This faculty recital features Ronald Feldman, joined by friends and colleagues, playing music for cello, and demonstrating his unbridled love for the instrument. Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall

The Chamber Orchestra of Williams is a student-led, flexible-instrumentation ensemble dedicated to innovative programing and engaging performance experiences in Chapin Hall. This program features Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht.

Pianist/composer Carmen Staaf is an active voice in the NYC and global music scenes. Her skills and approach have led her to perform in a wide range of settings, with some of the most influential and important musicians of our era. Currently, she is the pianist and Musical Director for NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater. Her past major performances have included the Playboy Jazz Festival in a two-piano setting with the legendary Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and the Kennedy Center alongside Kenny Barron and Fred Hersch. She has been heard at the Village Vanguard, Blue Note, SFJazz and major jazz festivals around the world including … Continue reading "Carmen Staaf Sextet – Visiting Artist Series"

Paul Green, Artist Associate in Clarinet at Williams, offers a concert that highlights many of his musical talents. He is a performer with formidable credentials and in the course of his career has delved into classical, jazz, klezmer, solo, chamber, and symphonic music. Also a successful attorney and law professor, Paul Green has never been able to suppress his passion or drive for music. Mr. Green is joined by pianist Doris Stevenson for this performance.

Hailed by the LA Times as “mysteriously smoldering…a name to remember,”  mezzo-soprano Augusta Caso is becoming known for her “silken…beguiling mezzo” and “fine subtle acting” (Brooklyn Daily Eagle). In the 2017-2018 season, Augusta makes her makes her Metropolitan Opera debut as a Flowermaiden in Wagner’s Parsifal under the baton of Maestro Nézet-Séguin. She makes her Los Angeles Opera debut in Getty’s Canterville Ghost as First Otis Twin, also performing the role with the Center for Contemporary Opera in New York in 2017, and covers the title role of Tancredi in the mainstage production and sings the role of Isaura in Tancredi rifatto with Maestro Will Crutchfield at Teatro Nuovo in summer 2018. In 2016-2017, Ms. Caso made her debut with … Continue reading "Augusta Caso ’09, mezzo-soprano – Alumni Recital"

Before the symphony concert you can join Ronald Feldman, conductor of the Berkshire Symphony, for a pre-concert talk in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, adjacent to Chapin Hall.