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Dean of Faculty Patrick D. Reynolds announced the appointment of nine Hamilton faculty members to endowed chairs. All were effective July 1.

Jake Meserve Blount ’17 is spending his summer pursuing a fieldwork project under the advisement of Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley titled “Fiddles in the North Country: Uncovering the Ithaca Sound.” Blount’s research is funded through an Emerson Foundation Grant.

Professor of Music Sam Pellman was honored as the 2015 Distinguished Service Award recipient by Hamilton’s Alumni Association. John Hadity ’83, president of the Alumni Association, presented the award on April 10 during the Alumni Council’s Recognition dinner.

April will bring us a reprieve from the weather and an annual celebration of an original American art form. In 2001, the Smithsonian Museum of American History designated April as Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). Schools and cultural institutions across the country host concerts and workshops to highlight our musical gift to the world. Further information about JAM can be found at www.smithsonianjazz.org. Jazz is alive and well at Hamilton College where the Fillius Jazz archive resides. We will join the JAM celebration with a number of campus events listed below.

Hamilton's Department of Music will present a Black History Month jazz concert with “Doc” Woods on Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. The concert will feature “Doc” Woods, composition and bass; John Piazza, trumpet; Bob Cesari, saxophone; Tom Witkowski, piano; and guest artist Nasheet Waits, drums.

Hamilton’s Department of Music presented the annual choir musical, Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld,  Feb. 6-8, in Wellin Hall. The fully staged musical was directed by G. Roberts Kolb with choreography by Nancy Long and set and lighting design by William DiPaolo.

Hamilton College Department of Music and Utica Dance, Inc., will collaborate on a fully-staged production of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 13 and 14 in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

Associate Professor of Music Heather Buchman conducted “Music of Machines” on Nov. 1 at the Museum of Science and Technology (M.O.S.T.) in Syracuse, N.Y.

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.

Associate Professor of Music Heather Buchman conducted the children’s concert “It was a Dark and Stormy Night” on Oct. 25 at Inspiration Hall in Syracuse, N.Y.