Music Department

Presented by members of the music department faculty: Yenne Lee, guitar, Mary Nessinger, mezzo-soprano, Thomas Sauer, piano, and Amy Schroeder, violin.

Featuring current and former Vassar College Music Department faculty members including Jim Osborn, trumpet & flugelhorn, Dr. Christopher Brellochs, saxophone, Peter Tomlinson, piano, Lou Pappas, bass, and Tom Melito, drums. The concert will feature original compositions and jazz standards.

Boston’s Lorelei Ensemble is recognized nationally for its bold and inventive programs that champion the extraordinary flexibility and virtuosic capability of the human voice. Lorelei is an all-professional vocal ensemble, comprising nine women whose expertise ranges from early to contemporary repertoire.

A Dickinson-Kayden Event

This concert of original compositions includes Fantasy and Fugue on BACH for violin, cello, and piano, Duo Variations for double bass and harp, Elegy and Affirmation for cello and piano, and five scenes from the opera Eric Hermannson’s Soul, based on a story by Willa Cather. Performers will include Vassar faculty, members, and guests.

Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe is considered to be one of the most highly respected artists of her generation. Ms. Blythe was named Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year for 2009, recipient of the 2007 Opera News Award, the 1999 Richard Tucker Award, and is also the Artistic Director of the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar at the Crane School of Music. She will appear with her regular collaborator Craig Terry, Music Director and The Jannotta Family Endowed Chair of the Ryan Opera Center of the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Students from the department will participate in a voice master class with Stephanie Blythe.  Assisted by Susan Brown, piano.

With generous support from Lucia V. Torian ’69 and the Jane Prouty Smith ’32 Fund.

Eduardo Navega, conductor.

Presented by members of the music department faculty.

Hailed as “a feast for the eyes and the ears,” A Palo Seco Flamenco Company strives to develop a unique voice, employing their Flamenco expertise, while also taking into account the context in which they live. Their work aims to expose people to an innovative way of looking at Flamenco, combining traditional techniques with a modern, metropolitan flare. “A Palo Seco” refers to a bare-bones style of flamenco music, often consisting of singing or percussion alone. This stripped-down aesthetic has become a central theme in artistic director Rebeca Tomas’ choreography, characterizing her biggest departures from tradition, while also rooting her work in the emotional rawness that lies at the heart of the art of Flamenco.

A Dickinson-Kayden Event

Courtenay Budd, soprano, Sophie Shao, cello, Erika Switzer, piano present songs for soprano, cello, and piano on the themes of death, sensuality, longing, and separation. “Auf dem Strom,” Schubert’s homage to Beethoven, is followed by Aaron Jay Kernis’ “Love Scenes” (poetry by Anna Swir), Eric Moe’s setting of Dorianne Laux’s "Shouldering the Dead", and finally Ned Rorem’s “Last Poems of Wallace Stevens.”

*Please note there was a time misprint in an earlier publication. This program is confirmed at 3pm*

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.

Works by Ysaye Barnwell, Abbie Betinis, David Lang, Dale Trumbore, and featuring Moon Goddess by Jocelyn Hagen. Christine Howlett, conductor and Susan Brown, piano.

This husband and wife team will present a concert of contemporary music written for or arranged for the piano/percussion combination as well as pieces from their solo repertoire. Composers will include Stravinsky, Adams, Mellits, Xenakis, and Glass.

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.

Assisted by Richard Mogavero, piano.

Featuring works by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, and Liszt.

Featuring Flower Songs by Persichetti with string quintet. Ronald A. Bemrich, conductor.

James Osborn, conductor.

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.

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.

Eduardo Navega, conductor.

This annual Advent service includes readings, choral anthems, and congregational carols that culminates in a stunning candle lighting ceremony. Featuring the Vassar College Choir, Chamber Singers, and Women’s Chorus, and Cappella Festiva Chamber and Treble Choir. Christine Howlett, Ronald Bemrich, and Matt Zydel, conductors. Sponsored by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and the Vassar College Music Department.

Eduardo Navega, director.

James Osborn, director

Assisted by Thomas Sauer, piano. 

(Note 8/22: Time subject to change, please check back for confirmation)