News

Bard Collaborative Piano Fellow to take part in Maestro James Levine Masterclass at Carnegie Hall
In January Bard Collaborative Piano Fellow Lucas Wong will take part in a masterclass given by ... [ more ]
A Bard Conservatory commissioned opera receives awards from the 2009 VOX festival and the NOA.
Composer David Bruce's opera A Bird in your Ear, which was commissioned by the Bard Conservatory ... [ more ]
Bard Conservatory Announces Early Action Audition Cities and Dates
The Bard Conservatory will be hearing auditions at Midwest Young Artists in Chicago and the ... [ more ]
Composer Joan Tower interviewed by the New York Times
Bard Conservatory faculty member Joan Tower is called "A Voice for Composers" in a recent ... [ more ]
Eugene Drucker to teach seminar at Bard
Conservatory faculty member, violinist Eugene Drucker of the Emerson Quartet, will offer a ... [ more ]
Bard College Conservatory of Music Awarded $2.5 Million Grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Bard College Conservatory of Music has received a challenge grant of $2.5 million from The ... [ more ]
Conservatory composer has work performed in Manhattan at Merkin Hall
Conor Brown '11 was recently heard on a program at The Kaufman Center's Merkin Hall in New York ... [ more ]
Shawn Moore '11 to solo with Woodstock Chamber Orchestra
Chicago native Shawn Moore '11 will perform the Beethoven Violin Concerto and Sarasate's ... [ more ]
Chimeng Quartet to perform with Albany Symphony Orchestra in January 2009
The Chimeng Quartet, comprised of Conservatory students, have been invited to perform the Concerto ... [ more ]
Conservatory Students to perform at Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop
The Bard College Conservatory of Music, in partnership with The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie ... [ more ]
Bard Collaborative Pianist wins award at Marilyn Horne Foundation Song Competition
Bard Collaborative Piano Fellow Lucas Wong has received the Pianist Encouragement Award at the 2008 ... [ more ]
Conservatory students win Second Prize in the 2008 Eckhardt-Gramatté Canadian Music Competition
Maghan Stewart of the Graduate Program in Vocal Arts and Bard Collaborative Piano Fellow Lucas Wong ... [ more ]
Recording of Bard Professor Joan Tower's Composition Made in America Receives Three Classical 2008 GRAMMY® Awards
“I am honored to receive these Grammys as a living composer who is almost seventy years old!” ... [ more ]
Dawn Upshaw, Director of the Graduate Program in Vocal Arts named MacArthur Fellow.
Dawn Upshaw, celebrated soprano and artistic director of Bard College Conservatory of Music’s ... [ more ]

Profiles

Christopher Carroll
Christopher Carroll
is from New Hampshire and is a second-year trumpet major at the conservatory.
Sarah Wegener
Sarah Wegener
 is a fourth-year student from Michigan pursuing majors in clarinet and biology. 
Shawn Moore
Shawn Moore
is from Chicago and will perform the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra this season.
Yiwen Shen
Yiwen Shen
is from Shanghai and is earning degrees in composition and German studies.

Anja Boenicke
Anja Boenicke
is from Berlin and is completing degrees in violin performance and Politics and International Relations.

Shuangshuang Liu
Shuangshuang Liu
is from China and is earning degrees in viola performance and Asian studies. She is the violist of the Chimeng Quartet.

Xinyi Xu
Xinyi Xu
is from Hanzhou and is studying economics and viola.