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ARTHUR ZANKEL MUSIC CENTER
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Skidmore Jazz Faculty Recital FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 | 7 PM
Brett Grigsby Solo Classical Guitar Recital SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 | 4 PM
Ensemble Connect FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 | 7:30 PM
Makaya McCraven: In These Times SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 | 8 PM
Tsou Music Scholar Lecture Series: Samantha Ege THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 | 6 PM
Diverse Voices for Flute SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 | 3 PM
A Black Woman Speaks THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29 | 6 PM
SPRING 2024 MAR
The Sphinx Virtuosi FRIDAY, MARCH 1 | 7:30 PM
Malloy Visiting Artist Lecture: Nina Katchadourian MONDAY, MARCH 4 | 5:30 PM
Skidmore in Concert: Orchestra TUESDAY, MARCH 5 | 7 PM
Schenectady-Saratoga Symphony Orchestra w/ Skidmore’s Musical Theater-Opera Workshop – A Legend of the Opera SUNDAY, MARCH 17 | 3 PM
SALT: A Mosaic of Motherhood FRIDAY, MARCH 22 | 7 PM
APR
Young Kim & Skidmore Pianists SATURDAY, APRIL 6 | 3 PM
Elisabeth Luce Moore Chamber Music Residency 2024 Skidmore String Festival feat. the Miró Quartet and Lara Downes SATURDAY, APRIL 20 | 7:30 PM
ARTHUR ZANKEL MUSIC CENTER Zankel Music Center opened in 2010 as a hub of musical activity for the Skidmore College campus and surrounding communities, providing students, educators, and artists with 54,000 sq. feet of space to teach, practice, perform, and support music and the performing arts. A gift in honor of Helen Filene Ladd, class of 1922, the center’s 600-seat, acoustically tuned Concert Hall showcases the talents of Skidmore’s Music students and faculty on its world-class stage and draws sold out crowds for performances by internationally renowned artists and scholars like Jon Batiste, Branford Marsalis, Emanuel Ax, Dave Brubeck, Ani Difranco, Caroline Rose, Havana Lyceum
Orchestra, Indigo Girls, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Paul Simon, and Gloria Steinem. The 86-seat Elisabeth Luce Moore Hall bustles daily with lectures, rehearsals, and intimate recitals. Zankel’s Spring 2024 events are supported in part by the Zankel Music Fund, the Sterne Virtuoso Series, the Elisabeth Luce Moore Chamber Music Residency, and the Sterne Fund; and are presented in partnership with the Departments of Music and Art, the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, the Intergroup Relations and Black Studies programs, the Arts Administration Program and Entrepreneurial Artist Initiative, the Office of Special Programs, and the Office of the President at Skidmore College.
TUESDAY - FRIDAY 1 PM - 5 PM
BOX OFFICE Phone: 518-580-5321 Email: zankel@skidmore.edu Tickets available online at www.skidmore.edu/zankel Our events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 | 7 PM
SKIDMORE JAZZ FACULTY RECITAL Under the direction of Russell Haight, Skidmore’s new jazz coordinator, the jazz faculty will present their first-ever concert! Repertoire will range from jazz classics to original compositions and arrangements by the band members, featuring Haight (saxophones), Adam Hutcheson (alto sax), Wayne Hawkins (piano), Rich Syracuse (bass), and Bob Halek (drum set).
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 | 4 PM
BRETT GRIGSBY SOLO CLASSICAL GUITAR RECITAL Brett Grigsby will be performing a solo guitar recital with works that span many centuries. Baroque composers and transcriptions by Bach and Weiss, Romantic composers writing for guitar by Patrick Roux, Roland Dyens and Augustin Barrios, and modern composer writing for guitar by William Walton. Brett is also a member of the Finger Lakes Guitar Quartet who will be joining him for a part of the program. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 | 7:30 PM
ENSEMBLE CONNECT Ensemble Connect returns to Skidmore with a wide-ranging program and the world premiere of a Carnegie Hall–commissioned work by inti figgis-vizueta, a composer whose music “feels sprouted between structures, liberated from certainty and wrought from a language we’d do well to learn” (The Washington Post). They also perform Beethoven’s Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major; the adventuresome Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, an early career highlight by the versatile composer Gabriela Lena Frank; and De Memorias, a woodwind quintet by Carnegie Hall’s brilliant 2023–2024 Debs Composer’s Chair, Tania León. Made possible by the generous support of Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 | 8 PM
MAKAYA MCCRAVEN: IN THESE TIMES According to The New York Times, Makaya McCraven “has quietly become one of the best arguments for jazz’s vitality.” McCraven is a cutting-edge drummer, producer, and sonic collagist who draws on hip-hop and other styles to push the boundaries of jazz and rhythm and create forms of his own. In this special large-scale presentation of In These Times, McCraven brings 12 of his closest collaborators to Skidmore to perform a collection of polytemporal compositions, inspired as much by broader cultural struggles as by his personal experience as a product of a multinational, working-class musician community. To experience In These Times live is to experience the evolution of the modern jazz tradition in real time.
Scan the QR code to purchase your tickets now. $30 advance, $35 day of general public $15 Skidmore students, faculty, staff, and alumni
Join us at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery on Thursday, February 15 at 6 PM for Beat Science: In Conversation with Makaya McCraven, facilitated by MDOCS faculty Angus McCullough. Free and open to the public
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 | 6 PM
TSOU MUSIC SCHOLAR LECTURE SERIES: SAMANTHA EGE South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene combines a mix of lecture and piano performance, as Dr. Samantha Ege brings the story of the South Side impresarios to life. In doing so, she delves into the ways that Chicago's early 20th-century Race women (i.e., Black women intellectuals and creatives committed to the entwined tasks of racial uplift and gendered progress) operated out of their South Side base and shaped a new vision for classical music that transformed the city and beyond.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 | 3 PM
DIVERSE VOICES FOR FLUTE Flutist Yvonne Chavez Hansbrough will be joined by Skidmore faculty and guests to present a concert of music for flute with oboe, piano, and guitar. The program will showcase diverse works by African American, Asian, Latin American, and women composers, including Histoire du Tango by Astor Piazzolla; Poema del Pastor Coya by Angel LaSala; and Le moment du Cristal by Yuko Uebayasha; among others.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29 | 6 PM
A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS Skidmore’s Intergroup Relations and Black Studies Programs are joining forces to bridge Black History Month and Women’s History Month with an annual event amplifying the voices of Black women. This year features 2023 National Women’s Hall of Fame inductee, Loretta J. Ross, who founded the first center in the U.S. to innovate creative human rights education for all students transforming social justice issues to be more collaborative and less divisive. In her work Calling In the Calling Out Culture, she transforms how people can overcome political differences to use empathy and respect to guide difficult conversations.
FRIDAY, MARCH 1 | 7:30 PM
THE SPHINX VIRTUOSI The Sphinx Virtuosi are the nation’s most dynamic, exhilarating professional chamber orchestra, dedicated to increasing racial and ethnic diversity in classical music. Comprised of 18 of the nation’s top Black and Latinx classical soloists, the Virtuosi are primarily alumni of the internationally renowned Sphinx Competition, and its members work together as cultural ambassadors reaching new audiences. Inspired by the poetry of Langston Hughes and Julia Alvarez, the Sphinx’s program will showcase the beauty and tradition of excellence inherent in classical music created and performed by Black and Latinx composers for many generations, including: Quenton Blache: Habari Gani Javier Farias: Abran Paso Andrea Casarrubios: Herencia Adolphus Hailstork: from Sonata da Chiesa Xavier Foley: Concertante for Two Double Basses and String Orchestra, "Galaxy" Coleridge Taylor Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 2, “Generations”
GENERATIONS Ay sí, it's my turn to oh say what I see, I'm going to sing America! Then, besides They'll see how beautiful I am... I, too, am America Excerpt from the poem "I, Too, Sing América" by Julia Alvarez. Copyright © 2002 by Julia Alvarez. First appeared in WRITERS ON AMERICA: 15 REFLECTIONS, published by the U.S. Department of State.
MONDAY, MARCH 4 | 5:30 PM
MALLOY VISITING ARTIST LECTURE: NINA KATCHADOURIAN Nina Katchadourian is an interdisciplinary artist whose work includes video, performance, sound, sculpture, photography and public projects. Her video "Accent Elimination" was included at the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Nina is a Full Professor of Practice on the faculty of NYU Gallatin. She is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery and Pace Gallery and lives between Berlin and Brooklyn. Sponsored by the Art Department.
TUESDAY, MARCH 5 | 7 PM
SKIDMORE IN CONCERT: ORCHESTRA Directed by Glen Cortese and featuring the winners of this year’s concerto competition, Seth Spital ’24 (piano) and Rebecca Merber ’26 (violin), the Skidmore Orchestra performs Hector Berlioz’s King Lear Overture; the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5; ‘Romance,’ the second movement of Henryk Wienawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2; and Symphony No. 3 by Robert Schumann.
SUNDAY, MARCH 17 | 3 PM
SCHENECTADY-SARATOGA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA W/ SKIDMORE’S MUSICAL THEATEROPERA WORKSHOP – A LEGEND OF THE OPERA The SSSO returns to Zankel in collaboration with Skidmore’s Musical Theater-Opera Workshop to perform Johann Strauss’ English concert version of Die Fledermaus. Featuring Skidmore faculty Andrew Burger, Casey Gray, and Sylvia Stoner, along with students Ava Accorsi ’27, Maggie Besthoff ’24, Jessica Byers ’24, Ben Harris ’27, Rhea Fitzpatrick ’25, Johnny Mulcahy ’24, and Naomi Wagner ’26. Guest soloists to be announced. Presented in partnership with the Proctor’s Collaborative. Scan the QR code to purchase your tickets now or go to to sssony.org
FRIDAY, MARCH 22 | 7 PM
SALT: A MOSAIC OF MOTHERHOOD Inspired by the strength, spice, and preservation of our narratives as told by the women who came before us, SALT: A Mosaic of Motherhood honors their toils and tears, relishing their memories in this intimate evening of micro-operas performed by Skidmore faculty Sylvia Stoner (soprano) and Young Kim (piano), and guest artists Suna Gunther (soprano), Anne Jennifer Nash (soprano), and Sharon O'Connell Campbell (mezzo-soprano), and a student quartet. Gazing back from the present, they share, affirm, lift, and tell of the power found in the stories of our past generations. Featured composers include Rachel DeVore Fogarty, Lisa Neher, Emily Feld, and Forrest Pierce.
SATURDAY, APRIL 6 | 3 PM
YOUNG KIM & SKIDMORE PIANISTS Senior Artist-in-Residence and Steinway Artist Young Kim will perform a concert for two pianos and 4, 6, and 8 hands, alongside her students and alumni. The afternoon’s program includes works by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Schnittke, Lutoslawski, R. R. Bennett, Evan Mack and more.
SATURDAY, APRIL 20 | 7:30 PM
ELISABETH LUCE MOORE CHAMBER MUSIC RESIDENCY
2024 SKIDMORE STRING FESTIVAL FEATURING THE MIRÓ QUARTET AND LARA DOWNES For 20 years, Skidmore has invited world-renowned chamber musicians to perform alongside our students in the annual String Festival, generously supported by the family of Elisabeth Luce Moore. This year, festival activities include individual and group coaching with pianist Lara Downes and the Miró Quartet, one of America’s most celebrated ensembles, culminating in a free public concert. The evening’s program will include chamber pieces that the students have studied and coached with Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect and the Sphinx Virtuosi, as well as two works they will perform with the Miró and Lara Downes – Lyric for Strings by George Walker and Jessie Montgomery's Rounds for Piano and Strings. Presented in partnership with the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Join us on Sunday, April 21 at 3 PM at the Spa Little Theater (located in Spa State Park in Saratoga Springs) for Here On Earth, a new collaboration between Lara Downes and the Miró Quartet, featuring musical depictions of our planet Earth, its evolution, and the lives of its inhabitants, newly commissioned in 2023 and developed in partnership with SPAC.
More information available at spac.org, tickets on sale beginning March 1.
SKIDMORE IN CONCERT Free and open to the public, this series showcases the talents of Skidmore's Music Department and the vibrance of our shared creative community. All events take place in Zankel’s Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall unless otherwise noted.
SATURDAY, APRIL 6 | 1 PM
FRIDAY, APRIL 26 | 4 PM
BRASS & WIND CHAMBER ENSEMBLES
STRING ENSEMBLES
Coached by Patrice Malatestinic and Yvonne Hansbrough Hosted in Wilson Chapel SATURDAY, APRIL 13 | 7 PM
BIG BAND & VOCAL SOUL COLLECTIVE Directed by Russell Haight and Garland Nelson SATURDAY, APRIL 20 | 6 PM
MOP-SHOP MUSICAL THEATER SHOWCASE Directed by Casey Gray and Andrew Burger Hosted in Filene Recital Hall
Coached by Michael Emery, Jameson Platte, and Stephani Emery SATURDAY, APRIL 27 | 4 PM
GLOBAL MUSIC SHOWCASE Featuring Music Workshop: Asia, Cuban Music Ensemble, Indian Ensemble, & West African Drumming & Dance Coached by Charlotte D’Evelyn, Jorge Gomez, Veena Chandra, & Koblavi Dogah SUNDAY, APRIL 28 | 1 PM
CONCERT BAND Directed by Milton Lee SUNDAY, APRIL 28 | 4 PM
TUESDAY, APRIL 23 | 7 PM
SMALL JAZZ ENSEMBLES Coached by Russell Haight Hosted at Caffe Lena
GUITAR ENSEMBLES Coached by Joel Brown and Brett Grigsby MONDAY, APRIL 29 | 7 PM
THURSDAY, APRIL 25 | 7 PM
CHORUS Directed by Andrew Burger
ORCHESTRA Directed by Glen Cortese
FEBRUARY 27, MARCH 27, & APRIL 25 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
LADD LISTENING LOUNGE Zankel Main Lobby Casual and collaborative performances by Skidmore students, building community through music. All are invited to attend. Light refreshments served.
Join us for a special performance of Irish American Lunch Tunes on March 7 from 12 - 1 PM! Led by Trish Miller and John Kirk and their students.
To learn more, visit:
www.skidmore.edu/zankel