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The Hamilton College Department of Music presents the 2016 choir musical, Sondheim on Sondheim, on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5 and 6, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 7, at 2 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

The Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale with members of Symphoria will perform Handel’s Messiah on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the campus of Hamilton College.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Milt and Nelma Fillius Jazz Archive, presented “The Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College: Preserving Words and Images” on Oct. 16 at the fall meeting of the New York State/Ontario Chapter of the Music Library Association (NYS/O MLA).

Jazz Tales from Jazz Legends – a distillation of more than 325 interviews recorded over two decades with jazz greats, their band members and critics– has just been released by Couper Press. Written by Director of the Fillius Jazz Archive Monk Rowe, the book includes interviews with Dave Brubeck, Steve Allen, Marian McPartland, Joe Williams, Bela Fleck, among many others, as well as with former members of bands led by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman and Stan Kenton. 

The Hamilton College Departments of Music and Dance and Movement Studies will offer a full schedule of free performances in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center during the College’s Family Weekend, Friday, Oct. 23 and Saturday, Oct. 24.

The  Hamilton College Department  of Music presents a vocal recital with Jon Fredric West, heldentenor, and Kenneth Bowen, piano, on Friday, Sept. 25, at 7:30 p.m., in  Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Ryan Carter recently won the 2015 Lake George Music Festival international composition competition with “Too Many Arguments in Line 17” for string quartet and was a composer-in-residence during the August festival.

A Hamilton student, alumnus and professor with a shared interest in the “Ithaca style” of music gathered this summer in North Carolina to enjoy their craft.

Hamilton’s Department of Music is set to present an exciting semester of faculty and student events in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. All performances are free and begin at 7:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

Associate Professor of Art Ella Gant and James L. Ferguson Professor of Music Samuel Pellman presented "mindMeld" for digital video and digital music in a live performance on Aug. 12 at the Kyma International Sound Symposium, at Montana State University in Bozeman.