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Swarthmore College Department of Music Swarthmore's music program is a vibrant community of performers, creators and critical thinkers.

Accessibility at Lang Concert Hall: Swarthmore College encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact Susan Smythe, ADA Program Manager at 610-690-2063 in advance of your participation or visit.

On Sunday, November 1 at 7:30pm, we are presenting a Centennial Celebration of John Coltrane and Miles Davis! This perfo...
10/06/2026

On Sunday, November 1 at 7:30pm, we are presenting a Centennial Celebration of John Coltrane and Miles Davis! This performance honors the 100th anniversary of the births of these two legendary jazz icons, who were both born in 1926 and revolutionized modern music.

Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. Link in bio for more information.

Join us for an unforgettable evening with emcee, spoken word artist, rapper, and director Ruby Ibarra on Friday, October...
09/28/2026

Join us for an unforgettable evening with emcee, spoken word artist, rapper, and director Ruby Ibarra on Friday, October 23 at 8 PM at the Lang Performing Arts Center! This event is open to the public, and attendance is free.

Ruby Ibarra is an artist from the Bay Area known for her powerful storytelling and genre-defying music. She has been featured by NPR, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and more. Her song “Bakunawa,” the first single from her sophomore album, won NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2025.

Link in bio for more information.

09/24/2026

Meet the Singing Cactus, an interactive sound sculpture created by Professor Carr Everbach and engineering students after a visit from Third Coast Percussion!

Come see (and hear) it in front of Martin Hall now, before it moves to its next location between Lang Music Building and Lang Performing Arts Center.

Nico Johnson's Senior Recital, takes place this Friday, 2/27 at 8pm in the Frear Ensemble Theater. Entitled "Way Back Ho...
02/24/2026

Nico Johnson's Senior Recital, takes place this Friday, 2/27 at 8pm in the Frear Ensemble Theater. Entitled "Way Back Home," the concert showcases Nico's original pop tunes. Complete with choreography and special effects, this show is the perfect winter pick-me-up. Open to all, pop lovers or otherwise! Free and open to the public, no reservation required. More info here: https://swatcentral.swarthmore.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D1353363897

The Gil and Mary Stott Masterclass Series presents a masterclass with Randy Garnder, French Horn, on Monday, February 2n...
02/02/2026

The Gil and Mary Stott Masterclass Series presents a masterclass with Randy Garnder, French Horn, on Monday, February 2nd at 12 noon in the Lang Concert Hall. Randy C. Gardner is currently Artist-In-Residence at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance. Following a distinguished tenure as Professor of Horn and Chair of the Winds, Brass, and Percussion Department at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), he was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus.

Free and open to the public, no reservation required.

01/27/2026

The Swarthmore College Department of Music presents Friday at Six: Mel Hsu, on Friday, January 30 at 6pm in Lang Concert Hall. The final Friday at Six installment features composer and multi-instrumentalist Mel Hsu. A sonic painter of worlds, Mel often ventures from her classical roots as a cellist into unexpected, cross-disciplinary collaborations. Mel composes and performs for film, theater, dance, and poetry.

Please join Visiting Professor Quinn Collins on January 23 at 6pm in the LPAC cinema for an event celebrating the releas...
01/14/2026

Please join Visiting Professor Quinn Collins on January 23 at 6pm in the LPAC cinema for an event celebrating the release of his new album, Precious and Intelligent Metal. The album will be played in full, followed by a short Q&A and reception.

Precious and Intelligent Metal is a piece for percussion quartet and pre-recorded electronics in five movements, a psychedelic tone poem which draws from Richard Brautigan’s novella Trout Fishing in America for structural cues and general inspiration. The piece is scored for glockenspiel, toy piano, vibraphone, hammered dulcimer, melodicas, tuned metal pipes and other pitched metals, simantra, and concert bass drum, augmented by electronic tracks consisting of retuned guitar amplifier noise and microtonal software synthesizers in the first and fourth movements.

The album was performed by percussionists David Degge, Mika Godbole, Yumi Tamashiro, and Frank Tyl, and recorded by the composer. All post-production audio work, including editing, mixing, and mastering, by Jascha Narveson. Artwork by Erik Ruin.

Free and open to the public, no reservation required.

More info here: https://swatcentral.swarthmore.edu/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D1347764853

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