Music

The Jazz Workshop provides a weekly opportunity for jazz students to study jazz history, repertoire development, jazz conventions, jazz idiom and theory, and a chance to practice strategies and tools, improvisation, and playing in small groups.  

The Jazz Workshop provides a weekly opportunity for jazz students to study jazz history, repertoire development, jazz conventions, jazz idiom and theory, and a chance to practice strategies and tools, improvisation, and playing in small groups.  

Public exhibition of original electronic music created by Middlebury students for the Electronic Music Production winter term class!

For their independent study in Music with Assistant Professor Matthew Evan Taylor, Jude Seo ‘24.5 and Brett Sorbo ‘24.5 will perform pieces composed and inspired by jazz musicians whose work altered the trajectory of the music, including Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and Sun Ra. Get ready to experience the radical joy and acceptance that these sounds offer! Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free and open to the public.

For his Senior Work in Music, Brett Sorbo ’24.5 will present stories and proverbs as famously told by South African master pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, who he first met when Ibrahim visited Middlebury in 2023 as part of the Performing Arts Series. In this intimate performance setting, Brett will weave the audience through a collection of Ibrahim’s stories, both orally and by improvising at the piano. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free and open to the public.

Guys & Dolls at Town Hall Theater

This January, enjoy an imaginative and fresh take on one of the greatest and most enduring musicals of all time: Guys and Dolls: A Musical Fable of Broadway.  Set in bustling 1950’s New York, this joyful and comedic romance follows down-on-their-luck gamblers, night-club performers and a pious missionary in a story that celebrates the ways love transforms and connects the most unlikely of people. 

Guys & Dolls at Town Hall Theater

This January, enjoy an imaginative and fresh take on one of the greatest and most enduring musicals of all time: Guys and Dolls: A Musical Fable of Broadway.  Set in bustling 1950’s New York, this joyful and comedic romance follows down-on-their-luck gamblers, night-club performers and a pious missionary in a story that celebrates the ways love transforms and connects the most unlikely of people. 

Guys & Dolls at Town Hall Theater

This January, enjoy an imaginative and fresh take on one of the greatest and most enduring musicals of all time: Guys and Dolls: A Musical Fable of Broadway.  Set in bustling 1950’s New York, this joyful and comedic romance follows down-on-their-luck gamblers, night-club performers and a pious missionary in a story that celebrates the ways love transforms and connects the most unlikely of people. 

Guys & Dolls at Town Hall Theater

This January, enjoy an imaginative and fresh take on one of the greatest and most enduring musicals of all time: Guys and Dolls: A Musical Fable of Broadway.  Set in bustling 1950’s New York, this joyful and comedic romance follows down-on-their-luck gamblers, night-club performers and a pious missionary in a story that celebrates the ways love transforms and connects the most unlikely of people. 

Please join us for a tribute concert for Dick Forman, Director of Jazz Activities, celebrating his retirement from Middlebury College.