Music Archives
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…