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Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall
November 2019
Neave Trio: Fire, Moon, Cloud, Rain | alumni artists/faculty ensemble-in-residence
The majesty of nature never ceases to inspire captivating works. In this performance, the Neave Trio highlights the heat of Jennifer Higdon’s Fiery Red, the bird calls of Leah Reid’s…
Find out more »Fall Opera Scenes | Escape and Discovery
The Longy vocal studies department presents opera scenes in which characters either are eluding others or finding themselves. Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus Act 1 : To Part is Such Sweet…
Find out more »Fall Opera Scenes | Escape and Discovery
The Longy vocal studies department presents opera scenes in which characters either are eluding others or finding themselves. Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus Act 1 : To Part is Such Sweet…
Find out more »Ensemble Uncaged: Fundamental/Elemental | Andy Kozar, co-director Rachael Elliot, co-director
Longy’s premiere contemporary music ensemble will explore diverse programs that encourage performer and listener alike to examine the fundamentals and elements of music. Each piece and program will frame ideas…
Find out more »December 2019
Ensemble Uncaged: Fundamental/Elemental | Andy Kozar, co-director Rachael Elliot, co-director
Longy’s premiere contemporary music ensemble will explore diverse programs that encourage performer and listener alike to examine the fundamentals and elements of music. Each piece and program will frame ideas…
Find out more »Horszowski Trio: Flame | ensemble-in-residence
In addition to Berio's Feuerklavier, fire and passion spark three works: Dvorˇák’s masterpiece, Dumky; a hidden treasure by Armenian composer Babajanian; and musical fireworks by American Charles Wuorinen.
Find out more »Spanish Repertoire | Class Concert
Culminating concert of a semester of learning Spanish repertoire from 18th Century through the 21st Century from Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Cuba.
Find out more »Fantasy and Enchantment: Opera Theater Opera Scenes | Directors: Carol Mastrodomenico and Libor Dudas
On Monday, December 9th, Longy's Opera Theater performs enchants and hypnotizes with scenes from Cenerentola, Hansel and Gretel, Magic Flute, The Impresario, Inquisitive Women, Cosi fan Tutte, Pirates of Penzance,…
Find out more »Operatica
Join the Vocal Studies Department and the Longy Chamber Orchestra for an evening of well-loved arias and duets from your favorite operas and operettas. No doubt you’ll recognize a few…
Find out more »Castle of our Skins: Portrait of Composer Trevor Weston | Ashleigh Gordon, co-founder
Born out of the desire to foster cultural curiosity, Castle of our Skins is an ensemble dedicated to celebrating Black artistry through music. This year, they mark their seventh season…
Find out more »Cameos: The Songs of Hugo Wolf | Jane Struss, faculty artist/artistic director
Hugo Wolf was a prolific writer of songs, both sacred and secular, which are particularly loved for their insight into the heart of everyday human emotions. “Fire and Soul” is…
Find out more »Musicians from Marlboro Masterclass | Kim Kashkashian, viola
Kim Kashkashian, viola, is internationally recognized as a unique voice on the viola. She studied with Karen Tuttle and Walter Trampler at the Peabody Conservatory. Hailed as an artist who…
Find out more »Everything’s a Work in Progress | Studio Performance Class, Students of Jayne West
Our program will feature singers in their various states of progress. Some will be preparing their Junior, Senior and Graduate Recitals while others will be just getting started with a…
Find out more »January 2020
Longy Hosts: Collage New Music | Concert II: Waves of Exoticism, Thoughts Beyond
Ryan Chase: Star Gazer (2012) first Boston performance Eric Moe: Tough Songs About Death (2017) first Boston performance Joan Tower: Breakfast Rhythms I (1974) Matthew Rickets: Seven by Seven first…
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Find out more »February 2020
Boston Opera Collaborative: The Marriage of Figaro
Featuring a cast of Boston Opera Collaborative's young professional singers and Longy graduate students, this intimate production explores the very timely themes of Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Distilled to a tight…
Find out more »Boston Opera Collaborative: The Marriage of Figaro
Featuring a cast of Boston Opera Collaborative's young professional singers and Longy graduate students, this intimate production explores the very timely themes of Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Distilled to a tight…
Find out more »Boston Opera Collaborative: The Marriage of Figaro
Featuring a cast of Boston Opera Collaborative's young professional singers and Longy graduate students, this intimate production explores the very timely themes of Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Distilled to a tight…
Find out more »Boston Opera Collaborative: The Marriage of Figaro
Featuring a cast of Boston Opera Collaborative's young professional singers and Longy graduate students, this intimate production explores the very timely themes of Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Distilled to a tight…
Find out more »Boston Opera Collaborative: The Marriage of Figaro
Featuring a cast of Boston Opera Collaborative's young professional singers and Longy graduate students, this intimate production explores the very timely themes of Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Distilled to a tight…
Find out more »Boston Opera Collaborative: The Marriage of Figaro
Featuring a cast of Boston Opera Collaborative's young professional singers and Longy graduate students, this intimate production explores the very timely themes of Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Distilled to a tight…
Find out more »Boston Opera Collaborative: The Marriage of Figaro
Featuring a cast of Boston Opera Collaborative's young professional singers and Longy graduate students, this intimate production explores the very timely themes of Mozart’s comic masterpiece. Distilled to a tight…
Find out more »Neave Trio: In The Air | Longy’s alumni artists/faculty ensemble-in-residence
Forgo the mixed chocolates this year and treat yourself to an intimate Valentine's Day concert in the round. Our grand, romantic gesture will feature an evening of works brimming with…
Find out more »March 2020
Musicians from Marlboro Masterclass | Judith Serkin, cello
Judith Serkin, cello, has toured extensively across the United States, Japan, France, and Canada and has played at various festivals in Switzerland and Poland. She began her studies in Puerto…
Find out more »Horszowski Trio: Grounded, Fantastical | ensemble-in-residence
Be transported to a fantastical world: Robert Schumann’s iconic trio paints a scene of earthy yet mysterious characters—as do Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire; Berio's Erdenklavier; and Eric Moe's Welcome to Phase…
Find out more »Tracing: Radius Ensemble | Ensemble-in-Residence
SCHUMAKER – Mehretu trace for oboe, clarinet, and electronic media KODÁLY – Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7 BEETHOVEN – Quintet for piano and winds, Op. 16 Plus a new trio for…
Find out more »Visages/Faces/Gesichter: Blythwood Ensemble | Guest Artists
The chamber music genre of voice, viola, and piano presents a rich array of musical styles and textures. Sonically, the ensemble is capable of orchestral power, and spoken intimacy. This…
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Find out more »Jazz and Contemporary Music Series
The Jazz and Contemporary Music department is excited to showcase visiting artists, alumni and faculty in their yearly concert series. Announcements of performers and repertoire to be determined.
Find out more »Boston Opera Collaborative: Opera Bites
In what has become a highly anticipated evening of entertainment, Boston Opera Collaborative joins forces with Longy for an evening of opera and revelry in a cabaret-style setting. Of last…
Find out more »Boston Opera Collaborative: Opera Bites
In what has become a highly anticipated evening of entertainment, Boston Opera Collaborative joins forces with Longy for an evening of opera and revelry in a cabaret-style setting. Of last…
Find out more »Boston Opera Collaborative: Opera Bites
In what has become a highly anticipated evening of entertainment, Boston Opera Collaborative joins forces with Longy for an evening of opera and revelry in a cabaret-style setting. Of last…
Find out more »Still WE Rise: Changing HERstory | Ensemble Lyrae
“Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the…
Find out more »Longy Hosts: Collage New Music | Concert III: From Inside to Out, Secreted and Revealed
Anne Callaway: Devachan (1992) first Boston performance Brian Sears: New Work, TBA (2020) Collage New Music 2019-20 Fellow Thomas Adès: Catch (1991) Marjorie Merryman: Four Images, for solo cello first…
Find out more »April 2020
Musicians from Marlboro: High Octane
This energetic program will cast the spotlight on nine musicians performing two chamber music masterpieces by Brahms and Mendelssohn and a rarely performed work for voice and string quartet by…
Find out more »Eric Nathan: Missing Words (World Premier of the Missing Words Cycle)
Curated by Neave Trio, Missing Words is an homage to the newly-created German words presented in Ben Schott’s book, Schottenfreude. These Seinfeld-ian words elucidate everyday experiences for which English has…
Find out more »Music FOR Women and BY Women in the Age of #MeToo and #TimesUp
This course explores works for women by women on texts that elevate and honor the status of women throughout the ages. We will delve into what it takes to create…
Find out more »Water Is Taught By Thirst | Donald Berman, faculty artist/artistic director
It will be a night of iconoclastic New Englanders celebrating the cultural contributions of Emily Dickinson and Charles Ives, both of whom shared a spiritual connection to the natural world.
Find out more »Horszowski Trio: Breathtaking | ensemble-in-residence
A trio by Mozart, Fauré's famous piano quartet, and Berio's Luftklavierevoke the constraints of space and air. The poignant For Danielby Joan Tower was written for her nephew, who suffered…
Find out more »Musicians from Marlboro Masterclass | Brett Dean, viola
Brett Dean, viola, studied in Brisbane, Australia before traveling to Germany in 1985, where for 14 years he was a member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He began composing in 1988,…
Find out more »May 2020
Radius Ensemble
EPSTEIN – Abîme des oiseaux for wind quintet (world premiere) MESSIAEN – Quatuor pour la fin du Temps At 6 p.m. on January 15, 1941, Olivier Messiaen premiered his Quatuor pour la fin…
Find out more »In the Beautiful Month of May: Reinbert De Leeuw’s Schubert & Schumann Cabaret | Bruce Coppock, faculty artist/artistic director
In this performance, we will explore the romantic sentiments in Schubert’s Winterreise and Schumann’s Dichterliebe through the lens of Reinbert de Leeuw’s utterly brilliant recasting of these songs in the…
Find out more »Ensemble Uncaged: Fundamental/Elemental | Andy Kozar, co-director Rachael Elliot, co-director
Longy’s premiere contemporary music ensemble will explore diverse programs that encourage performer and listener alike to examine the fundamentals and elements of music. Each piece and program will frame ideas…
Find out more »Ensemble Uncaged: Fundamental/Elemental | Andy Kozar, co-director Rachael Elliot, co-director
Longy’s premiere contemporary music ensemble will explore diverse programs that encourage performer and listener alike to examine the fundamentals and elements of music. Each piece and program will frame ideas…
Find out more »WomenTRANSCENDENTALISTS AND OTHER CONCORD PORTRAITS
Faculty Concert out of Soul Selects Her Own Society PBL. Music by Amy Beth Kirsten, Charles Ives and others.
Find out more »The Honor is Ours
A musician is a healer, an entertainer, an educator, a thought-leader, an entrepreneur and so much more. At Longy, we believe each musician’s voice matters and has the ability to…
Find out more »Musicians from Marlboro | Between the Spaces in the Sky
The final Marlboro concert of the season features former Berlin Philharmonic violist Brett Dean playing his own work alongside Grammy Award winner Kim Kashkashian and a talented trio of young…
Find out more »June 2020
MHTP Biennial Conference 2020 at Longy School of Music
The Music For Healing & Transition Program and Longy School of Music of Bard College are excited to partner to host MHTP's 2020 Conference: Creating Our Vision of Music in…
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