Lorimer Chapel, Colby College

In the final concerts of the season, the Colby Symphony Orchestra, Colby Chorale, and Colby Kennebec Choral Society present Haydn’s Mass No. 13 in B-flat Major, Schöpfungsmesse, or “Creation Mass.” Not to be confused with Haydn’s most famous oratorio, The Creation, this exuberant mass setting is a masterpiece in its own right. Also on the […]

Directed by Eric Christopher Perry, the Colby Collegium will present a survey of the unique origins of choral music. Juxtaposed with audio samples of each composer’s final works, we aim to show where the journey begins and ends. Works include Bach’s first church cantata, BWV 4, Christ lag in Todesbanden, and Christoph Graupner’s 1709 cantata […]

Ustad Usman Khan was born into a life of music. A sixth generation musician, third-generation sitar master and the grandson of Ustad Rehmat Khan (who in the 19th century codified the sitar into its modern-day form), he received from his father, Ustad Abdul Karim Khan of Dharwad, starting at age 6. He is known for […]

Colby College Chorale and Colby Kennebec Choral Society will be directed by Eric Christopher Perry for this event. Dawn highlights the origins of literary styles and movements. Featuring works by Quebec composer Robert Ingari, Jay Mobley the American composer, and work by Francine Trester based on Langston Hughes' work. Click for more info.

Four-time GRAMMY-winning jazz bassist Christian McBride has been likened to a force of nature, fusing the fire and fury of a virtuoso with the depth and grounding of a seasoned journeyman. For his concert at Colby, he will be joined by Josh Evans on trumpet, Marcus Strickland on saxophone, and Nasheet Waits on drums. Click […]

Cornel West will deliver the keynote lecture for the 2017-18 Colby College humanities theme, Origins. West is professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University and a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show, CNN, Democracy Now!, and C-Span. His passion is to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to […]

The Living Water Association of the Maine Conference of the United Church of Christ invites you to a Service of Ordination for Kurt D. Nelson, Sunday, March 18, 2018, at 2:30 p.m., at Lorimer Chapel, Colby College, Waterville.  Clergy, please wear robe and stole. Handicap-accessible spaces are available next to the Chapel, by the side […]

The ensemble delves into the world of program music, featuring marches by composer Julie Giroux — “March of the Sundried Tomatoes,” recounting a cooking debacle, and “Tiger Tail March,” depicting a typical Louisiana parish day — and “Imbizo,” using scales and rhythms from the African continent. Completing the program are “Highlights of Chess” and the […]

The Colby Symphony Orchestra begins the spring semester with Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 — another work in the “pastoral” setting of the countryside, reminiscent of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony (No. 6) — and New York-based composer Emily Wong’s Symphony No. 1 “Structures.” Sponsored by the Department of Music.

Music from the richly varied contemporary and historic cultural traditions of the Middle East, including Ottoman Turkish classical compositions, rural Turkish folk and devotional songs, Arabic classical and folk music, and dance music from Armenian and Turkish immigrant diasporas. This performance will include Mal Barsamian, a multi-instrumentalist considered the finest Middle Eastern clarinetist in the […]

Sister Helen Prejean has been engaged in prison ministry for more than 35 years and became spiritual advisor to Patrick Sonnier, who was sentenced to die by the electric chair by the state of Louisiana. Her experience became the book Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty. In 1996 the book was […]

Alec MacGillis, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for ProPublica known for his deep reporting on social issues and public policy, will be honored with Colby College’s Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism. The award recognizes MacGillis for his incisive reporting and informed questioning on a wide range of pressing policy issues, including the surging opioid crisis, […]

The 2017-18 Music at Colby series opens with the virtuoso Regina Carter, “widely considered the finest jazz violinist of her generation” according to the New York Times. A 2006 MacArthur Fellow, Carter will be joined by members of her quintet for a tribute to the music of Ella Fitzgerald. This is the first of two […]

The ninth season of one of the Atlantic Music Festival comes to a close with this performance. The AMF Orchestra will play Gioacchino Rossini’s overture to his opera La gazza ladra (“The Thieving Magpie”), AMF founder and artistic director Solbong Kim’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, and Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 6.

AMF Opera Workshop's Vocal Institute was established with the express purpose of identifying and nurturing gifted singers for careers in the professional world of opera. Join us for an evening of timeless art songs sung by the members of the Opera Workshop.

Tonight, we are proud to present the winners of the AMF 2017 Piano Competition: Kathy Tai-Hsuan Lee and Kathryn Westerlund.

Colby College in Waterville opens its doors again this summer to one of the most exciting music festivals in the nation. The Atlantic Music Festival returns for a ninth season, and once more welcomes you to an incredible series of free orchestral and chamber concerts, presented by some of the best and brightest classical music […]

Since its inception, Atlantic Music Festival has firmly established itself as a breeding ground for extraordinary new works. Over 300 world premiere performances took place within just eight years, and we are set to present more than 40 this season. This record is not only unprecedented but it gives you a chance to be a […]

Seniors in the Class of 2017 will process from Miller Library to Lorimer Chapel for Baccalaureate, a private event for seniors and faculty. Parents and guests may watch the procession and the event, broadcast live, on the lawns surrounding Lorimer Chapel. The Baccalaureate speaker is Amy Walter ’91. As national editor of the Cook Political Report, Walter […]

Directed by Jesse Wakeman, the Colby Collegium Musicum performs Antonio Vivaldi’s masterful Gloria. This brilliant and complex work for choir and orchestra, with soprano and mezzo-soprano soloists, is sure to invigorate the soul and ring in the spring. The program will also feature two madigals and several instrumental works. Sponsored by the Music Department.

In January 2013, Angus King was sworn in as Maine’s first Independent United States Senator, filling the same seat once held by storied Maine leaders Edmund Muskie, George Mitchell, and Olympia Snowe. Senator King is a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, the […]

Our speaker, Winona LaDuke, is this year’s Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Fellow in Environmental Humanities. LaDuke is an internationally renowned writer and activist working on issues of climate change, sustainable development, and the rights of indigenous communities. She lives and works on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota and is a two-time vice presidential […]