The Fisher Center at Bard Announces Summerscape 2025, Bringing Opera, Dance, Spiegeltent, and the 35th Bard Music Festival: Martinů and His World, to the Idyllic Hudson River Valley, June 27 – August 17
SummerScape 2025 premieres Pastoral from Fisher Center LAB Choreographer-in-Residence Pam Tanowitz who collaborates with painter Sarah Crowner and composer Caroline Shaw to create a work that muses on and transforms Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F Major. The festival’s other centerpiece is the first full US staging of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana’s 1868 opera Dalibor, which follows a 15th-century knight on trial for his role in a peasant uprising, directed by Jean-Romain Vesperini with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein.
Bard College Conservatory of Music Presents Signs, Games & Messages 2025: A Kurtág Festival
The Bard College Conservatory of Music presents the 2025 season of Signs, Games & Messages, a three-day festival celebrating the music and legacy of renowned Hungarian composer György Kurtág. The festival, which is free and open to the public, will begin on February 29 and take place through March 2 on Bard’s campus in Annandale. Curated by acclaimed pianist and conductor Benjamin Hochman, a lecturer at Bard College Berlin, this year’s festival offers four unique programs showcasing the range of Kurtág’s work. Read More >>Filmmaker Ephraim Asili Named a 2025 United States Artists Fellow
Ephraim Asili MFA ’11, associate professor and director of film and electronic arts, has been selected as one of 50 artists to receive a 2025 United States Artists (USA) Fellowship. USA Fellowships are annual $50,000 unrestricted awards recognizing the most compelling artists working and living in the United States, in all disciplines, at every stage of their career. Sancia Miala Shiba Nash ’19 and Drew K. Broderick MA ’19 of kekahi wahi also won a 2025 United States Artists fellowship. Read More >>More Bard News
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