Past Events
A 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.
Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise”
“Les Chemins de l’Amour”: a love story told through the songs of Francis Poulenc, Vincenzo Bellini, Erik Satie, and Aaron Copland.
Vassar College Choir concert with a pre-concert talk by Professor of Music Kathryn Libin.
This is an in-person event—the concert will also be streamed live
A 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.
A piano recital featuring works by Schumann, Debussy, a complete Mozart piano concerto with the Hudson Valley String Quartet, and more.
An afternoon featuring works by Louis Ganne, Gabriel Fauré, and Katherine Hoover.
Featuring the premiere of Katerina Gimon’s My Own Design and music of Susan Brumfield, Florence Price, Felix Mendelssohn, and others. Christine Howlett, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Students from Vassar’s Music Department perform songs of transformation and becoming, drawn from Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and contemporary pop.
A 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.
Contemporary Bulgarian organ music, influenced by irregular rhythms of folk traditions and non-Western musical scales.
A springtime celebration of love, joy, community, and personal growth featuring classical and modern vocal music in German, Italian, English, French, and Chinese.
Featuring student winners of the soloist competition.
Eduardo Navega, conductor
James Osborn, conductor.
Drew Minter and John Carden, baritones, and David Alpher and Bryan Reeder, pianists, perform a program of standards and duets—some seasonal, some universal.
Love and torment in the music of Monteverdi, Rossi, Mazzocchi, Caccini, and others. This performance features superstar soprano Amanda Forsythe ’98!
MODfest 2024
Vassar’s brilliant music faculty perform the music of Rogerson, Richard Wilson, and Stravinsky’s iconic L’Histoire du Soldat. Scored for seven instrumentalists and narrator, L’Histoire is the story of a soldier named Joseph who meets the Devil in disguise.
MODfest 2024
A concert and conversation with the creators and performers of Shanghai Sonatas—a new musical theater work, based on first-person accounts, which tells the true story of daily life for musicians from Europe during World War II who used their optimism, humor, and musical talents to survive, forging friendships with their Chinese neighbors who helped save their lives. Moderated by Associate Professor and Chair of Music Justin Patch.
MODfest 2024
Music in this film is used to subtly define and separate the two identities of the main character, and throughout the film there is a strong recurring theme of boundaries between one thing and another, and the strange intersections between them. With introduction by Assistant Professor of Music Táhirih Motazedian.
Annual Advent service with readings, choral anthems, congregational carols and candle lighting ceremony.