2021 Season

This spring, Fisher Center at Bard presents an extraordinary series of music, dance, art, and theater programs. All offerings will be available on UPSTREAMING, the Fisher Center’s online venue.

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• Member access to reservations begins 1/25.
• General public access to reservations begins 1/27.

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Tania El Khoury and Basel Zaraa

As Far as Isolation Goes (Online)

February 24 through March 21

An online, interactive, 1-on-1 performance brings audience members in contact with those faced with inhumane detention centers and a mental health system that disregards their political and emotional humanity.

A collaboration between live artist Tania El Khoury and musician and street artist Basel Zaraa, reimagined online during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, the piece explores the mental and physical health experiences of refugees.

The Orchestra Now

The Orchestra Now's 2021 Season features livestreamed virtual concerts including; a world premiere by Sarah Hennies; Popcorn Superhet Receiver by Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead); Maestro Botstein conducting Schoenberg and Bach; and more.

The US-China Music Institute

The Sound of Spring

February 13

A concert of symphonic music to celebrate the Lunar New Year, featuring a new performance by The Orchestra Now conducted by Jindong Cai, along with performances from orchestras in Asia including the China NCPA Orchestra and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra.

This year’s concert will carry a message of hope, renewal, and new beginnings, in the spirit of the Chinese New Year tradition of the Spring.

Danny Driver by Kaupo Kikkas; Piers Lane by Keith Saunders

Bard Music Festival

French Music Recital

February 19

A recital of French music with Danny Driver and Piers Lane commissioned by the Bard Music Festival, featuring works by César Franck, Lili Boulanger, Gabriel Fauré, and Camille Saint-Saëns.

Bard College Conservatory Orchestra

March 13

Leon Botstein and Andrés Rivas lead the Bard College Conservatory of Music in a program with works by Richard Strauss, William Grant Still, Ellen Taaffe Zwillich, and Peter Illych Tchaikovsky.