Music Archives
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
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
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
Illinois ethnomusicologist Michael Silvers has been awarded a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. He’ll use the fellowship to research a book…
Alumni News | Kramer ’95 to perform ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated!’
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
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
Andrew Cyr admits, it feels really good to be right. The Fort Kent native and Bates College graduate began the…