Music

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.

Watch the livestream of the performance here

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.