Music News Releases

Pomona College Music Department faculty and friends come together to present two varied programs the weekend of February 11-12. Both recitals will be held in Bridges Hall of Music and are free and open to the public.

Tom Flaherty, John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter professor of music, has again designed a broad-ranged two-day festival utilizing the specialties of guests and faculty performers in two concerts and a lecture/demonstration. 

Since his 90th birthday last August, Kohn has been preparing for this performance, which will feature music composed since 2011 and includes four world premieres.

Genevieve Feiwen Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor and professor of music, will offer a solo recital of music for piano and harpsichord by Beethoven, F. Couperin, Debussy and Ligeti in Bridges Hall of Music at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1.

Pomona College Department of Music presents the “passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding” (The Independent, London) Brentano Quartet in a program of music by Haydn, Kurtag and Mendelssohn.

Gloria Liou, violinist and winner of the Pomona College Orchestra 2015 Concerto Competition, will be featured this month with the orchestra. 

Genevieve Feiwen Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor and Professor of Music, will offer a solo recital of music by Ludwig van Beethoven in Bridges Hall of Music at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015.

Over the final weekend of September, the Pomona College Music Department will present two free chamber music concerts offering many rarely heard works in Bridges Hall of Music.

Members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, violinists Tereza Stanislav and Sarah Thornblade, violist Rob Brophy and cellist Trevor Handy, will perform Bach’s masterpiece, Art of Fugue, BWV 1080.

112 students will perform Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, K.427 and Fauré’s Pavane and Les Djinns with the Pomona College Choir and Orchestra, which perform together twice each academic year.