Past Events
Join us for our 20-30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director.
Perspectives of Love: a Senior Recital by Talia Mayo, soprano. An afternoon reflection on how love changes over time featuring works by Gioachino Rossini, Gabriel Fauré, Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, and more.
A Musical Repast. What is better than food and music? Music about food! Songs about eating by Orlando Gibbons, Clément Jannequin and others. Drew Minter, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Vassar Students sing Broadway and American Songbook classics.
Modern Pieces for Marimba. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.
Bridge for Laboratory Sciences
Fauré Piano Quartet #2 and the Dohnányi Serenade: Faculty members Marka Young, violin, and Marija Ilić, piano, perform two great works that bridged the gap between Romanticism and Modernity. With Lauren Byrne, viola, and Jeanne Fox, cello.
Exploring Cello: featuring works by J. S. Bach, Elgar, and Mark Summer.
Awake, Arise, Dance! Music by Gustav Holst, Gabriel Fauré, Mark Patterson, Lisa Young, Sheena Phillips, and others. Susan Bialek, conductor. Please note a change: This concert will start at 7:00 p.m.
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Join us for our 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Bridge for Laboratory Sciences.
Fresh from its U.S. tour, the Choir of Sommerville College, Oxford, joins the Vassar Choirs.
Truer Words: music and lyrics by Finley Greene.
Sugar Hill Salon is one of the first chamber music artistic collectives that centers on black and brown woodwind artistry in classical music. Amir Farsi, flute, Tamara Winston, oboe, Ian Tyson, clarinet, Alexander Davis, bassoon.
Featuring student winners of the soloist competition. Eduardo Navega, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Award-winning early music ensemble Concordian Dawn performs a concert of love songs from medieval France and Italy, preceded by a short pre-concert lecture by ensemble director Christopher Preston Thompson. Free and open to the public.
Music by Percy Grainger, Arturo Márquez, and Aaron Copland. James Osborn, conductor.
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Adrian Morjean, bassoon, Alex Davis, bassoon, Joshua Hodge, bassoon, Brad Balliett, bassoon & contrabassoon, Mark Risinger, bass, Richard Wilson, piano.
Join Paul Bellino, tenor trombone and Tom Hutchinson, tenor trombone, Bill Whitaker, bass trombone, and Dan Peck, tuba, for music arranged for the low brass section of the orchestra.
A program of music by Unsuk Chin (in C, Grains), Richard Wilson (Diablerie) and Luciano Berio (Sequenza III per voce) will be capped by a large-ensemble performance of the aleatoric minimalist classic In C by Terry Riley. Performers include festival co-directors Drew Minter and Thomas Sauer, violinist Marka Young, and an ensemble drawn from the Vassar College Orchestra and Choirs.
MODfest 2025
Does music shape the instruments we choose, or does the instrument determine the music? When it comes to electronic music, the answer is: both. Join Drake Andersen on a historical exploration of how new technologies for making and enjoying music developed over the past one hundred years continue to both reflect and shape our musical experiences and expectations.
MODfest 2025