Hamilton College’s highest awards for teaching were presented to three faculty members during the annual Class & Charter Day ceremony on May 13.  Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Abhishek Amar and Rob Knight, assistant professor of art, received awards. Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann was named the recipient of Student Assembly’s Sidney Wertimer Award.

The Department of Music presents the Hamilton College Orchestra on Friday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The concert is free and open to the public.

The Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale with the Hamilton College Choir and members of Symphoria will perform a concert version of Camille Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila (Samson and Delilah) on Tuesday, April 30, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Kirkland Town Library (KTL) and Hamilton’s Burke Library are joint recipients of  a $2,500 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to fund a program  “America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway.”

Catherine Crone ’13 has been awarded a Royster Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for graduate study in musicology beginning next fall. This prestigious fellowship is open to UNC graduate students in all departments and provides five years of financial support including tuition, fees and a $22,000 stipend each academic year. In 2012-2013 29 fellowships were awarded.

Saying goodbye to Hamilton and its people is hard enough for graduating seniors. But on top of having to separate themselves from the place they know and love, they are forced to accept the fact that Hamilton-level philosophizing simply doesn’t happen from 9-to-5 —at least, not on a daily basis. Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley found a way to keep gradautes engaged with a new online class - Hamilton's first.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents the Hamilton College Orchestra in the annual Brainstorm! concert, conducted by Heather Buchman on Sunday, March 10, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Despite a weekend full of committee meetings, members of the Hamilton Board of Trustees still found many opportunities to engage one-on-one and collectively with students, faculty and staff during the Board's quarterly meeting March 1-2 in Clinton. Here are a few occasions of those occasions.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents a faculty recital for solo piano featuring Sar-Shalom Strong on Sunday, March 3, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. He will present Lesser-Mined Gems, v. 2.0, a recital of rarely performed music for piano. The concert, which is free and open to the public, includes music by Bach, Fauré, and Janácek, with informal commentary on the composers and the music.