Music

Middlebury Chapel and surrounding lawns

Each year, musicians from around the world come to Middlebury to perform in the Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower, soaring high above the College campus. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells are a staple of summer life on the Middlebury College campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free

Learn more at go.middlebury.edu/carillon

Middlebury Chapel and surrounding lawns

Each year, musicians from around the world come to Middlebury to perform in the Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower, soaring high above the College campus. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells are a staple of summer life on the Middlebury College campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free

Learn more at go.middlebury.edu/carillon

Middlebury Chapel and surrounding lawns

Each year, musicians from around the world come to Middlebury to perform in the Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower, soaring high above the College campus. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells are a staple of summer life on the Middlebury College campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free

Learn more at go.middlebury.edu/carillon

Middlebury Chapel and surrounding lawns

Each year, musicians from around the world come to Middlebury to perform in the Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower, soaring high above the College campus. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells are a staple of summer life on the Middlebury College campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free

Learn more at go.middlebury.edu/carillon

Middlebury Chapel and surrounding lawns

George Matthew Jr., Carillonneur of Middlebury College and Norwich University, kicks off the 37th Annual Summer Carillon Series. Each year, musicians from around the world come to Middlebury to perform in the Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower, soaring high above the College campus. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells are a staple of summer life on the Middlebury College campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free

Learn more at go.middlebury.edu/carillon

This concert opens with the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble performing repertoire that showcases the stylistic and instrumental diversity of traditional East African musical cultures. In the second half of the 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.

Advanced voice students present a lively evening of songs, arias, and duets.

Featuring Sebastian Holbrook ‘26, Blair Jia ‘23, Rohini Prabhakar ‘23, and Urian Vasquez ‘25, with special guest performance by Tevan Goldberg ‘18. Accompanied by Cynthia Huard, piano.

Vaccinations and boosters (or valid medical or religious exemptions) required. Masks optional (but welcome!) except under certain conditions.

The Middlebury College Music Department presents pianist Diana Fanning in a solo concert featuring Schubert’s monumental Sonata in A Major, D. 959. One of the outstanding piano works of the Romantic era, it is a dazzling masterpiece of imagination, virtuosity, and expressivity. Works by Chopin, Lili Boulanger, and Ravel complete the program, which Ms. Fanning performed in Paris last summer. “American pianist Diana Fanning transported her audience into a scenic paradise”—Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich. 

A sampling of musical theater from opera to Broadway. 

Voice students of Carol Christensen cap off a semester of study with a lively concert of songs and arias.

Vaccinations and boosters (or valid medical or religious exemptions) required. Masks optional (but welcome!) except under certain conditions. Additional health and safety information here>>