The Department of Music offers an extensive program encompassing opportunities for majors and non-majors to explore performance, composition, history, and theory in depth.
Upcoming Concerts & Events
The department regularly presents concerts, master classes, and workshops by visiting artists and ensembles as well as by members of the faculty. All events are free and open to the college community, and most are also open to the public.
Exploring Cello: featuring works by J. S. Bach, Elgar, and Mark Summer.
Awake, Arise, Dance! Music by Gustav Holst, Gabriel Fauré, Mark Patterson, Lisa Young, Sheena Phillips, and others. Susan Bialek, conductor
This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live
Fauré Piano Quartet #2 and the Dohnányi Serenade: Faculty members Marka Young, violin, and Marija Ilić, piano, perform two great works that bridged the gap between Romanticism and Modernity. With Lauren Byrne, viola, and Jeanne Fox, cello.
Belle Skinner Hall of Music
Home to the Music Department, Skinner houses the Mary Anna Fox Martel Recital Hall, a small chamber concert hall, the music library (with nearly 75,000 books, scores, and sound and visual recordings), an electronic music studio, practice rooms & faculty studios, and historic and modern instrument collections.
Contact the department at (845) 437-7319 or email music
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