Cirrus & Cumulus
Selections from Camuel Hart, Daniel Flores Garcia, John Davenport and Sonny Rollins in two parts, performed Monday, May 2, 2022.
Selections from Camuel Hart, Daniel Flores Garcia, John Davenport and Sonny Rollins in two parts, performed Monday, May 2, 2022.
Brian Martin is the composer of "The Faro Shuffle," the 18th piece composed for the Amherst College Jazz Ensemble as part of the ongoing composition series named after Robin McBride '59.
The Choral Society presents Everlasting Voices, a concert featuring music by Amherst student Sam Wright '23 and by Sydney Guillaume, Shawn Kirchner, Arianne Abela, Shireen Abu-Khader and others.
Beethoven's 7th Symphony and senior soloists: Cameron Chandler '20, Hannah Goldberg '22, Cece Hong '22, Shuzo Katayama '22 and Majd Rouhana '22 perform solo works by Weber, Mozart, Reinecke, Korngold and Hoagy Carmichael.
Julie Juhyun Lee '22, violin, is joined by Amherst College teaching faculty Hiromi Fukuda, piano, and Kelly Zheng '22, piano, for a program of Bach, Eugène Ysaÿe, Clara Schumann, William Grant Still, and Brahms.
A rare in-house performance by the Stephen Page Quartet: Avery Sharpe, bass; Charles Langford, saxophone; Royal Hartigan, percussion; Stephen Page, piano on February 19, 2022.
Jean Jeffries, horn, is joined by the Wistaria Quartet in a program of music for horn and strings, including two world premieres, in Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center, on the Amherst College campus on February 18, 2022.
An honors thesis in composition by Sebastian Son '22 in Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center at Amherst College. February 5th, 2022 at 7pm.
Members of the Jazz Performance Group Storm Clouds are joined by guest trumpeter and composer Pete Kenagy, and vibraphonist Rich Greenblatt, presenting music by Kenagy and traditional holiday music.
In its fourth and final concert of the fall 2021 semester, the Amherst Symphony Orchestra presents "Gallic Charm", the all-French program. Robin Kong '22E, is the featured soloist.
Seohyun Cece Hong , Flute with Maura Glennon, Piano, and Robin Kong and Reid Dodson, Flutes on Monday, November 15, 2021, 4 P.M. at Buckley Recital Hall
Amherst College 2021 Homecoming Family Weekend Concert; Dr. Arianne Abela, Conductor; Gilbert Wermeling, Assistant Conductor; and Maura Glennon, Accompanist
“Enigma Variations” Saturday, November 13, 2021, 8:30 P.M. at the Buckley Recital Hall, Amherst College
Music by: Count Basie, Miles Davis, Nat Adderley and more; special Musical Guests: Jazz Performance Group Nimbus; Bruce Diehl, Director
The Antidote Is Optimism by Elijah Quastler explores various facets of his life since the coronavirus pandemic began.
Vertigo by William Fishell ’22E asks, “What happens when new technologies are used in the composition process itself?”
The Amherst Symphony Orchestra's Parent's Day 2021 concert, Masterworks “From Across the Pond,” will present music from Frederick Delius, York Bowen, Sir Edward Elgar and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
The Amherst College Choral Society presents their annual Family Weekend Concert with music from Ola Gjeilo, Moira Smiley, Thomas Arne and Geoffrey O'Hara.
Star clarinetist Anthony McGill returns to the Buckley stage to team up with the Catalyst Quartet. The program includes Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: String Quartet No. 1, "Calvary" and Florence B. Price: Five Folksongs in Counterpoint.
The Amherst College Department of Music presents the Jazz Performance Group Storm Clouds Featuring Bob Ferrier, Guitar, on Saturday, October 23.
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project remains dedicated to leading orchestra for commissioning, performing and recording modern orchestral music. "Chamber Symphony," by Lewis Spratlan, is presented as part of the composer's 80th birthday.
Helen Sung is a Steinway Artist and has served on the jazz faculties of Berklee College of Music, the Juilliard School, and Columbia University, where she also was the inaugural jazz artist-in-residence.
Lawrence Brownlee, a leading figure in opera, both as a singer and as a voice for activism and diversity in the industry, performs at Amherst in September 2021. View the performance program and lyrics at the links below.
The Amherst Symphony Orchestra welcomes the Class of 2025 with a performance that includes works by Brahms, Dvorak, Florence Price and Quinn Mason.