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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.

Recipients of the 2014 Emerson Summer Grants were recently announced. Created in 1997, the  program was designed to provide students with significant opportunities to work collaboratively with faculty members, researching an area of interest. The recipients, covering a range of topics, are exploring fieldwork, laboratory and library research, and the development of teaching materials. The students will make public presentations of their research throughout the academic year.

Lauralyn Kolb, lecturer in voice, will be interviewed Saturday, May 17, on Vocal Point. Hosted by Jon English, the program will air at 12:08 p.m. on WCNY-FM, and will feature some of Kolb’s recorded songs of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.

Riley Stepnick ’12 was named first-prize winner in the Alumni Relations office College Song contest. Her song, “I Left My Heart on the Hill,” won $1500 and was performed for the first time at Class & Charter Day by the Hamilton choir. Forty songs -- submitted by students, alumni, faculty and staff -- were entered in the competition. Stepnick, who majored in music at Hamilton, is a music teacher at Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart.

The Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale and Symphoria will perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Seasons on Tuesday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.