-2021 season, Terrence Wilson appeared as a guest soloist with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in a video produced by the NJSO, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 467. He also appeared virtually on numerous online platforms due to Covic-19 pandemic restrictions. His first post-pandemic live performance was with the Brevard Symphony Orchestra (Melbourne, FL). Wilson was also a guest of the St. Augustine Music Festival where he played Beethoven's "Ghost" Trio with members of the St. Augustine Music Festival during an afternoon concert, followed by a performance of Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto later that evening at the St. Augustine Amphitheater. He also adjudicated in the World Bach Competition and the Music International Grand Prix and served on the faculty of the Brevard Music Center's Virtual Piano Institute in July. Also in July, he conducted a virtual masterclass for students of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) and in January, 2022, he served on the jury of the Heida Hermanns Piano Competition.
The 2021-2022 season will bring Wilson back as soloist with the Alabama and Nashville Symphony Orchestras. He will also make his debuts with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Boulder Philharmonic, and the Roanoke Symphony. In the fall, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit will present Wilson with the Escher Quartet performing Brahms' Piano Quintet in F minor. He also appears at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in April 2022 performing music by Julius Eastman and Clarence Barlow. In the spring of 2021, he was appointed to the piano faculty at Bard College Conservatory of Music in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Terrence Wilson has received numerous awards and prizes, including the SONY ES Award for Musical Excellence, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Juilliard Petschek Award. He has also been featured on several radio and television broadcasts, including NPR’s “Performance Today,” WQXR radio in New York, and programs on the BRAVO Network, the Arts & Entertainment Network, public television, and as a guest on late night network television. In 2011, Wilson was nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best Instrumental Soloist With an Orchestra” for his (world premiere) recording with the Nashville Symphony conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero of Michael Daugherty’s Deus ex Machina for piano and orchestra - written for Wilson in 2007.
Terrence Wilson is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky. He has also enjoyed the invaluable mentorship of the Romanian pianist and teacher Zitta Zohar. A native of the Bronx, he resides in Montclair, New Jersey.

Please show proof of vaccination at the door, and bring a mask! Or watch the livestream at https://youtu.be/_i1bud7gIPk

World Music Workshop
Bard Hall  7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Local musician Chris Stephens will offer a special educational performance featuring a collection of historic lute instruments from the Silk Road, including the Chinese pipa and the sitar of India, each performed in their traditional style along with American folk music on the Banjo. Chris will discuss and demonstrate each instrument's unique specialties and highlight their similarities stemming from their shared history.

About: 
Chris Stephens is a multi-instrumentalist musician specializing in the connections among Silk Road lutes and the banjo. Originally a sitar student of Hindustani music master Ustad Imrat Khan, Chris took interest in the relationships between instruments related to sitar and through years of practice and immersive listening has been teaching himself the traditional music of China, Persia, and the Middle East for over 10 years. Originally from Missouri, Chris has brought his music program around the Midwest US during his musical career, and now resides in New York’s Hudson Valley. Website: WorldMusician.co

This event is free to the public and is sponsored by the US-China Music Institute. Non-Bard community members must submit proof of vaccination to attend. Register at: https://forms.gle/1fQbjYVj8xp9XUL8A

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
Trumpeter Viveca Lawrie, from Arizona, will perform works for trumpet, percussion, and piano by four living compsers.  She is in her final semester at the Bard Conservatory where she studies with Ed Carroll and Carl Albach. Viveca has been a volunteer trumpet teacher at Harmony Project-Phoenix, a branch of El Sistema.

This performance will be live-streamed: https://youtu.be/eqfk_Y5hm5A

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
  Isabela Cruz-Vespa, from College Station, Texas, will complete degrees in both psychology and music performance this semester. In the Bard College Conservatory, she studies flute with Tara Helen O'Connor. After graduating from Bard, she will work in the Social Health & Affective Neuroscience Lab of San Diego State University, where she will study the role that endogenous opioids play in social connection, and implications for both the opioid and loneliness epidemics in America.

With the Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater  8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
FRIENDS AND LOVERS, HEAVEN AND EARTH...

the 
GRADUATE CONDUCTING PROGRAM: DEGREE RECITAL

with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra

April 14
8:00 pm
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater

Elgar, Gottschalk, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Strauss, Wagner

Graduate Conductors:
Lilly Cadow
Emanuel Cohen
Daewon Kang

FREE to the Bard Community
SUGGESTED DONATION for all other tickets

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
“Ensemble In Residence”

Livestream link:
https://youtu.be/yLees43cuM8

Program link:
https://tools.bard.edu/wwwmedia/files/99962499/106/Da%20Capo%20Spring%202022%20Concert%20Program.pdf

  Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  4:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Featuring Conservatory Musicians and Special Guests 
Compositions by Ukrainian Composers
Olin Hall  2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
All donations will go to help Ukraine. Free admission. Proof of full vaccination required.

Bard Baroque Ensemble
in collaboration with the Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Chapel of the Holy Innocents  7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Part of the Conference Ink and Sound: a Conference on Chinese Music and Visual Arts
Olin Auditorium  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The US-China Music Institute proudly presents the premiere performances of three new works by composers Hingyan Chan, Yiwen Shen, and Yeung-Ping Chen for mixed ensembles of Western and Chinese instruments. These works were commissioned as part of the Ink Art and New Music Project, a collaboration between the Bard Conservatory, Hong Kong University, and the M+ Museum, Hong Kong. Each of the new compositions was developed in response to a specific piece of art from M+ Museum's extensive collection of 20th-21st Century Ink Art from Asia. 

Bard Conservatory musicians will perform the new works as part of the US-China Music Institute's fourth annual conference, Ink and Sound: a Conference on Chinese Music and Visual Arts.

In addition, the newly formed Bard East/West Ensemble will preview two pieces from their upcoming debut at the Kennedy Center on April 16 for the Coal + Ice festival on climate change, sponsored by Asia Society. With special guest Guo Yazhi on selected wind instruments. 

 

Part of the Conference Ink and Sound: a Conference on Chinese Music and Visual Arts
Bard Hall  12:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Join students and faculty from the Asian Studies Program and the US-China Music Institute in a multidisciplinary interactive salon, an Elegant Gathering ('Yaji' 雅集) inspired by the traditions of the literati in ancient China, featuring Chinese music and calligraphy demonstrations, plus poetry readings. Professor Li-hua Ying will introduce the event with a talk on how poetry, painting, calligraphy, and music have connected deeply in Chinese culture.  

Light lunch and tea will be served.
(Suggested donation; $20 ($10 for students). Cash only.)

This event is part of the US-China Music Institute's fourth annual conference, Ink and Sound: a Conference on Chinese Music and Visual Arts.


 

Part of the Conference Ink and Sound: a Conference on Chinese Music and Visual Arts
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4
The US-China Music Institute proudly presents the premiere performances of four new chamber works for mixed ensembles of Western and Chinese instruments, created by composition students of the Bard Conservatory of Music and Hong Kong University as part of the Ink Art and New Music Project, a collaboration between the Bard Conservatory, Hong Kong University, and the M+ Museum, Hong Kong. Each of the four new compositions was developed in response to a specific piece of art from M+ Museum's extensive collection of 20th-21st Century Ink Art from Asia. 

Bard Conservatory musicians will perform the new works, plus a selection of additional Chinese chamber pieces, as part of the US-China Music Institute's fourth annual conference, Ink and Sound: a Conference on Chinese Music and Visual Arts. 

Scholars' Presentations
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  2:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The US-China Music Institute's annual conference, co-presented this year by the Asian Studies Program, invites four scholars to discuss the intersections between Chinese music, calligraphy, and visual arts.

Presentations

Qing 清: the Key Standard of Qin Aesthetics in Song Dynasty China (960-1279)
Meimei Zhang, Occidental College, Department of Comparative Studies in Language and Culture

Silk Strings and Rabbit Hair: Qin Music and Calligraphy
Mingmei Yip, Bard Conservatory of Music, US-China Music Institute

Chinese Calligraphy: History, Significance, and Musicality
Yu Li, Loyola Marymount University, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Chen Zhen: the Harmony of the Life Force
Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Bard College, Asian Studies and Art History

Q&A and Discussion to follow. 

The Ink and Sound conference is being held in celebration of the completion of the first major phase of the Ink Art and New Music Project, a collaboration between the Bard Conservatory, Hong Kong University, and M+, Hong Kong. During the conference two concerts will feature premieres of seven new musical compositions, each inspired by contemporary ink art in the M+ collection and featuring mixed Chinese and Western instruments. 

More information at: Ink and Sound: a Conference on Chinese Music and Visual Arts. 

Concert Four
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  4:00 pm – 5:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
A weekend of concerts inspired by the musical explorations of
György Kurtàg

Curated by Benjamin Hochman and Shai Wosner

FREE ADMISSION
Sunday, April 3
4 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space

Kafka & Kurtàg


Program includes Gÿorgy Kurtág's Kafka Fragments with Tony Arnold and Movses Pogossian

This event will also be live-streamed HERE

Concert Three
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
A weekend of concerts inspired by the musical explorations of
György Kurtàg

Curated by Benjamin Hochman and Shai Wosner

FREE ADMISSION
Saturday, April 2
6 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space

Spiritual String Quartets with the JACK Quartet
JACK Quartet + Gilles Vonsattel + Shai Wosner

This event will also be live-streamed HERE

Concert Two
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
A weekend of concerts inspired by the musical explorations of
György Kurtàg

Curated by Benjamin Hochman and Shai Wosner

FREE ADMISSION
Saturday, April 2
1 pm

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space

Two Piano Marathon

Students from the Bard Conservatory 
Andrew Altrock
Jimmy Berger
Leo Gurevich
Francis Huang
Yilin Li
Jiangli Liu
Vera Lu
Nita Vemuri
Ivy Wu
Sindy Yang

Conservatory Preparatory Program-
Jack Bettigole
Kateri Doran
Ciel Haas
Lumi Haas
Oona Isserles
Fiona Kelly 
Isabel Luzzi
Mio Moser
Joaquin Pachano
Rinchen Posel
Ella Xu

with
Joan Tower
Benjamin Hochman
Gilles Vonsattel
Shai Wosner

Program includes premieres of works by Bard Conservatory composition students Caleb Carman, Zeke Morgan and Samuel Mutter.

This event will also be live-streamed HERE

Concert One
Chapel of the Holy Innocents  7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
A weekend of concerts inspired by the musical explorations of
György Kurtàg

FREE ADMISSION
Friday, April 1
7 pm
Chapel of The Holy Innocents

Bach, Beethoven, and Beyond

Faculty, students, and alumni/ae from the Bard Conservatory of Music, as well as special guests.

IVES ---KURTAG---BEETHOVEN---BACH---DEAN
 
Program includes:
IVES The Unanswered Question (chamber version)
KURTAG Ligatura-Message to Frances-Marie (The answered unanswered question)

Andrea Ábel, flute
Petra  Berényi, cimbalom
Monika Dziubelski, flute
Marka Gustavsson, viola
Eliza Karpiak, flute
Teryn Kuzma, soprano
Alex Levinson, cello
Kobi Malkin, violin
Jeremy McCoy, bass
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Melissa Reardon, viola
Fred Sherry, cello
Viktor Toth, clarinet
Aleksandar Vitanov, trumpet
Carmit Zori, violin
Shai Wosner,  piano & harpsichord

LIVE ONLY
This performance will not be streamed or recorded

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Music by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Oscar WildeDirected by R. B. Schlather
Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, music directorAlexandra Loutsion, Salome
Jay Hunter Morris, Herod
Nathan Berg, Jochanaan
Katharine Goeldner, HerodiasThe Bard Conservatory Orchestra joins an exciting principal cast of singers in a semi-staged performance of Richard Strauss’s once infamous, now famous opera, Salome-a biblical story, with a twist.

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Music by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Oscar WildeDirected by R. B. Schlather
Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, music directorAlexandra Loutsion, Salome
Jay Hunter Morris, Herod
Nathan Berg, Jochanaan
Katharine Goeldner, HerodiasThe Bard Conservatory Orchestra joins an exciting principal cast of singers in a semi-staged performance of Richard Strauss’s once infamous, now famous opera, Salome-a biblical story, with a twist.

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater  8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Music by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Oscar WildeDirected by R. B. Schlather
Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, music directorAlexandra Loutsion, Salome
Jay Hunter Morris, Herod
Nathan Berg, Jochanaan
Katharine Goeldner, HerodiasThe Bard Conservatory Orchestra joins an exciting principal cast of singers in a semi-staged performance of Richard Strauss’s once infamous, now famous opera, Salome-a biblical story, with a twist.

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Jimmy Berger is completing his final year at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, studying piano with Gilles Vonsattel. He has won first prize in several piano competitions including the Brevard Music Center, Claudette Sorel, and Nazareth College Piano Competitions, and attended several summer music festivals, most recently the Maine Chamber Music Seminar at Snow Pond and the Brevard Music Center. He has performed widely in Buffalo, New York, made a concert tour of South Africa with Buffalo Suzuki Strings in 2015, and appeared with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra under maestro James Bagwell. He completed his senior project on "The Problem of Universals" for his second major in philosophy.
 

Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space  2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5

Program: Wuorinen Cello Variations II, Scherzo, and Fortune; Stravinsky Duo Concertante

   Charles Wuorinen (1938-2020) was a powerful and original figure in music of the 20th and 21st centuries. His energetic and beautifully crafted compositions have been championed by some of the leading performers of his time including Peter Serkin, Paul Zukofsky, James Levine, Ursula Oppens, Fred Sherry, Michael Tilson Thomas, the Brentano Quartet, and Gunther Schuller. 
  Wuorinen was a private person whose sharp and witty commentary was appreciated by his colleagues, students, and friends.  This program at Bard demonstrates his vitality and versatility, and the dedication of those musicians who perform his music. 
Please register in advance and bring proof of vaccine/booster to attend this event. 
Register here:  https://forms.gle/yGHSncyESFCqF8489
 


Download: Wuorinen Concert Program FINAL.pdf Concert Program

Music and Words by Leoš Janáček
Directed by Doug Fitch
The Orchestra Now
James Bagwell, conductor
Vocalists from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage  3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
A century-old opera detailing the adventures of a clever fox cub, which has much to say about the connections between people and animals, and the cyclical nature of life and death.

$5 student tickets available

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
A century-old opera detailing the adventures of a clever fox cub, which has much to say about the connections between people and animals, and the cyclical nature of life and death.

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater  3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST/GMT-5
A century-old opera detailing the adventures of a clever fox cub, which has much to say about the connections between people and animals, and the cyclical nature of life and death.

Music and Words by Leoš Janáček
Directed by Doug Fitch
The Orchestra Now
James Bagwell, conductor
Vocalists from the Graduate Vocal Arts Program
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Stage  8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
A century-old opera detailing the adventures of a clever fox cub, which has much to say about the connections between people and animals, and the cyclical nature of life and death.

$5 student tickets available

Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater  8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST/GMT-5
A century-old opera detailing the adventures of a clever fox cub, which has much to say about the connections between people and animals, and the cyclical nature of life and death.

A Chinese New Year Concert with The Orchestra Now
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater  8:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST/GMT-5
The third annual Chinese New Year Concert presented by the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, The Sound of Spring, is a celebration of one of the most important holidays in the Lunar calendar, a time for enjoying friends and family and looking ahead to the bright future of a new year. This year’s concert features Bard’s The Orchestra Now, joined by a select group of top vocal and instrumental artists, performing musical works that showcase the wonderful diversity and artistry of Chinese symphonic music.

Pre-Concert talk with Jindong Cai at 7 PM