Concerts & Events

All events not otherwise noted take place in the Skinner Hall of Music’s Mary Anna Fox Martel Recital Hall and are open and free to the public. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Campus Activities at (845) 437-5370. Skinner Recital Hall is equipped with a LOOP Hearing System. The loop will offer improved clarity for persons with hearing loss who wear telecoil —or T-coil—equipped hearing aids.

Programs are subject to change. For further information and up-to-date details on all Vassar College Department of Music concerts, please call (845) 437-7294 or revisit this page. Latecomers will be seated at the performers’ discretion. All audience members are to be seated.

Upcoming

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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.

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

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

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

A string and wind ensemble performing, seated, with a clarinetist in the foreground.
Apr 11, 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 row of singers in rehearsal showing four people, focused in the center on a person with glasses singing with her arm raised.
Apr 13, 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 18, 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, 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 25, 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 26, 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

Programs are subject to change. For further information and up-to-date details on all Vassar College Department of Music concerts, please call (845) 437-7294.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Campus Activities at (845) 437-5370.