In this 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. The group’s performance highlights the dynamic, communal, and interactive nature of African societies.
Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center
Open to the Public
The Music Dept. offers this weekly jazz workshop for Midd students. Previous jazz experience is not required; proficiency on your instrument is preferred. For information, please contact Dick Forman, forman@middlebury.edu.
Mahaney Arts Center 221
Closed to the Public
The College Choir sings a program of lively and contemplative music, including dance-inspired Baroque works by Monteverdi and Velasco, colorful works by Eric Whitacre, Reena Esmail, Stacey Gibbs, and Don Macdonald, and Shakespeare Songs of Matthew Harris. The program features the world premiere of a choral song cycle by Kai Fukuda ‘23.5, including settings of poetry by four Vermont poets. Student instrumentalists and students of the Department of Dance join the Choir for a unique and compelling exploration of musical energy and colorful imagination in sound and movement.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Open to the Public
For their spring concert, the Ensemble presents works for the full 40-musician band, as well as pieces featuring individual sections. The program includes music inspired by both hobbits and Batman, with The Lord of The Rings and an arrangement from The Dark Night Rises alongside popular classical pieces and a rousing finale with P.D.Q. Bach’s Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion. Chris Foster, conductor.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Open to the Public
Free
In this presentation, master pipa player Gao Hong will introduce the audience to the storytelling aspects of Chinese music spanning the ages through 2000-year-old traditional pipa music and 21-century new music formats. She will open her presentation with a performance of traditional pipa music, including a 100-year-old piece that was recently reconstructed and a wide array of storytelling pieces in different performance styles taught to her by the 6th-generation definitive Pudong school master Lin Shicheng.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Open to the Public
Free
The Music Dept. offers this weekly jazz workshop for Midd students. Previous jazz experience is not required; proficiency on your instrument is preferred. For information, please contact Dick Forman, forman@middlebury.edu.
Mahaney Arts Center 221
Closed to the Public
The Sound Investment Jazz Tentet performs works from a century of jazz history, with a nod to some of the genre’s top arrangers.
Watch the livestream of the performance here
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Open to the Public
Join the Middlebury College Orchestra in our Spring 2023 concert! Taking place at 3pm in the Robinson Concert Hall, the program will feature Mozart’s Bassoon Concert in B-flat major featuring soloist Roeskva Torhalsdottir (‘25), the premiere of Gino Abrams’ (‘24) symphonic work The Bronze Horseman, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Open admission and mask-friendly.
Watch the livestream of the performance here
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Open to the Public
The Middlebury College Music Department proudly presents the debut performance of the MICA string quartet, with performers Marco Matroni ‘25, Isaac Xie ‘24, Amelia Grosskopf ‘24, and Chelsea Robinson ‘26. The hour-long concert will explore stylistic transformation across string quartet works spanning the 18th-20th centuries, featuring works by Scarlatti, Haydn, Schubert, Smetana, Debussy, and Bartok, as well as original solo viola interludes that stylistically bridge the works together in rondo form. Senior project of Amelia Grosskopf ’24.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Open to the Public
Free
The spring concert by Diana Fanning’s students has always been a popular event celebrating our talented Middlebury pianists. This year’s program features Judy Chen, Adam Gips, Greg Marcinik, and Peter Shellhaas playing works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, MacDowell and Mozart. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Open to the Public
