Music Department
Visit Web Site
One College Drive
Bennington,Vermont 05201
802.442.5401
admissions@bennington.edu
DEGREES OFFERED
|
Bachelor of Arts in Music
|
Music at Bennington is dedicated to helping students grow in their ability to do creative work in performance and composition. Our faculty of active professional musicians and composers represent a rare diversity of musical traditions who share a belief in hands-on learning and the development of versatile, thinking musicians who are conversant with multiple musical perspectives. Courses range from ensemble classes in Filipino kulintang, North American traditional music, and percussion music from the African diaspora, to classes in counterpoint, voice, jazz improvisation, electroacoustic music, studio recording, music history, and individual instrumental study. Guided by a principle that technique, theory, and scholarship should be pursued in tandem with the immediate experience of making, the program and its individual courses balance disciplined technical studies and practice with multiple opportunities for original work, collaboration, and creative exploration.
Faculty Info:
Joseph Alpar, Thomas Bogdan, Kitty Brazelton, Nicholas Brooke, John Kirk, Senem Pirler, Allen Shawn, Bruce Williamson, Kerry Ryer-Parke, Michael Wimberly
Related Articles
OUR TOWN Comes to Fort Salem Theater in November
by Stephi Wild
- October 17, 2024
Fort Salem Theater has announced the cast and creative team for their upcoming production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, 'Our Town,' running November 8-10, 2024.
Everyman Theatre Presents QUEENS GIRL: BLACK IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS
by A.A. Cristi
- October 14, 2024
Everyman Theatre has announced the upcoming production of Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains, a play that continues the journey of Jacqueline Marie Butler, a young African American girl navigating the complexities of race, identity, and adolescence against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960’s and the hopeful 1970’s.
Monk Parrots Brings PEARLS FOR SPURS to New York
by Stephi Wild
- July 15, 2024
Monk Parrots will present Pearls for Spurs, a new dramedy by Gates Leonard and directed by Luke Leonard, which runs from August 1 to August 11, 2024, in a limited engagement at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres.
International Conference STAGESTRUCK 5! To Explore Hollywood Musicals
by A.A. Cristi
- February 20, 2024
Explore the implications of Hollywood musicals' continuing popularity and their reflection of past societal norms at the international academic conference, StageStruck! 5. Join scholars and students for discussions on nostalgia and representation in classic films.
Theater for the New City to Present KILLIN' REPUBLICANS, A New Rock Opera By Dick D. Zigun
by Blair Ingenthron
- November 11, 2023
'Killin' Republicans' is a new rock opera by Dick D. Zigun, presented by Theater for the New City. Join the conversation as actress Jodie Foster, a Nigerian Afrobeat star, and her Mississippi oilman husband get drunk on a transatlantic flight. Running from November 30 to December 17 at Theater for the New City. Tickets are available at the box office.