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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.

The Hamilton College Saxophone Ensemble performed at two local events recently. On Sunday, Oct. 19, the group played at the annual B# Music Club fundraiser scholarship concert at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Museum. Utica College welcomed the ensemble to its Lunch Hour Series concert on Oct. 22.

Professor of Music Michael ("Doc") Woods and Professor of Music Samuel Pellman presented works at the Everson Museum in Syracuse on Sept. 21 for a concert by the Society for New Music.

“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.

The Hamilton College Department of Music and “Doc” Woods present the annual Jazz Kick Off Concert on Wednesday, Sept. 10 in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents a variety of performances by faculty and students during the fall 2014 semester in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free of charge, unless otherwise noted.