Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching were presented on May 4 to five faculty members. Ian Rosenstein,Christopher Vasantkumar, Andrew Dykstra, Heather Buchman and Patty Kloidt were honored at the Class & Charter Day ceremony.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents the Hamilton College Choir and the College and Community Masterworks Chorale and Orchestra in Brahms’ Requiem on Tuesday, May 1, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series concludes the spring series with ETHEL string quartet on Sunday, April 15, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall.

Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley presented a paper titled “Elizabethan Music in North Carolina: Paul Green’s Symphonic Drama, The Lost Colony (1937)” at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music held March 14-18 in Charlotte, N.C.

Jon Frederic West, lecturer in music performance, is performing the part of the “Sprecher” in the Gurre-Lieder by Arnold Schoenberg with the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, in Bilbao, Spain, with Günter Neuhold conducting.  This is a new role for West, who will appear in four performances.

The Department of Music will present the home concert of the Hamilton College Choir’s March tour on Friday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall.  The 64-member choir is directed by G. Roberts Kolb, professor of music and director of choral music at Hamilton since 1981.  The concert is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College Choir is on the road for its annual spring break tour, this year visiting cities in the Midwest. The 64-members are directed by G. Roberts Kolb, professor of music and director of choral music at Hamilton since 1981. The choir will perform in Chicago on March 12; Plymouth, Minn., on March 13; Evanston, Ill., on March 14; and Cleveland on March 16.  The annual home concert is scheduled for Friday, March 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Wellin Hall.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presented Lady in the Dark as this year's choir musical on Feb. 3-5, in Wellin Hall.  Lady in the Dark features music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Moss Hart.  The fully staged musical was directed by G. Roberts Kolb with choreography by Nancy Long and set and lighting design by William DiPaolo.

Heather Buchman, associate professor of music and director of the Hamilton College Orchestra, conducted Symphony Syracuse on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Syracuse Civic Center. A review that appeared in the Post-Standard the following day described her performance. “Buchman’s every gesture, every breath, was purposeful, and the Symphony Syracuse artists responded in kind, turning in a performance marked by precision as well as passion.”

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents G. Roberts Kolb, tenor, and Lauralyn Kolb, soprano, in a free faculty recital on Saturday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m, at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.