Music

A weekly session devoted to learning about and playing jazz in a small-group setting. Previous jazz experience is not required. Open to Middlebury College students only.

A weekly session devoted to learning about and playing jazz in a small-group setting. Previous jazz experience is not required. Open to Middlebury College students only.

The Middlebury College Choir will perform a concert of new music, spirituals, and classical repertoire. 

Come celebrate Mother’s Day with our 40 piece band.   We have musicians from almost 15 towns in the area, including two Middlebury College students!   Music by Holst, Whitacre and Grainger, among others.  Christopher Foster, conducting.  

Students of MUSC 1027: “Artistic Creation Through Breath” present an interdisciplinary showcase inspired by and utilizing breath. Exhibition in MAC 221, performance in Robison Hall.

Traditional music, dance, and flavors of France will be fêted at this ‘BalFolk’ celebration and workshop. Join meneuse de danse Mary Wesley, the musical trio Triton (Affiliate Artist Timothy Cummings, Jeremiah McLane, Alex Kehler) and student musicians in celebrating the traditions of central France, Brittany, and beyond. French-inspired refreshments included. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

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.

Join us for a performance by internationally recognized fingerstyle guitarist Paul Asbell.  With a multi-decade career that includes joining the seminal Butterfield Blues band, founding and leading jazz group Kilimanjaro, and playing and recording with a veritable who’s who of blues and jazz greats, Asbell is a musician’s musician.  This performance will highlight the history of the American guitar, as Asbell will demonstrate how the instrument itself changed and was changed by the music people made with it.

A concert featuring guest electronic music artist Sandy Nordahl, joined by Winter Term music instructors Jack Tipper, Matthew Evan Taylor and Peter Hamlin, and Chapman Stick virtuoso Mark Christensen.

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

Some of the College’s best jazz players perform their work from the fall Jazz Workshop.

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