Week of Events
The Journey | William Bueno, guitar | Graduate Student Recital
The Journey | William Bueno, guitar | Graduate Student Recital
William Bueno is a Colombian guitar player, composer, educator, and therapeutic music student. He understands music can change lives – as it changed his own life – and wants to...
The Multifaceted Career | Nadia Shpachenko: Piano Outside the Lines
The Multifaceted Career | Nadia Shpachenko: Piano Outside the Lines
Nadia Shpachenko Piano Outside the Lines Grammy-Winning Pianist, Educator, New Music Advocate, Longy Alum Longy School of Music of Bard College is proud to present The Multifaceted Career Speaker Series featuring conversations...
Dr. Bongani Breen, composer | Longy Guest Lecture
Dr. Bongani Breen, composer | Longy Guest Lecture
Composer Bongani Ndodana-Breen has written a wide range of music encompassing symphonic work, opera, chamber music and vocal music. According to The New York Times his “delicately made music – airy, spacious,...
Conrad Tao, pianist & composer | Celebrity Series
Conrad Tao, pianist & composer | Celebrity Series
"Tao’s ability to get around a keyboard — with either nimble agility or pounding intensity as required — is something to marvel over." – Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle Conrad...
Castle of Our Skins Ensemble in Masterclass at Longy
Castle of Our Skins Ensemble in Masterclass at Longy
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...
Custom Commission Showcase: Where Were You When?
Custom Commission Showcase: Where Were You When?
Custom Commission Showcase December 2nd 2021, 4pm Entirely new pieces crafted for Longy’s Custom Commission after a process of collaboration and custom crafting as unique or detailed as each...
Cello Masterclass | Chris Gross, Master Teacher
Cello Masterclass | Chris Gross, Master Teacher
6pm start of Masterclass Cellist Christopher Gross' performances have been praised by The New York Times ("beautifully meshed readings....lustrous tone") and The Strad Magazine (“...the tone of Gross’ cello enveloped the crowd showed energy...
JCM Art Ensemble
JCM Art Ensemble
JCM Art Ensemble led by saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase, will be studying and playing the music of two South African musicians and composers, Johnny Dyani and Abdullah Ibrahim. The band will also...
JCM Presents: Global Folk Ensemble
JCM Presents: Global Folk Ensemble
Global Folk Ensemble focuses each semester on a different traditional music from around the world. This semester the band will be led by Naseem Alatrash and will perform Middle Eastern and...
Safika | Castle of Our Skins | Ashleigh Gordon, Artistic & Executive Director
Safika | Castle of Our Skins | Ashleigh Gordon, Artistic & Executive Director
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...
“Musical Crossroads Inaugural Concert” – Longy Intercultural Music Initiative in collaboration with the US-China Music Institute of Bard College
“Musical Crossroads Inaugural Concert” – Longy Intercultural Music Initiative in collaboration with the US-China Music Institute of Bard College
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...
RESCHEDULED FOR March 26, 2022 | “So She Wants to Write A Fugue” | Gessner-Schocken: Jessica Osborne, piano
RESCHEDULED FOR March 26, 2022 | “So She Wants to Write A Fugue” | Gessner-Schocken: Jessica Osborne, piano
The Gessner-Schocken Concert, with pianist Jessica X. Osborne, has been rescheduled to March 26, 2022. Join us in the spring to celebrate historically marginalized music composed by women and performed...