Calendar of Events

The music department hosts a variety of guest artists each semester.

All events listed here are open to the public; unless otherwise noted, admission is free of charge; no tickets or reservations are required.

All events are subject to change. To confirm dates and locations, to inquire about additional concerts, or to be added to our mailing list, please contact the Department of Music at (207) 798-4141 or lrussell@bowdoin.edu.

For parking and accessibility information, please see below.

Department of Music - Events, Spring 2008

Meliora String Quartet
Friday, February 8 at 4:00 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

Robert Lehman, violin; Yasmin Craig, violin; Kimberly Lehman, viola; and, Jim Kennedy, cello; the quartet will present works by Mozart, Shostakovich, and Dvořák.

Afro-Semitic Experience [Produced by Hillel and Student Activities]
Monday, February 11 at 8:00 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

The Afro-Semitic Experience is a jazz band that fuses Jewish klezmer music with African-American gospel music, among other cultural influences to create their own fusion-based sound. Their music has received rave reviews since their formation in 1999, and they continue to challenge and engage audiences with their unique sound.

Hopkinson Smith, lute
Saturday, February 23 at 3:00 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

The world-renowned lutenist will perform French and Italian music from the first half of the 16th century, including works by Francesco da Milano, Albert de Rippe, and music from the Attaingnant prints.

Usman Khan, sitar
Friday, February 29
THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Widely recognized as one of India's preeminent musicians, sitarist Usman Khan comes to Bowdoin for a night of Indian Classical Music.  Usman Khan hails from a long, unbroken line of sitar maestros, and is a direct descendant of Ustad Rehmat Khan, the man credited with transforming the sitar from a three-stringed intrument to its current-day seven-string form.

Curtis on Tour, featuring Roberto Díaz H’07
Friday, March 7 at 7:00 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

Curtis on Tour features students and alumni from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.  This performance will include Curtis President Roberta Díaz on viola.  The program will include works by Strauss, Schoenberg, and Dvořák.

Tickets will be required.  Please call 207-725-3433 for ticket information.

Anne Tedards, soprano, and Marva Duerksen, piano
Friday, March 28 at 7:30 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

The duo will present a concert of art songs by the American composer Libby Larsen.  Works include “Sonnets from the Portuguese” (Elizabeth Barrett Browning),  “My Àntonia” (based on the novel by Willa Cather), and “Try Me, Good King” (texts drawn from “the final letters and gallows speeches of Katherine Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, and Katherine Howard”). 

Ms. Tedards will offer a lecture on Friday March 28 at 1:30 PM in the Tillotson Room, Gibson Hall [PLEASE NOTE TIME AND LOCATION CHANGE.] 

Ms. Tedards will offer a masterclass for singers on Saturday, March 29 at 10:00 AM. For more information or to register, contact Delmar Small at dsmall@bowdoin.edu or 207-725-3747.

Portland Chamber Orchestra
Saturday, March 29 at 3:00 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

The orchestra, under the direction of Robert Lehmann, will present Bach’s Orchestra Suite No. 2, Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante, Saint-Saens “Carnival of the Animals” and the premiere of “Chamber Concerto VI: Mr. Jefferson” by Elliott Schwartz, featuring violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved.


Musekiwa
Saturday, April 5 at 7:30 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

“Our music is both medicine and food, as mbira has the power to heal and to provide for people. Mbira pleases both the living and the dead.”  Mbira master Musekiwa Chingodza and Bud Cohen will perform music of Zimbabwe.

Bowdoin College Concert Band
John P. Morneau, director
Sunday, April 20 at 2:00 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

Anastasia Antonacos, piano
Friday, April 18 at 4:00 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall
(Rescheduled) 

Bowdoin College World Music and Dance Ensemble
Joanna Bosse, director
Eric LaPerna & Mary Hunter, directors
Monday, April 21 at 8:00 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

Student ensembles will perform various music and dance traditions from the Middle East and Africa.

Common Hour: Student Chamber Ensembles
Friday, April 25 at 12:30 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

Flexible Music
Tuesday, April 29 at 7:30 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

Flexible Music is a dynamic ensemble with an instrumentation that blurs the line between jazz, rock and classical music. Members include pianist Eric Huebner, guitarist Daniel Lippel, saxophonist Timothy Ruedeman and percussionist Haruka Fujii.

Bowdoin Chorus and Orchestra
Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3 at 7:30 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

Under the direction of Anthony Antolini ’63 [photo], the Chorus will perform Carl Orff’s “Trionfo di Afrodite” with the Bowdoin Orchestra, Portland Ballet and soloists; the Bowdoin Orchestra, led by Roland Vazquez, will perform a premiere by Abigail Isaacson ‘08.

Bowdoin Chamber Choir
Shannon Chase, director
Sunday, May 4 at 2:00 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall
(Rescheduled)

Jazz Ensembles and the Polar Jazz Big Band
Frank Mauceri, director
Tuesday, May 6 at 7:30 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

Ying Quartet
Thursday, May 8 at 8:00 PM
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall

The Ying Quartet has won nationwide critical acclaim and has become one of America’s most exciting and compelling young ensembles.  Their reputation for “astonishing, refreshing exaltation and exhilaration” (Los Angeles Times) is matched by their unparalleled success in making creative connections between chamber music and other art forms.

Sponsored by the Donald M. Zuckert Visiting Professorship Fund. 

Tickets will be required.  Please call 207-725-3433 for ticket information.

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All events listed here are open to the public; admission is free of charge; unless otherwise noted (March 7 and May 8), no tickets or reservations are required.  Doors usually open one-half hour before concert time.

Parking on city streets is available on Park Row and Old Bath Road.  After 5:00 PM and on weekends, visitors may park in the Blue-Designated Faculty/Staff parking lots.  Studzinski Recital Hall is handicapped accessible with a ramp to the lobby door (West side), near the circle on South Campus Drive.

All events are subject to change. To confirm dates and locations, to inquire about additional concerts, or to be added to our mailing list, please contact the Department of Music at (207) 798-4141 or lrussell@bowdoin.edu.

 

http://www.bowdoin.edu/music
Bowdoin College Department of Music
9200 College Station, Brunswick, Maine 04011-8492



Previously

Calendar of Events, Spring 2007

Calendar of Events, Fall 2006

Calendar of Events, Spring 2006

Calendar of Events, Fall 2005