Music

A Beneficiary Showcase of Ukrainian Resilience through Art

This third annual event celebrates the culture and resilience of the nation of Ukraine with music, poetry, film, and more.  Featuring the New York Crimean Tatar Ensemble, with a parade of performances by the Middlebury College Choir, the student band Chapel Hill, Middlebury College’s Ukrainian students, and other special guests. Admission is free, and information about donating to Ukrainian relief organizations will be provided.

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. 

The beloved Community Chorus will sing Faure’s Requiem under the direction of Ronnie Romano ’20. Several Middlebury College students and faculty will come together to form a small chamber orchestra. The chorus will also sing several other pieces to complement the Requiem. This will be a wonderful evening of music that you won’t want to miss!

Watch the livestream of the performance here

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. 

Come experience original music and visuals created by Middlebury students!
This final project exhibition showcases music from Jack Tipper’s Electronic Music Production class and visuals from Peter Hamlin’s Visualizing Sound class.

In a completely improvised concert, Kai Hoadley (‘24.5) on fiddle, Charlie Moore (‘24) on guitar, and Professor Matthew Taylor on supporting instruments will create a composition live for the audience. Come see the culmination of a semester of our improvising as a trio and watch as brand-new sounds and ideas unfold. 

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

Music Department voice students present a lively evening of Broadway solos, duets, and ensembles.

The College Choir explores humanity’s relationship with the natural environment as expressed in poetry and choral music. Themes of joy, repentance, celebration, and justice are reflected in works by Elaine Hagenberg and Don Macdonald (USA), Gerald Finzi and Richard Farrant (England), Gerardo Guevara (Ecuador), and Blas Galindo and Jesús Echevarría (Mexico).

Watch the livestream here.

Experience an exciting collaborative concert featuring eclectic music from classic jazz to classic rock including reharmonized standards. Affiliate Artist Miles Donahue and his students Scott Li ’24, Terry Luongo ’25 and Julia Ulsh ’24 showcase performance skills in listening, harmony, accompaniment, and improvisation as they perform the music of Depeche Mode.