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Arthur Zankel Music Center Since opening in 2010, the Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College has served as a gateway building for the campus. The center boasts approximately 54,000 square feet of teaching, practice, performance, and administrative space- including the 600-seat, acoustically tuned Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall and the 75- seat Elisabeth Luce Moore Hall- and has become a hub of musical activity, hosting renowned visiting artists and student performers, including a number of the area’s best-known performing groups.

The center is named in memory of Arthur Zankel, a financier and philanthropist who was a Skidmore trustee, parent, and longtime supporter. His bequest to Skidmore is the largest gift in the college’s history.

Support Zankel Skidmore welcomes the support from alumni, parents, and friends to enhance the operations of the Zankel Music Center. When you name a seat in the Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall, an inscribed plate will be permanently attached to it, creating a lasting legacy in your name, in the name of a friend or faculty member, in someone’s memory, or in recognition of a company or organization. Gifts of $3,000- $15,000 will name a seat in various locations within the hall. For more information on supporting Zankel, please call Skidmore’s Advancement Office at 518.580.5660. Connect With Us Follow us on Facebook @ facebook.com/ZankelMusicCenter Follow us on Twitter @ZankelMusicCtr Gala Concerto Concert New Orford String Quartet Wind Festival Chamber Ensembles NY Woodwind Quintet Thurs., Feb. 2, 7pm Fri., Feb. 10, 8pm Sat., Feb. 11, 5pm Sat., Feb. 11, 8pm

Wind Festival Concert Ensemble Connect 10th Anniversary Sister – Show me Eternity Veena Chandra, Sitar Sun., Feb. 12, 2pm Fri., Feb. 17, 7pm Sun., Feb. 19, 3pm Fri., Feb. 24, 8pm

Skidmore College Orchestra Music! Ragini Shankar Miró Quartet Sun., Feb. 26, 3pm Fri., Mar. 3, 10am Thurs., Mar. 23, 8pm Sat., Mar. 25, 8pm

String Festival Finale Jazz Trio Simone Dinnerstein Skidmore Community Chorus Skidmore Guitar Ensemble Sun., Mar. 26, 2pm Thurs., Mar. 30, 8pm Fri., Mar. 31, 8pm Sat., April 8, 2pm Thurs., April 20, 8pm

Skidmore Gamelan & Opera Workshop Skidmore Wind Ensembles Skidmore String Ensembles Skidmore Big Band Taiko Fri., April 21, 4pm Sat., April 22, 4pm Sun., April 23, 2pm Sun., April 23, 7pm Mon., April 24, 8pm

Skidmore Concert Band Skidmore Small Jazz Ensembles Skidmore College Orchestra Brahms Revisited Thurs., April 27, 8pm Fri., April 28, 7pm Sun., April 30, 4pm Mon., May 1, 8pm Arthur Zankel Music Center

Gala Concerto Concert spring Carnegie Hall presents Thursday, February 2, 7pm Ensemble Connect 10th Anniversary Three of Skidmore’s top student performers present a Friday, February 17, 7pm night of concerto excerpts. GUAMI/GABRIELI/CHILESE Three Venetian Canzoni BEETHOVEN Concerto No. 3, Josh Binkhorst ‘20, piano ROSENMÜLLER Sonata No. 4 in C Major SAINT-SAENS Concerto No. 3, Kara Charles ‘20, violin MARCELLO Oboe Concerto in C Minor MOZART Concerto No. 20, Christina Pavlaki ‘19, piano CAROLINE SHAW Stucco & Brocatelle (World Premiere–commissioned by Carnegie Hall) Free VIVALDI Sinfonia al Santo Sepolcro VIVALDI Concerto in G Major, RV 151, “Alla rustica” ELM Chamber Music Residency ANDREW RINDFLEISCH In the Zone Complete Bartók String Quartet Series The Office of the Dean of Special Programs and the Six internationally renowned guest artists will perform Department of Music welcome back Ensemble the complete set of Hungarian composer Bela Bartók’s Connect—formerly known as Ensemble ACJW—a string quartets. This semester we welcome the New two-year fellowship program that prepares young Orford String Quartet as the second in the Bartók series. professional classical musicians for careers combining musical excellence with teaching, community New Orford String Quartet engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and l Friday, February 10, 8pm eadership. The spring residency is made possible by DEBUSSY String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 the generous support of the Anna-Maria and Stephen BARTOK Quartet No. 2 Kellen Foundation. BRAHMS Quartet in A minor, op. 51, No. 2 Hailed for their “ravishingly beautiful tone” and Tickets: $8 adults, $5 seniors and Skidmore community, “extraordinary technical skills and musicianship,” free for students and children the members of the quartet are all current or former principal players in the Montreal and Toronto Symphony Sister – Show me Eternity Orchestras. Sunday, February 19, 3pm Tickets: $8 adults, $5 seniors & Skidmore community, Guest sopranos Anne Jennifer Nash, Sharon Campbell, free for students & children and Skidmore Artist in Residence Sylvia Stoner explore through` ` song and narration the sisterhood between Lavinia and Emily Dickinson and sister-in-law Susan SKIDMORE WIND FESTIVAL Gilbert. Evan Mack, Skidmore music faculty member, FEBRUARY 11 & 12 arranger, pianist, and composer contributes a new song cycle alongside the song settings of John Duke, Ned Wind Festival Chamber Ensembles Rorem, Libby Larsen, Aaron Copland and more. Saturday, February 11, 5pm Tickets: $8 adults, $5 seniors and Skidmore community, Free free for students and children `` New York Woodwind Quintet Faculty Recital: Veena Chandra, Sitar Saturday, February 11, 8pm Friday, February 24, 8pm Unique among all woodwind quintets touring today, Skidmore Music Department faculty member Veena the New York Woodwind Quintet is comprised of artists `` Chandra, sitar, will be accompanied on tabla by guest dedicated to chamber music yet individually known artist Vidwan Devesh Chandra. as soloists with far-ranging careers. Current NYWQ Free members are flutist Carol Wincenc, clarinetist Charles Neidich, oboist Stephen Taylor, bassoonist Marc Skidmore College Orchestra Goldberg, and french hornist William Purvis Sunday, February 26, 3pm Tickets: $8 adults, $5 seniors & Skidmore community, Charles Schneider, Conductor free for students & children M ENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Movement I, with soloist Spencer Anderson ‘19, violin Wind Festival Concert Band SIBELIUS Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 Sunday, February 12, 2pm M ovement I – with soloist Makeda Diggs ‘17, violin RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade, Op. 35 Free Tickets: $8 adults, $5 seniors & Skidmore community, free for students & children

Music! Friday, March 3, 10am Music! is an interactive concert for children 3 and older showcasing Balinese and Javanese Gamelan, Taiko Drumming and more. Free Arthur Zankel Music Center

Ragini Shankar Simone Dinnerstein Piano Recital Thursday, March 23, 8pm spring Friday, March 31, 8pm Ragini Shankar began her training in Hindustani SCHUBERT: Impromptus Op. 90/Sonata in B flat major Classical Music on the violin at the age of 4 under the GLASS: Metamorphosis/Etudes tutelage of her mother, Dr. Sangeeta Shankar, and American pianist Simone Dinnerstein is an inventive grandmother, Padmabhushan Dr. N Rajam. Ragini artist who is motivated by a desire to find the musical shows brilliance in her performances with her ability core of every work she approaches. “She compels the to reproduce vocal music on the violin (Gayaki Ang, a listener to follow her in a journey of discovery filled with technique invented by Dr. N Rajam) with astounding unscheduled detours . . . She’s actively listening to every accuracy, tonal quality, exceptional fingering and note she plays, and the result is a wonderfully expressive break-neck bowing techniques. She will be interpretation.” National Public Radio accompanied on tabla by Devesh Chandra. Tickets: $8 adults, $5 seniors and Skidmore community, Tickets: $8 adults, $5 seniors & Skidmore community, free for students and children free for students & children Skidmore Community Chorus and Vocal ELM Chamber Music Residency Chamber Ensemble: Complete Bartók String Quartet Series “A Child of Our Time” March 24-26 Directed by Katie Gardiner The 13th annual Skidmore College String Festival Saturday, April 8, 2pm welcomes the world-renowned Miró Quartet as A program inspired by people who have been affected artists-in-residence. Festival activities include individual by wars. The Vocal Chamber Ensemble will perform and group coaching with the celebrated quartet and Veljo Tormis’ “Rauda needmine/Curse upon iron;” Skidmore faculty. an intense piece based on a Finnish national epic that warns against the powers of technology, particularly Miró Quartet advancements in weapons. The Skidmore College Saturday, March 25, 8pm Chorus will perform movements from English composer One of the world’s most celebrated string quartets, Michael Tippett’s “A Child of our time,” a piece Miró has been labeled by the New Yorker as “furiously composed in response to the Nazis’ Kristallnacht attacks committed” and cited by the Cleveland Plain Dealer for on Jewish homes and institutions. its ”tonal focus and interpretive intensity.” Based in the storied music scene of Austin, Texas, the quartet takes Tickets: `$8` adults, $5 seniors and Skidmore community, pride in finding new ways to communicate with free for students and children audiences of all backgrounds while honoring the longstanding traditions of chamber music. Skidmore Guitar Ensemble Thursday, April 20, 8pm Tickets: $8 adults, $5 seniors & Skidmore community, Coached by Joel Brown free for students & children Free String Festival Finale `` Sunday, March 26, 2pm Skidmore Gamelan & Taiko Class Recital A concert by all String Festival Ensembles joined by Friday, April 21, 4pm members of the Miró Quartet and Skidmore String Coached by Lei Ouyang Bryant and Elizabeth Macy Faculty. Free Free Opera Workshop Jazz Trio - Eric Harland, Taylor Eigsti, and Saturday, April 22, 4pm Larry Grenadier Opera students under the direction of Artist in Thursday, March 30, 8pm Residence Sylvia Stoner will perform a variety of opera Jazz greats Eric Harland on drums, Taylor Eigsti on scenes with piano, from Monteverdi to Verdi, and share piano, and Larry Grenadier on double bass return a short history of opera and its timeless passion. to Skidmore for a special night of Jazz. Multiple Free Grammy-nominated drummer Eric Harland is the most in-demand drummer of his generation with over 200 recordings. Taylor Eigsti has won praise from music publications and artists alike—as Dave Brubeck said, “He’s the most amazing talent I’ve ever come across. Remember him.” Larry Grenadier has earned a far-reaching reputation for his instrumental talent, recognizable tone, sensitivity, imagination and creative curiosity that have established him as a valued sideman and collaborator.. Tickets: $8 adults, $5 seniors & Skidmore community, free for students & children Arthur Zankel Music Center

Skidmore Wind Ensembles spring Skidmore College Orchestra Sunday, April 23, 2pm Sunday, April 30, 4pm Coached by Jan Vinci Charles Schneider, Conductor Free BIZET: Symphony in C SAMUEL BARBER: 16 Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Soprano soloist, Artist in Residence Sylvia Stoner Skidmore String Ensembles B EETHOVEN: Triple Concerto Sunday, April 23, 7pm w ith soloists Michael Emery, violin; Jamison Platte, Coached by Michael Emery and Jameson Platte cello; Matt Quayle, piano Free Tickets: $8 adults, $5 seniors and Skidmore community, free for students and children Skidmore Big Band Monday, April 24, 8pm Directed by Mark Vinci Brahms Revisited: Piano Quartets of Brahms & Holland Free Monday, May 1, 8pm Skidmore Concert Band Skidmore string faculty Michael Emery, Harold Levin, Thursday, April 27, 8pm and Jameson Platte are joined by guest pianist Matthew Directed by Milton Lee Quayle to perform Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor paired with Anthony Holland’s B-R-A-H-M-S Free Piano Quartet, with creative references to the life and times of the great master. Skidmore Small Jazz Ensembles Friday, April 28, 7pm Free Coached by Bob Halek, George Muscatello, John Nazarenko, and Mark Vinci Free

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo special events Thursday, March 9, 7:30pm Presented by World Truth Music South Africa’s Ladysmith Black Mambazo was launched into international spotlight when they sang with Paul Simon on his 1986 Graceland album. The group has been nominated 17 times, won five Grammy Awards, and has warmed the hearts of audiences worldwide with uplifting vocal harmonies, signature dance moves and charming stage presence. Tickets: $49/$44/$39 www.skidmore.edu/zankel

signature series at The Manhattan Transfer Saturday May 13, 8pm The Manhattan Transfer is an American a cappella, jazz fusion/pop music group founded in 1969. With accolades, awards, and almost 30 albums, the power of Manhattan Transfer is ageless in its breathtaking vocal abilities, strong musicianship, and exciting live shows. Its version of “Birdland” remains a modern classic. Tickets: $55/$45 www.skidmore.edu/zankel

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