Sunday, December 7, 2025 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5 Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space
Celebrate the holiday season with an enchanting program of new music from the Bard Chinese Ensemble! This year’s program flows like a river of imagination — from the mist-veiled bridges of Jiagnan to the shadowed realm of spirits and demons, re-imagined through the lens of a German composer. One work invites the audience to experience three Asian fruits, transforming taste into sound, while the finale — essentially a Chinese La Mer — evokes the many facets of China’s rivers. Through these journeys, tradition breathes anew: in the poetry of nature, the pulse of myth, the colors and fragrances of tropical fruit, and the eternal song of flowing water. Come enjoy the sensational sounds of this large ensemble featuring a unique blend of Chinese and Western instruments. Ensemble music director Shutong Li conducts. FREE and open to the public.
Contemporary Works for Chinese and Western Instruments Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater3:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5 A concert celebrating the groundbreaking partnership between the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Central Conservatory of Music (Beijing). The Orchestra Now, conducted by Jindong Cai, and the Central Conservatory Chamber Orchestra conducted by Chen Bing, will perform works by Guo Wenjing, Chen Danbu, Liu Wenjin, Zhou Yanjia, Chen Xinruo, and Tang Jianping, featuring soloists Yu Hongmei (erhu), Zhou Wang (guzheng) and Zhang Qiang (pipa).
$10 suggested donation
Friday, March 30, 2018
Chapel of the Holy Innocents7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Zhao Jiazhen and Li Lingchen, from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, will perform works for guquin.
Reservations required at uschinamusic.bard.edu. Admission is free.
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Traditional Chinese Instruments Bitó Conservatory Building7:30 pm – 9:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 The Bard Youth Chinese Orchestra presents a free concert on traditional Chinese instruments featuring students from China who are participating in the Summer Academy of the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, in partnership with the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
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