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Hamilton's Department of Music begins the season with the annual Fall Faculty Concert on Friday, Sept. 2, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. The concert will feature Hamilton faculty artists performing solo and small ensemble pieces for voice, piano, woodwinds, strings and brass. 

Jake Blount ’17 just disproved the notion that practice makes perfect. Blount, a banjo player, put together an impromptu old-time string band, the Moose Whisperers, for a performance at the Appalachian String Band Festival (Clifftop) in West Virginia and took home first place.

Having attracted more than 9,000 students to his first offering of Jazz: the Music, the Stories, the Players, Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive and Lecturer in Music Performance Monk Rowe will again offer this free six-week online program beginning on Sept. 6 via the edX platform. The course is designed to appeal equally to the casual listener, the avid fan and the proficient jazz player, according to Rowe. 

Hamilton College’s Departments of Music and Literature and Creative Writing join forces to create a unique evening of poetry and music on Thursday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Café Opus.

The Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale with the Hamilton College Choir and members of Symphoria will perform their spring concert on Tuesday, May 3, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Hamilton College Orchestra presents its final concert of the semester on Friday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

A lot happened before the Theatre Department’s musical Spring Awakening opened on April 14 in the Eugene Romano Theatre.  Starting with auditions in February the production took shape as  sets were  designed, music was learned, costumes were made and many hours of rehearsals were held. College photographer Nancy Ford spent the last two months capturing what went on behind the scenes before actors took the stage.  Take a look at what goes in to the making of a musical.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department presents the spring production of the musical Spring Awakening, book and lyrics by Steven Sater, and music by Duncan Sheik. Based on Frank Wedekind’s provocative play, the Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening explores the conflict between repressive adult society and adolescent sexual awakenings in 19th century Germany. It's directed by Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell, with music direction by Karen Corigliano and choreography by Professor of Dance Elaine Heekin.

The Hamilton College Department of Music and Syracuse’s Society for New Music present Vision of Sound, a live music and dance program, on Saturday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.

The Hamilton College Choir presents the home concert of their recently completed Spring Break Tour on Friday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.