Middlebury Chapel

Join the Mischords and a visiting group from Smith College for a joint concert! 

On this day of remembering the Holocaust in the Jewish Calendar, we will come together for a ceremony of reflection and remembrance through music, poetry and family stories from members of our Middlebury community. All are welcome.

College Choir, Emory Fanning and an orchestra and soloists of music faculty, affiliate artists, alumni and guests perform music by Johann Sebastian Bach celebrating the Leipzig tenure of the famous Kappellmeister. Interest sessions feature demonstration of the performance practice, style and history behind Bach’s music, and discussion of concepts such as how we hear and perform this music today. The concert includes Cantata 191 (later incorporated into the Mass in B Minor), organ, solo instrumental and orchestral music, and music performed by Bach on this day in 1724 in Leipzig.

A choral concert for Mother’s Day, with a delightful mix of contemporary, traditional, and classical works. This large chorus, with a history dating back more than 150 years, brings singers together from on and off campus and throughout the Champlain Valley. Free

In celebration of the Thanksgiving season, Middlebury College students, staff and faculty, and singers from towns and villages throughout Addison County and across the lake in New York perform a lively concert for the community. Free

A choral concert to welcome spring and the month of May. This large chorus, with a history that dates back more than 150 years, brings singers together from on and off campus and throughout the Champlain Valley.

The Middlebury College Community Chorus welcomes area singers to join with members of the Chorus for a special “Summer Sing.” The Chorus will select more than a dozen favorite choral pieces from its recent concerts to sing that evening, with music spanning from around the year 1700 to the present! Stop by starting at 6:45 to meet members of the chorus and enjoy some refreshments, and then join in singing. Jeff Rehbach leads the singing, with Tim Guiles at the piano.

Let Freedom Ring! The 13th annual celebration features the Middlebury College MLK Spiritual Choir, Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence François Clemmons; Christal Brown, choreography; Alex Draper, ‘88, theatrical coaching; Middlebury College student dancers and actors. Anne Ryan accompanies on piano.”Free.

Eric Whitacre Lecture
“The Architecture of Music”
Featuring a live performance from the Middlebury College Choir

Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor, Eric Whitacre, is among today’s most popular musicians. His works are programmed worldwide and his ground-breaking Virtual Choirs have united over 100,000 singers from more than 145 countries. In this lecture, Eric will discuss his music and process through the lens of Architecture, exploring how the two art forms overlap and inform each other. 

Free and open to the public

The Middlebury Bobolinks will hold their end-of-fall semester concert! All are welcome to attend!