Faculty performances we thought you might like to hear again.
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Faculty/Student Chamber Concert Series
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Allegro non troppo
Scherzo. Allegro
Andante
Finale. Allegro comodo
Weigang Li,
violin
Marka Gustavsson,
viola
Robert Martin,
cello
Peter Serkin,
piano
March 30, 2019
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A faculty collective from the Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Bard Music Program formed in 2013.
Laura Flax,
clarinet
Marka Gustavsson,
viola
Erica Kiesewetter,
violin
Julie Landsman,
horn
Blair McMillen,
piano
Raman Ramakrishnan,
cello
Guest artists: Marc Goldberg,
bassoon
Leigh Mesh,
double bass
Tara Helen O'Connor,
flute
George Tsontakis
, Requiescat (1996)
Joan Tower
, A Gift (2007)
Shulamit Ran
, Birkat Haderekh (Blessing for the Road)(2015)
Kevin Puts
, Seven Seascapes (2013)
September 30, 2016
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Benjamin Hochman,
piano
Piano Sonata No. 2 in F major, K. 280 (1774)
Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330 (1783)
Adagio for Piano in B minor, K. 540 (1788)
Piano Sonata No. 15 in F major, K. 533 (1788)
April 27, 2019
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Peter Wiley and Anna Polonsky perform Schumann, Brahms, Bach, and Chopin
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Bard Consevatory Faculty member
Peter Wiley
, and
Anna Polonsky
, Piano Faculty at Vassar College, perform Schumann, Brahms, Bach, and Chopin at Bard College Conservatory of Music, László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building.
Robert Schumann
Adagio and Allegro Opus 70
Langsam mit innigem Ausdruck
Rasch und feurig
Johannes Brahms
Sonata in F major Opus 99
Allegro vivace
Adagio affettuoso
Allegro passionato
Allegro molto
J. S. Bach
Pastorale
(Arranged from Pastorale in F Major for Organ)-BWV 590
Frederich Chopin
Sonata-Opus 65
Allegro moderato
Scherzo (allegro con brio)
Largo
Finale-allegro
Peter Wiley,
cello
Anna Polonsky,
piano
February 19, 2017
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Welcome new faculty members
The Bard Conservatory is thrilled to welcome the talent, expertise, and musicianship of our newest faculty members.
Join us in welcoming them all to our community.
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Shai Wosner, piano
Pianist Shai Wosner has attracted international recognition for his exceptional artistry, musical integrity, and creative insight. His performances of a broad range of repertoire—from Beethoven and Schubert to Ligeti and the music of today—reflect a degree of virtuosity and intellectual curiosity that has made him a favorite among audiences and critics, who note his “keen musical mind and deep musical soul” (NPR’s All Things Considered).
Mr. Wosner records for Onyx Classics, and his recordings have been widely praised for their inventive pairings of classical and modern masters. Described as a “Schubertian of unfaltering authority and character” by
Gramophone
, he has recorded two all-Schubert albums for the label, and his catalog also includes
Impromptu
, featuring an eclectic mix of improvisationally inspired works by composers from Beethoven and Schubert to Gershwin and Ives; concertos and capriccios by Haydn and Ligeti with the Danish National Symphony conducted by Nicholas Collon; solo works by Brahms and Schoenberg; and works by Schubert paired with newly commissioned music by Missy Mazzoli.
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Ryan Roberts, oboe and English horn
Noted for his
“beautiful”
,
“eloquent”
and
“exquisite”
playing by the
New York Times
, Ryan Roberts is the newly appointed
English horn/Oboe of the New York Philharmonic
. Ryan has performed with many of the country's leading orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Ft. Worth Symphony. An award-winning oboist, Ryan received first prize at the
International Double Reed Society's 2018 Young Artist Competition
and the
National Society of Arts and Letters' 2018 Woodwind Competition
. Before joining the Philharmonic, Ryan spent one season as a member of the
New World Symphony
under the direction of Michael Tilson-Thomas. Ryan recently premiered Michael Torke’s Oboe Concertino with the Albany Symphony and
recorded the work for Albany Records
. An avid chamber musician,
As a
Kovner Fellow
graduate of The Juilliard school, Ryan studied with Elaine Douvas and appeared frequently as principal oboist of the Juilliard Orchestra.
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Molly Carr, viola
Praised for her ”intoxicating” (New York Times) and “ravishing” (STRAD) performances of "silken finesse with gritty vibrancy" (Gramophone), violist Molly Carr enjoys a diverse musical career as recitalist, chamber musician, educator, and artistic director. She has been the recipient of numerous national and international prizes and awards, including the Primrose International Viola Competition, Chamber Music America, ProMusicis Foundation, Davidson Institute, Virtu Foundation, MAW Alumni Enterprise Awards, ASTA, and ARTS among many others.
In October 2018, Ms. Carr was honored at the United Nations for her work with refugees around the globe through the Carr-Petrova Duo’s Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project; she was also chosen as one of America's leading "Creative Women" - subsequently appearing on the Sandi Klein Show "Conversations With Creative Women."
She holds a B.M. and M.M. from the Juilliard School, having studied with Heidi Castleman, Steven Tenenbom, Patinka Kopec, and Pinchas Zukerman.
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Luosha Fang '10, violin, viola
Violinist and violist Luosha Fang brings her adventurous spirit to music ranging from canonical repertoire to world premieres. She was a winner of Astral Artists’ 2013 National Auditions and the S&R Foundation’s 2015 Washington Award. As a violist, she won 1st Prize in the 2019 Classic Strings International Competition in Vienna, performing Bartok’s Viola Concerto with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. She also won 1st Prize in the 2018 Tokyo International Viola Competition, performing Paul Hindemith's "Der Schwanendreher" concerto with the New Japan Philharmonic and subsequently touring in Japan with Antoine Tamestit and Nobuko Imai.
Ms. Fang made her debut at age eight in her native China with Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, and at sixteen moved to the USA on a scholarship to the Bard College Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Ida Kavafian and Arnold Steinhardt. After graduating from Bard with degrees in violin and Russian Studies, she attended the Curtis Institute of Music as a violin student of Ida Kavafian and Shmuel Ashkenasi. At this time, she began viola studies with Steven Tenenbom, and in 2016, she entered the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid as a viola student of Nobuko Imai.
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Richard Cox, voice
American tenor Richard Cox possesses a remarkable voice that combines lyric and heroic qualities, and is equally suited to opera, concert, and recitals.
His recent opera engagements have included Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer's
Moby Dick
with the Chicago Opera Theater and Opera San José; the title role of
Siegfried
in concert with the North Carolina Opera; Loge in
Das Rheingold
(Minnesota Opera and North Carolina Opera); Mitch in Andre Previn's
A Streetcar Named Desire
(Hawaii Opera Theatre); Laca in
Jenůfa
for Des Moines Metro Opera;
Peter Grimes
(Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra); and Prinz Kalaf in Ferruccio Busoni's
Turandot
for the Bard SummerScape Festival.
An accomplished concert singer and recitalist, Mr. Cox has appeared as the tenor soloist in Mahler's
Das Lied von der Erde
with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, the Britt Festival, Colorado Music Festival, and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra; in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Corpus Christi Symphony, and Laredo Philharmonic; with the Collegiate Chorale and Orchestra of St. Luke's at Carnegie Hall; Mark in the American premiere of Ethel Smyth's
The Wreckers
, and Siegmund in a concert version of Act One of
Die Walküre
with the American Symphony Orchestra.
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Carmit Zori, violin
Violinist Carmit Zori is the recipient of a Leventritt Foundation Award, a Pro Musicis International Award, and the top prize in the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition. She has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others, and has given solo recitals at Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the Tel Aviv Museum and the Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts. Her performances have taken her throughout Latin America and Europe, as well as Israel, Japan, Taiwan and Australia, where she premiered the Violin Concerto by Marc Neikrug.
Ms. Zori enjoys a prolific career as a chamber musician. After ten years as artistic director at Bargemusic, she founded the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society in 2002. In addition to her own series, she has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has been a guest at chamber music festivals and concert series around the world.
Ms. Zori has played for Music for Food, a concert series that helps relieve food insecurity in cities all over the United States. She has also participated in Project: Music Heals Us, a nonprofit organization that aims to educate and heal marginalized communities through music.
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Gifts
to the Bard College Conservatory of Music support scholarships for Conservatory students, the acquisition and care of fine instruments, master classes, travel to performances and competitions, and, of course, exceptional concert series on campus. Donate
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