Concerts & Events

All events not otherwise noted take place in the Skinner Hall of Music’s Mary Anna Fox Martel Recital Hall and are open and free to the public. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Campus Activities at (845) 437-5370. Skinner Recital Hall is equipped with a LOOP Hearing System. The loop will offer improved clarity for persons with hearing loss who wear telecoil —or T-coil—equipped hearing aids.

Programs are subject to change. For further information and up-to-date details on all Vassar College Department of Music concerts, please call (845) 437-7294 or revisit this page. Latecomers will be seated at the performers’ discretion. All audience members are to be seated.

Upcoming

A string and wind ensemble performing, seated.
Apr. 3, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

Join us for our 20–30-minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Bridge for Laboratory Sciences.

Apr. 5, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

Awake, Arise, Dance! Music by Gustav Holst, Gabriel Fauré, Mark Patterson, Lisa Young, Sheena Phillips, and others. Susan Bialek, conductor. Please note a change: This concert will start at 7:00 p.m.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

The three artists posing with their instruments.

Fauré Piano Quartet #2 and the Dohnányi Serenade: Faculty members Marka Young, violin, and Marija Ilić, piano, perform two great works that bridged the gap between Romanticism and Modernity. With Lauren Byrne, viola, and Jeanne Fox, cello.

Apr. 12, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

Perspectives of Love: a Senior Recital by Talia Mayo, soprano. An afternoon reflection on how love changes over time featuring works by Gioachino Rossini, Gabriel Fauré, Adam Guettel, Jason Robert Brown, and more.

Rehearsal image focused on one singer with others in the background.
Apr. 12, 2025, 4:00 p.m.

A Musical Repast. What is better than food and music? Music about food! Songs about eating by Orlando Gibbons, Clément Jannequin and others. Drew Minter, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Apr. 17, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

Join us for our 20-30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director.

Apr. 24, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

Join us for our 20–30 minute lunchtime recital series by members of the Vassar College Chamber Music Program. Eduardo Navega, director. Bridge for Laboratory Sciences

Apr. 26, 2025, 7:30 p.m.

A Night at the Opera. Choruses from operas by Monteverdi, Gluck, Verdi, Offenbach, and others. Drew Minter, conductor.

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Apr. 27, 2025, 3:00 p.m.

Music by Dmitri Shostakovich, George Gershwin, Matthew Mauro, and H. Owen Reed. James Osborn, conductor

This is an in-person event that will also be streamed live

Programs are subject to change. For further information and up-to-date details on all Vassar College Department of Music concerts, please call (845) 437-7294.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact the Office of Campus Activities at (845) 437-5370.