Music

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>>

In the past few years, Japanese anime has become part of western pop culture. A growing number of people are realizing that anime is not a genre like western animation, but rather an artistic format to tell an array of different stories. I have created a three-part series where I have rewritten the music for three different anime scenes. Each scene has a different setting in tone, starting with a nature/wholesome scene, moving to a cynical death scene, and ending on a fight scene.

Commencement reception for History of Art & Architecture and Music seniors and their families.

The College Community Chorus performs their first concert in over two years! Under the theme of beauty of the Earth and its people, this uplifting and thoughtful program includes Johannes Brahms’ “How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place,” Sarah Quartel’s “There Alway Something Sings,” Craig Hella Johnson’s “Psalm of Life,” Ukrainian folk and sacred choral music, Canadian singer/songwriting Connie Kaldor’s “Wood River,” and Marques L.A. Garrett’s “Rise, Shine.” Featuring Tim Guiles, piano and Jeffrey Buettner and Ryan Opiela-Young, conductors.

The Performing Jazz Workshop presents a program of selections from the Jazz repertoire, showcasing the results of the workshop’s focus on improvisation and ensemble interplay.

Full vaccinations and boosters (or valid medical or religious exemptions) and masks required.

If you have symptoms, or have been exposed to or tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 5 days, you may not attend arts events.