Music

Middlebury College Affiliate Artist Natasha Koval Paden presents a Sunday afternoon piano performance featuring major works by Frédéric Chopin and Johann Sebastian Bach. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

A recital of selected 19th century pieces, featuring Ferruccio Busoni’s extraordinary piano transcription of Bach’s Chaconne for solo violin, and Franz Liszt’s richly creative keyboard rendition of Mendelssohn’s orchestral Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Music Department lecture by Miriam Kolar, Ph.D. Candidate for Assistant Professor in Music Miriam Kolar’s integrative archaeoacoustics research at the Andean Formative ceremonial center at Chaviin de Huaantar, Peruu interrelates acoustical, psychoacoustical, and ethnomusicological methodologies to reveal experientially salient evidence of ancient musical instruments, practices and settings.

Join student musicians of MUSC 0240 in an end-of-semester concert featuring a creative mix of small ensemble chamber music performances. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Original compositions from Su Lian Tan’s Music I course are performed by the students in a semester-end celebration of their work. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

This year’s program will feature the return of guest conductor Keith McCutchen. Director of the Hayes School of Music Gospel Choir and Jazz Vocal Ensemble, Mr. McCutchen will conduct a community choir of students and townspeople and lead a jazz combo. Members of Oratory Now will deliver speeches on Chicago, today and 50 years ago, featuring King’s 1966 Soldier Field address. With movement by Christal Brown. Sponsored by the Department of Music and Oratory Now. Free.

Milo Stanley ‘17.5 and Aidan O’Brien ‘20, a fiddle/guitar folk duo, will share a selection of original songs and covers as part of their Music 500 independent study in live performance. Sponsored by the Department of Music,

Affiliate Artist Miles Donahue, playing saxophone and trumpet, leads an all-star lineup in celebration of jazz—all four Berklee College of Music professors—Sal Difusco on guitar, Tim Ray (long time player for Lyle Lovett) on piano, John Lockwood on bass, and Larry Finn on drums. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Join The Miles Donahue Jazz Quintet in celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, with special guest - Billy Pierce, formerly of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

The Middlebury College Orchestra, directed by Andrew Massey, performs a brand new composition by senior, Samuel Kudman. Svala’s Saga was inspired by the work of Kirsten Hoving, Charles A. Dana Professor of History of Art & Architecture whose photographs will be on display at the performance. Also featured: Chabrier’s Idylle from Suite Pastorale, and Beethoven’s Symphony No 4 in Bb. Sponsored by the Department of Music.