Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps for piano trio opens the program, a sparkling and vividly colored work that captures the freshness and energy of a spring morning. Fauré’s deeply poignant Élégie follows, offering an intimate meditation for cello and piano. We’ll conclude with Tchaikovsky’s monumental Piano Trio, a haunting and deeply moving tribute that transforms grief into a sweeping, luminous narrative—moving from tender remembrance to an overwhelming, radiant farewell.

Erika Switzer, piano; Helena Baillie, violin & Anita Balázs, cello

Bard Conservatory

Twin Spirits is a fusion of theatre and live classical music, conceived by acclaimed director and writer John Caird. Performed by an ensemble of eight musicians and actors, this intimate production tells the remarkable love story and artistic partnership of Robert and Clara Schumann through their letters, diaries, and contemporary writings, woven together with live performances of their most beloved music.

Blending spoken word with extraordinary music, Twin Spirits offers a poetic and deeply personal portrait of two visionary artists whose shared passion transformed the world of Romantic music. An unforgettable theatrical and musical experience, it celebrates the enduring power of love, creativity, and artistic collaboration.

Kingston Classical

PERFORMERS:

Erika Switzer, pianist
Anita Balazs, cellist
Helena Baillie, violin
Nisha Caiozzi, soprano
Tyler Duncan, baritone
Alexandra Templer, actress
Bhavesh Patel, actor
Joseph Luzzi, narrator

Music, Craft, and the Fibre Arts: Textures in Conversation
The Sounds of Women’s Work

Friday, Sept. 18 · 12:30pm-1:30pm
von Kuster Hall, Music Building

Part of the Don Wright Faculty of Music’s Fridays @ 12.30 Concert Series, this chamber music concert will offer a musical exploration of traditional women’s textile work.

• Omar Daniel's* Oli enne nel’l’ä neittä... (once upon a time there were four maidens), Movement II

• Ann Southam's Stitches in Time

• Cecilia Livingston's slow disclosure: songs for Paula Rego, excerpts

With introductory remarks from Cecilia Livingston and Omar Daniel*

Performers:
Martha Guth, soprano
Patricia Green*, mezzo-soprano
Erika Switzer, piano

Conference Events

Celebrating Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

Program 8: The Pinnacle of Achievement
Bard Music Festival

Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
with baritone Tyler Duncan
on a McNulty-Graf piano

Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
with baritone Tyler Duncan
Whidby Island Music Festival

Works by Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Ralph Vaughan-Williams
with baritone Günter Papandell

Schwarzsche Villa at 7pm

Works by Schubert, Fauré, and Morlock
with cellist Bridget MacRae
At 6pm (in Munich)
Klavierwerkstatt

With soprano Katherine Jolly
presenting works by Gwyneth Walker, Dominick DiOrio, and Evan Mack

Works by Tchaikovsky, Fauré and Day-Lewis
with “Hudson Muse” piano trio: violinist Helena Baillie, cellist Anita Balázs, pianist Erika Switzer
Chapel Restoration

At New York University
featuring works by Alma Mahler, Cecilia Livingston, Maria Schneider, and Adela Maddison

With mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski
featuring works by Madeleine Dring, Ethyl Smyth, Nadia Boulanger, and Libby Larsen
presented by Her Art in Song and UAH Department of Music, Theater, and Film.
Tickets

At the German Kabarett
with mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski and baritone Tyler Duncan

Work by Berlioz, Wagner, and a variety of American composers
with soprano Paulina Swierczek
presented by Concerts in the Village

Program One: Kurtág And the Lieder Tradition
Schubert Lieder with baritone Benjamin Appl
as part of the Kurtág Festival

Works for Cello and Piano by Gabriel Fauré
with cellist Raman Ramakrishnan
White Plains, NY

The 10th Annual NYC songSLAM
presented as part of the sparksLIVE Festival at Symphony Space

Presenting Rebecca Hass with Lucy Shelton, Kamala Sankaram, and Kate Morton
with pianist Erika Switzer
at the 2026 sparksLIVE Festival at Symphony Space

Presenting Stephanie Blythe and Ryan McCullough
at the 2026 sparksLIVE Festival at Symphony Space

Songs by Beethoven, Poulenc, and Britten
with tenor Eric Finbarr Carey

Silent awakening

Soprano Martha Guth, pianist Erika Switzer & cellist Anna Menzies
Oxford International Song Festival

Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
with baritone Tyler Duncan
Brooklyn Art Song Society

Silent Awakening
Soprano Martha Guth, pianist Erika Switzer, cellist Raman Ramakrishnan

Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
Baritone Tyler Duncan, pianist Erika Switzer

with soprano Robyn Driedger-Klassen
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Martinů, Program Two: The French Connection
Bard Music Festival
Olin Auditorium, Bard College

Martinů, Program 1: The Peripatetic Career
Bard Music Festival
Fisher Center, Bard College

Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin
with baritone Tyler Duncan