Leon Botstein, Christopher H. Gibbs, and Robert Martin, Artistic DirectorsThe Bard Music Festival was founded in 1990 to promote new ways of understanding and presenting the history of music to a contemporary audience. Each year, a single composer is chosen as the main subject. The biography of the composer, the influences and consequences of that composer's achievement, and all aspects of the musical culture surrounding the time and place of the composer's life are explored. Perhaps the most important dimensions of the festival are the ways in which it links music to the worlds of literature, painting, theater, philosophy, and politics and brings two kinds of audience together: those with a long history of interest in concert life and first-time listeners, who find the festival an ideal place to learn about and enjoy the riches of our musical past.
2011 Sibelius and His World
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2010 Berg and His World
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2009 Wagner and His World
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2008 Prokofiev and His World
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2007 Elgar and His World
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2006 Liszt and His World
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| Copland and His World | |
| Shostakovich and His World | |
| Janaček and His World | |
| Debussy and His World | |
| Mahler and His World | |
| Beethoven and His World | |
| Schoenberg and His World | |
| Tchaikovsky and His World | |
| Haydn and His World | |
| Charles Ives and His World | |
| Bartok and His World | |
| Schumann and His World | |
| Dvorak and His World | |
| Richard Strauss and His World | |
| Mendelssohn and His World | |
| Brahms and His World |