Happy New Year everyone! We hope that 2018 was as exciting for you as it was here at The PAC. For us, 2018 was a year of celebration (40 years!) and experimentation as we introduced new types of programming, commissioned [...]
On Thursday, April 19, the Zisson Family Foundation supported a fully immersive arts-in-education program right here at The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, designed to provide social and emotional education, academic curriculum support through performing arts engagement, and an introduction [...]
Check out our photo gallery of the past couple of days - what a whirlwind! We are so grateful to choreographer Victor Quijada and the dancers from RUBBERBANDance Group for being so generous with their time, allowing us to provide [...]
Victor Quijada and his RUBBERBANDance Group are spending a few days on the Purchase College campus ahead of their performance on Saturday, March 31. We caught up with Victor to ask him a few questions. Q: Why the name “RUBBERBANDance [...]
by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra violinist Joanna Jenner Schubert has always played an important role in Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's performances. In the beginning of our career, we felt very daring to attempt Schubert’s Fifth Symphony; it was one of the first [...]
In advance of violinist Sarah Chang's upcoming performance, we asked her a few questions about herself and her music. Q: You made your New York Philharmonic debut at age 8. What was that experience like? A: Life changing. I [...]
Q: How did the idea for a program connecting Vienna to Hollywood come about? Q: What do you hope to communicate to the audience with this program? A: We are thrilled to be back at Purchase with a wonderful program [...]
The unorthodox, high-energy, acoustic-based quintet Velvet Caravan has, over the past few years, emerged as one of the shining lights of Savannah’s burgeoning music scene, and they are heading our way this weekend! Looking ahead to their show, we posed [...]
Have you noticed? We’ve been doing a lot of dancing this month! Some of you may have been dancing in the aisles during GlobalFEST’s New Golden Age of Latin Music, others are going to tear up the dance floor when [...]
Imagine a twelve-year-old trumpet player meeting his life’s hero and – even though he’d studied with a great teacher who introduced him to the best in jazz at age eight – being too afraid to say anything. Imagine that same young [...]
