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The Hamilton College Department of Music presents “Fresh Music from the Society for New Music” on Sunday, Nov. 9, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.   The concert will feature compositions by local composers by Dexter Morrill (Colgate University)  and Samuel Pellman (Hamilton College) as well as  Zhou Long, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for music, and  Chinese composer Guo Wenjing.

Hamilton College Performing Arts presents a modern dance performance featuring Brian Brooks Moving Company, presented by the Mohawk Valley Dance Partnership, on Saturday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department announces the fall theater production, A Dream Play, by August Strindberg in a new version by Caryl Churchill. Performances will run Nov. 6 – Nov. 8, and  Nov. 12 –  Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8. All performances will take place in the new state-of-the-art Romano Theatre within the Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series presents the American Shakespeare Center in Much Ado about Nothing on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.  Actors will perform live music “pre-show” entertainment beginning at 7 p.m.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present a solo piano recital by 19-year-old  George Li on Friday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. George’s younger brother Andrew will also perform. The event is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College is one of 25 schools selected by The Acting Company to participate in a new national consortium-based performance and education initiative comprised of universities, colleges, public/private high schools and community organizations.  Each consortium will offer professional development opportunities with playwrights, actors, designers, directors and educators over the next three years.

Hamilton’s combined Fallcoming and Family Weekend, Oct. 9-12, will celebrate the arts with a number of exciting events including the dedication of The Kevin and Karen Kennedy Center for Theatre and the Studio Arts, the opening of the new Alyson Shotz exhibit in the Wellin Museum, and addresses by national leaders in the arts world.

Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the fall series with the Lark String Quartet on Saturday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

“The Sound of Silent Film: A Two-Part Benshi Event,” the second 2014 F.I.L.M. Series program, offered a packed house a multi-faceted event featuring a unique musical collaboration between international artists from Japan, France and Canada on Sunday, Sept. 28. The audience, which included numerous local Utica community members, were treated to a world premiere of a Western-style composition with traditional Japanese instruments brought together for the purpose of accompanying Japanese silent movies.

Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the fall series with the Senegal St. Joseph Gospel Choir on Friday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.