Concerts & Events

All events not otherwise noted take place in the Skinner Hall of Music’s Mary Anna Fox Martel Recital Hall and are open and free to the public. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Campus Activities at (845) 437-5370. Skinner Recital Hall is equipped with a LOOP Hearing System. The loop will offer improved clarity for persons with hearing loss who wear telecoil —or T-coil—equipped hearing aids.

Programs are subject to change. For further information and up-to-date details on all Vassar College Department of Music concerts, please call (845) 437-7294 or revisit this page. Latecomers will be seated at the performers’ discretion. All audience members are to be seated.

Upcoming

A string and wind ensemble performing, seated, with a clarinetist in the foreground.
Apr. 4, 2024, noon

A 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.

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Apr. 5, 2024, 8:00 p.m.

Students from Vassar’s Music Department perform songs of transformation and becoming, drawn from Broadway, the Great American Songbook, and contemporary pop.

Performance of choir members standing, foreground row singing, background is a row of people holding a single candle each.

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

A string and wind ensemble performing, seated, with a clarinetist in the foreground.
Apr. 11, 2024, noon

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 row of singers in rehearsal showing four people, focused in the center on a person with glasses singing with her arm raised.
Apr. 13, 2024, 7:00 p.m., pre-concert talk; concert, 8:00 p.m.

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

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Apr. 13, 2024, 1:30 p.m.

“Les Chemins de l’Amour”: a love story told through the songs of Francis Poulenc, Vincenzo Bellini, Erik Satie, and Aaron Copland.

A string and wind ensemble performing, seated, with a clarinetist in the foreground.
Apr. 18, 2024, noon

A 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.

Apr. 20, 2024, 8:00 p.m.

“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

A string and wind ensemble performing, seated, with a clarinetist in the foreground.
Apr. 25, 2024, noon

A 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program in a relaxed atmosphere outside the Bridge Café.

Apr. 26, 2024, 8:00 p.m.

Featuring student winners of the soloist competition.

Eduardo Navega, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

May. 4, 2024, 1:30 p.m.

Featuring solo works by Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Beethoven’s Trio in D Major, op. 70, no. 1.

Programs are subject to change. For further information and up-to-date details on all Vassar College Department of Music concerts, please call (845) 437-7294.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Campus Activities at (845) 437-5370.