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Events for May 2025

Required Recital: Mark Kovács, trumpet: Works by Vladimir Peskin and Giacinto Scelsi
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Olin Hall, 1 pm
Studio Art Senior Project Exhibition Opening Performance: Acolyte Training  
Friday, May 2, 2025
Memorial Hall (Old Gym), 2–6 pm
Screening of the film Freshman. Again. : BardBac Sponsored
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Weis Cinema, 4–6 pm
Danni Fu Moderation Concert
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Bard Hall, 7–8 pm
 Imani-Amie Murphy Senior Concert  
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 7–8 pm
Chora: Faculty Dance Concert 2025
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
American Popular Song Class Concert
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Blum Hall, 8:30–9:30 pm
Completion Days—Regular Classes and Final Exams: All students and faculty remain on campus
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 – Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Bard College Campus
Reunion 2025!
Friday, May 23, 2025 – Sunday, May 25, 2025
Bard College Campus
EXPLORATION AND RESONANCE: Chinese Music in the West: 7th Annual International Conference of the US-China Music Institute
Thursday, May 1, 2025 – Saturday, May 3, 2025
Various Campus Locations
Studio Art Class of 2025 Commencement Exhibition
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 – Sunday, May 25, 2025
Fisher Studio Arts Building
Degree Recital: Yijie Yin, ruan: Works by Peili Sun, Yong Ning, Bochan Li, and Yuguo Zhou.
Friday, May 2, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1 pm
Degree Recital: Luca Sakon, violin, with Neilson Chen, piano: Works by Debussy, Chausson, Saint-Saëns, and Respighi.
Friday, May 2, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
Wil Halas senior concert
Friday, May 2, 2025
Blum Hall, 7–8 pm
Bard Chinese Ensemble and Special Guests : Shutong Li, conductor
Friday, May 2, 2025
Olin Hall, 7–8:30 pm
Degree Recital: Mingyue Xia, violin: Works by Bach, Stravinsky, Bazzini, and Ravel.
Friday, May 2, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Chora: Faculty Dance Concert 2025
Friday, May 2, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Nate Padgett Moderation Concert
Friday, May 2, 2025
Olin 104, 7:30–8:30 pm
Degree Recital: Ya-Yin Yu, violin, with Pei-Hsuan Shen, piano: Works by Tyzen Hsiao, Ching-Ju Shih, Beethoven, Schumann, and Saint-Saëns. 
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12 pm
Degree Recital: Francisco Verastegui, flute: "Todo Tiene Su Final"
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Olin Hall, 12 pm
Chora: Faculty Dance Concert 2025
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 1:30–2:30 pm
Nature Rx
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Montgomery Place Estate, 2 pm
Studio Art Senior Project Exhibition Opening Reception: Bard Exhibition Center, UBS Exhibition #3
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Bard Exhibition Center, 3–6 pm
Degree Recital: Jacob Hunter, tenor, with Yi-Hsuan Hsia, piano: "Fugitive Echoes"
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
Studio Art Senior Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception: Fisher Studio Art Galleries #3
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Fisher Studio Arts Building, 4–7 pm
Bard Gamelan Ensemble concert
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Bard Hall, 7–8 pm
Bard East/West Ensemble and USCMI Faculty Showcase Concert
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 7–9 pm
Degree Recital: Nisha Patel Caiozzi, soprano, with Kyeongji Koh, piano: "The Space Between"
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Chora: Faculty Dance Concert 2025
Saturday, May 3, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Degree Recital: Tori Conner, oboe: Works by Eric Ewazen, Alyssa Morris, Marina Dranishnikova, and Charles Martin Loeffler.
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 11 am
Degree Recital: Joseph Breslau, baritone, with Gabriele Zemaityte, piano: "Yours until death: Love letters of a soldier"
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
Da Capo Student Composers concert
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Bard Hall, 5–6:30 pm
Degree Recital: Sam Warshauer, voice, with Nomin Samdan, piano: "Metamorphosis"
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
PSY 201 Experiment
Monday, May 5, 2025
Reem-Kayden Center, 12–12:20 pm
MMIWG2S Remembrance and Collective Making: Hosted by Rethinking Place and Center for Indigenous Studies
Monday, May 5, 2025
Blithewood Manor, 2–5 pm
CMIA - Mulholland Drive
Monday, May 5, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7:30–10:30 pm
Nick Franceschi Senior Concert
Monday, May 5, 2025
Blum Hall, 9–10 pm
Lecture Recital: Minghui Mia Wu, dizi: Works by Zhao Songting and Danni Chen.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12 pm
Speaker Series: Christiane Paul
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm
Studio Art Senior Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception: Old Gym Exhibition #1
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Memorial Hall (Old Gym), 5–7 pm
London Calling, "The Rest is History"   : A Talk With Podcaster and Historian, Dominic Sandbrook
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium, 5:30–7 pm
Student Recital: Andrew Altrock, piano: Works by Cage, Schoenberg, Ravel, and Steven Bonacci.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 6 pm
CMIA - Magnolia
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center, 7 pm
Women Composers Ensemble concert
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Blum Hall, 7:30–8:30 pm
Advance Contemporary Improvisational Techniques Class Concert
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Blum Hall, 8:30–9:30 pm
Student Recital: Drew Frankenberg, composition: "On This Road Home"
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Bard Hall, 7:30 pm
STINK HORN: A Mycological Musical Performance-Lecture by Siôn Parkinson: Presented by Bard Conservatory, in Partnership with the John Cage Trust
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Edith C. Blum Institute, 4 pm
Jazz Improv
Thursday, May 8, 2025
The Jazz Room, Blum N211, 6–7 pm
Micah Kelleher Moderation Concert
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 7–8 pm
flux: Spring 2025 Senior Dance Concert
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Registration for Fall Classes Opens at 8 a.m.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Bard College Campus
Men's Soccer Unity Cup
Friday, May 9, 2025
Stevenson Athletic Center, Soccer Field, 2–5 pm
Flute Studio Recital: The flute studio of Tara Helen O'Connor present works by Schumann, Pamela Zhang, Lowell Liebermann, Amanda Harberg, André Jolivet, Greg Pattillo, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Herman Beeftink.
Friday, May 9, 2025
Olin Hall, 3 pm
Afro-Caribbean Ensemble
Friday, May 9, 2025
The jazz room, Blum N211, 5–6 pm
flux: Spring 2025 Senior Dance Concert
Friday, May 9, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Randy Stevens Moderation Concert
Friday, May 9, 2025
Blum Hall, 7:30–8:30 pm
flux: Spring 2025 Senior Dance Concert
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 2–3 pm
Adeline Hubbell Moderation Concert
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Bard Hall, 2–3 pm
Degree Recital: Megan Maloney, soprano, with Gabrielė Žemaitytė, piano: "Finding the Light: Songs of Hope and Healing"
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2 pm
Studio Art Senior Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception: Fisher Studio Art Galleries Exhibition #4
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Fisher Studio Arts Building, 4–7 pm
Palestinian Cultural Appreciation Night
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Bertelsmann Campus Center, Multipurpose Room, 5–8 pm
Degree Recital: Jaclyn Hopping, soprano, with Nomin Samdan, piano: "Transfiguration… and the labor of forgetting"
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5 pm
Tinaz Kotval Senior Concert
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 6:30–7:30 pm
Bard Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Tan Dun
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater, 7–8 pm
flux: Spring 2025 Senior Dance Concert
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Fisher Center, LUMA Theater, 7:30–8:30 pm
Required Recital: Kuang Zhou, viola: Works by Hindemith, Telemann, Loeffler, and Brahms
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Olin Hall, 1 pm
Open Concert
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Blum Hall, 4–5 pm
Abigail Arndt's Moderation Concert
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 4–5:30 pm
Abigail Arndt Moderation Concert  
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 4–5 pm
Ivan Tamayo Senior Concert  
Sunday, May 11, 2025
The Pointe Church. 243 Hurley Avenue Kingston,NY, 5–6 pm
Viola Studio Recital: Works by Bach, Reger, Shostakovich, Hindemith, Wieniawski, and Brahms.
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Olin Hall, 5 pm
Degree Recital: Georgia Perdikoulias, soprano, with Lara Saldanha, piano: "Refuge"
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Student Recital: Juliette Benveniste, piano: Works by Bach, Chopin, Franck, and Debussy
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Olin Hall, 8 pm
"Limeys, Yanks, and Krauts": Rufus Müller's Performance Class Recital
Monday, May 12, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 6 pm
Jaden Dougher Senior Concert
Monday, May 12, 2025
Blum Hall, 7:30–8:30 pm
Jazz Standards Ensemble Concert  
Monday, May 12, 2025
The Jazz Room, Blum N211, 8:30–9:30 pm
Speaker Series: Anna Burckhardt Perez
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
CCS Bard, Classroom 102, 5–7 pm
Bard College Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Singers in concert
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Olin Hall, 7 pm
Degree Recital: Pamela Zhang, composition 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
The Spontaneous Composition Ensemble concert
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Blum Hall, 7:30–8:30 pm
The Graduate Vocal Arts Program Presents: "Hispanic Bridges": Curated by Dr. Javier Arrebola
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
AI: What It Does (and Doesn't) Do: A Talk by Theresa Law, Asst. Professor of Computer Science
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library, First Floor, 4–5 pm
Georgian Choir concert
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 7–8 pm
Nandor Burai Senior Concert
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Bard Hall, 7–8 pm
Contemporary Jazz Composers
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Blum Hall, 8–9 pm
Student Recital: Tianxiang (Tessa) Ni, piano: Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, and Schumann.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Olin Hall, 1 pm
Required Recital: Xinri Zhang, piano: Featuring works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Prokofiev.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Olin Hall, 4 pm
Double Exposure: Transcending the Aria: The Graduate Vocal Arts Program and Collaborative Piano Fellows present an evening of opera scenes you have never seen. Spanning multiple styles, languages, and genres, each artist presents their chosen opera aria with a companion song that reveals the inner life of each character.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5 pm
Required Recital: Hong-Fan Su, piano: Works by Handel, Beethoven, Debussy, and Shaw.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Olin Hall, 7 pm
Capstone Project: Drinks and Chamber Music
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Camp Kingston, 36 St. James St, Kingston, NY, 7–10 pm
Erica Kiesewetter Studio Recital
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Bard Hall, 7:30–9:30 pm
CLAC Senior Concert
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 7:30–8:30 pm
Lecture Recital: Hengjian Zhang, sheng: The Mutual Influence of Sheng and Free-Reed Instruments in Europe
Friday, May 16, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 12 pm
Lecture Recital: Yingren Zhao, pipa: "Pipa and Buddhism: The Connection Through Liu Dehai's Buddhist-Themed Pipa Works"
Friday, May 16, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 2 pm
Student Recital: Ji-Sian Chen, collaborative piano: Works by Beethoven and Brahms
Friday, May 16, 2025
Olin Hall, 4 pm
Degree Recital: Liam Brosh, viola: Works by Bach, Shostakovich, and Schubert.
Friday, May 16, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 5 pm
Student Recital: Georgi Chikolov, piano and Marcos Castilla, piano: Works by Schubert, Scriabin, Shostakovich, Schoenfield, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, and Lecuona.
Friday, May 16, 2025
Edith C. Blum Institute, 6 pm
Rieko Aizawa Piano Studio Recital: Works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Dutilleux, Gubaidulina, Kodaly, Ligeti, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Messiaen, Mozart, Schoenberg, Schubert and Schumann.
Friday, May 16, 2025
Olin Hall, 7 pm
Degree Recital: Miles Wazni, clarinet: Works by Bach, Widor, Bliss, Rota, and Weber.
Friday, May 16, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8 pm
Bard Accordion Orchestra: And Kaethe & Marié , the violin & accordion super-duo
Friday, May 16, 2025
Bard Hall, 8:30–10 pm
Third Year Recital: Hadi Masood, violin: Works by Ysaÿe, Copland, and Bartók.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Bard Hall, 12 pm
Degree Recital: Yuling Nan, ruan: Works by Zhou Yuguo, Pamela Zhang, and Simon Kong Su Leong.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 3 pm
Student Recital: Taylor Wallace, voice: Works by Burleigh, Handel, Leslie Adams, and Schumann.
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Edith C. Blum Institute, 6 pm
Olivia Chaikin TŌN ’26 in Recital
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 7–8:30 pm
Degree Recital: Samuel Mutter, composition: "Hast thou yet found solace in an ending?"
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 8 pm
Student Recital: Katherine Chernyak, viola: Works by Joan Tower, Brahms, Roslavetz, and Walton
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Olin Hall, 1 pm
Degree Recital: Aleksandar Vitanov, trumpet: Works by Stojan Stojkov, Tomasi, Hindemith, and James Naigus.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1 pm
Degree Recital: Hiu-man Chan, suona: Works by Sicong Ma, Wenchen Qin, and Utar Artun
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Olin Hall, 4 pm
Degree Recital: Francis Huang, piano: Schubert, Messiaen, Gubaidulina, Dutilleux, Schoenberg, and Brahms.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
Hudson River Brass Quintet: Works by Bernstein, Bach, and Lafosse
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Olin Hall, 7 pm
Third Year Recital: Christina Ng-Leyba, trombone: Works by Galliard, Stojowski, and Guilmant.
Monday, May 19, 2025
Olin Hall, 1 pm
Double Bass Studio Recital: Featuring the students of Satoshi Okamoto.
Monday, May 19, 2025
Edith C. Blum Institute, 2 pm
Juan Diego Mora Rubio, percussion: "Text-to-Speech"
Monday, May 19, 2025
Memorial Hall (Old Gym), 2 pm
Required Recital: Mohammad AbdNikfarjam, clarinet: Works by Eötvös, Debussy, Bassi, and Prokofiev
Monday, May 19, 2025
Olin Hall, 4 pm
Degree Recital: Jaelyn Quilizapa, percussion: "A Woven Becoming"
Monday, May 19, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 7 pm
French Horn Studio Recital: Featuring the Students of Barbara Jöstlein Currie and Hugo Valverde
Monday, May 19, 2025
Olin Hall, 7 pm
Degree Recital: William Pilgrim, cello: Works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 1 pm
Wíhanble S’a Community Open House
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Massena Campus, 3–6 pm
Degree Recital: Yangxin Song, violin: Works by Schubert, Prokofiev, Ysaÿe, and Wieniawski
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Olin Hall, 4 pm
Student Recital: Wan-Ling Chen, collaborative piano
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Bitó Conservatory Building, Performance Space, 4 pm
Last Day of Spring Classes
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Bard College Campus
Baccalaureate Service and Senior Dinner
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Bard College Campus
Commencement
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Bard College Campus
For Love of the World on Radio Kingston: Conversations with the Hannah Arendt Center
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Online Event, 6–6:30 pm

Ongoing Events:

Catholic Mass
Sunday, September 8, 2024 – Sunday, May 18, 2025
Christian/Episcopal Service
Sunday, September 8, 2024 – Sunday, May 18, 2025
Hebrew Language Table
Monday, September 23, 2024 – Friday, May 30, 2025
Knitting our Community Together
Monday, February 3, 2025 – Monday, May 12, 2025
Guided Meditation: Mondays and Thursdays 6pm
Monday, February 10, 2025 – Thursday, May 15, 2025
15: The 2025 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions
Saturday, April 5, 2025 – Sunday, May 25, 2025
The Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, April 11, 2025 – Friday, May 16, 2025
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts 2025
Friday, April 25, 2025 – Sunday, May 4, 2025
State of Fracture: Thesis Exhibition of the MA in Human Rights and the Arts, 2025
Friday, April 25, 2025 – Sunday, May 4, 2025
The Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group: Most Fridays at 1pm EST
Friday, May 30, 2025 – Friday, June 6, 2025


all events are subject to change