Music

In the first of two evening performances, students celebrate their work in small ensembles from Su Lian Tan’s MUSC 240 class. A Music Department event. Free

Students from Su Lian Tan’s MUSC 210 class perform chamber music, songs, and more. A Music Department event. Free

Students in Su Lian Tan’s Music I course perform original compositions in a semester-end celebration of their work. Free

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation month with Affiliate Artist Miles Dohanue on trumpet and saxophones, and his guest artists Rick Peckham, guitar, Ralph Peterson, drums, John Lockwood, bass, and Zaccia Curtis, piano in an evening of songs by Jazz greats Monk, Coltrane, Shorter, and many others. A Music Department event. Free

Giants of the Middlebury music scene come together for the inaugural Indie Festival. Catch them before they graduate and start charging for entry! You knew them when…

Featuring:
Sofia Donavan
Max Shashoua
Hannah Habermann

The Middlebury College Orchestra, under the direction of Evan Bennett, will perform in concert on Tuesday, April 17 at 8:00 PM at the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robison Hall. Featured works include An Outdoor Overture, by Aaron Copland; and Symphony No. 8, Op. 88, B. 163, by Antonin Dvorak. This event is sponsored by the Department of Music. Free admission and public welcome.

The Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble (also known as MiddWinds) has a special offering this season. Ken Weston has written another fine arrangement of a work by Verdi—the Prelude to I Masnadieri—and its performance will feature his daughter Alice as euphonium soloist.  Also on the program: music by Clifton Williams, Duke Ellington, and a salute to Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus, which closed in 2017 after 146 years of operation.  Jerome Shedd conducts. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Department of Music. Free

Modeled after the long-standing European tradition, this annual program includes Bible readings of Advent and Christmas and carols for choir, organ, and congregation. Each service is preceded by performances on the chapel carillon. Donations are collected for local charities.

Modeled after the long-standing European tradition, this annual program includes Bible readings of Advent and Christmas and carols for choir, organ, and congregation. Each service is preceded by performances on the chapel carillon. Donations are collected for local charities.

The pasacalle of Villa El Salvador is a communal art form that incorporates Peru’s indigenous ritual practices and Afro-Brazilian–derived drum music. This lecture by Dr. Carlos Odria of the University of Massachusetts Boston explores how pasacalle artists fine-tune their drumming skills and strengthen Andean values of mutuality and reciprocity. Sponsored by the Music Department. Free