Past Events

Apr. 26, 2024, 8:00 p.m.

Featuring student winners of the soloist competition.

Eduardo Navega, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Program (PDF)

A string and wind ensemble performing, seated, with a clarinetist in the foreground.
Apr. 25, 2024, noon

A 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.

Apr. 20, 2024, 8:00 p.m.

“All God’s Creatures”: Songs about all manner of living things, by Schubert, Beethoven, Ivor Davies, Whitacre, and others. 

Drew Minter, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

A string and wind ensemble performing, seated, with a clarinetist in the foreground.
Apr. 18, 2024, noon

A 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.

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Apr. 13, 2024, 1:30 p.m.

“Les Chemins de l’Amour”: a love story told through the songs of Francis Poulenc, Vincenzo Bellini, Erik Satie, and Aaron Copland.

A row of singers in rehearsal showing four people, focused in the center on a person with glasses singing with her arm raised.
Apr. 13, 2024, 7:00 p.m., pre-concert talk; concert, 8:00 p.m.

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 string and wind ensemble performing, seated, with a clarinetist in the foreground.
Apr. 11, 2024, noon

A 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.

Performance of choir members standing, foreground row singing, background is a row of people holding a single candle each.

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

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Apr. 5, 2024, 8:00 p.m.

Students from Vassar’s Music Department perform songs of transformation and becoming, drawn from Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and contemporary pop.

A string and wind ensemble performing, seated, with a clarinetist in the foreground.
Apr. 4, 2024, noon

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 person sitting in front of a floor-to-ceiling organ—a view of all the pipes.
Mar. 24, 2024, 3:00 p.m.

Contemporary Bulgarian organ music, influenced by irregular rhythms of folk traditions and non-Western musical scales.

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A springtime celebration of love, joy, community, and personal growth featuring classical and modern vocal music in German, Italian, English, French, and Chinese.