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Hamilton College Performing Arts continues 25th anniversary season of the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts with the Brentano String Quartet on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Hamilton College Performing Arts opens its 25th anniversary season with Obie Award-winning puppeteer Basil Twist’s Dogugaeshi on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 13 and 14, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Hamilton College Performing Arts announces an exciting season of music, theater and dance to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Wellin Hall and Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.  Famed pianist André Watts will perform in  a special anniversary concert on Oct. 12.  All concerts will take place in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m.

The Department of Music presents the Hamilton College Orchestra on Friday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The concert is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale with the Hamilton College Choir and members of Symphoria will perform a concert version of Camille Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah) on Tuesday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department announces the spring theater production, The Marriage of Bette and Boo by Christopher Durang. Performances will run Thursday, April 18 – Saturday, April 20, at 7:30 p.m., and Thursday, April 25 – Saturday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. There are two additional performances at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, and Saturday, April 27. All performances take place in Minor Theater on the Hamilton campus.

Hamilton College presents free jazz and choral music this weekend in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. On Friday, April 12, jazz guitarists Gene Bertoncini and Rick Balestra will present an acoustic concert of jazz standards and music from the great American songbook. On Saturday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m., the Hamilton College Choir performs the home concert of their recently completed Italian Spring Break Tour.

Hamilton College Performing Arts presents jazz bassist Ben Williams and Sound Effect on Saturday, April 6, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Tamagawa University Taiko (Drum) and Dance Group will give a workshop and performance on Wednesday, April 3, in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The workshop will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. and the performance will follow at 7 p.m.  The workshop and performance are free and open to the public.

As is its every-four-years tradition, the Hamilton College choir is spending part of its spring break performing in Italy.  The students are on the choir’s eighth European concert tour under the direction of G. Roberts Kolb, professor of music and director of choral music at Hamilton. While the choir tours a region of the United States every March, the European tour is a special privilege that comes only once every four years.