Past Events
James Osborn, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
“All God’s Creatures”: Songs about all manner of living things, by Schubert, Beethoven, Ivor Davies, Whitacre, and others.
Drew Minter, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
James Osborn, director
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
A 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.
Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise”
“Les Chemins de l’Amour”: a love story told through the songs of Francis Poulenc, Vincenzo Bellini, Erik Satie, and Aaron Copland.
Vassar College Choir concert with a pre-concert talk by Professor of Music Kathryn Libin.
This is an in-person event—the concert will also be streamed live
A 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.
A piano recital featuring works by Schumann, Debussy, a complete Mozart piano concerto with the Hudson Valley String Quartet, and more.
An afternoon featuring works by Louis Ganne, Gabriel Fauré, and Katherine Hoover.
Featuring the premiere of Katerina Gimon’s My Own Design and music of Susan Brumfield, Florence Price, Felix Mendelssohn, and others. Christine Howlett, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Students from Vassar’s Music Department perform songs of transformation and becoming, drawn from Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and contemporary pop.
A 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.
Contemporary Bulgarian organ music, influenced by irregular rhythms of folk traditions and non-Western musical scales.
A springtime celebration of love, joy, community, and personal growth featuring classical and modern vocal music in German, Italian, English, French, and Chinese.
Featuring student winners of the soloist competition.
Eduardo Navega, conductor
James Osborn, conductor.
Drew Minter and John Carden, baritones, and David Alpher and Bryan Reeder, pianists, perform a program of standards and duets—some seasonal, some universal.
Love and torment in the music of Monteverdi, Rossi, Mazzocchi, Caccini, and others. This performance features superstar soprano Amanda Forsythe ’98!
MODfest 2024
Vassar’s brilliant music faculty perform the music of Rogerson, Richard Wilson, and Stravinsky’s iconic L’Histoire du Soldat. Scored for seven instrumentalists and narrator, L’Histoire is the story of a soldier named Joseph who meets the Devil in disguise.