Music

The Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble, back to its full size and directed by Kyle Saulnier, performs a wide range of big band jazz from timeless classics to contemporary repertoire. This end-of-semester set covers maximum ground, from early Duke Ellington, to titans like Thad Jones and Dizzy Gillespie, to modern works by Phil Wilson and John Fedchock. The band is large – the energy is larger.

The Middlebury College Orchestra presents an exciting spring concert featuring Shostakovich’s monumental Symphony No. 5, Korngold’s epic overture from the swashbuckling film The Sea Hawk, and this year’s winner of the Beucher Concerto Competition, Elliot Persell, performing Debussy’s rapturous Premiere Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra. 

Winter Term DJ Class “final exam” wrap party featuring students from Serena Kim’s DJ Class!

The Middlebury College Choir sings a program that celebrates the vibrant energy of spring and the hopefulness of community. Hear music from Italy, England, South Africa, Canada, India, Ukraine, and the USA, including a Renaissance-era double choir motet by Raffaella Aleotta, Psalm settings by Herbert Howells, African American composer William Dawson’s stunning setting of “Steal Away,” and the premier of “Noche” by William Mortell ‘26. Lively and inventive folk and traditional music completes the program. Free and open to the public.

The band’s end-of-semester concert spans East and West Africa, the Caribbean, and the broader Afro-diaspora, drawing on highlife, Afrobeat, reggae, funk, and Swahili praise traditions. From Ebo Taylor and Miriam Makeba to Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder, the band brings together artists and styles that reflect the creative vitality of popular music across the African world.