Tan Dun is Dean of the Bard College Conservatory of Music. A winner of today’s most prestigious honors, including the Grammy Award,Oscar/Academy Award, Grawemeyer Award, Bach Prize, Shostakovich Award, and most recently Italy’s Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement, Tan Dun’s music has been played throughout the world by leading orchestras, opera houses, international festivals, and on radio and television. The world-renowned artist and UNESCO Global Goodwill Ambassador Tan Dun has made an indelible mark on the world’s music scene with a creative repertoire that spans the boundaries of classical music, multimedia performance, and Eastern and Western traditions. To reserve tickets, visit, call 84 (Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm), or email. Virtual livestream tickets are pay-what-you-wish. The performance will be held on Friday, November 4 at 8 pm in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater.

Following a 15-minute intermission, the second part of the concert features Tan Dun’s Percussion Concerto: The Tears of Nature (2012). The first part of the program features John Cage’s Credo in US (1942) Third Construction (1941), with members of the Conservatory percussion studio 4′ 33″ (1952) and Atlas Eclipticalis (1961-62). The Bard Conservatory of Music presents Uncaged, a centennial concert in honor of John Cage performed by the Bard Conservatory Orchestra under the direction of Tan Dun.

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