Congratulations, Class of 2012!
Graduate School Acceptances include: Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, The Juilliard School, Manhattan ...
Graduate School Acceptances include:
- Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, New York University's Stern School of Business, Rice University’s Shepard School of Music, University of Michigan, Yale School of Music, among others.
Congratulations to mezzo-soprano Abigail Levis ('13), winner of 2012 Joy in Singing competition!
Mezzo-soprano Abigail Levis, student of Edith Bers, in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program, is the winner of the 2012 Debut Artist Award ...
Mezzo-soprano Abigail Levis, student of Edith Bers, in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program, is the winner of the 2012 Debut Artist Award of the Joy in Singing Competition. She will be presented in a debut recital at NYC's Merkin Concert Hall in October 2012. More information about the competition can be found
here. Congratulations Abi!
So Percussion's Adam Sliwinski discusses Bard percussion program in recent Symphony Now article
Click here to read the article. ...
Click
here to read the article.
An Opera Double Bill
Friday, March 9 (8pm)Sunday, March 11 (3pm)Two one-act operas, including the world premiere of Four Sisters, by composer Elena Langer, ...
Friday, March 9 (8pm)
Sunday, March 11 (3pm)
Two one-act operas, including the world premiere of
Four Sisters, by composer Elena Langer, and Rameau's
Nélée et Myrthis. The operas will be preceded by staged presentations of two short works by Montéclair and Monteverdi. Featuring the singers of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program and the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra.
CLICK HERE for more information.
Marc Verzatt, director
James Bagwell, conductor
Tickets: $25, $35, $100*
*The $100 ticket includes priority seating and an invitation to a special champagne reception on Sunday, March 11 ($75 tax deductible). All ticket sales benefit the Scholarship Fund of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program.
Nice review of faculty-student concert on chamber music series in Pennsylvania
Conservatory directors, cellist Robert Martin and pianist Melvin Chen, performed the Dohnanyi sextet with Conservatory students ...
Conservatory directors, cellist Robert Martin and pianist Melvin Chen, performed the Dohnanyi sextet with Conservatory students (violinist Yang Li, violist Wei Peng, pianist Mayumi Tsuchida, clarinetists Renata Rakova and Amalie Wyrick-Flax, and hornist Ferenc Farkas) as part of the Friends of Chamber Music of Reading series on Saturday, March 11th, in the WCR Center for the Arts (Reading, PA). Click here to read the review.
The Jews in China: Legends, History, and Perspectives (Lecture by Dr. Pan Guang on Monday, February 6 at 4:30pm in Olin Language Center, Room 115)
Dr. PAN Guang is the Director and Professor of Shanghai Center for International Studies and the Academic Director of Institute of ...
Dr. PAN Guang is the Director and Professor of Shanghai Center for International Studies and the Academic Director of Institute of European & Asian Studies at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Director of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Studies Center in Shanghai, Dean of Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS) and Vice Chairman of Chinese Society of Middle East Studies. He is International Council Member of Asia Society in USA, Senior Advisor of China-Eurasia Forum in USA, Advisory Board Member of Asia Europe Journal (by ASEF) in Singapore, Member of the Board Management Committee of Asian Scholarship Foundation in Bangkok and Senior Advisor on Anti-terror Affairs to Shanghai Municipality and Ministry of Public Security of PRC. He obtained 1993 James Friend Annual Memorial Award for Sino-Jewish Studies, 1996 Special Award for Research on Canadian Jews from China, Sankt Peterburg-300 Medal for Contribution to China-Russia Relations awarded by President Putin in 2004 and Austria Holocaust Memorial Award in 2006. He was nominated by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as member of the High-Level Group for the UN Alliance of Civilizations in 2005.
He has been doing research and giving lectures widely in North America, East Asia, Russia, Central Asia, Europe, Middle East and Australia. He holds a number of prestigious posts in Chinese institutions on International Studies, Asian Studies, Middle East Studies and Jewish Studies, and published books and articles on a variety of topics such as “The Jews in China”, “The Jews in Shanghai”, “The Jews in Asia: Comparative Perspective”, “The Jewish Civilization”, “2003: US War on Iraq”, “From Silk Road to ASEM: 2000 Years of Asia-Europe Relations”, “A Comprehensive Studies on Shanghai Cooperation Organization”, “SCO and China’s Role in the War on Terrorism”, "Contemporary International Crises”, “China’s Success in the Middle East”, “ MAY THE DRAGON AND ELEPHANT TANGO: RISE OF CHINA AND INDIA”, “China’s Anti-terror Strategy and China’s Role in the War on Terror”, “Islam and Confucianism: the Development of Chinese Islam”, “China and Post-Soviet Central Asia” and so on.
For more information: contact Eileen Brickner at
845-758-7581, or e-mail
brickner@bard.edu.
Wonderful New York Times review of Vocal Arts alum Julia Bullock ('11) for her Carnegie Hall debut with the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leon Botstein
Julia Bullock is one of the winners of Bard Conservatory's concerto comeptition. Concerto competition winners perform in subscription ...
Julia Bullock is one of the winners of Bard Conservatory's concerto comeptition. Concerto competition winners perform in subscription concerts with the American Symphony Orchestra. Click
here to read the New York Times review.
American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by music director Leon Botstein, performs at Bard on Feb 24-25 (8pm) with Conservatory faculty and student soloists
This season the Fisher Center’s orchestra-in-residence performs major orchestral works by Béla Bartók and Igor ...
This season the Fisher Center’s orchestra-in-residence performs major orchestral works by Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky (whose life and musical legacy will be the subject of the 2013 Bard Music Festival). Other composers to be featured include Maurice Ravel, Sergey Prokofiev, Witold Lutosławski, and two contemporaries—Howard Shore, whose
Mythic Gardens, a concerto for cello and orchestra, will receive its world premiere, and Christopher Brubeck. Featured soloists include Sophie Shao, cello; Jiazhi Wang, violin; and Tamas Markovics, trombone.
For more info and tickets, visit
http://fishercenter.bard.edu/aso/Friday, February 24, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Concert IIMaurice RavelLa valse, poème chorégraphiqueSergey ProkofievViolin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63
Jiazhi Wang,
violinIgor StravinskyThe Rite of SpringFriday, April 27, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Concert IIIWitold LutosławskiConcerto for Orchestra
Christopher BrubeckPrague Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra
Tamas Markovics,
bass tromboneHoward ShoreMythic Gardens, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Sophie Shao,
celloBéla BartókConcerto for Orchestra
The Richard B. Fisher Center Presents Mendelssohn's "Elijah" on Friday, February 17, and Saturday, February 18
Performance of Beloved Sacred Oratorio with Full Orchestra and Chorus of More Than 100 Singers on the Stage of the Acoustically ...
Performance of Beloved Sacred Oratorio with Full Orchestra and Chorus of More Than 100 Singers on the Stage of the Acoustically Superb Sosnoff Theater. Featuring members of the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra and members of the American Symphony Orchestra. Click
here to read the full press release. For tickets, click
here.
Bard Conservatory Orchestra performs with Jeremy Denk, piano, at Bard College (Sun., Dec. 4) and with Frances Lee, piano, at Bard College at Simon's Rock (Sat., Dec. 3)
The Orchestra will give a concert on Sunday, December 4, at 3pm with music director, Leon Botstein, and Jeremy Denk, piano, at Bard ...
The Orchestra will give a concert on Sunday, December 4, at 3pm with music director, Leon Botstein, and Jeremy Denk, piano, at Bard College's Richard B. Fisher Center.
The Orchestra will perform with Conservatory student Frances Lee, piano, at Bard College at Simon's Rock (in Great Barrington, MA) on Saturday, December 3.
Works to be performed include Beethoven Piano Concert No. 3 and Mahler Symphony No. 5.
Bard Conservatory Receives $9.2 Million Gift From László Z. Bitó for New Teaching and Performance Building
This state-of-the-art teaching and performance facility addresses the growing needs of the Conservatory, brought on by its fivefold ...
This state-of-the-art teaching and performance facility addresses the growing needs of the Conservatory, brought on by its fivefold growth since its founding in 2005. With an anticipated completion date of January 2013, the building is scheduled to begin construction in October. The design of the building, by Deborah Berke & Partners Architects in New York City, supports the Conservatory’s dedication to providing top-level musical training in the context of a liberal arts education. A groundbreaking ceremony for The László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building will take place on Saturday, October 29 at 11:30 a.m., adjacent to the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center at Bard College. Click
here for press release.
Conservatory orchestra to perform at the NY State Eastern Correctional Facility
As part of the Bard Prison Initiative the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, with music director Leon Botstein, will peform a concert at the ...
As part of the Bard Prison Initiative the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, with music director Leon Botstein, will peform a concert at the New York State Eastern Correctional Facility on September 27. The concert will include Copland's Fanfare for a Common Man, Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Haydn Symphony No. 100 ("Military") and Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.
