Music Department

The first half includes variations after Bellini by Chopin and Hans Werner Henze; the second, Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata.

Music, Words, and Images has been a Modfest tradition since 2010. Performed for the first time in Skinner Hall, this concert will explore the theme of “adapting” with exciting and diverse collaborations featuring students, faculty, campus organizations, and guest artists.  Featuring works by Richard Wilson, Susan Botti, and Zachary Wadsworth, with performances and readings by Barbara Proud, Richard Wilson, current students, members of the voice faculty, and others.

Skinner Hall of Music

The Music Department at Vassar College is honored to host its second annual “Adene and Richard Wilson Concert.”  This year we feature faculty members Frank Cassara, Danielle Farina, Thomas Sauer, Courtenay Budd, Susan Brown, and faculty emeritus, Richard Wilson, with music by Elliott Carter, Hans Werner Henze, Sally Beamish, and Wilson.

Skinner Hall of Music

Harvard educated psychiatrist and Juilliard trained concert pianist Dr. Richard Kogan will present a lecture/recital that explores the psychological forces that influenced the creative life of the American composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990).  The discussion will be illuminated by performance of some of Bernstein’s most beloved music.

Skinner Hall of Music

5pm: Gallery Talk on the Warhol exhibition, People are Beautiful: Prints, Photographs with Mary-Kay Lombino, curator.

7pm: Robert Osborne, bass-baritone & David Alpher, piano.  Featuring David Alpher’s Between Twilights: Sevens Songs of Poems of Marsden Hartley and Francis Poulenc's song cycle Le travail du peintre inspired by Picasso, Chagall, Braque, Gris, Klee, Miró, and Villon, performed among the Loeb’s exhibit of works by Hartley and artists referred to in the Poulenc cycle. 

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Cappella Festiva Cor Capriccio & Treble Choir, and Stringendo perform in a concert featuring our youngest musicians at Modfest. Elizabeth Clifton, Elizabeth Handman, and Matt Zydel, conductors.

Skinner Hall of Music

Students from the Music Department perform classics from the American Songbook and beyond. An intimate exploration of songs by Bernstein,  Lerner & Loewe, Gershwin, Loesser, Kerrigan & Lowdermilk, and many more. David Alpher, piano and Jennie Litt, director.

Skinner Hall of Music

A groundbreaking performer, Ali Stroker made history as the first actress in a wheelchair to appear on Broadway when she originated the role of ‘Anna' in Deaf West's acclaimed 2015 revival of Spring Awakening. She is also the first actress in a wheelchair to graduate from the NYU Tisch drama program. She has starred on both The Glee Project and Glee, and is currently starring alongside Kyra Sedgwick on ABC's new drama 10 Days in the Valley. Stroker’s remarkable ability to improve the lives of others through the arts, whether disabled or not, is captured in her motto: “Making Your Limitations Your Opportunities.”

Supported by the Fisher Fund

Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film/Martel Theater

**Reservations will be available online beginning January 22, 2018. This is a free ticketed event. Reservations are required at https://vassardrama.tix.com. For more information, please email boxoffice@vassar.edu or call (845) 437-5599.

The acclaimed Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis teams up with Juilliard415 for a concert of music written by the young Handel, who took Rome by storm in the early 1700s. Known in Italy as il caro Sassone (the dear Saxon), Handel beguiled audiences with his inventive take on Italianate traditions. This program includes two of Handel’s most virtuosic works for choir, soloists, and orchestra, Nisi dominus and Dixit Dominus as well as the Concerto for Violin in B-flat. Barbara Woods Morgan Event

An afternoon featuring works by Mozart, Schubert, Xavier Montsalvatge, Quilter, and more. Assisted by Gregg Michalak, piano.

PLEASE NOTE: This program is cancelled. 

A performance of the great 20th century flute sonatas by Poulenc, Martinu, and Prokofieff, woven with newer sounds of Messiaen and Hersant.

Music of Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Wolf, Vaughan Williams, and showtunes. Assisted by David Alpher, piano.

James Osborn, conductor.

Eduardo Navega, conductor.

Peter Sykes presents a program of Germanic organ music (in honor of the anniversary of the Reformation), including works of Dietrich Buxtehude, Nikolaus Bruhns, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Max Reger, and Anton Heiller.

An afternoon of music featuring Bach, Beethoven, Verdi, Ellington, Schwartz, and more. Assisted by Richard Mogavero, piano.

Music of Bach, Berlioz, Brahms, Heggie, and Canteloube. Assisted by Susan Brown, piano.

Music of Schubert, Brahms, Ibert, and Ives, and more. Assisted by Susan Brown, piano.

Music of Purcell, Mozart, Schubert, Wolf, Debussy, and others. Assisted by James Fitzwilliam, piano.

The Vassar College Choir is joined by guest artists for this memorable evening program. Christine Howlett, conductor. 

Music of Bach, Schubert, Chopin and Mendelssohn. Featuring Phoebe Lippe '21, violin, and Bronwyn Pappas-Byers '21, cello.

Music of Mozart, Granados, Fauré, Puccini, Bernstein, and more. Assisted by Richard Mogavero, piano.

Anne Frank: A Living Voice with string quartet by Linda Tutas Haugen.  Christine Howlett, conductor.

An afternoon featuring works by Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Brahms, and a self composition. Featuring Noah Kayser-Hirsch '19, horn, and Timothy Yoo '18, violin; Yoon Yoo '20, violin.

An afternoon of music, featuring Jonathan Russell's bass clarinet concerto, short works for B-flat clarinet, and Mozart's concerto for A clarinet. Assisted by Susan Brown, piano.

Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano, and Alissa Leiser, piano. Works written for men by Ravel, Schoenberg, Hyla and others.

Ron Bemrich, conductor.

James Osborn, director.

An afternoon featuring the works of Gershwin, Roberts, Porter, and more.
Accompanied by Richard Mogavero on piano, 
and by the Vassar College Jazz Ensemble, directed by James Osborn.

An afternoon of music featuring works by Offenbach, Bizet, Debussy, Strauss, Copland, Delibes, and Sondheim. Assisted by Richard Mogavero, piano.

James Osborn, conductor.

Eduardo Navega, director.

Eduardo Navega, conductor.

An evening of music featuring Verdi, Floyd, Bizet, and Brahms.
Tonya Ingerson ‘18, soprano, Ari Bell ’18, baritone.

The mercurial figure of Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) is brought to vivid life in this costumed and semi-staged multimedia recital. Child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, composer, and opera singer, Venezuelan born Carreño was a fiercely independent creative spirit who made her brilliant way in a man’s world for eight decades. This event draws from manuscripts housed in Vassar’s Special Collection and marks the 2017 centennial of her death. Featuring Isabel Pérez Dobarro, piano, Anna Tonna, mezzo-soprano, Robert Osborne, bass-baritone, and Stephanie Chase, violin.

An afternoon of jazz guitar works by Wes Montgomery, Sonny Stitt, Kenny Burrell and other canonical composers as well as traditional Cuban compositions played on the tres cubano, and a personal composition. With Ava Linvog, piano, Ellis Thompson, saxophone, Aaron Rothko, bass, and Conor Allerton, drums.

Join us for our 30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program.

At the Bridge Café in the Bridge for Laboratory Sciences building.