For Longy’s 2022–2023 event season, we invite you to leave all preconceptions at home.
Musical experiences can have any starting point. Whether born of complex ideas, emotional impulses, or spontaneous inspiration, every music maker begins wherever they are—which is exactly where they need to be.
Just as there’s no right way, no single starting line for becoming a musician, composer, or performer, there’s no one correct entry point for us as the audience. There’s no required reading for experiencing a piece of music, no prerequisite understanding or context to bring with you to a musical experience. You come to it from wherever you are.
In relinquishing our ideas of what a musical experience should be, we open ourselves to receiving and internalizing music in a way that is unique and true to each of us.
Every artist, composer, and musician represented in this season’s program took a different path to arrive at Longy, detours and scenic routes included. We hope the stories on our stages this year inspire you to begin your own new journey, no matter where you start. Allow yourself to begin wherever you are.
When there’s no set path to follow, you become free to begin anywhere.
Longy’s performances are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Bartok: The Complete Mikrokosmos In this piano department seminar performance, Keyboard Studies students showcase artistry from...
Longy's concerts are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Save the date! Longy’s premiere new music group, Ensemble Uncaged is dedicated to performing music by...
Longy’s performances are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Longy students have worked diligently during the fall semester to prepare Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes...
Longy’s performance are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. A Cello’s Tale: Centuries of Expression Through One Instrument In his faculty debut recital, Jean-Michel Fonteneau...
Longy’s performances are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Love, Loud and Clear: Breaking the Silence Together Join the students from the Broadway: Agent of...
This performance is canceled. We hope to reschedule for a future date. Elizabeth Chen is a collaborative piano student of Brian Moll.
Longy’s performances are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. A Poet's Love: Now and Then Join the students of the class "Dichterliebe: Song Cycles of...
Longy’s performance are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. The definition of a “jazz singer” has profoundly expanded since the days of the Great American...
Longy School of Music of Bard College is proud to present The Multifaceted Career Speaker Series which broadens personal narratives around success and inspires us to create our own diverse and...
Longy’s performance are free and open to the public, but please register in advance. Winter Solstice concert performed by students of the Keyboard Studies Department. Keyboard Studies Department: Winter Solstice...
Thanks to our partnership with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and their “Card to Culture” program, Longy School of Music of Bard College can offer free tickets to many of our diverse and innovative performance offerings. See the full list of participating “Card to Culture” organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.
