Middlebury Performing Arts Series

04/27/2024

Happening now: The Heath Quartet are reading through new works written by students in Visiting Asst. Professor of Music Matthew Quayle’s composition class.

04/24/2024

Join us for a free concert by the Heath Quartet this Sunday at 2PM in Robison Hall, or watch the live stream from the comfort of home. Many thanks to the Sunderman Family Concert Fund for making this concert free to our campus and community.
More info at bit.ly/MiddPAS

04/19/2024

Many thanks to Elsie Lynn Parini and the Addison County Independent for such generous coverage of our upcoming free concert by the Heath Quartet on Sunday, April 28! We hope you’ll join us in-person or watch the stream from home! Learn more at bit.ly/MiddPAS

“This month’s live Heath Quartet concert will be their 11th at Middlebury, with the addition of three streamed encore performances during the pandemic,” said Performing Arts Series Director Allison Coyne Carroll.

03/30/2024

Our deepest thanks to Sophie Shao and Friends and composer David Ludwig for (in the words of a patron) “a celestial and riveting performance.”

03/05/2024

We’re thrilled to welcome Small Island Big Song 小島大歌 to campus for a half-week of residency activities including:
• four class visits
• a public film screening Wednesday at 4:30
• a panel discussion on artistic response to climate change Thursday at 12:40
• their culminating performance Friday at 7:30 in Wilson.
Learn more at bit.ly/MiddPAS

02/28/2024

Join us this Thursday and Friday for award-winning, theatre maker Rachel Mars Performance's gloriously rude new solo show that unearths the hot-as-hell letters that make sexts blush. Learn more at bit.ly/MiddPAS

02/19/2024

We are thrilled to welcome early-music ensemble Le Consort to Middlebury on their North-American debut tour. Join us in Robison Hall this Thursday at 7:30 PM. bit.ly/MiddPAS

01/01/2024

Best wishes to you and yours for a Happy New Year from all of us at the series and Mahaney Arts Center.

11/30/2023

Brandee Younger Trio tops this week's Must See/Must Do list! Join us Friday for a vibrant evening with Brandee Younger, bassist Rashaan Carter and Allan Mednard on drums.
Info/Tix: bit.ly/MiddPAS

The days are getting shorter, but there's no shortage of ways for Vermonters to connect, learn and have a good time. We've compiled seven must-do events, including the Vermont debut performance by the Brandee Younger Trio at the Mahaney Arts Center's Robison Concert Hall.

11/28/2023

Join us Friday for the Brandee Younger Trio at 7:30 in the MAC or via livestream. Visit bit.ly/MiddPAS for info.

Photo by Erin Patrice O'Brien Photography

11/27/2023

Learn more about this Friday's artist Brandee Younger, thanks to a recent interview on the Tamron Hall show!

Tamron Hall is bringing you an action-packed special concert hour with our episode titled, “Music To My Ears.” Grammy®-nominated “harpista” Brandee Younger p...

11/20/2023

Our deepest gratitude to this fall’s exceptional and illuminating artists—the Emerson String Quartet, Dreamers' Circus, pianist Mahani Teave, INSPIRIT, a dance company, and the Danish String Quartet—and our warm and generous audiences. Thank you one and all!

Photos by Aaron Kimball.

11/09/2023

The Saturday's Danish String Quartet performance is SOLD OUT. We will have an in-person Wait List at the Mahaney Arts Center Box Office beginning at 6:30 PM on Saturday 11/11 for any additional tickets that may become available.

11/08/2023

Join us at 4:30 Wednesday for a free masterclass with members of INSPIRIT, a dance company, as part of the Global Body in Conflict: Movement Matter Series.

Don't miss this weekend's performances of INSPIRIT Dance: What We Ask of Flesh Thursday-Saturday!!

This event is one of several this week that Christal Brown and INSPIRIT Dance have generously offered to our campus and community, thanks to support from NEFA , The Vermont Arts Council, The Vermont Community Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Middlebury's own Middlebury Performing Arts Series, Middlebury Dance Department, Committee on the Arts, Rothrock Family Residency Fund, and the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation.

11/01/2023

Many thanks to Seven Days for this insightful article on next week's premiere of INSPIRIT, a dance company's "What We Ask of Flesh"

Learn more at bit.ly/InspiritMidd23

Choreographer Christal Brown defines flesh as "the barrier between the world and the soul." Flesh captures "everything we internalize," she said, and it fills up...

10/19/2023

Happening now: Pianist is leading a lec/dem with Asst. Professor of Music Danielle Simon’s “Music in Western Cultures” class.