The Department of Music offers an extensive program encompassing opportunities for majors and non-majors to explore performance, composition, history, and theory in depth.

Upcoming Concerts & Events

The department regularly presents concerts, master classes, and workshops by visiting artists and ensembles as well as by members of the faculty. All events are free and open to the college community, and most are also open to the public.

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

Belle Skinner Hall of Music

Home to the Music Department, Skinner houses the Mary Anna Fox Martel Recital Hall, a small chamber concert hall, the music library (with nearly 75,000 books, scores, and sound and visual recordings), an electronic music studio, practice rooms & faculty studios, and historic and modern instrument collections.

Contact the department at (845) 437-7319 or email music@vassar.edu
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