Tina Steeves

Join the Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Colby Music department in welcoming musician and director of Climate Stories Project, Jason Davis, for a unique Climate Music performance. In partnership with the Environmental Humanities Initiative, Dr. Davis has taught climate storytelling workshops in five Colby classes. This livestreamed performance will include several original […]

COLBY COLLEGE ENSEMBLES – VIRTUAL SPRING CONCERT This semester we are proud to present a virtual showcase of performances from our ensembles, including Collegium, Colby Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band. Please use these links to view the event: https://fb.me/e/AG9s55JP https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7VpDS5HtZS-D-xpDUESiPQ This semester we are proud to present a virtual showcase of performances from […]

For our opening concert, we are pleased to introduce composer and sound sculptor, José Martínez who joins the Music Department this fall. Martínez’s music has been heard to wide acclaim throughout the Americas and Europe.  In his debut concert at Colby, we will hear a wide range of his collaborative works that combine electronics with […]

As winner of the Second Prize at the 2016 Queen Elisabeth Competition and a recipient of a 2019 Avery Fisher Career Grant, pianist Henry Kramer is well on his way to becoming one of the most exciting American musicians of his generation. For his Music at Colby debut, Kramer, a Maine native, will present Beethoven’s magnificent […]

Directed by Jinwook Park, the Colby Symphony Orchestra will perform Edvard Grieg’s Two Elegiac Melodies and Symphonic Dances, followed by Jean Sibelius’s “Waltz triste” and “Karelia Suite.”

Featuring works that span more than 100 years of wind band history, the Colby Wind Ensemble’s spring concert includes classic compositions by wind bands’ early 20th-century champions Percy Grainger and R. Vaughan Williams. The program will also include H. Robert Reynolds stunning arrangement of O Magnum Mysterium and Malcom Arnold’s playful work Prelude, Rondo, and Siciliano. The […]

Directed by Eric Christopher Perry, the Colby College Collegium’s debut at Greene Block + Studios in downtown Waterville explores repertory from Estonian composers performed or premiered at the end of the Cold War. The program comprises popular, folk, and nationalistic vocal music from Estonia’s “Singing Revolution,” a historic, non-violent protest of occupation by the former […]

Swing into spring with an evening of jazz classics by the Colby Jazz Ensemble, directed by Jeff Osarczuk. The program features a variety of popular tunes by Thad Jones, Victor Lopez, Bill Holman, and Gordon Goodwin, with a guest appearance on saxophone by retired director, Eric Thomas. This concert is one you won’t want to […]

A new music ensemble for the 21st century, the is dedicated to the creation of new works for chamber ensemble. This concert will take the audience through recently written music based on soundwalks, elements of machinery, Latin American literature, and migration.

This lecture will be an exploration of the music of the Carribean coast of Columbia through muscial demonstrations as well as an in depth conversation and question and answer session.

Wache brings you the ancestral sounds of Gaita flutes, tambores (traditional hand drums), and call-and-response vocals for a lively trip to the Caribbean coast of Colombia! Join Wache as they explore the roots of Cumbia, Porro, and other traditional Colombian rhythms that celebrate community, love, and life through music. Funded by the Robert J. Strider […]

Directed by Jinwook Park, the Colby Symphony Orchestra performs masterworks from the 19th century. Mendelssohn’s evocative Hebrides Overture begins the program, but Debussy’s delightful Petite Suite is the real amuse-bouche. The program concludes with Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony.

The Colby Wind Ensemble starts the year with an exciting program under the baton of their new director, Brendon Wilkins. This concert will feature a variety of works from the wind band repertoire, including Mark Camphouse’s A Movement for Rosa, a moving work written to honor the contributions of Rosa Parks to the civil rights movement.

Néviton Barros, the new director of the Colby Choral programs, will lead the Colby Kennebec Choral Society, the Colby College Chorale, and Colby Collegium in a joyous, one-hour concert of songs about beginnings. The program includes works by Handel, Haydn, and Berlioz, among others, and culminates with John Leavitt’s stirring Missa Festiva.

Swing has been a key element of jazz music for many years. Directed by Brendon Wilkins, the Colby Jazz Band plays Sammy Nestico’s “A Warm Breeze” and works by Horace Silker and Chuck Sayre. An eclectic selection of works from other musical styles will be sure to appeal to everyone in the audience.

Directed by Jinwook Park, the orchestra presents a concert of movie and ballet music, beginning with Fauré’s Masques et Bergamasques, a work that hearkens back to the celebratory masques of the 16th and 17th centuries, John Williams’ powerful score from Schindler’s List, and the sweet, delightful wonder of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a.

A celebration of musical traditions from around the world, all performed by Colby student ensembles. This concert includes the debut of the Colby Balinese Gamelan, a vibrant orchestra of bronze gongs and xylophones that will present a program of music and dance drawn from the repertoire of Balinese temple festivals. Our concert will also feature […]

This event has been postponed to noon, Sunday, Mar 5, 2023 Bach’s last great keyboard masterpiece will be performed by pianist Fr. Sean Duggan, OSB. This gigantic work consists of fourteen fugues and four canons, all based on a single theme. Bach was in the midst of preparing it for publication when he died in […]

The appetizer to the Colby Symphony Orchestra’s 20th and 21st century concert is actually a work from the 18th century — Mozart’s timeless overture from The Magic Flute. Although certainly a work of the classical era, its vitality and innovation also set the table for a cornucopia of modern music. Two programmatic works by percussionist and […]

Join us for exuberant songs and tap-dance numbers by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, and other master tunesmiths of the 1920s. A joyful and stylish portrait of the era, delivered with a 21st-century groove! Among the many audience favorites are “Blue Skies,” “Fascinating Rhythm,” “I Want To Be Happy,” “Stardust,” and “Let’s […]

Directed by Brendon Wilkins, the Colby Jazz Band’s debut concert in the Gordon Center will feature two renowned arrangers from the jazz Big Band tradition. “Just Waiting,” a beautiful ballad composed by Melba Liston, will show the finesse and subtlety possible in the Big Band genre. A timeless classic from the Count Basie Orchestra, “Whirlybird” […]

Directed by Brendon Wilkins, the Colby Wind Ensemble’s debut concert in the Gordon Center marks the beginning of a new era in the arts at Colby College. This concert will feature one of the winners of the composition contest, Emily Chauhan ’25. William Owens’s exciting work, Silversides (To Answer the Call), brings contrast to the […]

Maine Middle Eastern Orchestra and the renowned oud and clarinet virtuoso, Mal Barsamian, have put together a beautiful program of Armenian music from the classical and folk traditions. Admission is free, but reservations are recommended. RESERVE TICKETS