For the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks Associate Professor of Music Heather Buchman conducted a special concert for remembrance and healing at St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Syracuse. The concert was organized by Syracuse-based theater director Victoria King who witnessed the attacks at close hand.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents its annual Jazz Kick-Off Concert on Tuesday, Sept. 13, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.

The Hamilton College Department of Music begins the season with the annual Fall Faculty Concert on Friday, Sept. 9 at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall.  The concert will feature Hamilton College faculty artists performing solo, duo and small ensemble pieces for voice, piano, woodwinds, strings and brass. The musical selections are varied and range from Mozart to jazz artist Paquito D’Rivera.

The Hamilton College Music Department has an exciting calendar of student and faculty performance scheduled for the Fall 2011 semester. All performances are general admission and take place at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. Admission is free and all performances begin at 8 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

Hamilton’s Jazz Archive was the source for a story about Duke Ellington that appeared on NPR’s A Blog Supreme on July 18. “Duke Ellington Has His Way” tells the story of how Ellington “poached” trumpeter Clark Terry from Count Basie. The article credits the jazz archive and Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive and Lecturer in Music Performance.

Professor of Music Lydia Hamessley presented a paper titled “Music on Which the Story Might Ride: Paul Green’s Symphonic Drama, The Lost Colony” at the American Musicological Society – New State-St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting.

In response to the news that the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra will file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, Hamilton's Music Department will present a special performance by the musicians of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and soprano Janet Brown on Sunday, May 8, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall.

The Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble will celebrate Cinco de Mayo with its spring concert on Thursday, May 5, at 8 p.m., in Wellin Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society and the Hamilton College Choir will perform a combined Spring Concert on Tuesday, May 3, at 8 p.m., at Wellin Hall in the Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Metropolitan Opera tenor Jon Fredric West, a lecturer in voice at Hamilton, will be the subject of a documentary airing this weekend on WURT, (channel 7 in the Clinton-Utica area).  The one-hour special, “From Concert Hall to Classroom,” will air on Saturday, April 30, at 7 p.m., and again on Sunday, May 1, at 10 a.m.  Part of the documentary was filmed on Hamilton’s campus and includes student Annie Phillips ’13.