Born out of the desire to foster cultural curiosity, Castle of our Skins is a concert and educational series dedicated to celebrating Black artistry through music. From classrooms to concert halls, Castle...
Castle of our Skins welcomes South African Composer Dr. Bongani Ndodana-Breen for its third Music Ensemble in Residence. Highlighting Ndodana-Breen's works for piano and strings, this program centers around the...
The program is an immersive concert celebrating Central Asian and Chinese cultures on Western and traditional Chinese instruments featuring performers from Longy School of Music and US-China Music Institute...
<!--Get front row seats to the creation of six new 10-minute operas - featuring new voices and new perspectives. See the first public workshop performances of six freshly-minted compositions that...
<!-- Scarlet Ibis - Boston Opera Collaborative , January 2019 . Performed in Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music in Cambridge MA - Directed by Greg Smucker Get front...
The instrumentation of a piece can ultimately decide how it affects its audience — from the ethereal closeness of a string trio to the less common complexity of the sextet....
How do each of us grapple with our own bubbles? How do we create our own sense of wilderness, especially in times of isolation? Escapism vs. confrontation, virtual vs. physical,...
Rilke once proposed the idea of wandering “the halls of your own mind.” As this program will show us, there is no end to what we can discover when we...
Works of Britten and Schubert shine in this program with equal intensity and tenderness. Schubert’s String Quartet, D. 87, written when he was only 16 years old, provides a youthful...
Olivier Messiaen premiered his Quatuor pour la fin de Temps (Quartet for the End of the World) as a POW in World War II Germany. The unusual ensemble that performed...
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.
