Events Calendar
Music Department Events, 2012-2013
(All events are offered with free admission, unless otherwise indicated.)
Friday, September 28, 9:00
Part of the Clifford Symposium:
Jazz Conversations: Trading Fours
Trading 4’s is one of the main components of small group jazz. It’s a musical conversation: composition on the fly, done collaboratively by 2 or more players. It’s exciting to hear and fun to do. Join Dick Forman, our Director of Jazz Activities, and several of the College’s best jazz players for a demonstration of the technique, AND a chance to try it yourself! Bring an instrument, or your voice, or just come to listen. The music and a reception start in the MCA Lower Lobby immediately following the High Line presentation.
Monday, October 8, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Runedako: Piano plus Electronics
Tradition meets Technology
featuring Ruth Neville and Daniel Koppelman, piano
Friday, October 26, 9:00 – 11:00 @ 51 Main.
Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble, Dick Forman, Director
The SIJE brings its high-energy jazz back to 51 Main. Last spring, the band played to a full house that didn’t want the performance to end. The evening is sure to keep fingers snapping and toes tapping; there might even be dancing in the aisles!
Friday, November 16, 9:00 – 11:00 @ McCullough Social Space.
The SIJE and the Middlebury Swing Dance Club are coming together for a fantastic evening . The best way to enjoy our music is through the soles of your feet. So bring your dancing shoes, and join us for some great music and some great dancing.
Saturday, October 27, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts.
Dayve Huckett, guitar and friends
Saturday, November 3, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Affiliate artist collaborate concert. Featuring Paul Asbell, guitar; Timothy Cummings, bagpipes; Miles Donahue, saxophone; Dan Frostman, oboe; Cynthia Huard, piano; Dayve Huckett, guitar; Glendon Ingalls, trumpet, bass; Bear Irwin, trombone; Steven Klimowski, clarinet; Mark Lavoie, harmonica; Natasha Koval Paden, piano
Thursday, November 8, 8:00 pm, Mead Memorial Chapel
Fauré Requiem
Performance features ensembles from Middlebury, Castleton State, Johnson State and St. Michael's Colleges and the University of Vermont.
Friday, November 9, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arats: Middlebury College Spiritual Choirs, Francois Clemmons, conductor
Wednesday, November 14, 7:30 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Piano Recital by Students of Diana Fanning
Friday, November 16, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arats
Francois Clemmons and friends
Saturday, November 17, 8pm, concert hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Middlebury College Orchestra, Andrew Massey, Conductor
Concert features Alexander St. Angelo, ‘14 as soloist in Ernst Chausson’s Poème for Violin and Orchestra. Also on the program are Copland’s Appalachian Spring and the Fanfare for La Peri by Dukas.
November 18, Sunday 3:00 p.m., Mead Memorial Chapel
Middlebury College Community Chorus, Jeff Rehbach, conductor
The annual concert in celebration of the season of Thanksgiving, performed by Middlebury College students, staff and faculty, and singers from towns and villages throughout Addison County and across the lake in New York State
Wednesday, November 28, 8pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts: African Music and Dance Ensemble
Directed by Professor Damascus Kafumbe, the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble performs in an end-of-semester concert featuring a wide range of East African instrumental, vocal, and dance repertoire. Ensemble members perform on East African drums, fiddles, harps, lyres, lamellaphones, shakers, and xylophones.
Saturday, Dec. 1, 8:00, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble, Dick Forman, Director
The Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble continues to celebrate that “it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing,” with a program of contemporary jazz compositions as well as a nod to the best music of the swing era.
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Original Student Compositions by students in MUSC0209
Thursday, Dec. 6, 8:00, Mahaney Center for the Arts lower lobby
Jazz Showcase, Dick Forman, Director
Saturday, Dec. 8, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Vocal Recital - Students of Carol Christensen, Susanne Peck, and Beth Thompson cap off a semester of vocal study with an evening of songs and arias.
Sunday, December 9, 4 and 7 pm, Mead Memorial Chapel
Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas
This annual program includes Bible readings of Advent and Christmas and carols for choir, organ, and congregation, modeled after the long-standing European tradition. Each service is preceded by performances on the chapel carillon. Laurel Jordan, chaplain; Middlebury College Chapel Choir, Jeff Buettner, Director; Emory Fanning, organ.
Sunday, December 9, 2:00
The Kizuna Piano Quartet made up of Jennie Kim ‘13 (violin), Matt Weinert-Stein ‘14 (viola), Grace Bell ’13 (cello), and Olivia Lau ‘14 (piano) will be performing Dvorak’s Piano Quartet op. 23 no. 1 for their independent music project. Samantha Lee ’13 will be playing unaccompanied Bach Sonata no. 2 in A minor for solo violin.
Monday, January 21, 8 pm, Mead Memorial Chapel
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Concert: Let Freedom Ring!
This 15th annual celebration features the Middlebury College Martin Luther King Spiritual Choir, Alexnader Twilight ARtist in Residence, Francois Clemmons, Middlebury College student dancers and actors, and other guest artists.
Thursday, January 24, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Middlebury College Orchestra, Andrew Massey, conductor
The fourth annual J-term Beethoven performance features the Overture Leonora No. 2, and the Fourth Symphony.
"Into the Woods"
January 24, 25, 26, 27, 8 pm, Town Hall Theater
What happens after Happily Ever After, after all? In Sondheim and Lapine's beloved musical retelling of the Grimm classics, a parade of familiar folktale figures find their way "Into the Woods" and try to get home before dark. Stage Director, Doug Anderson; Musical Director, Carol Christensen; Band Director/Conductor, Tim Guiles.
Sunday, March 3, 3 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Cynthia Huard, piano performs a program of works by Schumann and Bach. Photo included in this e-mail.
Friday, March 15, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Middlebury College Orchestra
Features the winner of the 2013 Alan and Joyce Beucher Concerto Competition, and a new work composed by Pete Fitton, ‘13.
Saturday, March 16, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
An Evening of Songs and Arias
A select group of students from the Department of Music present a variety of songs, duets, and arias ranging from the baroque era to the present.
Sunday, March 17m, 8 PM, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arats
Francois Clemmons and friends
Friday, April 5, 8:00 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Mary Rowell, violin
Friday, April 12, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Kaveh Waddell ’13,piano
Sunday, April 14, 4 p.m., Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
From Haydn to Scriabin: Natasha Koval Paden, pianist
A program that presents different ways that the sonata form is given life and expression.
Sunday, April 21, 4 pm, Concert hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Diana Fanning, piano and Dieuwke Davydov, cello
Wednesday, April 24, 7:30 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Piano Recital by the students of Diana Fanning
April 26–28, Friday–Sunday
Mahaney Center for the Arts and Mead Memorial Chapel
Middlebury Bach Festival
Jeffrey Buettner, music director
This third annual festival celebrates the music and influence of Johann Sebastian Bach with concerts, interest sessions and more, and involves Middlebury student performers along side professionals from Vermont and greater New England.
Details at go.middlebury.edu/bachfest.
All events are free, except the Saturday night concert, which is
$12 regular; $10 faculty/staff/alumni/ameriti; free for students with ID
Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
African Music and Dance Ensemble
Directed by Professor Damascus Kafumbe, the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble performs in an end-of-year concert featuring a wide range of East African instrumental, vocal, and dance repertoire. Ensemble members perform on East African drums, fiddles, harps, lyres, lamellaphones, shakers, and xylophones.
Wednesday, May 1, 7 pm: Grady Trela
Friday, May 3, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Middlebury College Spiritual Choir, Francois Clemmons, Conductor
Saturday, May 4, 8:00, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble, Dick Forman, Director
The College’s big band swings into spring with a concert that’s sure to set toes tapping.
Sunday, May 5, 4:00 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Grace Bell quartet.
Sunday, May 5, 7:00 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Frances Aderhold piano recital
Tuesday, May 7, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Original Student Compositions by students in MUSC0209
Thursday, May 9, 8:00, Mahaney Center for the Arts lower lobby
Jazz showcase, Dick Forman, Director
Saturday, May 11, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Scenes and Songs: Music Department student vocalists present a lively sampling of musical theatre, from opera to Broadway.
May 12, Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Mead Memorial Chapel
Middlebury College Community Chorus, Jeff Rehbach, conductor
A choral concert for Mother's Day and as the spring semester comes to a close, with a delightful mix of contemporary, traditional, and classical works. This large chorus with a history that dates back more than 150 years brings singers together from on- and off-campus, and throughout the Champlain Valley. Free
May 12, 7:00 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Aarts
Chase Daniel, piano
Friday, May 24, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Senior Week Choral Concert, Jeffrey Buettner, conductor
This performance celebrates Middlebury graduating choral musicians with selections of their favorite repertoire of the past four years and spanning national and international tours, festivals and collaborative concerts.
