Music

Join the College Choir in our final performance of the academic year in a bittersweet choral sendoff for our seniors. Always lively and entertaining, this concert includes repertoire selected by the graduating senior singers, as well as other College Choir favorites. Families welcome!

College Choir sings a diverse program of conceptual change as depicted in seasonal and transformational metaphor. Pathways of justice are motivating concepts in music by Claudio Monteverdi and André Thomas. Images of the four seasons characterize works by André Thomas, Johannes Brahms, a Taiwanese harvest song by Tsai Yu-Shan, and a winter carol by Abbie Betinis. The concert concludes in metaphysical contemplation with settings of a Sara Teasdale poem by Jocelyn Hagen and an iconic Spiritual by William Dawson. The Choir is joined by student and alumni instrumentalists.

Join the College Choir in our final performance of the academic year in a bittersweet choral sendoff for our seniors. Always lively and entertaining, this concert includes repertoire selected by the graduating senior singers, as well as other College Choir favorites. Families welcome! Free admission.

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 and open to the public.

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6:00 PM

Middlebury Chapel

Open to the Public

The Sound Investment Jazz Tentet performs works from a century of jazz history, with a nod to some of the genre’s top arrangers.

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An evening in MAC to showcase the work of music department ensembles, classes, and student bands. Refreshments provided!

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

The College Choir sings a program of lively and contemplative music, including dance-inspired Baroque works by Monteverdi and Velasco, colorful works by Eric Whitacre, Reena Esmail, Stacey Gibbs, and Don Macdonald, and Shakespeare Songs of Matthew Harris. The program features the world premiere of a choral song cycle by Kai Fukuda ‘23.5, including settings of poetry by four Vermont poets. Student instrumentalists and students of the Department of Dance join the Choir for a unique and compelling exploration of musical energy and colorful imagination in sound and movement.

Join the Middlebury College Orchestra in our Spring 2024 concert! Taking place at 3pm in the Robison Concert Hall, the program will feature Mozart’s Bassoon Concert in B-flat major featuring soloist Roeskva Torhalsdottir (‘25), the premiere of Gino Abrams’ (‘24) symphonic work The Bronze Horseman, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Open admission and mask-friendly.

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In this presentation, master pipa player Gao Hong will introduce the audience to the storytelling aspects of Chinese music spanning the ages through 2000-year-old traditional pipa music and 21-century new music formats. She will open her presentation with a performance of traditional pipa music, including a 100-year-old piece that was recently reconstructed and a wide array of storytelling pieces in different performance styles taught to her by the 6th-generation definitive Pudong school master Lin Shicheng.