The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series opens its spring series with Enso String Quartet on Saturday, Jan. 26, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The program will include Mozart’s String Quartet No. 2 in D Major, Henri Dutilleux’s String Quartet, Ainsi la nuit, and Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 in C# minor, Op. 131.

Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive and lecturer in music performance, was an invited presenter at the Jazz Education Network annual conference Jan. 2-5 in Atlanta. Rowe hosted a screening of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive’s film Joe Williams: A Portrait in Song.

Professor of Music Samuel Pellman attended the 2012 International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology at the National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan. His composition “NGC 6357,” with video by Miranda Raimondi ’08, was featured in the opening concert on Nov. 30.

Lecturer in Music Performance Jeff Stockham had a role in Steven Spielberg’s movie Lincoln. According to an article in JazFax, Stockham was a member of the U.S. Marine Band that played at a ceremony at which President Lincoln delivered a speech.

The Department of Music presents a concert by the Hamilton College Orchestra on Thursday, Dec. 13, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Department of Music presents an evening of chamber music with the Hamilton College Chamber Ensembles on Saturday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Masterworks Chorale concludes its observation of Hamilton’s bicentennial by celebrating the centennial of three choral and orchestra works from Great Britain on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

"Doc" Woods conducts the Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble in a performance on Friday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. Admission is free and all seating is on stage. The Jazz Ensemble will play jazz standards and new pieces written by Woods. The box office telephone number is 859-4331.

Associate Professor of Music Heather Buchman conducted the Musical Associates of Central New York in a Halloween Family Concert on Oct. 27 in Syracuse.  This was the first public performance of Musical Associates, the successor orchestra to the Syracuse Symphony.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series and Kirkland Art Center join forces to present bluegrass legend The Seldom Scene on Friday, Nov. 2, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.