Conservatory Sundays

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

All performances at 3 pm
Suggested donation: $20 (orchestra seating); $15 (parterre / first balcony); Free to the Bard community with ID. 

Box office opens September 3. 

September 15 at 3 pm
Dawn Upshaw and Friends
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Gilbert Kalish, piano
Nicole Divall, viola
Program includes works by Ives, Ravel, Hindemith, and Brahms

September 29 at 3 pm
Music Alive!
Joan Tower and Blair McMillen, artistic directors
More than 40 musicians present a colorful selection of music from the 20th and 21st centuries, with works by Louis Andriessen, Osvaldo Golijov, Joan Tower, Daniel Wohl ’03, and a premiere by Conservatory student Tamzin Elliott ’17.

November 10 at 3 pm
Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, music director
Program includes Rossini, Overture to William Tell; Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel; Shostakovich, Symphony No. 15 in A Major, Op. 141; and Wagner, "Siegfried’s Funeral March" from Götterdämmerung.

December 8 at 3 pm
Conservatory Orchestra
Jeffrey Kahane, guest conductorand pianist
Program includes Chausson, Poème, for violin and orchestra, Op. 25, with Sabrina Tabby ’14; Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58; and Brahms, Symphony No. 1.