The Department of Music welcomes new additions to their faculty by Liz Coyer
September 18, 2020 The Department of Music is pleased to announce recent additions and changes to our faculty. Chiharu Naruse, a beloved applied…
VIDEO: BITTERSWEET NOTES FROM VILLAGE CLUB STUDENT MUSICIANS by Bates News
April 22, 2020 It didn’t replace the feeling of performing before friends and fellow students in the warm confines of the Benjamin Mays…
MULTIMEDIA: THREE DAYS WITH ART AND ARTISTS, MUSIC AND MUSICIANS IN OLIN ARTS CENTER by Bates News
February 13, 2020 At the dedication of Olin Arts Center in 1986, the late Carl Benton Straub, then dean of the faculty, said…
Faculty Spotlight | Connecticut College’s Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology Presents: [Re]Generation by Liz Coyer
January 9, 2020 Asha Tamirisa’s work “ARTIFACT” is a sculptural installation motivated by the connections between textiles and electronics, communication technologies and computational…
Q&A: ‘WE’RE MADE TO COMMUNICATE WITH SONG,’ SAYS JOËLLE MORRIS, NEW CHOIR DIRECTOR by Doug Hubley
December 2, 2019 Are you ever tempted to tell a younger person that they can’t sing? Well, don’t. “They retain that. And then…
Faculty Spotlight | MUSICAL FIRSTS TAKE MIURA FROM PRAGUE TO THE LEFT COAST AND SHAKUHACHI TO SHAMISEN by Doug Hubley
November 14, 2019 Composer and Bates music professor Hiroya Miura already had plenty on his plate when a music festival in the Czech…
Momenta Quartet returns to Bates as Artist-in-Residence in Music for 2019-20 by Liz Coyer
July 31, 2019 Momenta Quartet will join Bates’ Department of Music as Artist-in-Residence for the 2019-2020 academic year. The quartet has performed for,…
Dr. Asha Tamirisa joins us as Assistant Professor of Music Composition by Liz Coyer
July 31, 2019 The Bates College Department of Music is pleased to welcome Asha Tamirisa, who will be joining their faculty beginning fall…
Joëlle Morris Appointed Visiting Lecturer in Music, and Director of Bates College Choir by Liz Coyer
July 31, 2019 We are thrilled to announce that Joëlle Morris, an applied voice instructor at Bates College, has been appointed Visiting Lecturer…
The Department of Music welcomes Carl Bettendorf as a Visiting Lecturer and Director of the College Orchestra by Liz Coyer
July 31, 2019 We are pleased to announce that Carl Bettendorf, a New York based conductor/composer, will be a visiting lecturer in the…
Q&A: DALE CHAPMAN ON NEOCLASSICAL JAZZ IN A NEOLIBERAL ECONOMY by Doug Hubley
June 4, 2019 The Jazz Bubble by music professor Chapman draws surprising parallels between conservative schools of jazz and political economy.
Alumni News | Illinois music professor awarded Carnegie Fellowship by Jodi Heckel
April 24, 2019 Illinois ethnomusicologist Michael Silvers has been awarded a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. He’ll use the fellowship to research a book…
Frank Carlberg returns as Artist-in-Residence in Music for 2018-19 by Alison Keegan
August 23, 2018 For the 2018-19 academic year, Frank Carlberg, a Finnish-born, New York jazz pianist and composer, will return to Bates…
Alumni News | Kramer ’95 to perform ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated!’ by Doug Hubley
March 15, 2016 About 40 years after the premiere of “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” — Frederic Rzewski’s piano composition based…
Alumni News | Pianist Duncan Cumming ’93 to perform tribute to Frank Glazer by Bates News
October 6, 2015 A pianist and member of the music faculty at the University of Albany, Duncan Cumming ’93 honors his Bates teacher…
Alumni News | For Fort Kent native and Bates alum, all’s well in Metropolis by Bob Keyes
April 28, 2013 Andrew Cyr admits, it feels really good to be right. The Fort Kent native and Bates College graduate began the…