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

Closeup view of organ pipes

Presented by members of the Music Department faculty. Thomas Sauer, piano, Iva Casian Lakos, cello, Ian Tyson, clarinet, Gail Archer, organ

This event is open to the public.

Detail of performer singing into a microphone.

A leading practitioner of Iraqi maqam, Hamid Al-Saadi’s music combines classical poetry with a dizzyingly complex system of musical ornamentation, modulation and improvisation.

This event is open to the public.

portrait-style image of subject holding hands together near face.

Lauded by The New York Times as a pianist with “a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style,” pianist Soyeon Kate Lee presents a program featuring Schumann’s Carnaval and Kreisleriana.

This event is open to the public.

Susan Rotholz

With music of Schubert, Marais and Bartok-Arma, this concert celebrates the conjunction of theme and variation in printmaking and music. Susan Rotholz, flute, Anna Polonsky, piano.

This event is open to the public.

Group portrait of four people standing side by side on a green lawn, casually dressed, with trees in the background.

The Jeff “Siege” Siegel Quartet presents original compositions celebrating 21 years together, highlighted by four European tours, a tour of Africa, and performances throughout the northeastern U.S.

This event is open to the public.

Four individual portrait-style images of adults arranged in a grid layout with varied expressions and backgrounds.

A recital of idiosyncratic songs by David Alpher, exploring his settings of uniquely American poetry from the Transcendentalists to the Beat Generation. Courtenay Budd, soprano, Sharon Harms, soprano, Robert Osborne, bass-baritone, and David Alpher, composer/piano.

This event is open to the public.

Portrait of Thomas Sauer in profile.

A recital of works by Mozart, Chopin, Robert Schumann, György Ligeti, Unsuk Chin and Hans Abrahamsen evoking experiences of day and night. Thomas Sauer, piano

This event is open to the public.

Detail of performance focused on a violinist actively playing.

Eduardo Navega, conductor

This event is open to the public.

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

the Schubert era piano with the lid open, in front of a stained glass circular window.

Songs by Franz Schubert to poems by Goethe, Mayrhofer, Rellstab and Stollberg. Drew Minter, tenor, Maria Rose, fortepiano

This event is open to the public.

Eight perfomers signing, holding folders with sheet music.

Christine Howlett, conductor

This event is open to the public.

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

Rehearsal peformance detail of three singers holding folders with sheet music.

Christine Howlett, conductor

This event is open to the public. 

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

Four adults standing outdoors, posing together in front of leafy trees, smiling or looking at the camera each holding their instrument.

The Dalí Quartet is acclaimed for bringing Latin American quartet repertoire to an equal standing alongside the Classical and Romantic canon. Ari Isaacman-Beck, violin, Carlos Rubio, violin, Adriana Linares, viola, Jesús Morales, cello

This event is open to the public.

Eduardo Navega, conductor

This event is open to the public.

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

Detail of chorus rehearsal.

Drew Minter, conductor

This event is open to the public.

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

Detail of performance focussed on singers with candlight in the background.

This annual Advent service at the Vassar College Chapel features readings, choral anthems, and congregational carols, culminating in a candle lighting ceremony. Vassar College Choir, Chamber Singers, and Treble Chorus, and Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir will perform.

This event is open to the public.

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.