An Eclectic Cabaret for a Sunday Afternoon

Name: An Eclectic Cabaret for a Sunday Afternoon
Start: 2025-11-09T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Bennington Museum

Schedule

Sun, 09 Nov, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Bennington Museum | Bennington, VT

Vocalist Tom Bogdan presents songs in a variety of styles – old songs, new songs, classical songs, Jazz songs and pop songs. The performance will include songs written by friends who are composers and songs inspired by students that Bogdan has taught at Bennington College. Accompanied by pianists Chris Rose and Yoshiko Sato, Bogdan hopes to offer a concert that is generous, vulnerable, reflective and inspiring.
Tom Bogdan taught Voice at Bennington College from 1996 until 2023. An experienced performer of music from antiquity to the avant garde, he has received critical acclaim for his performances in concert, opera, recital, cabaret, and his own music/theater pieces, L’Amour Bleu and Tell Me The Truth About Love. He has sung in the premieres of over 50 compositions. As a member of Meredith Monk’s Vocal Ensemble he has performed throughout the USA and Europe and has received Fulbright grants to teach her music in Brazil, Hungary, India, the Philippines and Kiev. His many recordings include Meredith Monk’s ATLAS, Tom Bogdan’s L’Amour Bleu, For Your Delight, the new American art song with pianist Harry Huff and Hungarian Folk Songs by Bartók and Kodály, with pianist Yoshiko Sato.
Chris Rose is a musician and teaching artist from Northeastern Pennsylvania. An avid wanderer, he has performed with orchestras in Italy, Sweden, South Korea, Alaska, and around the United States, and aboard Cunard, Crystal, and Royal Caribbean ocean liners. Recent appearances include Vermont’s Marlboro Music Festival, Colorado’s Jazz Aspen Snowmass Summer Jazz Workshop and New York’s Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. He proudly served as a Teaching Artist for the non-profit Empire State Youth Orchestra and currently teaches Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Brass at Bennington College.
Pianist Yoshiko Sato studied at Keio University in Tokyo, at The Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, and at École Normale de Musique de Paris in France. She has won numerous prizes in several competitions, has given recitals around the world and has appeared as soloist with several orchestras including the Sage City Symphony last fall performing Ravel Piano Concerto in G. In 2009, Sato and tenor Thomas Bogdan released a recording of Hungarian folk song settings by Bartók and Kodaly on the Centaur label. Ms. Sato has also recorded three piano works by her husband Allen Shawn, all for Albany Records: Childhood Scenes, Nocturne for Y, and Book II of his Etudes for Piano, which was released in June of 2025. (All three works were dedicated to her.) In 2014, Sato performed Childhood Scenes and Shawn’s Jazz Prelude No. 2 for the Antonia Franceschi Dance Company at the Ailey Center in New York City and in performances on the island of Malta. Since moving to Vermont, Ms. Sato has performed frequently in recitals throughout the region, including sharing performances of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas with her colleague Christopher Lewis, recitals at Park McCullough House, a recital with violinist Joana Genova-Rudialov and a concert in the Bennington Music at the Museum series with cellist, Michael Finckel. Ms. Sato has been a piano instructor and accompanist at Bennington College since 1999.
Music at the Museum programs are presented at no charge, thanks to our generous sponsors, Alison Nowak and Robert Cane.