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BARD COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Undergraduate Double Degree Graduate Vocal Arts Program Graduate Conducting Program

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BARD COLLEGE

CONSERVATORY

OF MUSIC

Undergraduate Double DegreeGraduate Vocal Arts ProgramGraduate Conducting Program

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Grand Hall, Liszt Academy, Budapest

THE BARD CONSERVATORY IS, ABOVE ALL, FEARLESS AND

ADVENTUROUS. WE HONOR TRADITION BY LOOKING TO

REINVENT IT. WE HONOR OUR STUDENTS BY TREATING

THEM AS WHOLE PERSONS, CAPABLE OF MORE THAN

THEY IMAGINED. WE BELIEVE IN EXCELLENCE,

CURIOSITY, INQUIRY, RISK TAKING, AND COMMUNITY.

THE MISSION OF THE BARD COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF

MUSIC IS TO PROVIDE THE BEST POSSIBLE PREPARATION

FOR A PERSON DEDICATED TO A LIFE IMMERSED IN THE

CREATION AND PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC.

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bard.edu/conservatory/undergraduate 32 UNDERGRADUATE DOUBLE DEGREE

UNDERGRADUATE

DOUBLE DEGREE

OverviewThe unique undergraduate curriculum of the Bard CollegeConservatory of Music is guided by the principle that musiciansshould be broadly educated in the liberal arts and sciences toachieve their greatest potential. The five-year, double-degreeprogram combines rigorous Conservatory training with achallenging and comprehensive liberal arts program. AllConservatory students pursue a double degree in a thoroughlyintegrated program and supportive educational community.Graduating students receive a bachelor of music (B.Mus.) and abachelor of arts in a field other than music (B.A.). At the BardConservatory the serious study of music goes hand in hand withthe education of the whole person.

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Outstanding FacultyThe strength of the Conservatory is in its outstanding faculty—renowned performing musicians whose artistry is featured in theworld’s great concert halls and in the teaching studio. They aredeeply committed to the individual growth of their studentsthrough on-campus weekly lessons, chamber music coachings, andstudio classes.

bard.edu/conservatory/undergraduate 54 UNDERGRADUATE DOUBLE DEGREE Joan Tower (left), composition faculty

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CurriculumThe innovative Conservatory curriculum helps students by developingtheir musical and intellectual capabilities. In addition to weeklyprivate lessons, chamber music, and orchestra, the bachelor ofmusic program includes courses in aural skills, music history, and afour-semester Conservatory core sequence, which integrates musictheory, composition, and music history in order to place students’music making in a larger social, historical, and expressive context.

Peter Wiley (right), cello faculty

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Performance OpportunitiesThe Bard Conservatory offers unparalleled performance opportunitiesfor its students in solo, chamber music, and orchestral settings. Inaddition to numerous opportunities on campus, students performthroughout the Hudson Valley, in New York City, and throughchamber music and orchestral tours around the world. Pastperformance venues have included Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall,Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre, Brown University, and themajor halls of Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Vienna, Berlin, Prague, and Budapest.

David Krakauer (right), clarinet faculty

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“After a while, ideas from classes begin to cross-pollinate.Connections never before imagined become possible. I’vefound that my computer science class helps me analyze four-part harmony; my idea about a phrase in a Bach sonatahelps me conceptualize Plato’s Allegory of the Cave; and thelogic of a mathematical proof helps me play a musical phrase convincingly, and bring a sense of organization to my practicing.”—Avery Morris, B.Mus. ’18, violin

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“For the curious, the musical, the intellectual, it’s a great choice,as the message here—both by intent and example—is thatthere are no boundaries between art and academics, and thatthe study of both may bring the fullest potential to each.” —Marc Goldberg, bassoon faculty

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Dawn Upshaw (left) and students in Winter Songfest

OverviewThe Graduate Vocal Arts Program (VAP) at the Bard CollegeConservatory of Music is a unique two-year master of musicprogram in the vocal arts. Conceived and led by renowned Americansoprano Dawn Upshaw, the program aims to inspire and preparethe young singer in the pursuit of a rewarding professional life inmusic in the 21st century.

Each class consists of a select group of students. Each singerreceives the individual attention that can help to uncover andnurture his or her unique artistic voice.

GRADUATE

VOCAL ARTS

PROGRAM

14 GRADUATE VOCAL ARTS PROGRAM bard.edu/conservatory/vap 15

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Outstanding Faculty A group of master voice teachers, coaches, instructors in AlexanderTechnique, and experts in acting, movement, and diction aresupplemented by guest artists drawn from the professional musicworld.

Dawn Upshaw (right), VAP artistic director

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Curriculum The vocal arts curriculum is divided into three main components:core seminars, private instruction, and workshops. The coreseminars focus on topics that address different aspects of thesinging life such as poetry and text, the creation of newperformance opportunities, contemporary music, and opera.Students receive weekly private instruction in voice, vocal coaching,and Alexander Technique. Additional course work includes weeklyworkshops in opera, acting, diction and phonetics, movement,language translation, vocal chamber music, and professionaldevelopment.

Performance OpportunitiesPerforming is the central means of artistic self-discovery in the VAPclasses. Most of the classes require weekly in-class participation ata performance level and culminate in public concerts. Throughoutthe course of the program, each singer is offered opportunities toperform works drawn from the song, oratorio, and operaticrepertoires. Singers work in collaboration with pianists,instrumentalists, and orchestra—in recital, oratorio, and fully-staged operatic productions. The VAP curriculum connects theyoung singer with a larger artistic world through frequentperformances in the surrounding area and New York City.

Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw

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GRADUATE

CONDUCTING

PROGRAMORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL

OverviewThe Graduate Conducting Program (GCP), orchestral and choral,balances a respect for established traditions with the flexibility and curiosity needed to keep abreast of evolving musical ideas. The program equips its graduates with the broad-based skills and experience necessary to meet the special opportunities andchallenges of a conducting career in the 21st century.

James Bagwell (right), choral conducting faculty

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Outstanding FacultyThe program is led by faculty members with broad experience in theprofessional music world who are deeply committed to thedevelopment of young conductors. It is codirected by HaroldFarberman, founder and director of the Conductors Institute at Bard;James Bagwell, principal guest conductor of the AmericanSymphony Orchestra and academic director and associate conductorfor The Orchestra Now; and Leon Botstein, president of Bard Collegeand music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, TheOrchestra Now, and the Bard Conservatory Orchestra. Additionalclassroom and studio faculty are drawn from the Bard Conservatory,the Bard Music Program, and the greater professional world.

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Curriculum Common Curriculum The curriculum centers on instruction inconducting with generous podium time. Common curriculum isshared by both the orchestral and choral tracks, and includesinstruction in music history, ear training, score reading,composition, foreign language study, and career workshops.

Choral In addition to a four-semester core seminar in choralconducting, students on the choral track take classes in diction,voice lessons, vocal pedagogy, and choral repertoire.

Orchestral Students on the orchestral track take the four-semestercore seminar in orchestral conducting and private instrumentallessons. Orchestral conducting students also participate in twosummers of the Conductors Institute; in the final summer theypresent their thesis concert with full orchestra.

Conducting Opportunities The opportunity for substantial podium time is integral to thegrowth and education of young conductors. The orchestralconductors have weekly sessions both with piano and with theOrchestral Conducting Ensemble, an ensemble of players drawnfrom the Conservatory Orchestra and The Orchestra Now. There areadditional regular opportunities to conduct the full complement ofthe Bard Conservatory Orchestra. Choral students regularly lead theBard Chamber Singers and Bard Symphonic Chorus. In addition,they work with the Bard Conductors Chorus, a professionalensemble in New York, three times each semester.

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The Postgraduate Collaborative Piano Fellowship is a two-year fellowship designed toease the transition of a collaborative pianist between school and the working world.This program allows students to expand their knowledge of the core collaborative pianorepertoire, to get experience playing for high-level undergraduate and graduatestudents under the mentorship of master musicians, and to deepen their musicalunderstanding through the guidance of the distinguished faculty of the Bard CollegeConservatory of Music.bard.edu/conservatory/fellowship

COLLABORATIVE

PIANO

FELLOWS

The Advanced Performance Studies Program is a four-semester certificate program for exceptionally gifted performers who wish to continue their study of music throughconcentrated study with the world-class faculty of the Bard Conservatory. Thecurriculum includes weekly private lessons, full participation in the Bard Conservatoryorchestra and chamber music programs, and the opportunity to audit or enroll in most courses throughout the College.bard.edu/conservatory/aps

ADVANCED

PERFORMANCE

STUDIES

Carl Albach (right), trumpet facultyCollaborative piano fellow and VAP student

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Bard Music Program The Bard Music Program is part of Bard’s four-year bachelor of artscurriculum—that is, the study of music in a liberal arts context. This program offersmajors in classical performance and composition, musicology, theory, jazz performanceand composition, electronic music, ethnomusicology, and world music. Students developtheir talents as performers through lessons and participation in large and smallensembles. All courses and ensembles in the Music Program are also open toConservatory students. music.bard.edu

The Orchestra Now A presentation of Bard College, The Orchestra Now is a uniquetraining orchestra and master’s degree program designed to prepare musicians for thechallenges facing the modern symphony orchestra. Musicians receive advancedorchestral training and take graduate-level courses leading to a master of music degreein curatorial, critical, and performance studies. bard.edu/orchnow

The Conductors Institute The Conductors Institute offers summer courses forconductors designed to promote technical clarity and precision in baton movement in apositive working atmosphere. The program enables conductors at every level to fulfilltheir musical capabilities and encourages conductors to be advocates of composers andnew music. Graduate Orchestral Conducting Program students participate in theConductors Institute as part of their degree. bard.edu/conservatory/ci/programs

Bard Music Festival The Bard Music Festival was founded in 1990 to promote new waysof understanding and presenting the history of music to a contemporary audience. Eachyear, a single composer is chosen as the main subject. The biography of the composer,the influences and consequences of that composer’s achievement, and all aspects of themusical culture surrounding the time and place of the composer’s life are explored.fishercenter.bard.edu/bmf

Preparatory Division The Conservatory also offers a Preparatory Division serving youngpeople ages 2 to 18—the study of music by the young in the context of a first-classconservatory. bard.edu/conservatory/preparatory

AFFILIATED PROGRAMS

Conservatory Director Robert Martin (center) and students rehearse for the Bard Music FestivalRufus Müller (right), Bard Music Program voice faculty

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The László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building is a 16,500-square-foot structure connectedto the Avery Arts Center’s music wing. Facilities include the 145-seat ConservatoryPerformance Space, 15 teaching studios, lounge, and large classroom.

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by architect Frank Gehry,houses two theaters and dance, theater, and rehearsal studios. The Sosnoff Theater is anintimate 800-seat theater with orchestra, parterre, and two balcony sections andorchestra pit.

The Franklin W. Olin Humanities Building is the main academic facility on campus. A 380-seat concert hall is attached by a glass lobby that features a circular interior colonnade.

The Bard Music Practice Rooms building contains a dozen practice rooms.

The Edith C. Blum Institute facilities include Blum Hall, practice rooms, offices,classrooms, listening library, and studios for recording, editing, computer music,composition, and jazz percussion.

FACILITIES

The László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building. Opposite: The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts.

“What brought me to Bard, in a word, was the faculty. To workwith Joan Tower, George Tsontakis, and James Bagwell wasan opportunity I couldn’t miss. I had long followed andadmired their work, and then I found out that each of themtaught here. It’s easy for musicians to focus only on music,whereas I wanted to have a broader education that wouldprepare me for a world that requires a more well-roundedbase of knowledge and experience.”—David Bloom ’13 and M. Mus. ’15 in conducting

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1 Achebe House (Bard Prison Initiative)2 Albee (classrooms, offices, Differenceand Media Project/MulticulturalAffairs)

3 Alumni Houses (residence halls):Bluecher, Bourne, Honey, Leonard,Obreshkove, Rovere, Rueger, Shafer,Shelov, Steinway, Wolff

4 Anna Jones Memorial Garden5 Annandale Hotel (Publications andPublic Relations Offices) off map

6 Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae Center(Development and Alumni/ae Affairs,Institutional Support)

7 Aspinwall (classrooms and facultyoffices)

8 Avery Arts Center: Jim Ottaway Jr. FilmCenter, Center for Moving Image Arts,Edith C. Blum Institute (Film andElectronic Arts and Music Programs,Bard College Conservatory of Musicoffices)

9 Bard College Farm10 Bard College Field Station11 Bard Hall (recital space)12 Barringer House (Center for CivicEngagement)

13 Bertelsmann Campus Center (book-store, post office, Down the Road Café,Weis Cinema, and CareerDevelopment, Student Activities, andTrustee Leader Scholar ProgramOffices)

14 Bitó Conservatory Building15 Blithewood (Levy Economics Institute)16 Brook House (Residence Life)17 Buildings and Grounds, Financial AidOffice, Student Accounts

18 Carriage House (Central Services)19 Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS

Bard) and Hessel Museum20 Chapel of the Holy Innocents21 Community Garden22 Cruger Village (residence halls):

Bartlett, Cruger, Keen North, KeenSouth, Maple, Mulberry, Oberholzer,Sawkill, Spruce, Stephens, Sycamore

✶ Fairbairn: see Warden’s Hall23 Feitler House (residence hall)24 Fisher Annex (MFA Program offices)25 Fisher Center for the Performing Arts:

Sosnoff Theater, LUMA Theater(Theater and Performance Program,Dance Program)

26 Fisher Studio Arts Building27 Gahagan (offices)28 Hegeman (classrooms, faculty offices,

Bard Center for Environmental Policy,MBA in Sustainability Office)

29 Henderson Annex30 Henderson Computer Resources

Center

31 Hirsch Hall (residence hall)32 Honey Field✶ Hopson: see Warden’s Hall 33 Hopson Cottage (Admission Office)34 Kline Commons (dining facility, Green

Onion Grocer)35 Libraries (Stevenson, Hoffman,

Kellogg)36 Lorenzo Ferrari Field Complex37 Ludlow (administrative offices,

Registrar’s Office, Institute for Writingand Thinking)

38 McCarthy House (Hannah ArendtCenter, Human Rights Project)

39 Music Practice Rooms40 Nursery School (Abigail Lundquist

Botstein Nursery School, BardCommunity Children’s Center)

41 Old Gym (Safety and Security Office,student activity spaces)

42 Olin Humanities Building andAuditorium (Olin Hall)

43 Olin Language Center44 Ottaway Gatehouse for International

Study (IILE)45 parliament of reality by

Olafur Eliasson46 President’s House47 Preston Hall (classrooms, offices)48 Reem-Kayden Center for Science and

Computation (Resnick Laboratories,Bitó Auditorium)

49 Resnick Commons (residence halls;Center for Spiritual Life)

50 Robbins House (residence hall,Student Health and CounselingServices)

51 Rose Science Laboratories52 Sands House (residence hall)✶ Seymour: see Warden’s Hall53 Shafer House (Written Arts Program)54 Sottery Hall (Center for Student Life

and Advising)55 South Hall (residence hall)56 Stevenson Athletic Center57 Stone Row: North Hoffman, South

Hoffman, McVickar, Potter (residencehalls, BEOP, Learning Commons)

58 Tewksbury Hall (residence hall)59 Tremblay Hall (residence hall)60 Ward Manor (residence hall, Manor

House Café, Bard Music FestivalOffice)

61 Ward Manor Gatehouse (Center forCivic Engagement)

62 Warden’s Hall: Fairbairn, Hopson,Seymour (faculty and program offices,residences)

63 Woods Studio (Photography Program)

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Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Bard College Conservatory of Music

CONTACT

The Bard College Conservatory of MusicPO Box 5000Annandale-on-Hudson, NY [email protected]/conservatory

Bard Conservatory [email protected]/conservatory/admission

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