Events

The Carillon Concert Series features beautiful concerts from Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells will ring out across the campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free and open to the public.

Performer: Charles Semowich, Carillonneur Emeritus, Riverside Church, NYC

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Composer-pianist Matthew Quayle (Visiting Assistant Professor of Music) presents an eclectic recital of original music, joined by cellist Jameson Platte and clarinetist Kate Forman Quayle. This energetic and expressive program features premieres of several works: Sonata No. 6, Episodes for bass clarinet and piano, and Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (revised, in an arrangement for cello and piano). Other pieces include Sonata No. 5 and Quayle’s virtuosic take on the pas de deux from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. 

This lecture-demonstration journeys from the traditional soundscapes of the Mongolian steppe to the creative and dynamic innovations of the global present. Through a combination of musical sound and spoken lecture, listeners will be transported into the complex and interconnected sound worlds of Mongolia, Tuva, and Inner Mongolia. This event will feature Inner Mongolian musicians and co-founders of the Chicago-based duo Hun Hazy, Tamir Hargana and Naizal Hargana, along with researched commentary by Skidmore ethnomusicologist, Charlotte D’Evelyn.

The Carillon Concert Series features beautiful concerts from Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells will ring out across the campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free and open to the public.

Performer: George Mattthew Jr. Carillonneur, Middlebury College and Norwich University.

For more information about the performers and programs, please click here.

Affiliate Artist Diana Fanning gives a beautiful solo concert marking her 50 years of teaching at Middlebury. An acclaimed concert pianist with national and international accolades, she’s also a Middlebury alumna with deep roots in Vermont.

Walking with My Ancestors: Cape Coast Castle (2019) is a one-woman award-winning multimodal performance piece that generates fresh perspectives on the experiences of the nameless African women, men, and children who once languished in the dungeons of Cape Coast Castle and suffered the agony of the middle passage.

This concert opens with the African Music and Dance Ensemble Performance class performing repertoire that showcases the stylistic and instrumental diversity of traditional East African musical cultures. In the second half of the concert, the Middlebury Afropop Band performs original compositions and arrangements of classic and contemporary popular songs from all over Africa. The band uses pop and rock instrumentation as well as styles that blend traditional African with Western and/or Afro-diasporic musical idioms.

Voice students of Carol Christensen and Susanne Peck cap off a semester of study with a lively program of classical and Broadway repertoire. 

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Music Department vocal students present an lively evening of songs and arias. 

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Music Department vocal students present Scenes and Songs, a sampling of musical theater from opera to Broadway.

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