Join us on Sunday afternoons for a series of delightful concerts performed by the talented students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music, with faculty and special guests. All ticket sales benefit the Conservatory’s Scholarship Fund.

Suggested donation: $20 orchestra seating; $15 parterre/first balcony. Free to the Bard community with ID.

Sunday, October 14 at 3 pm
Conservatory Sundays: Faculty/Student Chamber Music
A concert of chamber works performed by the faculty and students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music. Program includes Beethoven Septet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 for violin, viola, cello, bass, clarinet, bassoon, and horn.

Sunday, October 21 at 3 pm
Conservatory Sundays: Conservatory Orchestra
With music director Leon Botstein and Blair McMillen, piano. Works include Beethoven, Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 (arranged for string orchestra); Stravinsky, Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments; Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier Suite; Brahms, Symphony No. 4.

Sunday, October 28 at 3pm
Conservatory Sundays: Music Alive!
Artistic directors Joan Tower and Blair McMillen present an afternoon of electrifying new music, featuring Bard Conservatory musicians. The concert includes a mix of styles and features several recent works by Bard music faculty and students.

Sunday, December 9 at 3 pm
Conservatory Sundays: Conservatory Orchestra
With guest conductor Marcelo Lehninger (MFA ’07). Program includes Haydn, Symphony No. 88; Dvořák, Symphony No. 8; and the world premiere of Christopher Swist’s Abaprima.

Sunday, December 16 at 3 pm
Conservatory Sundays: Dawn Upshaw and Friends
A Winter Songfest: Dawn Upshaw and singers in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Piano Fellows, and the brass quintet Monstrare present a program of festive songs and ensembles to benefit The Bard College Conservatory of Music.